The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-12-05
EASTERN ITEMS.
Work on the Galveston
Jetties Resumed.
THE CHOCTAWS AND NEGROES
Secretary Noble Dismisses a Clerk in
Pension Office for Writing
Objectionable Novel.

In South Dakota the total vote this
year does not exceed $4,000.
Fifty cents will be the price of admis-
sion to the Chicago Worlds Fair.
The reciprocity agreement with Mex
leo will be proclaimed about January |.
Congress will be asked for $S00,000 to
pay for Worlds Fair medals and pre-
miums.
The beginning has been made toward
building a great temperance temple In
Boston.
Two packages of cigarettes daily have
Just made George Geisel of New York
crazy. He is 20 years Old
President Harrison has pardoned
George Welles, convicted in California
of violating the postal laws.
The Democrats in Massachusetts
gained nearly $4,000 over last years re-
turns, the Republicans about 10000.
Large numbers of representative cat
tlemen are in Chicago, and a national
breeding association is being organized.
A Kansas City Appeals Court decision
acknowledges the right OF negress kept
in ignorance of her freedom to recover
her wages.
J The Choctaw Council has prohibited
negroes from settling on their lands, and
! those who were in the mines are being
( sent away.
3 1t is proposed to erect a monument at
/. Memphis to General N. B. Forrest,
/ whom Robert +. Lee once called the
$ greatest of Confederate Generals.
/, The Knights Of Labor General Assem-
!, bly has decided that all who do not ae-
y cept all the principles enumerated m
I the platform must feave the order.
= The water in the lakes and streams OF
Western Connecticut is so low that many
mills have stopped running and others
have had to return to steam power.
The Mexican revolutionists on the
Rio Grande border are gaining recruits.
= They are we'll armed, and are said to
have many sympathizers in Mexico.
The loss to shipping by the September
and October hurricanes is estimated by
s. the marine underwriters to have been
a over $40, 100000, and ninety souls are
known to have perished.
id Parnell's estate will be inherited by
an his brother, ohm Parnell, who is sooI
ST. to leave Atlanta for Ireland to claim the
he property. Mrs. Parnell receives only {
Sc life interest in the estate.
DIS The Transcontinental Association, a
Il, a meeting at st. Louis, voted agains
on granting $50 rate for delegates to tn
on National Convention, for which Sal
he Francisco is making bid.
Bar Eagles party of Indians, whic
ny refused to remain on the Cheyenn
~ ~ Agency, are at Pine Ridge. An inve'
III tigation will probably be had as to tn
~ ~ 5ol, ,,poHrrco tho niCpnntpnf
an The amount OF money in circulatio
an in the United States increased 33,SlO
nla 125 during October, and is now $24.z
.be per capita. The volume Of cirCulatio
,na is 500, 494, ,544 greater than at this tim
no last year.
,at Felix Starhenberg, a Swedish il
1vs ventor, has undertaken to harness Ne
I'LL York Bay to a motor which will moN
nos all the machinery in New York cit.
tar His motor is set in motion by the rii
ent of the tide.
,st. Secretary Noble has dismissed fro
act the service Lewis w. Bogy Of st. Loui
far a clerk in the pension office, for haviI
adj written and published a novel Of obje
anv tionable character on official life
ter, Washington.
are Otto Kramer Of Philadelphia has SUI
the Traction Car Company OF that CT
the for $4,000 to satisfy the damages OF b
ion person resulting from sitting on tao
$40 Mr.. Kramer found the tack on the ca
,ho- seat OF car.
A The City Council of Chicago, by
Ian, vote to receive protests against t
art action of the police in breaking up
the Socialist meeting, practically censur
lace Mayor Washburne and Chief of Poll
ht- McClaughey.
'ouU Members of the Women's Christi
i.V1 iaV Temperance Union at Kent, o., form
lleu themselves into parties and called at
pro- places where loud theatrical posters
5lI 5luif vertising a burlesque opera were d
nan : al played and tore the bills and lithograp
Lon "i prints in pieces.
ning The Methodist General Missions
the Committee has appropriated for diff
nine ent classes of missions as follows:
III Is nese, $11 400; Japanese in Califor
tints and Honolulu, $1,000; Bohemian {
vino. Hungarian, 81, $50; Italian, 81, ,75O; /
II tuguese, $500; Indians, $9,350.