The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-10-08
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
Letter-Box Robbers Decoyed Into
Prison and Captured.
MAINE HAS A CHINESE CITIZEN
New York State Factory Inspectors Pre-.
pairing for a Roundup Of the
Law Transgressors.

The gamblers Of Chattanooga, Tenn,
are being run out Of the city BY law.
The corn crop 10 pronounced free from
frost by the Agricultural Department.
Stations ut which boiled water is dis
pensed nave been established in New
York.
A test case OF the Chinese exclusion
act is being prepared by Texas Federal
authorities.
An attack on the Coriase Trust has
been made before Chancellor McGill OF
New Jersey.
Report Of mortality in Boston for Au-
gust shows a death rate of 25.9 per l, 600
inhabitants.
An attempt will be made to establish
. distillery in Chicago that 10 not in the
Whisky Trust.
The watch OF the blind poet, Milton,
is said to have drifted to Chicago from a
st. Louis pawnshop.
Subtsrranean floods and eruptions OF
gas are reported to be frightening the
people Of Jerome, Ind.
The officers Of the Salvation Army at
Maeomb, I'LL. II, are in limbo for failing to
pay a fine for parading.
Uncle Sam pays as high a. $500 per
Annum for the rental Of his sub-postal
stations in Philadelphia.
On account Of cholera the Mayor OF
Clarksbury, Tenn, has forbidden the
people to eat watermelons.
The city liquor agency Of Portland,
Me-. last year sold $6O. 900 worth of liq-
nor for medicinal purposes.
In the course OF = couple of months
the last vestige OF the horse-car lines
will have disappeared from St. louis.
The lower part Of the Hudson river is
Swallowing because OF brick dust aud
broken brick thrown from canal boats.
Maine lays claims to q Chinese citizen.
His name is Wah Ngock Lee, who mar
ago.
Mrs. Mary McGrath OF Louisville, Ky,
has brought suit against saloonkeeper
for selling whisky to her husband against
her wishes.
The projected oil.pipe line from the
Pennsylvania oil fields to the Atlantic
Coast will become an active competitor
OF the Standard.
The Judge" Short gang OF cattle
thieves in North Dakota is reported
cleaned out by the settlers and the
Judge" lynched.
The fisheries on the st. Lawrence have
been failures this season, and many OF
the people have sold out and are coming
to the United States.
The Olympic Club at New Orleans
cleared 100000 by the prize fighting
carnival, and when all expenses were
paid $43, 900 remained.
The type founders in the East have
formed trust. The fierce competition
OF the last ten years is to end, the rates
OF discount will be reduced and prices
90 up.
United States Marshal Joe Rankin OF
Wyoming, who has q national reputa-
ton for bravery, has bsen removed for
not making arrests OF desperadoes when
ordered.
The jury in the case OF Burton C.
Webster, charged with numbering Book
maker Charles Goodwin at New York,
brought in verdict OF manslau ghter in
the first degree.
The crop report for Missouri shows
that there was general but light frost
on two nights and numerous grasshop-
pers, the latter necessitating the late
sowing OF wheat.
Governor Boyd OF Nebraska has I'M
pardoned ex-Treasurer
Charles II. Paul of Adams county. Neb.,
convicted Of having embezzled &5i, OOJ
OF county money.
W. K. Crosett, cashier and proprietor
OF the Peoples Bank of Hope, Ark. has
decamped with the deposits and school
funds TO the amount OF q number OF
thousands OF dollars.
Prof. Charles Eliot Norton OF Harvard.
the literary executor OF Emerson, Low
oil and Carlyle, is said to be constituted
literary executor OF John Ruskin by a
clause in the latter's will.
The corn cutters in the vicinity Of
springfield, O., have formed an associa-
lion to fight the patent corn cutting
'ieds, and refuse to work for farmers |
Using the obnoxious sleds.
In st. Louis all granite, wood and as
streets have been cleaned. The
york OF polishing up the macadamized
treets is to begin at once, and it is esti-
mated that it will cost s60, 600.
A bottle was picked up on scorton
leach, Mass, the other day, inclo.ing a
'aper on which was written: &c. f..
Reed, L. A. Reed, L. B. Reed, W.
Filing, lost August IA, 1892, at sea"
Two members of the strat.on gang Of
etter- robbers went 10 the Colorado
tate penitentiary to effect the escape Of
heir leader, Stratton, but instead were
ecoyed into the prison aid captured. 1
The Department Of Agriculture, it i,
xpected. will issue proclamation rais- .
ng the quarantine which had been es.
abiished against cattle afflicted with
in New York and New Jer-
~.
At Nashville, Tenn, the Southern Ex-
ress Company had an "old-hoss sale.
nd in trunk for which 81. 80 was paid
here was found the body OF an infant. 3
is not known where the trunk came |
ON. a
The New York State factory inspectors >
re preparing for a general roundup of g
ne clothing employers in the sweating !.
istricts who have violated the new fac
Try law. Several warrants for those
no have violated the law are ont. n
An industrial council at Kansas Civ
imposed Of delegates from all the trades =
mons in that city, has declared a bow a,
1T against four out OF the five theaters ~
lere under the control Of Melville Hind. ~
N, because Hudson employed non " =,
mon men to take the places Of the "
enc Shutters who struck for an advance u.
wages. %
Lieutenant Peary, the Arctic explorer.
ho has just returned 10 Philadelphis nj
ade verbal report TO the Philadeiphia N
,ademy OF Natural Sciences, during a
hich he said: 81 have had ercen, n,
'nal facilities for studying one of the Of