The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-11-20
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS
RECORD or CRIME AND MlsHAP.
Progress OF business at Home and
Abroad-Fire Losses and AccIden-
tai Deaths = Political Appoints
meats.

The police at Barcelona, Spain, have
seized 800 rifles intended for the Carlists.
Fire caused loss OF $4,000 by the
burning of the Riverview hotel at Kan
kakee, ILL.,, insurance 10000,
President Mckinley has issued proc
lamation exempting from payment of ton
mage duties to Mexican vessels which
come directly to ports of the United
States open to general commerce, because
Of concessions made to United States YES
sells by the Mexican government
The finance committee of the chamber
OF deputies at Buenos Ayres has fixed the
bounty on sugar for export at Is cen
tavos.
A combination of steel tubing nanufac-
tuners, representing 80 per cent of the
tubing output of the Union. has been
formed.
William Knapp, a clerk in the city
treasurer's Office at Oakland, Cal, has
fallen heir to $4,000 left him by his faith
er in WuTtemberg, Germany.
Alexander Pelky, father in law of the
bogus Lord BeresfOrd, dropped dead at
Atlanta, Ga-- His daughter, tie only
heir, will receive $4,000.
Hon. John F, Norrish. a prominent
democrat, dropped dead Sunday at the
door of his residence, in Hastings, Mimi,
of heart disease.
kOong Sang, Chinese priest, was prob
ably fatally stabbed in San Francisco
temple by an unknown assassin. Trouble
is expected to break out in Chinatown.
A revolutionary club has been Termed
at Havana and named the Public SALIVA
ton Club" Its object is to ayenSe all
Cubans who have been murdered, as Ma.
Geo, Castillo and Zlyas.
The Gold Creek and Nevada Mining
Company in a recent placer working at
Gold. creek uncovered vein the assay of
which shows 1898 in gold and l63 ounces
of silver. This is one of the richest dis
eoyeries ever made in this section of New
ada.
Frank Hogan, pioneer saloon man OF
Portland, Or. is dead.
The jesse Eddy wooden mill at Fall
River, Mass, announces an increase Of 10
per cent in wages
A $4,000 fire loss ia the result of the
burning of the packing house at New
Brighton, MINI.
Reduction in wages is announced at
various shoe factories at Haverhil, Mass.
Six MOhammeian immigrants at New
York, declaring their belief in polygamy
have been ordered deported, under the
existing immigration laws.
D..
to the north Pacific squadron, which will
make it the most powerful fleet Great
Britain ever had in these waters.
The preliminary hearing at Farming
ton, Wash, resulted in holding William
Morse, charged with the murder of Or
vile Hayden.
Henry Sherry, the millionaire lumber
man and paper mill man of Neenah, Wis,
has assigned. Mr.. Sherry estimates his
debts and those Of the associate companies
at about 81 100000.
German troops have taken possession OF
Kiao Chu fort in China, and it is believed
that Emperor William intends to hold
them permanently. The region is i'm
mensely rich in mineral and the harbOr
the best along the coast. The murder OF
two German missionaries led to this ae-
ton.
The president has appointed F. D.
Mondell of Wyoming assistant commits
siOner of the land office.
The wheat crop of New South Wales
is estimated at 9-349,OOO, an average OF
80 bushels per acre.
Justice McCreigth resigned his position
as judge of the supreme court of British
Columbia. He has been on the bench Is
years.
1t is said the japanese government will
next year open three new ports to for
eign trade.
As a result of the famine in eastern
Szechuan, China, owing to the destrue-
tion of the harvest by rains and hail, can
nibalism is reported.
A German trade commission. headed
by Dr. KnaPPe, is now touring through
China and Japan obtaining details on
trade matters.
The japanese government has demand.
ed the sum OF s2OO,OOO in gold from Ha.
wall by way of indemnity in connection
with the emigration affair.
Hosea Brown, the oldest American sol,
der on the Pacific coast, residing -four
miles from Grants Pass, Or, Is dead, be,
ing los years and 4 months old.
\ decision has been handed down by
the United States court of appeals at ST
Louis to the effect that a white person
adopted into one of the civilized tribes OF