The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-08-13
No Overhead Wires at the Chicago
Worlds Fair Grounds.
APPLE CROP LIGHT EVERYWHERE
Kansas Corn Crop a Failure-Field o.
Wheat Floats Down River
Rev. Sam Small.

cage.
Cyrus ". Fields life Was insured ior
$3.50 900.
Thirty sardine canning factories in
Maine are closed.
Rainmaker Melbourne will soon begin
work in Western Nebraska.
Army worms are causing trouble in
De Witt and Mclean counties, LII.
The New York Central has secured a
through line OF its own to Montreal.
| Rumors are current that another war
on the sugar trust will shortly begin.
A company has been formed at Dick
inson, \. D., to establish stock ranches.
The corn crop in Kansas is almost a
total failure, owing to the burning heat.
| Awss.e OF pu bic money is reported al
the immigrant station on Ellis Island
NY.
A large colony OF disappointed Okla
homa homeseekers have left for Central
America.
consideration by the underwriters OF the
United States.
Farmers in the vicinity OF Holland.
Tex, are complaining Of an insect W hich
| destroys cotton.
| The Union Pacific road is preparing
new sidetracks for the ex pected rush OF
grain at Kansas City.
| A field OF wheat is reported to have
| aoated down the Missouri river past
Atehison, Kan, lately.
The Lehigh Valley railroad has pur-
| chased new terminal property in Bui
| falo, y. Y, worth 81 ,010, 900.
| Colonel James II. Rice OF Indiana has
plan for revolut onizing naval warfare
by building indiaru bier ships.
! Twenty counties in the western hall
| OF Kansas report an increase OF ~ per
cent. in the acreage OF wheat over last
| year.
| More than month has elapsed since
| the Homestead lockout began, and it hi a.
already cost upward OF $1,000, 900 and
many lives.
| Milwaukee feels easy over the Illinois
| Steel Company signing the scaie OF
wages for the works at Bay View for the
ensaing year.
| Ten acres in the heart Of BufFalo's
! railroad district have been secured by
the Philadelphia and Reading railroad
for freight storage.
| Just 81 ,922 tons OF granite have been
| placed in the Delaware breakwater gap
The past year. The sum required to
complete the work is S}2U, 900.
A petition has been in circulation At
| New Bedford calling for a mass meeting
to formulate plans " hich will compel the
authorities to enforce the liquor law.
The revolution that electric traction is
working is shown by the advertised sale
OF 500, 900 worth OF stables BY the West
End Street Railway Company OF Boston.
| Many prominent clergymel protest
against the proposition TO bring the
| Ooerammergau players to Chicago next
| year to reproduce the = Passion Play. "
Sealskiu dealers OF the United States
| have formed trust at Newark, y. J.
! with <l0,0oO,Ooo capital. 1t will be
known as the George c. Treadwell Com.
| pany.
| A man in Dakota Was lately sentenced
to prison for half lifetime, and the Su-
| preme Court has decided that the time
means nineteen years, seven months and
four days.
| The apple crop this year promises to
| be light everywhere outside OF Califor.
| MIA, Maine and Nova Scotia. A good
! deal OF green fruit has been knocked Oft
the trees by the storms.
| There are twenty we'll bull. towns in
| Kansas that haven't a single inhabitant.
| Saratoga has a So, 600 opera house and A
large brick hotel, yet the place is as de-
serted as dead rabbits hole.
| A Canadian customs officer di.tin-
| gui shed himself lie. days ago by as
| sessing a Buffalo Sunday. school picnic
! parry $3.50 on ice cream which they took
ever into Canada as part OF their lunch.
The veto put upon the trolley system
of electric traction in both New York
and Philadelphia has turned the atten-
tion OF inventors more than ever to the
long hoped-for perfection OF either the
storage battery or the conduit system.
The annual report OF the State al ms
house at Tewksbury, Mass., for lsyl
shows that there were 2,9l5 persons al
nitted, OF whom only 81 were born in
Mas achusetts, while ,O24 were born in
ireland
Nine. Patti has at last decided on her
final, absolute farewell tonr in America.
She has signed contract with Marcns
Sfhf CT III VI IDFLy DptfdLlt con-
certs, beginning in New York on No
venber 10, next year.
Walter d. Stinson, who has been ap-
pointed postmaster at Augusta, Ne, to
fill the vacancy caused by the reaizna.
ton Of Hon. J. II. Manley, ia a nephew
OF Mrs. Blaine. He has been in the
postofice service for years.
During the prohibition fight some
months ago in Atlanta, Ca, saloonis,
named Miner chastised Rev. sam Small
and knocked out one OF his teeth. Small
sned for 3 900 damages. Last week the
jury awarded him 800. Miner made no
defense.
Philadelphia is threatened with wa
ter famine, owing TO the fact that the
schuylkill river Is 80 low that the Fair
mount pumping station is unable Ia
work more than two pumps ont OF the
seven, and in consequence the reservoirs
cannot be kept full.
There are no overhead wires AZ tho
Worlds Fair grounds. An irnrnen..
conduit, ak and one-half feet square
mas been buiit directly under machinery
hall. running across the Yrounds s!iyh,lv
below the surface 10 the electrical bnfld.
ing, from which branches are carried Ia
other sections OF the exhibit.
Counterfeiters at Sioux City, Ia al.
tered new silver quarters 20 az to bass
them for $40 gold pieces. All the let, err
except the last three or ter" are erased 4
and the final ''r" changed To en-" The
inscription then read ten" and n. c
whole coin is treated to a gold wssh. G
Many tradesmen have been yictirnized =
There Is quite little stew in Indian t
'poiis over the scope which shall be Al.
owed Its great soldiers monument in Il
,on IN .moration OF Indiana,a xar e.. !