The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-04-29
EASTERN MELANGE.
Illegal and Fraudulent Disposal
Of Public Property
IN THE WEATHER BUREAU.
Fire Insurance Advanced in an lows
City-The Cost Of the Recent
Chicago Election.

= Two Philsdelphians are in Jail fol
: counterfeiting l-cent pieces.
; 1t is estimated that the recent Chicag,
> election cost all hands 500, GOO.
Newspaper writer's unions are crop
, ping up throughout the country.
A bill to establish bureau OF labor i.
) before the New Hampshire Legislature
81 The chsrtering OF electric railway com,
, panies in Ohio Is going on ut rapid
rate.
Baltimore proposes to encourage man
ufaeturing plants by exempting them
, from taxation.
/, Seven cruisers will protect the Cana.
dian mackerel boats in the Gulf of ST
: Lawrence this season.
Generous Brooklyn Aldermen have
given away for nothing street railway
franchises for which s25O, 900 was offered.
The Park Commissioners Of New York
nave refused to grant a site in Union
Square for statue to Roscoe Conkling
| A Vermont Judge has ruled that a
girl who discards lover must return the
engagement ring il he has given one to
her.
Governor Hogg of Texas has issued a
proclamation establishing quarantine on
the Gulf coast and the Rio Grande Dor
der.
A syndicate has been formed in Phila-
delphia for the completion of the
Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago rail-
road.
Minnesota now gets from its tax on
the gross earnings OF railroads 81, sos, 200
a year, and the amount increases wear
after year.
All kinds OF building material except
iron and steel have advanced in Chicago,
and numerous building projects have
been deferred.
| A number OF prominent women of
| Philadelphia have started movement
TO prevent men from expectorating on
the sidewalks.
| The maximum freight bill of Nebras-
ka, having received Governor Crounz'
| signature, is now law. 1t will be
fought by the railroads.
| The Attorney-Generalo OF Ohio has de-
cided that insurance against burglary in
that State Is legal, because burglary is
an accident TO property.
Lis Ash- lioDabtN Dtcl tic WOTsI VIM
ter ever known in New York for horses.
Pneumonia and pulmonary diseases have
| carried them of rapidly.
Fifty American and eleven British
companies have recently been organized
to develop business in Mexico with u
| capital OF over $l00,0OO 600.
1t is proposed in Massachusetts, to pro-
vide for the use OF indelible lead pencils
at elections to prevent the fraudulent
altering OF ballots during count.
President Cleveland's mail has reached
| an average OF about LOCO letters day.
Secretary Thurber and five clerks are
kept busy handling the packages.
The company which proposes to estab-
lish an electric railroad between Chicago
and st. Louis has let contracts for the
entire construction OF its roadbed
Wife-beating has become so common
in New Jersey that there is a movement
to erect whipping posts for the punish
ment OF the cowardly DULLES who prac-
tice it.
Fire insurance rates in Des Moines
have been advanced - per cent. The
alleged cause is the inadequacy Of pro-
lection from fire on the part OF water
WORKS OF that city.
A Washington special says: Secretary
Carlisle has definitely decided TO redeem
in silver the outstanding treasury notes
issued under the act of 1890 and known |
Is the Sherman act.
The highest recorded speed ever
achieved by a locomotive was recently |
made by compound engine on New |
York road, when it covered a mile in |
thlrty-seven seconds.
Ground has been broken at the Bat
terry on the spot where is to rest the mag
nitcent bronze monument which is to
be dedicated to the memory OF John Err
lesson OF Monitor fame.
DR.. Sheldon Jackson, Commissioner OF
Education for Alaska, has received or
ders to go to Siberia to purchase and
transport to Alaska tame reindeer to be-
propagated there for the use OF the ma
tives.
James Dixon, an expert accountant,
has just completed an audit OF the &C.
counts Of the Economic Society, show
ing it to be solvent by small margin.
The society's holding are valued at 49,
900 900.
The extensive deposit OF asphalt near
st. 10, in Montague county, Texas, j.
being operated by local company hav-
ing a capital stock OF 100000. The
product is being shipped all over the
The New York custom-house report.
that the government now holds s21 ,694,-
300 in bond for goods in the bonded
This amount is said to be
the largest ever held by the government
ior bonded goods.
1t il said that large number Of Chi
nese recently discharged at Tampico and
rom various railroad construction camps I
n Mexico are vending their way toward
he Rio Grande in the hope OF slipping I
into the United States. I
The entire Chinese population of Day
on, Ohio, have registered. There were
1ut three, and these only consented TO
rave their pictures taken ii they were I
lllowed to wear their hats. This was t
lcceded to, and now they are as near a
.itizens az Chinese can approach.
A Washington dispatch claims that it =
= pretty well understood that the Su-
,reme Court will continue its session 80
Is to hear any argument which may be
made on the Chinese law. II delayed !;
onger than May 8, the Court will not,
is believed, wait to hear argument.
The Texas Legislature formed itself
nto court TO take action on the i'm
,eachment of Land Commissioner Nc
iaughry by the House. The impeach- !,
nent charges maintain that for several =
ears McGaughry sold Texas public !,
choOl lands TO SPECTATORS. =
The report Of Assistant Attorney-C d
raj Colby, who has conducted the in G.