The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-12-03
An Investigation Of the Machinery
Of the MiantOnomah.
AGGREGATE OF THE PUBLIC DEBT
All the Cotton Manufacturers Of Rhode
Island Raise the Wages Of Mill
Hands-Etc.

rated at church festivals in Sedalia, Mo
On March 1, 1898, twenty-five seats in
the United States Senate become vacant
The Democrats will have ma jority O
ninety in the next House OF Representa-.
tivee.
TAmmany is already making prepare
tons to attend Cleveland's inauguration
in large numbers.
The strike at Homestead, PENN. has
been declared of by the leaders of the
Amslgamated Association.
Several Pennsylvania manufacturing
establishments have closed down on &C
count OF the scarcity OF water.
The men who are taken back at the
Carnegie works are confronted with a
heavy reduction in their wages.
The division OF Kansas into two States
is being agitated with more or less We
hemence by the newspapers Of that State.
Judge King at San Antonio, Texas,
has decided the Arkansas Pass road must
pay its debts, and the receivers were dig
charged.
The City Council OF Columbia, Mo.
has granted q twenty-year electric light
and water works franchise to st. Louis
company.
The first estimate OF the amount lost
by Chicago through the irregularities in
the water office is s5OO, 900 for the year
| 1892 alone.
| Secretary Foster OF the Treasury does
not think that q new issue OF bonds to
meet the financial complications will be
authorized.
The aggregate OF the public debt OF
the United States, including certificates
and Treasury notes, Was 81, Sd, 337 $40
on October 81.
An appeal for aid has been issued by
the United Hebre " Charities. The sum
OF $50, 900 is needed for the year ending
with next October.
During the ten months ended with De-
tober the gross earnings OF l26 railroads
in the Unites States were $422 ST., $40,
an increase OF *23, 80, AIS.
In 1890 the production OF wool in the
| United States amounted to Pos, 000, 100
pounds, and the imports OF wool for the
same year reached los, All Isl pounds.
ADMINISTRATION Of the Miantonomah's
machinery develops the fact that much
faulty material is in the heavier parts
and collapse may occur st any time.
Lieutenant Peary has obtained three
years leave of absence, and will attem pt
a journey to Greenland and over the
| frozen Polar Sea with bat one compaa-
ion.
A conspiracy to cheat the city OF Phila.
delphia by the use OF bogus coke checks
at the Ninth Ward gas works has been
unearthed and six people are under ar
rest.
All the cotton manufacturers in Rhode
Island are increasing the wages OF the
mill hands. The latest is the Manyille
Company OF Providence, which employs
l, 800 hands.
President Harrison does not propose
TO go into retirement, but he will, so
long as his present vigorous health con-
tinues, labor in his beloved profession OF
the law.
Concrete as a substitute for pilng n
foundations has proved disastrous in
New Orleans, La. The new st. Paul's
Church, on which it was tried, is sink
ing and is being torn down.
Plans Of construction OF New York
city's proposed $50, 0O0, 600 four-track
underground electric railway have been
adopted. The route is to be fifteen miles
long. Fare is to be ) cents for each
passenger.
The tunnel at Niagara Falls is finished,
and the falls are to be harnessed by mex
March. Forty-6ve thousand horse
power OF electric current will be trans
mitted from there to Buffalo and 5000
to other points.
A gas well near Montpelier, Ind. |
which for some time past has been sup |
plying that community, suddenly began |
blowing oil, which percolated through |
the pipes and made its appearance in
the houses of patrons.
Owing to the almost total failure OF |
the crop West, cabbage is higher and
scareer in Chicago than it has been for
years. Dealers predict that
there will be rise Of 500 per cent. in the
price OF the vegetable.
Joseph l.. Montieu, coin clerk in the
United States Sub-Treasury a. New Or
leans, has been arrested, having been
discovered in petty pecula tons. He was
in the habit OF taking 81 from each 81 900
package OF silver tied up by him.
Sinclair, cashier OF the Armour Pack
ng Company at New York, has been
nissing since last week. 1t ia estimated
hat the company's Losses will be no.
ess than $4,000, while some believe the
AMOUNT will run up to $50, 600 or $50 900.
The Illinois Steel Company q immense
'lant at South Chicago, employing
900 hands, 10 expected to shut down
IN December Is for two or tn ee months.
Uncertainty as to the possible changes
n the tariff lie said TO be the primary
ause.
Eleven hundred Sicilian immigrants
rere landed at New Orleans recently.
he Custom House inspectors sickened !
Thile making examination OF their ef-
ects. Most Of them were placed aboard +,
rains or boats and sent 10 the interior
0 work on sugar plantations. c
Mrs. Mary f. Lease, speaking Of her !,
andidaey for the United States Senate !,
D Kansas, says: "One peculiar fact :.
onnected with the affair 10 that have
eceived hundreds OF letters Of encour- =
gements from men since the announce. I
,ent o. my candidacy, Int not one from
woman. / am the only woman who q.
as ever been mentioned In Connection :,
nth place OF this kind, and naturally q.
expected some encouragement from my II
wn sex" ~
A bill has been introduced into the n,
labama Legislature that will practically h,
0 away with the negro vote in thai n,
tate. II provides that all persons r.
hose State and county taxes az AZ. N
'ssed do not amount TO 3 will not be In
sqnired to pay If it can be shown that tr
ich person failed 10 vote at the August ba
November elections OF the previous n
ear. Not 20 per cent. Of the no. 70
'oes pay exceeding s. a year and "a 40,
Dr. cent. OF the negroes will take this 40
'portunity TO save Is. 90