The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-10-24
EASTERN ITEMS.
Electrocution Reported
to Be a Success.
NEGRO STRIKE EXTENDING.
Minnesota's Supreme Court Declares
Wheat Futures Are Illegal
and Contracts Void.

Real estate in Oklahoma is booming.
The grip is making its appearance in
New York again.
Neither st. Paul nor Minneapolis has
a single horse-car line.
There is fine OF $500 for practicing
hypnotism in Cincinnati.
The Arctic Ice Machine Company at
Cleveland, Ohio, has assigned.
A $300,000 union railway station has
Just been opened in Louisville.
A syndicate has offered to buv the
Washington monument for shot tower.
Pennsylvania farmers, irrespective of
Alliance orders, are holding wheat for
sl.50 bushel.
Beacon Hill in Boston is to be ex-
plored 10y diamond drills in the interest
Of sapid transit.
England and Germany have each APP
piled for 100000 square feet OF space at
the Columbian Fair.
Strong resolutions were adopted at a
public meeting at Windsor, Canada. fay-
oring commercial union with the United
States.
Cadets Griffith Of Maryland and Kav-
anaugh OF Nebraska at the Annapolis
Academy are to be court-martialed for
hazing.
Thomas Edison, the electric wizard.
has q new system of applying electricity
to cars that does away with the trolly or
the slot.
The Minnesota supreme court declares
wheat futures are illegal and operators
on the wrong side can repudiate their
contracts.
The Odd Fellows ii the United States
can boast Of 4 membership of nearly
OO,OO0 and an annual revenue of more
than 100000.
The official report on the executions
by electricity at New York show them
to have been q complete success, as was
designed by the law.
The Boston Herald has dispatch saw
ing that ex-Speaker Reed will give up
politics and enter large business cor
poration at New York.
1t is probable that the scheme of
transmitting mail in large cities bypneu-
matte tubes will be abandoned on ac-
count of the great expense.
1t is estimated that the Western rail
roads have earned $250,000 the past year
IRON the transportation of Mormon mis-
sonarles and their proselytes.
New York will soon have a score or
more of practically free public baths.
unless the plans of the trustees of the
Baron de Hirsch fund miscarry.
The water is so low in the Erie canal
that boats are grounded all along the
line. The creeks and feeders have not
been so low as now in some years.
There will be more than an average
yield of corn and buckwheat in New
York. A large tobacco crop has nearly
been secured in excellent condition.
The excitement at Clearfield. Penn.
over the suspension of the Clearfeld
and Houtzdale bank still continues, and
the mobbing OF the bank was feared.
The Mexican government is preparing
to meet all revolutionary forces that
cross the Rio Grand, and the prepara-
tions indicate that the government is
much alarmed.
All the Northwest railroad companies
are calling attention to the critical situa-
ton in the North Dakota wheat fields.
where the wheat is lying in stacks for
" ethb VI bllIGHlltIcs
No rain worth mentioning has fallen
in Norwalk, Conn.,, since early in the
spring. AS a consequence her reservoirs
are empty, and arrangements are being
made to tap the mains OF neighboring
town.
Developments in the Christman bank
failure at Paris, ILL.,, make the situation
more serious than at first supposed. 1t
is stated that the loss will not be less
than $l50,000, and the assets may not
exceed 10000.
Chairman Coppel of the board of
directors of the Denver q Rio Grande
railroad has issued a circular announ-
cling the appointment of E. j. Jeffery,
general manager of the Illinois
Central, as president and general man
ager.
The Lee county, Ark, troubles are
probably at an end unless a mob at
tempts to hang the negroes now in the
Marianna Jail. 1t appears that no less
than fifteen negroes were killed out of
a gang OF nineteen who commenced the
trouble.