The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-09-24
Grasshoppes Doing Damage to
Both Corn and Cotton.
THE KANSAS WHEAT CROP LARGE.
Builders Of Engines, Dynamos and All
Equipments intended for Steam
and Electricity Busy.

wv NoavtS~s
Thasseseon's domestic tobacco crop ia
reported exceptionally large.
Connecticut's peach crop amounts this
year to only IS, 0OO baskets.
The Chicago Council has approved the
act Of the Mayor in closing Garfield race
track.
Kansas has 9, 900 miles Of railroad. and
there is 4 wheat blockade at every
station.
The tire engine manufacturers Of the
United States and Canada have formed
trust.
( 1t is not unlikely that the G. A. r.
| Encampment of 1898 will be held at
indianapolis.
The United States 10 the richer by
81, 900 900 in money orders never pre-
sented for payment.
All the larger cities in PENNSYLVANIA
are being especially cleansed in antiel-
patton OF the cholera.
Indiana is claimed to have bat one
surviving soldier Of the war OF 1912.
There are 252 widows.
Lebanon, No., is infested with a band
OF burglars, who use their pistols with
reckless Indifference.
The Kansas wheat crop will amount
to 1900, 900 bushels, or 5,OOO, 900 more
than last years crop.
| Four boodling ex-Canadian bank or
civil officers are said to be living in one
block in Detroit. Mich.
The Metropolitan Traction Company
OF New York has increased its capt.
tai stock to $30, 900, 900.
Somebody in Rhode Island is said To
be palming OFT bogus oleomargsrine on
the New England public.
In 1880 the money added to prizes bv
the racing associations amounted Ia
$4,000. Now it reaches 81 10000.
The new Croton dam to be built near
| New York. it is said, will be the largest
IN the world. Work will soon be begun.
A much-needed rain the latter part OF
last week saved the Missouri corn crop
and guaranteed the wheat acreage OF
, next year.
st. Louis takes to the antique. That
city is organizing what is claimed 10 be
the first Italian regiment ever formed in
this country.
Roland A. Hewitt, a wellknown BIZ
cyclist at Atlantic City, n. j., and a
clerk in the postotfice, is charged with
robbing the mails.
meteor about twelve inches in
diameter fell and shattered a rock twelve
times as big near Livingston Manor,
Sullivan county, y. Y.
Uncle Sans income is increasing.
The governments receipts in August
were about S., 900, 900 in excess OF those
Df the m rpnnth in IsQf
solution to assess the capital stock
Of the Pullman Car Company at 49,
6SS, $50 was introduced in the Board OF
Equalization at Springfield, Ill.
Owing to the cholera scare, it is re-
ported that the city of New York has
been made cleaner than at any time
since the last visitation of cholera.
In Louisiana they are talking Of the /
degradation OF the prize ring by allowing
the admission therein OF black puxilists
on equal terms with white braisers.
There is a great demand just now for
electric torchlights, which will be used
by some campaign clubs as q substitute
for the time-honored, bad smelling oil .
lights.
The builders OF engines, dynamos and .
all equipments intended for steam and
electricity Ihaye a vast amount Of WORK
on hand, probably more than at any
former period.
There seems to be an impression that
cholera is incurable. This 10 a great
mistake. the large majority OF we'll
conditioned persons are usually saved by
good treatment.
James J. West has been set free by
Judge Tuthill Of Chicago, and the pros
ecutions for alleged acts committed
while in possession OF the Times proper.
ty were quashed.
The Niagara Falls tunnel will prob.
ably be finished October |, and the
excavation shortly after.
Power will begin to be furnished toward
the end OF March.
An electric road for passengers, freight
and general service between Fonda,
Johnstown and Gloversville, ". Y, is 10
De constructed at a cost Of s5OO,OO Il ,
will be seventeen miles in length. ,
Grasshoppers are doing damage to
10Th corn and cotton in West Ten nessee ,
N some places cotton has been stripped !
'are OF its leaves, and it is often the ,
ase that bolIs are cut off from the limb. :
The river coal operators at Pittsbury
ave served notices Of q reduction on !,
he miners and closed the mines until =
he new schedule is agreed TO. Between :
90 and 5000 men are thrown out OF :
FORK.
The Boston GiDb> 10 authority for the -
tatement that not one member Of the ;,
nlted States Senate was born yest nj =.
he Missouri river, and all but two ont .
thirty-three were born east Of the
Mississippi.
In Chicago a man has been brouyh, n
eiore the United States Comni.sionsr 10
'r selling soda-water drinks called u
pilgrims. His offense was that h. 81
ut about 10 per cent. OF whisky in them IN
lthout having a government license. ma
A Sensational dispatch from III paao 80
'ys an Indian revolt in Sonora and Chi a.
uahna, Mexico, has been 80 far snc- -
'ssfui that the regular troops have been 80
sfeated, and Mexican officers are held
hostages. Fears were expressed tina, -.
'e satisfied portion Of the popnjation a., a.,
ould j)in the Indians. on I,I
American inventors are protsstin, "
'ainst the action OF the Small AIMS "a
,ard in recommending the adoption nv es'
. United States OF the Krsg. Jorgensen s'
ne. The protest may have it's effect ~ ~
ID II 80. an American inventor, Lien. ,o'
nant II. X. White Of the marine corn.
III probably secure the prize. ~, ~
A ruling by District Cour. Judge a, AMI
ichita that County Clerks had no legal lin
INT to issue marriage licenses, the law M.
wing the Probate Judge the right. has Of
sated much excitement in that portion ain
Kansas, for during the past few YEAR, lin,
mbers Of people have been Welded ,,s.
der licenses obtained from the Countv tai,
srk OF q neighboring town hen tbs tio,
obste Judge was absent, WIG ,n .,