The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1893-06-17
EASTERN MELANGE.
Total Immigration During Ten
Month Ended April 30.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC'S REPORT.
Reduction Of Freight Rates From
New Orleans to Pacific Coast
Points Does Good.

The church taxation bill was defeated
in the Michigan House by vote OF 81
to 81.
The Texas Central is looking over
ground ior its proposed extension in
Mexico.
Philadelphia wants a new mint build
'"Khe money is appropriated for =
Governor Flower OF New York is worth
several million dollars, and he is taxed
for Sit, 900.
Thousands of acres OF land have been
laid waste in Southern Arkansas BY the
recent floods.
Joseph Pulitzer OF the World has given
100000 10 the building fund OF the CO.
lumbia College.
The Railroad Tax Assessors of Kansas
are being urged by popular clanor to in
crease the taxes.
Dunn, chief OF the weather bureau.
Promises one OF the warmest summers
We have ever experienced.
The Bell Telephone Company has Sc
cured an injunction against the Mckees-
port Company ~ Pittsbug.
\ company has been chartered in
Kansas to print and circulate campaign
matter for the Peoples party.
Kansas crops are improved. Wheat is
giving better promise, and the corn acre
age Will be larger than usual.
Seventy furniture factories at Cincin-
natl have closed. This is the answer TO
the demands OF the workmea for nine
hours and other concessions.
Tammanv is in clover. The Governor
OF New York did not veto the bill that
gives Tammany $1,000, 900 dock I'M
pruvements.
Since jay Gould's death the Could
stocks" heve suffered shrinkaye oil
more than $50, 900, 600. and one-half OF
this falls upon his estate.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott in Plymouth
Church, Brooklyn. Saturday referred To
Or. Briggs a \ modern prophet, tit 10
rank with the prophets OF the Bl Bile
Michigan health officers are accused
by canadian papers of working Do
minion railways under threats OF inter
ierlng with their traffic arrangements
Hundreds OF English sparrows have
built their nests in the Worlds Fair
buildings. and before the show closes
they will have increased to thousands.
representative W. l.. Wilson OF IVES,
Virginia. who is Cleveland's choice for
Chairman OF the Congressional WAYS
and Means Committee, iayors an income
tax.
The Kansas millers are buyins wheat
outside OF the State for July and Sep
tom Der delivery for fear that the home
crop will not meet their grinding require-
ments.
Late reports from South Dakota and
Nebraska state that cholera has wiped
out whole herds OF hogs, and that the
scarcity will be greater than it was
year ago.
The IT. Luke's Hospital property on
Filth avenue, New York, has been sold
tor $500, 900 in cash to an unknown
millionaire; one report says 10 Coils T,
Huntington.
call from some OF the prominent Ia
dies OF Boston Tor fund TO provide
rocking chairs for aged women unable to
buy them was responded to by contribu-
tons amounting to over 500.
General Boynton in a letter in the
Washington Post SAYS the demand of the
old soldiers is that the pension roll shall
re made roll OF honor, and a wedding
out OF tine undeserving Is necessary.
The total immigration TO the United
states during the ten months ended
April 30, 1898, was S3i .S25, decline OF
ll9, 1873 from the immigration OF the cor
responding ten months Of the previous
year.
The annual report OF the Southern Pa
citc Company the entire system for
the year ending December 3, 1922, shows
net earnings OF 81 .6Os, 996, against kl9.-
80 2Oi in ls92, being decrease Of 81
6O2, 2O3.
It Is reported in Washington that At
toTney-General Olney and Assistant Sec
reta-y oil State Quincy will resign at an
early date, and that there is a chance for
q Panic Coast man getting one OF the
positions.
The Carnegie Land Company and the
Carnegie Iron Company Of Johnson
City. Tenn, have made assignments To
J. W. Cure. The liabilities OF the two
concerns are due largely to Eastern and
Northern parties.
The Confederate Memorial and Liter
airy Society OF Richmond. Va, proposes
% restore the old Confederate White
House" where jefferson Davis lived in
that city, and keep it as a memorial hall. |
1t IS now occupied by school.
The Society Of the Daughters Of the |
American Revolution proposes that the |
Columbian Liberty Bell, which ia TO be |
exhibited at the Worlds Fair, shall aft
,rward be transported from place To |
place throughout the world az mission
ny OF freedom.
Government Inspectors have been
pushing an investigation into the affairs
ii the postOffice at Kansas City. Eight |
1ostotice clerks and five carriers have
Iiready been discharged for duplicating
md hypothecating their salaries with |
Senator Sherman was asked concern
ng a rumor that he intended to resign,
nd he responded: There is no use in
discussing this matter. | have 30 little
mention to resign that have not given
he subject moments consideration.
indeed, it had not occurred to me-"
The Eastern railroads find it difficult
o maintain rates during the Worlds
AIR. The latest scheme for getting
round the agreed schedule il reported
rom Cincinnati, where one railroad dis
ributed circulars Offering a trip to the
air and return and a weeks board for
Is.
Or. Briggs, who was convicted OF her
~ by the last General Assembly, saws
/ IL high time that all broad-minded
len should organize and work together
Or their own safety as well as for the
onor Of Presbyterianism. He calls upon
he Presbyterians to resist the encroach-