The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-07-25
The Total Coinage of the
MINIS During June.
ILLINOIS MINES SHUT DOWN.
A United States Judge Renders De-
cision Adverse to the Cherokee
Title to the Strip.

All pool rooms have been ordered
closed in New York.
Boston policemen now carry their
clubs in their pockets.
A pearl-button factory has begun ope-
rations at Muscatine, la.
The total coinage of the mints during
June amounted to $4,969, 1850.
Prof. lie Baron Russell Briggs has as
sumed his duties at Harvard College.
Illinois has passed law prohibiting
the employment of children under 13.
Chicago talks of erecting a theater
INTO which only people in full dress can
Sidewalk distractions promise to be
MADE the subject of vigorous fight at
Chicago.
A company to establish labyrinths as
form OF amusement is to be formed in
the East.
The constitutionality of MissourYs
new anti-pool-room law is to be tested at
st. Louis.
"A new association in Kansas is ar
ranging to hght foreclosures Of farm
mortgages.
Allotment of lands to the Iowa Indi-
ans in Oklahoma Territory has been
completed.
There is no truth in the rumor that
yellow fever has made its appearance al
Brunswick, Ga.
Chicago is to have another electric
railway and one of its present suburban
lines Is to be extended.
Railroad building for the first half of
1891 falls slightly short of that for the
corresponding period of 1890.
According to the last census Alabama
has taken Pennsylvania place as leader
in the annual output of iron ore.
Hurrah for the new flag with forty
four stars, each star the symbol of peace
prosperity and liberty among a seffgov-
erning people.
The opposition papers in Canada say
that President Van Horne of the Cana
dian Pacific is practically the ruler of
the Dominion.
The officials of the Worlds Fair have
given the Illinois Central railroad a mo-
n.opoly OF carrying people to the Expo
sition grounds.
By decision of the Supreme Court of
Texas the State will recover title to over
100000 acres of land improperly pat
ented to railroad companies
The gas company of Cincinnati has
constructed the second largest gas holder
in the United States. II has a capacity
OF 100000 cubic feet of gas.
The annual report of the Eastern Pen
ltentlary OF Pennsylvania shows that
last year sixty-eight criminals sent to
that institution had relatives there.
The consolidated coal mines in the
Collinsville coal district of Illinois have
closed down, and between 300 and 400
miners are thrown out of employment.
The finding of a lump of metal sup
posed to be gold on the farm of John 4. |
Wright near huntsville, Ind, has caused
considerable excitement in the neighbor- |
hood.
In Difference to the prohibitionists of
Maine the government has ordered that
liquor seized in the State for violation of
the revenue laws shall be taken to Bos-
ton for sale.
It will cost so, ,47S,547 to run the CITY
OF Brooklyn during 1892. This is at the |
rate OF $ll for every man, woman and |
SaAAhN ~ biiO Slbfs 1uS Tdb6 III san ram /
cisco is over $25.
Extensive deposits of onyx have been
discovered near Marion, Smyth county,
Va. -Four openings are reported to have
been made so far. The stone is said to
be OF excellent quality.
United States District Judge Seay has
decision adverse to the Cher
okee title of the Strip, which, il eventu-
ally sustained, virtually extinguishes all
rights of the Cherokees to those lands.
Negro exhibitors are to have 25.OOO
square feet of space at the Southern Ex-
position soon to open at Raleigh, N. c.,
n which to make manifest somewhat of
he races progress during the last twen-
y-tive years.
1t is stated upon good authority, and
t is currently believed in naval circles
It Washington, that Secretary Tracy
will soon apply civil-service rules also to
he mechanics; in short, to all persons
employed in the navy yards.