The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-07-08
Quantity and Quality Of the
Texas Wheat Crop.
THE TRUST LAW OF ILLINOIS.
COlOred Successor to Father MOllin.
-~ ger Performing Miracles In
the Way Of Cures.

to the Kansas wheat crop.
The State OF Texas has won suit to
recover lands grabbed by railroads.
The woman sutfragists OF Kansas
have raised campaign fund Of $50, 900.
Maine towns this year have paid
bounty OF IS each on thirty-two bears.
The st. Louis health officers have be-
gun to inspect emigrants arriving in the
city.
Just before it adjourned the Illinois
Legislature passed a very radical anti
trust bill.
Thirty-two sites are offered for the
new Philadelphia mint at prices ranging
from 81 to $500, 900.
A telephone line $500 miles long is
planned in Canada to connect Halifax
with Vancouver.
DIR. Ernest Hart, the London sanitary
expert, says that Chicago's water is bad
and may cause trouble.
The women OF Kansas, who are to open
their campaign for suffrage in September
next, are already atield.
A plot of ground was sold in Chicago
| the other dav for $40O, 900. which was
purchased in 1886 for IS, 500.
1ronwood, Mich, has such an epidemic
OF typhoid fever that the public build
ings have been made hospitals.
By recent order of the authorities OF
Carthage, Ill.,, counting has been forbid
den in the public parks OF that place.
George Vanderbilt has purchased 20
900 acres OF land in North Carolina,
with view OF making it a game pre-
serve.
observation-disclosures Percy Daniels,
| Populist, OF Kansas has scheme bv
which no one will be taxed but million
aires.
A New York printer has been sem
| fenced to year in State Prison and
| tined $1,000 for printing green goods
circulars.
| The big Chicago telescope will be APP
proximately "a feet long and feet in
| diameter, and the dome will be 20 feet
in diameter.
The Kansas Railroad Commissioners
are going to compel wholesale reform
in freight charges on the part oi the
roads in that state.
1t is claimed that there is now due the
government in royalties for coal mined
on government lands in Kansas from
1900 900 to 5000, 900.
The widow OF one OF the Italians
lynched at New Orleans tried to bring
suit As an alien, but the courts decided
that she was an American.
Southern papers say that the machine
cotton picker Is success, and that in
many districts that commodity can now
be raised at cost OF % cents pound.
4 company has just been formed in
Oklahoma 10 develop the immense beds
OF asphaltum recently discovered near
the Arbuckle Mountains on the Chicka-
saw reservation.
| The Worlds Labor Congress at
Chicago, August - to September I, will
conclude with what is proposed to be
the greatest labor demonstration ever
seen in America.
! Charles T. Ierkes, the Chicago cable
railway magnate, has commenced the
| building OF brownstone mansion which
Is to cost 81 500, 900. Mrs. Ierkes' room
is to cost 10000.
The Berry trust law in Illinois, it i.
Stated, will enable the Attorney General
to break up the passenger and freight
associations now controlling and fixing
rates to and from Chicago.
Secretary Carlisle has issued circular
requesting Collectors OF Customs To ex-
ercise more care in the selection OF sub
ordinates. This notice has been called
forth by the Puget Sound scandal.
The rain-making experiments in Kan
sas have resulted in the death OF a
| Captain OF the Kansas National Guard
and the serious injury OF two men
| through the bursting OF the cannon
employed in the experiments.
Victory" monument designed bv
! Casper Buberl, which is to be erected
| by the State OF New York to her dead
heroes on the battle field Of Gettysburg,
measures from base to top 96 feet. The
| figure is IL feet inches high.
A. w. Glover OF Windsor Locks, Wis.
claims to have discovered in the iounda-
tons OF an old foundry a stone covered
with hieroglyphics, supposed to be OF
Indian origin, though no one versed in
Indian lore can decipher them.
The law passed by the late Indiana
Legislature, placing nearly all the State
and county officers on salaries and re-
duclng their compensation more than
one-haif, has been declared unConstitu-
tional in a test case in the Circuit Court.
The Gull, California and Santa F.
railway has contracted to deliver 5000
ears Of wheat at the port OF Galveston.
Tex, a. fast a. possible for shipment 10
Europe. The wheat crop OF most coun-
ties in Texas is far above the average in
quantity and quality.
The state OF Michigan il experiment
ing with the gold cure and the result
will be watched with interest. Every
offender who commits a crime through |
drink may, il he elects, undergo
keeley treatment at the expense OF the !
county in which he lives.
There have been 10 less than six fail |
ures among the wholesale diamond |
houses OF New York during the month |
Of June, with liabilities OF from $lOO, 900 |
TO $500, 900 in each case, due entirely TO |
the falling off Of retail demand, caused |
by commercial and financial depression. |
Brother" Day, the colored successor
of Father Mollinger at Pittsburg, is said |
10 be performing miracles in the way Of
cures equal to those claimed to have
been performed by Father Mollinger. |
Day is a full-blooded negro, but his
auditors are nearly all white. The cures
are mostly by faith.
An underground electrical railway
system. which was successfully tried at
Coney Island recently, and which, it is
claimed, can be operated at less cost
than the trolley, is further said to be |
free from the objectionable overhead
wire and the attending danger to life."
Rev. DIR. RI. Pereira Mendes and other
leading New York Jews are talking Of
enlisting the Jews OF the United States