The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-10-02
NEWS OF THE WORLD
RRIET MENTION or EVENTS Al
HOME AND ABROAD.
Record Of Misfertanes, Eaishaps ana
Grimes, as Well M 81 Indus-
trial Progress.

A"asShASt u ~ hAio, VIII leave Paris in &
few days for the United States.
/ Major Edward l. Merrill, aged 70 years
died at his home in Pennington, Maine
Sunday. He was the secretary Of the
ways and means COMMITTEES Of the ma.
tlonal house Of representatives.
The declaration Is made at Madrid and
= being generally circulated that the
Spanish troops in Cuba have reeaptured
Victoria de Las Tunis, which was taken
by the insurgents under Calixta Garcia
and Jesus Rabion, September s.
The Afridis and Orakais of the Tirah
country, on the frontier Of India, at n
council held at Bagh, have decided TO re-
Aist the British advance. They have sent
message TO GhOlam Hyder Khan, the
ameers frontier general, asking him to
help them.
President Mckinley passed Sunday
quietly at Adams, Mass. In the moruine
the president and the Misses Mabel and
Grace Mckinley, accompanied by their
host, went 10 the Congregational church
The church was crowded and was decor.
ated with flowers. The usual order Of
services was observed.
The attorneys for the Panama Railroad
Company have placed on record in New
York a mortgage bonding all the proper
y, rolling stock, steamship, wharves and
other apPurtenances Of the Panama Rail.
road Company in the sum Of g. 100000.
A disappointing rye crop is indicated by
hnaI returns TO the American Agricultur-
list Instead Of some 2syO0OOOO bushels.
a. expected from earlier indications, the
crop Of the United States now figures Out
about 100000 bushels, 1000 600 NOR.
than last year, and 1000 600 les than in
1895 and 1894. Latest European crop ad-
vices are confrmatOry Of serious short.
ages, especially in Russia.
j. W. FolIert. government produce
merchant at Trail, r. C., accidentally shot
last Sunday while enjoying a days out.
ing. is dead, having never recovered con
seriousness
Secretary Sherman still, according 10
interviews in the Spanish newspapers, de
sires a solution Of the Cuban question bv
November at the latest, as he fears the
LIMOGES" will make themselves heard on
- aN"'SsnoAAS Va NoukTceA
The supreme court Of the state Of
Washington filed an opinion to the effect
that L S. Hewlett is still commissioner
OF arid lands, and a peremptory writ of
mandate was ordered issued directing the
state auditor to issue warrants for the
payment Of his salary a. such officer.
Henry George has been unanimously
nOlnhnq tai far -
York by the United Democracy, CON-
posed Of numerous free silver and BRYAN
clubs Mr.. George once polled 6s.OOO
votes as a labor candidate for mayor of
New York. His strength, il he should
accept, would be drawn principally from
the democratic vote.
The slaughter of a mother and her six
children occurred at the home of John
Blocker, farmer, living eight miles
northwest Of Carrollton, Iowa. Booker.
the fendish husband, completed his !
bloody work by sending a bullet into his |
own head, inflicting q fatal wound. The
family were prosperous Germans, and as /
tar as is known. had lived happily. No
motive for the tragedy has been dis. |
closed.
The instruction in Nicaragua has been
suppressed.
Benjamin r. Tracy has been nominated |
for mayor Of Greater New York by the
republican CONVENTION, on the st. Louis
platform.
George Fred Williams Of Dedham has
been nominated for governor Of Massa.
chusetts by the democratic state conyen.
ton on platform that squarely indorses
that adopted by the national convention
at Chicago last summer.
The treaty between the United States
and the Creek Nation has been signed bv
the two commissioners and made public.
There is rumor in Canadian circles Of
London that the government Of the Unit.
ed States had made overtures TO the Roy.
eminent OF Denmark with the object Of
acquiring Greenland from the latter coun.
try
The Mail and Express, q republican IA.
per, but an opponent Of the Plat man.
Agement for some time in New York city.
refuses 10 support the candidate named
by the republican convention Of Greater
New York yesterday
For the first time an American steam.
ship has entered the port Of Tahiti. and
the results that followed promise TO be
OF great Importance in the DEVELOPMENT
Of the trade Of the United States in that
quarter Of the world. A subsidy of $50.
300 year has been voted an American
company for Is trips a year by steamship
with San Francisco.
Peter Hudson, a citizen Of the Choctaw
nation and superintendent Of the female
academy at Tuskahoma, states that
movement Is on foot looking TO the sale
by the full.blood Choctaws Of all their
rights In the Indian territory and the re.
noval Of the entire tribe as far as report.
ID by the full.bloods to tract Of land in
Mexico.
The cabinet in Greece has resigned, the
srisis arising out Of the treaty with Tur,
<ey and the political situation in general.
The appraisers Of the estate Of the late
James @. Fair say that the official figures
will be between $l2,0O0O00 and $4,000.
700.
James 7. Drummond. the millionaire
tobacco man Of St Louis, Is dead. His
wealth, besides his tobacco plant, Is est.
mated at 100000.
Advices fnom The insa,rxacAson Il, Ca,,.t. ,