The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-03-19
EASTERN ITEMS.
The Total Population of
Brooklyn.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT'S ACTION.
Mayor and City Council of a Kansas
Town Arrested-Ths Harlem
Land Claim.
JUDGE VAN BRUNT'S ACTION.

Cincinnati will vote $4,000, 900 bonds
for new water works.
Governor Boyd will not call an extra
session OF the Nebraska Legislature.
A third electric railroad between Min
nsapolis and st. Paul will be built this
year.
The Central Railroad and Banking
Company OF Georgia is in the hands OF
u receiver.
The naval bill, as completed, appro-
PIRATES SIS, 800 for Improvements ut Mare
Island navy yard.
Over $50, 900 bushels OF American corn
have been sent into the famine district
OF Durango, Mexico.
/ A number OF Cinnamon are betoming
citizens OF Mexico to evade the United
States restriction laws.
Jay Gould is said to be after the Aran
sas Pass railroad tie is seeking deep
water ports on the Gull.
The public lands outside the perma-
nent reservation at Hot Springs, Ark,
Will be sold at auction April 10.
/ The estimated cost OF the Chicago FL.
evated Terminal Company's structure is
$S,5oO,O 900. The plans are nearly COM
/ pleted.
The Massachusetts House has passed
bill absolutely prohibiting the sale OF
cigarettes either to minors or to grown
persons.
/ The jury OF inquiry into the condition
OF young Field at New York failed to
agree as to his sanity, and WAS dis
charged.
/ The great Harlem land claim. which
involves property valued at more than
1 800 .OOO, 900 in New York city. Is to he
I pushed to an end.
Heirs OF ex Senator Joseph Z. Ne
Donald OF Indiana are contesting hlswili
on the ground that it was made under
undue influence OF his vile.
The Chicago University. which vii,
not open until October next, has already
received over $1,000, 900 in gifts, and ha.
promise OF another million.
Nebraska prohibitionists in their plat
form favor woman's suffrage and the
ownership OF railroads, telegraphs and
telephones by the government.
company lately formed in New York
whose province IL is to keep unwelcomr
visitors from the portals OF mllonAires'
jewellers.
Memphis is going to have BIZ cele-
oration on the occasion Of the opening
OF the new bridge across the Mlssis.ippj
which gives that city closer connection
with the West.
Representatives Cutting ami Loud are
urging the establishment OF an add
tional life station on the beach az San
Francisco. The proposed location il
three miles south OF the present station
The census returns for the city Of New
York are all in, with the exception OF
two election districts. The to,ai popnla-
ton OF twenty-four Assem- blv districts
according to the enumeration is 7y5, IS
Roughs at Corning. Ia, are determined
to break up a revival OF Free Methoiists
which Is IN progress in that town. The
minister has asked for the militia, but
the local authorities claim to be able 10
keep order.
The forthwith annual report OF the
fennsy lyania Railroad Company shows
the total gross earnings on the lines east
and west OF Pitts burg for 1891 were Sl}4.-
2o4 ,bl2, slight increase over the earn
ings of 1890.
The st. Louis Merchants Exchange
mas had call for 5000 bushels OF corn
tor shipment to Mexico This is the first
OF the kind known to have
been made, Mexico in former years rails
ing ample crops.
The lynching Of Ed Gov, a negro. in .
he southern part of Arkansas, has in /
'reased the desire OF many negroes in
nat section t. emigrate, and large bod
es are reported to be organizing TO 20 TO
he Cherokee Strip.
In the Cook County III. Circuit Court
8 filed a writ against George Jacob
the self-styled Christ.
he suit is for $50, 900 damages for alien
ting from the complainant. George
the affections OF his wife.
The next cruiser to be launched will
e the Raleigh. She is being built by
ne government at the Norfolk yard. Il
Ill be fine addition to the navy. hay.
~ speed OF nineteen or twenty knots
nd fine battery OF rapid-fire guns.
The people OF BROOKLYN have built /
twenty-five miles OF elevated railways 8
lanaged by two separate corporations !
he city government has late y author. !
ed the introduction OF the trolley av-- ;
IN on the surface street-car railways.
The Inter OceaH OF Chicago reiteratea I
lie charge that the National Union Com. |
my OF new York is a tool OF the Va ii
ohai C9rdage Company, notwithstand- q
z the newspaper has been sued for At
1900 damages for the original char,e :
1t ia estimated that the fiity long,Ii.- .'
nee lines which the American Bell Tel s
none Company is putting mp between =
w York and Chicago will consume )
20 tons OF copper, while the tota T"
myth OF the wire will be 5000 miles. -
TIE Mayor and City Council Of paola ii,
H., have been arrested under the 10
ate law providing that old soldier. nr
ali be gwen the preference in all STAT il
q municipal appointments, they hay
refused TO appoint an old-soldier ar. 30,
cant to the office Of City Assessor. "a ~
he total population OF BROOKLYN ar. by
u,hg 70 the census returns 80 far tot
nded in, with the exception Of an. vi
trict, is 1853, 338 The missing diatr,r, 4i,
! probably bring it up to 955 900 The 20
ieral census for 1890 was sos $40 AMI lis
police census four months later was prr
,9I5. Ia.
here is strong and growing feeling Diet
ong the Senators and Representative dir
congress that the navy should be adj. att
% for several years to come, and al. an,
ugh the appropriation bill provide in
the building Of but one large vessel ma
likely to be 80 amended that at Ieast inc
'e will be provided for. sio
1dge Van Brunt in the Field INSANITY ay,.
at New York astonished counsel in fc.
case by discharging the jury. He %,
counsel promised the case wonId enc
'ume but five days, and he had sat On !,
light days and the prospects for fin of ,
AZ were meager. He was induced 10 IN.
' NJ. 'he case until to-day, with a mel