The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-01-16
EASTERN ITEMS.
La Grippe Increasing in
st. Louis.
IRRIGATION IN THE EAST.
A Pastor Fined $500 for Smoking
Buffalo's Contribution to Fam
ine-Strieken Russia.

Irrigation is likely to be tried before
long in some of the Eastern States.
Edward J. Tracy has been appointed
Treasurer of the State of Tennessee.
Several Indian mounds have been
found and explored in Atchison county,
Kan.
All the principal street railroads will
be permitted to use the Trolly in Bal
timore.
Professor Hazen of the weather bureau
has no faith in the dynamite rain-mak-
ing theory.
Nearly one-third of the cadets in the
Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md, are
down with the grip.
New Jersey, by her State Horticultural
Board, has chosen the golden rod as the
State flower.
The American School-book Trust is
said to have once more secured control
of the Indiana trade.
Buffalo's -four contributions to the
famine-stricken Russians will reach
100000 pounds.
President Barrett of the Glendale, N.
D., Farmers and Mechanics State Bank,
has been arrested for crooked work.
A lot in Park Row, New York, which
Peter Lorillard bought for $400 sixty
years ago, sold for $l22, 900 last week.
Owing to la grippe there is an alarm
ing increase in the number of deaths in
St. Louis, especially among old people.
Statements purported to have been
poaHa Inv Giofar r ID n hoy.t In,
treaimentsin Hawaii are said 70 be
false.
The proposal to put on separate
coaches for colored passengers in Ken
tucky has stirred up opposition from the
latter.
Russell Sage now keeps body guard.
He is a stout, burly fellow, who, when
his master is in his office, stands guard
at the door.
The striking coal miners in Indiana,
who stopped work two months ago, have
been defeated and have returned at the
old rates.
Governor Russell OF Massachusetts, has
refused to sign the pardon of James
Dunlap, the Northampton bank robber,
now in the State prison.
w. n. Pethick, recently appointed
managing director of the Chinese rail
wavs by LII Hung Chang, was formerly
a citizen of New York.
During the six months ending Novem-
Der 30, 1891, the number of Russian He
brew immigrants arriving at New York
exceeded 1000.
A murder committed by any one in
the service of the government, and in a
United States fort, can only be passed
upon in the Federal Courts.
The Flint and Pere Marquette rail-
road has ceased to do business in Ohio
to evade damage suits, as q result of the
recent wreck at Toledo.
According to a decision rendered by
Judge Burson in Wabash, Ind, Indiana
may be unable to prevent companies
from piping natural gas to Chicago.
Rev. George j. Pierce, of Worcester.
Mass, has Joined the divorce COLONY OF
Sioux Falls, S. d., and asks to be separ-
ated from his wife, alleging desertion.
It is said that the postmaster at Baird,
Callahan county, Texas, has Confeder-
ate flag floating over his office. The
Postoflice Department has begun an in
VesugaClon.
Steel smokestacks are being placed
upon the locomotives of the elevated
railroads in New York city, thus reduc-
ing the weight from 800 to about 100
pounds.
In the county of Greeley, in Kansas,
there is a town named Horace and
another named Tribune. The names
were all given out of compliment to the
great editor.
The new Art building in Chicago is to
be on the site of the Exposition build
ing, which has seen great shows and
important national conventions since
the fire.
Since the movement of the new wheat
crop commenced there have been re-
ceived at Duluth 100000 bushels, at
Chicago q 100000, and at Minneapolis
"a, 900, 900.
A Chicago paper boasts that there are
a dozen or more citizens of that place
worth from $5,0O0,0O0 to $25, ,000, 600
apiece, and at least a hundred others
worth 81 ,000, 600 each.