The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-07-30
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The Revenue Department Makes
a Peculiar Decision.
GAIN OF LAND FROM OLD MEXICO.
Key to the Hieroglyphics That Will Unlock
the Mysteries In the Hiltite In.
scriptions Found.
GAIN OF LAND FROM OLD MEXICO,

riots At Homestead, Pa.
New York hanks have $40, aO7 900 il
excess OF the legal requirements.
Tennessee convict is pronounced b,
the penitsntiary physicians to be OF boti
sexes.
New York business men are yreatl,
worried over the lack OF warehouse ia
cilities.
The manufacturers OF Fall River
Mass, have just increased wages 81
per cent.
There is quite q rush of people int.
the Southern States who have . few
thousand dollars to invest.
General George +. Afford OF Dallas
Tex, is about to 20 to Earope to Undue,
| farmers to settle in that State.
Marshall Field paid $aOO, 900 for 20,
square feet OF Chicago land recently
the largest price ever paid in that city
BY cut OF the Rio Grande river il
Was shortened about two miles, and 81,
acres OF Mexican land are now on tn,
American side.
Golden, q suburb Of Denver, contain
ing 5000 people, i, in danger Of bein.
swept away by grand landslide frou
Table Mountain.
The railroads are finding it necsssar,
to make cheap excursion rates in ordel
TO supply harvest hands to Central and
| Western Kansas.
4 Buffalo deaf mute has recently been
| attacked BY st. Nitus' dance in his arm,
and fingers. he is learning to make
signs with his feet.
! by order OF the Commissioners OF the
| District OF Columbia all the theaters in
Washington must be fitted throuxhou;
with electric lights.
The story OF concessions BY the Next
| can government to an American COM
| pauy to build a railroad from Ell Paso 70
Mszatlan is again repeated.
The Revenue Department has decided
| that the bi-chloride OF gold institutes
which claim 10 cure inebriety are liable to
the government for the retail liquor tax.
An attempt has been made to burn the
state women's prison and reform school
for girls At Indiana polls. Three fires
were started At the same time, but were
extingulshed.
A student OF Johns Hopkins Cniyer-
sity lie said to have discovered the kew to
the hierog lyphics that will unlock the
mysteries IN Htltite inscriptions, hith-
erto wholly unknown.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
lord road propo, es TO run an electric
train between New York and New Ha
ven and make the distance-.eventy-fou
miles-in sixty minutes.
For second time since the passage oil
the silver law OF 1870 30 per cent. OF the
customs revenues at New York during
the first ten days OF July was paid in the
! new treasury notes issued under that la1.
Over 400 damage suits have been fied
against the Little Rock and Fort Smith
and Missouri Pacific railroads for viola
ton OF an Arkansas law fixing passenger
rates, and the court 10 deciding about
fifteen cases day against the companies.
huge bow,der and beside it a flag
stat fifty feet nigh have been erected in
Franklin, y. H., to mark the spot where
Daniel Webster was born. The birth spot
was originally in the town OF Salisbury.
hut is now included in the territory OF
franklin.
The father of Alice Mitchell, who
killed Freda Warde last January at Mem
phis, testified that Alice's mother was
insane and the girl had mani tested sim
liar peculiarities. She speaks OF Freda
as ii she were living now, and takes no
interest in her own trial.
Father Bay, Catholic priest In Chi.
ca2o, shot and killed Barney Moran, a
burglar, who had entered the priest.
house one night las. week. Moran fred
twice at the priest, missing him. A
Coroner's jury decided that Father Bay
was not TO be blamed or censured.
the strangest thing OF this generation
in the way OF will-making i. reported
from Kentucky. One OF the richest men
OF the State died few days ago, and cut
MS sons oH with 800 each because of
their liking fast horses. His widow and
daughter divide fortune OF s. ,OOO, 900. |
A Syrian woman, badly afflicted with
!e 2rosy, was allowed TO land at New
ork, having passed inspection at quar-
antlne. II ia said the inspection is too I
careless, and there is fear that unless il |
10 made more rigid the danger OF i'm .
porting cholera infection will he yery
great.
The Haskell multicharge gun has again
been tested at Reading, Pa, for penetra-
ton into iron plates. The projectil-
penetrated the best range iron six inches
hich il three plates more than any gun
,ver penetrated before. The proiactile
vas found TO be as perfect az when i,
anne from the lathe.
The minority report in the Raun in
'estigation asserts that the majority OF
he committee seemed determined IN
asten crime and corruption UPON the
;ommiss oner; but, having utterly TAI ed
0 do 50 by the evidence, they a. last r
esort sought to do it by inference.
A st. Louis man who tapped an cleo.
nc hight wire surreptitiously for his own '
sc was set at liberty, the Judge who
ned him declining to pronounce the Of Z
snse petty larceny, while the grand i1rv
efu4ed to regard it az a fraud. There
Tas no dispute az to the fact OF the Of Q
snse. 2
By the will of Cyrus W. Field the
Metropolitan Museum Of Art at New
ork will come into possession OF the Y
iedals and insignias received in conn.c. 3
on with the laying OF the Atlantic "a e
les and letters and documents relating
the enterprise from the inception NJ II
ne scheme to its accomplishment. cl
The American Museum Of Natural al
listory at New York has secured m. II
larry Edwards chronological collection
hich we'll known in san Francisco r
ne collection includes over $50. 900 in, ~
cts OF all kinds from all parts Of tho b.
ODE, and is very rich in the lepidop,ara m
North America, especially the br,,t.r.
es OF the Pacific Coast. 90,
When the deficiency bill vas und., VI
'nsideration in the Senate perkin. n, in
ansas asked unanimous consent To have in
rlcken from i, the item ~ 4, nno r.
e widow of Senator Plumb of Kans,, ar
I'd read letter from Plunb's ,on .,.,' a.,
z that the item was inherited ri,bnn, IL,