The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-08-07
PROGRESS OF EVENTS
ITEMS GATHERED RmOm VARIOUS
PARTS or THE WORLD.
Dusinesa Outseok, Personal Moten,
ana IN NEWS ~ Blren. Ae-
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The crops in strip five miles wide and
30 long in Rock county. MINI, have been
entirely destroyed BY hail.
Special Agent Morris Of the general
land Office has passed through Spokane
from Washington, D. G, for Okanogan
county, 10 inspect the surveys Of several
new townships that are about to bc
thrown open for settlement.
Steamers were chartered Thursday 70
load cargoes Of grain at Philadelphia, New
York, Baltimore and Newport News for
ports in the United Kingdom and Europe,
making days record, which il l. claimed
has never been equalIed. To iII these
vessels win require over 100000 bushels
Of grain.
The British foreign ofice notified AM
bassAdor hay this morning that Great
Britain accepted the proposition Of the
United States for an international confer
ence on the question Of pelagAic sealing
in Bering sea, TO be held in Washington
the coming autumn.
In an engagement at GARLAND, South
Africa, the government troopa defeated
the natives, the latter suffering loss u
300.
The LAkeview and Eunnynide Improve
ment Company Of San Francisco has gone
into voluntary Insolvency, with liabilities
s2S,24s; assets, plot in Lakeview and an
interest in the dredger Atlas.
The bodies Of George Tucker and w. I.
Harper, Arkansas young men, were found
near eeligman, No. the skulls q both
giving evidence that they were beaten to
leath, the motive probably being robbery.
Two thousand pant makers in New
York, Brooklyn and Brownsville, L L,
have gone on a strike, believing they can
compel the factory owners to pay more
than $50 per week.
Sheriff o. c. Erickson of Crow Wing,
MINI, took charge Of Eugene HnfIsinger,
TIllamook, Ore, FaneheE, indicted for
granddaughter in Minnesota In 1896. he
having killed man in fight
Claus GustafsOn, an employee Of the Red
Mountain railroad, was killed near
NOrthPort by being thrown over = eaiG
300 feet, cansed by the section car on
which he was riding jumping the track.
II was impossible 10 determine whether
deceased had any relatives or not, hut lit
tie being known about him.
Clifford Porter, the well known turf
man, died at his farm near Lexington.
Ky.
The decree for the sale Of the Union
Pacific railroad. as ordered by the United
States court, has been filed at Denyer.
Phylloxera Is ravaging the the vine
yard in Navarro province, Spain, and i
spreading throughout the central districts
Of that country.
Mayor Strong Of New York has an
nOanced the appointment Of Colonel Geo.
Moore Smith Of the Sixty-ninth regiment
to succeed Colonel Fred Grant e police
commissioner.
Edwin Flanagan. who has been On trial
at Atlanta, Ca, sor the murder Of Mrs.
Allen and Miss Stack, has been found
guilty and sentenced TO be hanged Aug
ust 5.
Dispatches from Berlin say the most
diAsterons foods in centuries are occur
ing in Silica, 100 persons being drowned
and the loss already amounting TO many
millions Of marks.
A hundred Cuban prisoners, recently
Pardoned at Madrid, have arrived az
Gibraltar, en- route to New York. Span
ish government organs believe the freed
viii rejoin the injurgentA
At meeting Of the republican COM
mittee of Jasper county, Ca, resolutions
were adopted denoancing the paEtiality Of
recent administrations to negro repnbli-
cans, and decided the white members Of
the party in the ninth congressional dis
trict would no longer tolerate discEimina-
ton.
The most brilliant dinner party Of the
Newport season was that given by Las
penard Stewart in honor Of Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs, Hobart.
James Cavanaugh, a Philipsbnrg,
Mont, engineer wiper, has been arrested
for criminal assault upon his two daugh.
tiers, aged . and Il. the girls stating the
incestaous relations have continued 4
long time.
William Cummings, q non-union labor
leader, was shot and killed by an un-
known party at ScottdAIe, Pa Cum
mings was quarreling on the street with
some union men at the time the shot
was fred.
Jennie Young, known as Baroness Won
has begun divorce proceedings
against her Industrious husband. alias
Robert Ladwig Won Turkheim, on the
ground that the man had another wife at
The time Of their marriage.
A dispatch from Mata states that 400
Neleh fasileers have started for Crete.
Lowell Teeney, prominent farmer liv-
ng at Dekalb. q small town near st.
Joseph, Mo, was shot and killed on the
,rOwded village streets by William and
Charles Brown. brothers Of young girl
EhOm Teeney had succeeded in debauch.
NC.
Employees have been granted an in
'rease Of wages at the quarries at La
mont, III.
All the departments Of the Cleveland
Boiling mills are opened. giving work to
bout 1000 men.
A band OF moonshinsTs attempted TO
after the house Of Frank Simmons, 90
niles north Of Huntsville. Ala, Sunday
morning, and the lAder, Dudley John
on. was killed.