The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-11-26
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Tramps Make a Descent on a
Pennsylvania Town.
MERCHANT MARINE LOOKED AFTER
Last Month the Most Prosperous in the
History Of the Brooklyn Bridge
The Receipts.

new evening paper is to be estab-
lished At Washington, d. G.
A Newfoundland company has been
Organised to gather ice from iceberss.
Gold has been discovered in Lincoln,
h. l., and small mine is being worked.
Nineteen babies in New York were
named after Columbus during the week
following the celebration.
Tbs peanut crop in Virginia will only
average one-half, while that Of North
Carolina is also said to be very short.
And now New Orleans is called npoa
to face damage suits brought by the
heirs OF the lynched members OF the
Malta.
Large numbers OF Chinese are reported
to be crossing the Rio Grande into the
United States, owing to the lack OF river
guards.
Thirty-three out OF the forty-four States
now vote under new laws, all upon the
general Australian plan, but variously
modified.
Plans have been completed by the
Missouri Pacific railroad for fast-train
service between Denver and the Missis-
sippi river. beginning February /.
Congress man Cultivate of Ohio will
present bill in Congress to have all soiled
paper money destroyed in view of dan
ger OF its spreading and breeding disease.
Last month was the most prosperous
in the history of the BROOKLYN bridge.
There were 1880 $40 persons carried on
the trains, and the receipts were $lls,-
6a5.
Jerome Park, for thirty years one OF
the most famous race tracks in the coun-
try, Is about to become the property OF a
syndicate and be cut up into building
lots.
Kansas has elected to Congress Charles
Curtis, a quarter-blood Indian, and w.
4. Harris, an ex-Confederate Colonel.
Inc latter was elected by the State at
large.
The Commissioners OF the District of
Columb have issued an order to the ef-
feet that all the theaters in Washington
must be fitted throughout with electric
lights.
Two cotton-spinning firms at Provi-
dence, K. l., and the Lowell, Mass,
cotton mills have notified their mployes
OF an increase in their wages after De-
cember ).
The Drexel Hotel Company has been
Incorporated with a capital stock OF So
600 900 to lease various apartment and
other buildings for occu pancy by Worlds
Fair visitors.
The feeling between the strikers and
non-unlon men at Homestead, Pa, grows
more bitter daily, and unless the trouble
is quieted soon bloody riot is almost
sure to follow.
The merchant marine is to be diligent-
iy looked after. Senator Hoar has SCI
cured much valuable information while
abroad, which he proposes to incorporate
into shipping bill.
The Reading people are sanguine over
the success OF their new steel bearings
for mine cars, which by doing away with
the use OF oil will effect the saving OF
several thousands year.
General Sherman's old homs on Gar
rison avenue in st. Louis 10 to be cold by
auction. II is handsome old mansion,
locally historic, and was presented to the
General by his friends and admirers in
1865.
There is large factory at a small
town near Chicago. employin about 100
to l5O workers, which is wholly given
cles from waste animal blood.
1t is now proposed by leading bicycle
men to build an asphalt road thirty or
shirty-tve feet wide from Chicago to
New York. II established. there are to
be no tolls for the use OF the road.
A few days ago, at depth OF nearly
$500 feet, large vein OF water was
struck in the artesian we'll at the State
Orphans Home, near Corsicana, Texas.
that is now flowing 10000 gallons per
day.
The bank clearings OF Chicago for the
ten months ending with October foot up
total OF "a, III ,y0l, 413, and those OF
Boston for the same time 81, 1871 Cos, 234,
the difference being but about 81, 900, 900
in favor of the Eastern city.
The New York Herald advocates the
abolition OF our foreign Ministries and
the substitution therefor Of perfected
consu ar service. The Hsrnld attributes
the first utterance on this subject to
James q. Blaine some years ago.
A company has been formed in New
York for the purpose OF providing ladies'
who are not fortunate enough to possess
husbands or brothers with paid es-
corts," who will accompany them to and
from concerts, balls and theaters.
AaDa Battaillard has arrived in New
York. Aama is only sixteen years old, /
but she is seven feet six inches tall and |
weighs 236 pounds. Physician say that /
after year or two she will be two or
three feet taller and some hundred
pounds heavier.
Lee Shun, a member OF Chinese i'm.
porting firm, is the only Rochester Chi
naman who has complied with the pro.
visions of the law requiring Chinese
residents to register and leave photo
graphs of themselves with Collectors OF
Internal Revenue.
An immense power-house for the gem
grafton OF electricity, by which the street
;ars OF Baltimore can be operated, il to
be built by the City and Suburban Rail
way Company. 1t il to cost 900. 900,
and will be the largest and most com.
olete in the country.
Complaints have been received by the /
Postoffice Department from the postal |
authorities in several countries in En- 9
'ope that letters fr I'm the United States /
directed To those rorntries are received a
n very bad condition, owing to the poor
iuality OF the cheap envelopes us ID.
the city Of salzburg, capital OF the u
)uchy OF that name, publicly celebrated b
he eighteenth anniversary OF the birth e
II Count Macmillan O'DonnelI. a de- q
cendant of the Irish EarIs of Tyrcon-
lei, who saved Emperor Francis Josepb's \
life in 1854. /.
In memory OF General Robert f. Lee b
wo stained glass windows made in Mn p
ich have been put into st. Paul's Epis- b
OpAl Church in Rieh rnopJ p....-