The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1892-10-01
Compulsory Sobriety Instituted by
a Railroad Company.
TWO LAND GRANTS ON PARCHMENT.
The House Of McAllister Threatened With
a Divorce Scandal-rtust Of
Safe and Lock Men.

Garbage creamatories will be in opera
ton in Chicago within few days.
A trust Of all the safe and lock men in
the United States, involving 5000, 900,
is on the tapis.
Within the next ninety days all the
telephone wires at Cincinnati will be
laid underground.
Fong Hoy, a Chinaman, is held in st.
Louis for manufacturing opium for
smoking purposes.
There is talk OF q formal consolidation
OF the Baltimore and Ohio and Ohio and
Mississippi railroads.
The brewers OF Cincinnati will fight in
court an additional tax levy OF 500, 900
assessed against them.
Texas has established q quarantine
station on Red river. where the Santa
Fe road enters the State.
General Miles is under orders to throw
troops into Choctaw nation whenever
Indian Agent Bennett calls for them.
The Chicago Inter Ocean has begun a
hot war on the anthracite conf iue and
demands both civil and criminal prose-
cution.
The largest artificial stone in the world
forms the base of the Bartholdi Statue
OF Liberty on Bsdloe's Island, New York
Har Dor.
The circular OF the Treasury Depart
ment requiring crews Of vessels on the
Great Lakes to be vaccinated has been
revoked.
The late Father Mollinger's assumed
fortune OF so, 900, 900 has been dwinded
down to a matter-oi- fact valuation OF
about $4,000
train mile and quarter in length
was lately hauled over the Reading rail-
road by single engine. 1t consisted OF
go empty freight cars.
Major Harvey, United States Pension
Agent OF Detroit, paid Oft the A, 900 PEN
sions OF Michigan in six days, thus sur
passing all previous records.
Captain Berckman, Of the American
Steel Barge Company. is investigating
the Texas coast, looking to securing a
harbor for the whaleback ships.
Judge Short, the leader OF a notorious
band OF cattle thieves in the Bad Lands,
y. D., has been captured and lynched,
together with several OF his men.
Governor Francis has proclaimed Oc-
tober q next as public Thanksgiv-
ing day and holiday throughout the
State OF Missouri, calling it Columb bus
day.
The people OF New York are not afraid
OF cholera epidemic this fall, and are
going about their business just as though
the scourge had not crept past the bar
riers.
Over a hundred houses in different
naYfa nf Nam rhta n h..Ar, Ia, naI
as unsanitary by the Board OF Health,
and the owners have been notified to
raze and burn them.
The State legislature OF Pennsylvania.
AZ the session OF 1873, appropriated
$4,000 to pay the military and other
expenses OF the labor riots at Pitts burg
during the preceding year.
A Detroit paper says the confusion in
the administration OF the quarantine
regulations in that city has reached such
pass that the customs officers have
thrown up their hands in despair.
The house OF Ward McAllister is men
aced with divorce scandal. The wife !
Of Haywood, the son OF Ward NcAllis-
ter, has threatened her husband with
arrest Tor deserton and non-support.
The New York Central now owns the !
biggest engine. 1t is No. 9)3. Its driv- |
ing wheels are seven feet two inches, |
and man may walk erect beneath the |
boiler. The monster is for last train |
service.
The street pageant which New York |
will get up Tor its Column bian festivities |
will be lighted by lOO-candle electric
torches borne alongside the floats, and |
receiving electricity from storage bat
teries on the floats.
The proceeding. at New York in the
case OF the steamer South Portland.
seized by the United States government
on the allegation that she was laden with
arms for the revolutionists in Venezuela,
have been dismissed for lack OF evidence.
Acting Secretary Chandler has ordered
the payment OF s2)O,0OO authorized by
Congress as an indemnity TO the Sioux
Indians for 5000 ponies taken b. the
government come years ago, during one
ot the Indian outbreaks in the North
west.
The East Tennessee Railroad Com.
oany has issued an order requiring alb {
.tinence from the use OF Intoxicating ,
irinks ON the part OF it's employees; also /
hat they shall, while in the com pany's .
'ervice, keep away from places v here in
oxican's are sold, and lend their inAu. ,
nee to keep others away.
In lot OF scrap and waste paper re- I
emily unloaded at the paper mill in 4
'almyra, Mich, were found two land <
rants on parchment, bearing the sigma :
ures OF John Adams and Martin Van h
'uren. The first was drawn in 1910 for |:
strip OF Virginia soil, and the other in G.
$40 for section Of Mississippi. a
Without any explanation the Nickel J.
ate has put into effect passenger a
ate OF $3.50 from Chicago TO New York. X
eing cut OF $3.50. The Chairman of p
he Central Traffic Association il irving
Ind out what it means and 10 prevent t
demoralization, but rate war seems T
kelly. u
strangers have appeared at Gntbrie m
}. L., with box OF gold qnartz which al
ssays 5000 N the ton. They claim n
lat they found it within easy dis,anc 0i
that city and that the quantity il IN. II
mited. There is much excitement owe, tn
re matter and further developments al
re expected. % OF
Inc southern Pacific railroad has Oh
ven notice OF its withdrawal from ,b. NJ
'estern Traffic Association. which i, Al
ow practically dead. The Transco,7 In
mental Association 10 also going ~ "a
leces rapidly, and the only association cs
est OF Chicago which ia really Of anv pc
,lue is the Western Freight Associa. ne
On. tn
tiffany x Co, jewelers. Of Union fa,
nare, New York, are building a new IL ,
10Y ior the manufacture Of cutlery. d,
'chinley the firm gives credit for an
7Isp "hlch they are taking To do. m,