The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-10-30

the city statute whereby the police could
seize and destroy gambling implements
unconstitutional
While crazy drunk Thomas Monahan
at Gorham, N. j., shot and killed Joseph
Gautfer, probably fatally wounded Sc
lectman Gates and is believed to have
killed a third victim, whose body was
afterward found. The murderer is under
arrest.
A dispatch from Leon, Nicaragua, states
that more than 100 prominent citizens of
that country are in the penitentiary for
opposing President Zelaya's government.
Many of the natives stores have been
closed and large sums Of forced loans are
unaecounted for.
Over $4,000 of the alleged fraudulent
warrants ON the United States treasury,
ON account Of the Greek Nation, l. r,
have been discovered by the Washington
officials. A Greek chief and an official
of the tribe issued new warrants to take
the place of old ones that had already
been paid.
Chief of Police Ripley OF Chicago has
issued an order discharging from the
force 4S4 policemen and appointing in
their stead like number of members of
the Star League democratic ex,pOlieemen,
who had been discharged under the pre-
vious republican administration.
The worlds W. C. T. U. convention has
elected the following officers: Honorary
president, Mrs. NJ c. Leavitt of Boston;
president, Miss Frances E. Willard of Ev-
anston, ILL.,; vice president-at,large, Lady
Henry Somerset OF England; secretary,
Miss Agnes Z Slack of England; assist
ant secretary, Miss Anna Gordon of Ev-
anstOn. ILL.,; treasurer, Miss Mary San.
derson of Danville, Que.
From four to IL feet of snow fell over
western Kansas during the blizzard We'd
nesday.
A special from Springfield, Ohio, saws
Henry Galloway, a farmer living nine
miles south of town was halted by mask,
ed men and, because he did not deliver
his money speedily enough, was probably
fatally shot
Thomas Flannelly of Redwood, Cal.
shot and killed his aged father because
the old gentleman had ordered him from
the ranch for disobeying his wishes. A
posse was organized to apprehend the
murderer and when located he fired upon
the sheriff, shooting the latter through
the arm. The fire was returned and the
assassin was wounded. The man is in
the hospital.
There were 80 new cases and 8 deaths
from yellow fever at New Orleans We'd
nesday.
Flags are half-masted all over England
because of the death of the duchess of
Teck, a daughter of the duke of Cumber-
land, seventh son of George iii.
Judge Thayer of the United States cir
cult court of appeals has decided that
the Kansas legislature has the right to
fix the charges at the Kansas City Kan
stock yards.
a dispatch to a Minneapolis paper from
New York says Mr.. Mellen will leave the
presidency of the Northern Pacific with
in three months and will be succeeded by
Dan Lamont
imam Naitr the ulHuiIdu EInef VINO
drowned his child because there was one
too many in the family, begs the Kansas
City officials TO let him be tried and
hung, thus paying the natural result. he
SAYS.
An attempt was made Wednesday
night to hold up the Rock Island pas
senger train near Boyd, Tex. by piling
crossties on the track, but beyond the
presence of two men with Winchesters no
farther attempt occurred.
Twenty-eight hundred men are report
ed to be at work on the construction OF
the Crows Nest Pass railway. Camps
dot the Belly river bottoms as if an army
had possession OF the country. The work
Is being pushed with all speed in antiei,
patton of heavy fall of snow. To the
end OF an early completion contracts have
been sublet and grade work Is well under
way along the entire $50 miles