The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-03-12
METEOR FALLS IN ALABAMA.

Oil Reducing the Duty on Barley
Introduced in the House by
Fitch Of New York.
Chicago collects over 5000, 900 in So
loon licenses.
Never before were prices for iron 81
low ss they are now.
Philadelphia has 1000 fewer licensed
saloons than New York.
Senator Sherman is to build 500 ,OO(
mansion in Washington.
New York State Senate is investisst
ing the Reading coal deal.
Three new lines Of railroad will soor
DO built through Ottumws, Ia.
Oil has been discovered on Mr.. Blaine.
farm in Washington county, Pa.
An effort will be made in New York to
raise $25 600 to send the 100 stranded
colonists to Liberia.
The value OF Kansas farm lands is said
to have actually increased ~ per cent,
IN the past twelve mouths.
Relatives Of William Turnbull, one OF
the sailors slain at Valparaiso, will de
mand a large indemnity OF Chill.
Governor Gilpin OF Colorado seriously
advocates the construction Of railroad
from Denver to Paris via Behring Straits.
Fred Douglass has been appointed to
represent Hayti at the Worlds Fair. An
appropriation OF rs. 1000 has been made.
Two cases OF typhus fever have been
discovered in St. Louis among Jews who
recently arrived there from Idena, Rus
sia.
Chicago has just adopted the plans for
new public ib:ary building, which &C
cording to the estimates will cost 81, go, :
900.
The present Federal House of Repre-
sentatives will be asked for more than
$25, OCO, 900 for river and harbor i'm prove
ments.
The street cars in Leavenworth, Kan,
are to be run by compressed air. The
citizens have raised the money to raise
the wind.
The first consignment OF camel skins
Tor commercial purposes ever brought to
this country reached New York some
days ago.
New York Central road employees have
received orders TO flag any train that is
seen to be following another train within
ten minutes.
Revolutionary societies, having for
their object the freedom of Cuba and
Porto Rico from Spanish control, are or.
yanizing in New York
President Harrison has dismissed In
ternal Revenue Collector A. T. Wimbar-
ley OF Mississippi because OF utilization
with the lottery people.
Inquiries made throughout the cotton
belt by the ST. Louis GIob,- Democrat
show that planters will raise less cotton
during 1892 than in 1891.
The Health Officer OF Philadelphia has
been directed TO prosecute 100 Clergy
men for fine OF $40 for each OF 442 mar
riages that they neglected to report.
The Interstate Commerce Commission
has decided that it is a violation OF the
Law for road TO issue passes to Cou neil
men on account OF their official posi-
ton.
The Schmid, locaLoption bill was de-
teated in the Iowa Senate BY strict
pa Notc- y ucW siu1IidI III
Its provisions was at once introduced by
Senator Gobble.
The will of Daniel Hand, the Gulford
Conn. philsnthropist no gave 30 much
money for the education OF freedmen, is
to be contested. Ii disposes OF sou 900,
and the heirs number twenty-nine.
At a conference OF colored people at
Tuskegee, Ala, the other day it was de-
that they can become prosper
Gus, intelligent and rich where they are,
and wholesale emigration is discouraged.
The License Commissioners OF Wash
lngton, D. c.. have prepared a new IL
cense bill, which has been sent to Con-
yress. Under this new bill the retail
license will be 800 per annum and the
y Wholesale $500.
A meteor which fell in Alabama last
week plowed up fnrrow about as large
~ flour barrel and three or four feet
ieep, then bounded and struck a large
pine tree six feet from the ground, shiy-
ring the tree. 1t then exploded.
The New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company has signed a
'ontract for %, 800 steel ties, which are
o be laid on four tracks running out oi
iew York. Steel rails OF 100 pounds .
ection will be nsed for this purpose. /
Miss Rhois Broughton has organized .
successful movement in philadelphia /
or home OF rest for horses. The scheme
3 in practical operation, and insures
reater kindness in treatment of the
lass OF animals for which it is designed.
Investigation OF Chicago's water sup
ly, prom pied by the prevalence OF ty-
hold fever in that city, has shown that
be water is unfit to drink unless boiled,
nd that il will be necessary 10 90 four
lilies out into the lake for an uncontam-
,ated supply.
Colonel Robert q Ingersoll has brought
lit for libel against Rev. DR.. A.C. Dixon
the Handson Place Baptist Church.
rock yn. because Dix1c in q sermon
larsed that Ingergoll had been hired by
u blishers OF impure literature 10 pol
lite the minds OF the young Of this gem
ration"
The annual returns OF the Organized
lilitia OF the States, which have recent
; been presented to Congress. show a
ratifying increase in numbers over last
Ear and still greater advance over
.w years ago. Exclusive OF three lately
limited States. whose statistics are
liking, the aggregate is ll0.7ls.
The charges made in Chill against |
onsul McCreery and Lieutenant Har- !
". which have been mentioned in the !
Ible dispatches, have teen forwarded i
} the United states by Hill. DR.. Trum- :
ull has also mailed a statement tina, /
IcCreery gave out the ness for which ]
dmiral Brown is blamed about the !
nding at Quinteros Bay. II