The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-04-02
John Browns Fort Taken
to Chicago.
A SUBTERRANEAN RIVER
The New York Legislature Defeats the
Bill to Annex Brooklyn to
New York City.

ing beneath the city OF Aspen, Col.
A subterranean river OF vast extern
has been tapped in Plaintield, n. J.
Ford county, Kan, looks for 30 fami
lies OF Danes to settle there this year
A new cable to connect the Contra
American States with Cuba is soon to b,
laid.
James Calhoun, postmaster at Ri,
Pine, Wyo., is dcisulter to the govern
ment.
Franklin, Pa, is in the throes OF re
iigious revival, business even being neg
lected.
A Kansas man applied for divorc,
because his wife would no longer sup
port him.
The Minnesota lice So law has beer
declared void, and saloons may run al
the time.
Chicago has given up its war against
the English sparrows. The sparrow.
hold the field.
| Another vessel loaded with food for the
starving Russians will leave Philadel
phia ON April Is.
Minnie johnson confesses 10 having
nred the female retormatory at Indian
spolis on March |.
Railroad officials estimate that only
one-third OF the Western crops OF 1891
have thus far been moved.
Secretary Tracy EXPIRE ses fear that the
House will be parsimonious in the mat
ter OF naval appropriations.
The Massachusetts, House has decided
10 makh ha "A lary ~ Sha
ooO, the present figure being 5000.
The bottom and s,0oo, 700 gallons of
water one day last week dropped out OF
the new reservoir at Leavenworth, Kan.
The Commissioners report in favor of
the entrance OF the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad into Washington City by an ele
waited road.
Reports to the Philadelphia Board OF
Health OF contagious diseases and death.
therefrom Indicate death rate far above
the normal.
The Congressional Committee on Pub
Tic Lands has reported iavorablv on the
projected Mariposa wagon road into tn.
Yosemite Valley.
ES-Auditor Lavelle, indicted for at
'empting to burn the Dayiess county
(ind.) courthouse, is short in his Az
counts over $500.
Alleged Doodle transactions are re-.
ported to have existed among the Brook.
iyn Aldermen in giving the elevated
railway franchise OF 1886.
The Senate bill to change the name Of
the customs collection district and port
of Wilmington, Cal, to that OF Los An
seies has passed the Senate.
Two rain companies in Kansas arr
making contracts with the counties OF
mat state at $500 a county to produce
rom one to two inches Of rain.
According to the new count of the non
ilatlon OF Buffalo by the State enumer-
itors the total will be 2S4 oCO. rne CEN
us fgures in 1890 were 255, 664.
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
legislature to enlarge and extend the 1
'hio canal 80 that boats can he lowed |
rom Lake Erie to the Ohio river.
The State Department official. sav tha,
mere IS NO truth in the report that the
nlted States has esta oli.hed an alliance
'itn the Argentine confederation.
The Legislature at Albany mas defeated
he Dill to annex BROOKLYN to New YORK
lty. Tammsny rule in the latter place
the Chief impeachment to the consol:-
alton.
At present SOL students are attendin,
ne University OF Michigan at Ann Ar
or, which is the largest number ever
tending an American institution of
arning.
David Wenger, who struck a rich vein
silver bearing ore while digging ,
ell at Lincoln, No. several dsys apo
~ purchased machinery, and will de-
,lop the lead.
testimony Is being taken at Chicago ,
the disputed heirsh p to the estate OF
smuei sankey OF San Francisco regard ,
z the title to 500 900 worth OF property 4!
tuated in Chicago.
The old Harper's Ferry engine honse a
IT, which John Brown storrned and r
ptured, and behind whose brick wal :
DID defiance to a power .ul force, ha.
en- removed to Chicago. n
The recent heavy disbursements have
iuced the treasury balance to x2g .65l. "
D, OF which 1881 POI is on depo.it d,
th national banks and sl5, 225 900 is in
bsldiary and minor coin. =,
The Nicaraguan government ia max.
{ the most liberal offers TO intendioy p
lee growers. 1t gives to a married r,
IN 24o acres and to single man ia fc
'es OF good coffee ground. n
Governor Flower declined to sign hin n
ing the salaries Of the BROOKLYN Alder u
n at 5000 on the ground that the
glslature should only grant permission in
ioca! authorities TO Xix salaries. 20
ieneral Miles believes the great mead ~
this country is coast-defensiye works =
thinks too much dependence i. pl ,ced a
the navy. Fortifca,ions are necessi. "
,, and they may save the country from :"
at losses.
is openly charged in New York tina, se
eruption fund OF at least 50. 900 OOO vi
raised by interested capitalists and VII
ck Jobbers for the passage OF the hilI nc
he New Jersey Leg stature leyaliziny D.
coal combination OF the Reading VI
road. M
i DE kalb, Mo-, open hostilities be- !"
en- the temperance and saloon inter.
nave created reign OF terror. Tho Mt,
'onmen at last reports had possession col
ne business part OF the town. and ses
temperance people were afraid b W.
re their homes. =" reT
~ believed in New York that tho 'Ce
yton- Barro"e scandal will force Mrs, III III
lam Astor 70 refrain from SOCIAL 'e,
lions TINS season. Mrs. Drayton's *
u sisters-Mrs. Orme Wilson and ua ,
. osevelt-and young Mr.. and Mrs, van
jacob Astor will doubtless keep M,
y from all festivities. Mi
tention has been attracted To III. nix,
IN biage OF about forty tramps near Of
ronville. Mass, close to the Rhode The
ID line. This is said to be the fony. baa
IN consecutive year that this strange ord
er1ng has been held. There il a din,
Or, who seems 70 be we'll educated boa,
who receives certain privileges al - :,