The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-08-15
The Boston Nationalists
Issue an Address.
A BIG SURPLUS OF WHISKY.
Census Office Report Shows the United
States is the Largest Producer
of Copper in the World.

Chicago will erect twenty-fve-story
building.
Texas negroes will exhibit at the
Worlds Fair
Denver capitalists have secured the
principal tin mines in Colorado.
The Customs Collector at New York
has been ordered to cut down expenses
$S6,450.
There were $4,000 watermelons re-
ceived in Chicago from Georgia one day
last week.
Boston Nationalists have issued an
address calling on the city to run the
street cars.
The President has nominated Henry
+. Nichols to be a Commander in the
United States navy.
Prominent Haytians at New York saw
a revolution against Hyppolite is bound
to come at an early day.
The official investigation at Ottawa is,
bringing to light an astounding amount
OF rascality in the public offices.
Chicago's postal receipts last year were
$3,504, $50 66 and expenses 81 ,285, ,02S.3
leaving an income of $2,2l9, ,702.32.
Mrs. Samuel Mather of Cleveland has
given $40, 900 TO the Woman's College of.
Western Reserve University at that city. "
Cleveland says he has not the slightest
intention to take the stump in Ohio this
fall, and he has never intimated he
would do so.
Princeton College intends sending AN
expedition this month to "a region in
Montana never before explored" to
search for fossil remains.
@.AABy a decision in the United Stateng
cult Court at New York the Brus.-
trio Company has secured a monopoITof
the.storage-b battery industry.
The testimony before the Privileges
and Elections Committee at Ottawa con-
tinues to show fraud and bribery in Sc
curing government contracts.
1t is gravely declared at Buzzard's Bay.
Mass, where Edwin Booth has been
lately, that the great actor is dying from
the effects of too much smoking.
Kentucky whiskymen are again wor-
ried over the big surplus of their COM
modify now on hand, on which $3,0OO,-
600 taxes will come due next fall.
The striking plush weavers at Dob
sons mills in Philadelphia after ten
weeks of idleness have agreed to return
to work. There are about 400 of them.
Bank Examiner Drew is endeavoring
TO convince the Secretary of the Treas
ury that he did not neglect his duty in
the case of the Keystone bank at Phila-
delphia.
Senator Chandler of New Hampshire
in six-column article in a Concord
journal makes bitter attack upon Sem
ator Gallinger, whom he charges with
having sold himself to the railroads.
DR.. Henry T. Hembold, the famous
buchu man, who was credited with hav-
ing piled up fortune of $10.0O0,0OO by
the sale of his patent medicines, is once
more in madhouse, chained at the
wrists and with shackles on his ankles.
There has just been cast at the armor-
plate mill of Carnegie, Phillips & Co. at
Homestead, Pa, an armor ingot eighty
inches wide and twenty-three inches
thick, weighing $4,000 pounds-the larg-
est armor- plate ingot rolled in this
country.
According to new law in Texas for
eigners are not permitted to own land in
fee simple; but it has been estimated
that the Texas farmers have borrowed
in foreign countries not less than $45.-
100000, which is represented in mort
cages upon their lands.
The Bureau of American Republics is
informed that an association called the
American Colored Mems Mexican Colo
nization Company is preparing to estab-
lished colony Of negro farmers, coming
chiefly from Mississippi and Tennessee.
in the State of Sonora, Mexico.
During a trial at Findlay, O., it was
brought out in evidence that Peter S.
widely known throughout
Northwestern Ohio as big lumber
dealer, was leading a dual life, and that
he was keeping up two establishments
one in F:ndlay and the other in Fostoria.
only fifteen miles away.
The Forest heavy ordnance twelve
inch rifle gun, designed for coast defense
and made in New York, was fired for the
first time the other day at Sandy Hook
with satisfactory results. With 25O
pounds of powder it hurled a 1000
pound shot five miles. The gun willuse
44O pounds of powder and throw a 1000
pound shot twelve miles.