The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-09-05
Mexico Will Make a Big
Exhibit at Chicago.
1000, ,OOONEW VOTERS IN 1892
Arizona Will Ask to Be Admitted Into
the Union as State at Next
Session Of Congress.

Chinese immigration is being solicited
by Mexico.
Alligators have appeared in the Mis-
souri, river.
Mexico will have $2,OO0,OOO exhibit
at the Worlds Fair.
There will be eighty-fiye buffaloes in
the Worlds Fair ZOO.
Kansas papers speak of the corn crop
as practically assured.
There are to be sS7 polling places in
New York city this year.
The agricultural building for the
Worlds Fair will cost $S00,000.
A million young men will cast their
first vote for President next year.
AT the next session of Congress Ari-
zona will ask for admission as a State.
Complete census returns give Iowa
population of l,9ll 1896, gain of 2S7 ,28l
since 1880.
The irrepressible George Francis Train
proposes tour around the world in forty
days by party of 1000 persons.
Connellsville, Pa, will drop natural
gas and use coal for fuel The gas is
nearly all exhausted, and rates are high.
1t is reported that 900 acres Of land in
Cape May county, Md, have been pur-
chased on which to colonize Russian
Jews.
A German doctor, advertising in New
York an Institution Of European Staff
Physicians" has been prosecuted for
fraud.
Senator Warren thinks tire United
States should cede the arid lands under
proper restrictions to the States and Ter
ritories.
Bellew is furious about the report of
his alleged marriage to Mrs. Potter. He
says she cleared 100000 on her Austral-
ian tour.
An advance Of 10 cents per ton onsan-
thracite coal has been ordered from Sep
tember | at New York by the producing
companies.
There are more boats now running on
the Missouri river than at any time dur
ing the last ten years, and every one of
them is making money.
More than 5000 clerks, salespeople,
teamsters, porters, janitors and other
wage earners are out of work because of
the recent big fire in Chicago.
The drought in the Lower Rio Grande
has put all the ranchmen in debt, and
the great scarcity of money is causing
the sacrifice of cattle and sheep.
Charles s. Wolfe, who was elected
Executive Commissioner of the Worlds
Fair by the Pennsylvania State Commits
sioners, dropped dead within an hour
and a half after his election from heart
disease.
The new chinch-bug remedy by inocu
: lation discovered in Kansas has beer
tried with apparent success in Wisconsin
some of the imported infected insects
} causing the death of millions of the bug
/ in wheat field.
One of the little bands Of Russian He
l brew refugees sent out from New Yorl
A to homes in the country by the trustees
of the Baron Hirsch fund complain tina
/ they are starving and have been swim
l died and abused.
/ The employees of the Union Pacif,
having entered into a contract previou
to the passage of the eight-hour law il
. Nebraska and the contract still being il
I force, they are not taking part in tn
struggle to enforce the law.
There has been great deal of exag
geration regarding the dismissal of vet
/ Grams from the New York Customs
house. Out of eighty-three employe
dismissed only sixteen were veterans
: and of these three have already been re
Z instated.
PostotIice Inspector Stuart at Chicag
is in receipt of many letters which shoN
# that the National Capital Savings, Build
o ing and Loan Association was even
n greater swindle than at first supposed
Victims are being heard from all owe
q the country.
+ Owen Murphy, former Tammany o
{. fetal, who stole $4,000 of the funds {
\ New York city and fled to Canada i
1877, turns up as one of the principal
in the corrupt dealings that have bee
z brought to light by legislative commi
y tee at Ottawa.
- - Amos Howard Fiske of South Fran
ingham, Mass. has been appointed Chi
engineer of the Leland Stanford, il
d University. Otto Willweber, late mai
Y ager of the Southern Pacific restaural
10 at Sacramento, has been appointed ste,
. ard of the boarding hall of the unive
sity.