The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1892-01-02
Chris Buckley Leaves
Canada for Home.
PHILADELPHIA'S EXPORTS.
A Kentucky City Council Declares the
Lighting Of Street Lamps
on Sunday Illegal.

Philadelphia's export trade is growing
last toward mammoth proportions.
Missouri is competing with Kansas
Tor the honor of producing the largest
crops.
Palestine, Texas, impeached her City
Marshal because he would not suppress
gambling.
The question of separate cars for
whites and blacks is now being agitated
in Virginia.
The Prohibitionists polled but 962
votes in Iowa this year, loss of about
5000 since 1889.
Ex-City Treasurer Peake of Kansas
City has been acquitted of the charge of
embezzling 100000.
Nine men and boys are under arrest
at Peoria, ILL.,, for breaking open cars and
stealing the contents.
The Western Iowa horticultural So
ciety has opened an exhibit of Iowa
fruits at Council Bluffs.
A man in Minneapolis has Just secured
divorce from his wife on the ground
that she was a kleptomaniac.
Great dNstitution is reported at Ok
ford, Nj. /, the iron manufacturing town.
The pudding mills are shut down.
The Presidents remarks on the New
Orleans lynching affair meet with friend
ly criticisms from the Italian press.
Rock-salt producers Of the country,
with an output of 1000 tons day, have
formed pool to freshen up business.
The Burlington railroad has resumed
the payment of commissions on passen-
ger business in direct defiance of the
boycott.
President Hyde of Bowdoin College
has started crusade against the obnox-
ious cigarette, giving daily lectures on
the subject
Chicago is crying aloud for hospital
for contagious diseases. A public meet
ing TO consider the subject was held a
few days ago.
The people of Indiana are engaged in
a monster rabbit hunt, the animals hav-
ing become so numerous as to be q
threatening pest.
Fifteen Chicago packing firms have
united to establish stock yards on the
west side of the city. A tract of 600
acres has been secured.
Some talk again of aboishing the Bos-
ton Council has grown ont OF its defeat
pleting Commonwealth avenue.
Two of Raymond & Whitcomb's pop
ular California excursions are to leave
Boston by the Fitchburg railroad next
month, and three more in February.
]. II. Whittemore of Naugatuck, Conn.
has notified the Board of School Visitors
of that place that he will build $35, 600
school building and present it to the
town.
New York Court OF Appeals has re-
Gently decided that railroad company
is responsible for an injury to a passen-
ger Notwithstanding he was travelling on
a pass.
The new Speaker of the House will be
the thirty-second man to hold that posi-
tion in public lite. There have been
fifty-one Congresses, but only thirty-one
Speakers.
Secretary Noble's report on the Mica
ragua canal shows that the work has
been prosecuted with energy during the
past year and much progress made in
the actual work of construction.
The burning question before the Leg
islature of Iowa in the session that will
soon begin has to do with the repeal of
the prohibitory law and the enactment
of statute providing for license.
The heirs OF the late Thadeus Stevens,
several of whom reside in Caledonia
county, VT, where Mr.. Stevens was born,
are preparing to contest the will of Mr..
Stevens to prevent the estate being de-
voted to charities.
The City Council of Sharpsburg, KY,
has issued an order that the lighting of
street lamps on Sunday night is con-
trary to law in such cases made and pro-
vided, and that hereafter they shall not
be lighted on that night.
Boston Common is threatened. Bos-
toms Aldermanic vandals threaten to
abbreviate this breathing place and to
lay sacrligious hands upon this historic
region to widen Boyston street to accom-
modate a rapid-transt road.
President Yerkes recently distributed
1913 in gold, says a Chicago paper,
among prize gripmen of his cable lines.
Three prizes are annually offered by the
| company, of 500 to $50 and $50 each, to
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