The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1891-11-21
River Making Inroads
on New Orleans.
ELECTRICAL PROCESS IN IRON
BlaCk Diphtheria Spreads at Alarm
ing Rate in an Iowa Nor
wegian Settlement

Iron is to be made at Chattanooga by
an electrical process.
The Supreme Court of North Dakota
sustains the prohibition law in every
particular.
The people of Brooklyn have sounded
an emphatic call for another bridge
across the East river.
Nicaragua needs water badly. and
American well drillers with puIrping
outfits are in demand.
Georgia statesmen have resolved to
return TO the old custom of annual meet
ings of the Legislature.
A rich amber deposit, it is reported.
has been discovered in Ontario, the esti-
mated value Of which is 81 600, 1000.
Louisiana sugar men are obiecting
strongly to the appointment of negroes
as inspectors under the bounty law.
The inroads of the river on New
Orleans continue, and NAV prove
rather serious matter for a part of the
city.
A canal to connect Jamaica Bay with
the Great South Bay, on the south
shore OF Long Island, is spoken OF as
probable.
Before the close of the year four new
cruisers-two at Baltimore, one at Nor
folk and one in Philadelphia-willh have
been launched.
The number of postofices in tbe
United States is officially stated To be
"a, 39l, showing an increase Of 200 over
last year at this time.
BY an order the Secretary Of War has
reduced from thirty five to thirty wears
the maximum age at which army re-
cruits will be accepted.
Ignatius Donnelly has begun two
more libel suits against the st. Paul
lHtoneer-, Press. He is not satisfied with
the verdict just given to him.
The Delaware Indians have lust re-
celved 1000, being one-haIf Of the
sum given them by the government for
lands in the Indian Territory.
An ingenious person in Chicago has
invented an automatic Adelina Patti.
1t Is life-siZed wax figure, which imi-
tates her smiles, gestures and poses.
During the last eight months the
number OF locomotive engines exported
from the United States was 259. against
ninety-three In the corresponding period
of 1890.
The New York naval reserve artillery
is rapidly filling up its ranks to the
maximum, and ls inaugurating a fixed
programme for the winters drill.
All the liquor dealers in Bar Harbor.
Me-, including proprietors of summer
restaurants, have been indicted for al
legged violation of the liquor laws.
The government proposes to build
another timber dock in the navy ward
at Brooklyn, the accommodations of the
other two docks being insufficient. II
ls to be about 600 feet in length.
The Commercial Club of Kansas CITY
has called convention to meet Deem
Der 10 and l6, to urge upon Congress
systematic Improvements of the Mis-
souri, and lower Mississippi rivers.
The Governor of Tennessee has offered
reward of $1,000 for the arrest and
conviction OF the leader of the Brice-
vile riot, and reward of $25 each for
'he capture of the escaped convicts.
An agreement has been concluded
With the Tonkawa tribe of Indians of
he Indian Territory, by which the
Indians cede to the United States 80 900
leres of land, the consideration being
S30, 800.
Kansas City officials have been
wrought up to high state of excite
nent by the discovery of gold in samples
# strata pierced by drill while drilling
or the water-works tunnel under the
Missouri river.
President Noel of the Olympic Club at
Vew Orleans has telegraphed Sullivan's
gents in New York offering SIS. 600 for
he Slayin-Sullivan contest for March:
lso solid gold pitcher emblematic of
he worlds supremacy.
The recent wreck of the Ell Dorado on
he Bahama banks has led to the dis
overy OF an ingenious method of cheat
ng the government. Nine cases were
marked linen goods, while only three
toweling, the rest having
ostly kid gloves. The goods were dam
ged, but being in bond were shipped
0 New York, and the government ap-
in seeking to ascertain the
lss discovered the cheat. There is a
int that the San Francisco Custom
louse would be involved.