The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-09-03

i ne pSet supply NNaitanle Will Keep the
factory in operation three months. The
crop is estimated at $1,000 tons.
Windholm Siehold, the last of the
group of men who founded GunteFvillG.
Ala, died in that city Friday. He was
T5 years old and native of Germany.
This year is the centenary Of the bat
tie OF the Nile and of Napoleon's landing
in Egypt.
Two thousand makers oil children's
clothing won their strike and returned TO
work in New York.
The longest canal in the world Is in
Russia. 1t extends from st. Petersburg
near $500 miles
Many deaths from heat have occurred |
in Germany, and number of destructive |
forest fires have broken out ON account |
Of drouth.
The last battle of Manila was fought |
during fierce thunder storm, the rain |
at times obseuring the view of the ships |
from the shore.
| The president,it is belieyed,wil recon- |
mend u revival Of the grade of vice add |
miral, which will be conferred upon Adj |
miral Dewey.
| Millions Of men in India live, marry
and rear apparently healthy children up
ON p I'd week, and sometimes it falls
below that.
Ii pair of herrings could be left to
breed and multiply unulsturbed for a
period OF twenty years, they would yield
an amount OF fish equal in bulk to the
globe on which we live.
| Spanish commercial classes and prop
erty owners OF Havana favor the annex
alton of Cuba to the United States rather
than the setting up of an independent
government under the Cubans.
As this country consumes practically
half the worlds production OF coffee, the
annexation Of Hawaii and Porto Rico,
and control of the Philippines viii be OF
great benefit to the public.
The Commercial Cable Company, at
New York, announces that censorship has
been raised on all commercial code and
cipher messages to and from Cuba, Puerto
Rico and all the West Indian islands
Henry S. Treadwell, postmaster of South
Boston and supreme lieutenant governor
OF the Pilgrim Fathers, claims that for
six months during 1868, Weyler, then a
young man, worked for him at 50 a week.
At White Lake, n. Y, Fred Reeknall
mistook his son Philip for deer while
hunting and shot him, death ensuing soon
after 4 few years ago another son,
George, was shot and killed in mistake for
I bear.
> The barn OF Peter Foy, ten miles north
/ of Independence, Iowa, was struck by
e lightning last Wednesday night and five
: sons of Mr.. Foy, the oldest being 10, who
we're sleeping in the hay NOW, were
: burned to death.
( Our new Philippine possessions will Of
e fer some strange and interesting exPer-
e fences to Americans visiting the Islands
I for the first time. One OF them will be the
t hutlike chow shops in which stewed grass
$ hoPPers are sold.
n The general association of eolOred Bap-
= lists of Kentucky, in session at Frank
, fort, adopted resolutions favoring the
sending of cOlored missionaries to Cuba,
n Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii
anticipating annexation by this country
The last two descendants of Christie
pher Columbus are said to be occupants
:. of a poor house at Cadiz-
-
increases 10000 times in bulk 30 day:
), from the time it is Matched.
Captain Evans OF the battleship Iowa
!, is suffering from typhoid malaria at the
: Roosevelt hospital, New York.
The cabbage still grows wild in Greece
;. where it originated. Radishes are ma
tive to China, but have been grown il
Europe for centuries.
Governor Scofield has pardOned Patrick
Mcdonald, an inmate OF the state prison
:, sentenced for life Mcdonald is over 81
years old and has been for 80 years 8
trusty.
Jose CasteIlanos, alias George Wander
: bilt, the Spanish spy imprisoned at Fort
ress Mcpherson, has been released. Hi
l. presence in Atlanta excited such hos
tile demonstration that he had to b
: placed in the police station for safe keep
ing.
Senior Vieuna, envoy extraordinary am
minister plenipotentiary Of Chile to thu
United States, has arrived in this countT,
as the new Chilean minister.
Newspapers in the south say that thu
cotton crop in Texas alone will be equa
;. to pound of cotton for every man, WON
i an and child on earth.
a Irishmen of all parties are prosecuting
the movement for securing the restora
. ton in Ireland of Celtic gold ornament
Q which recently found their way to tn
a British museum.
. A pension has been granted to Turk
a ish soldier, who, after three years service
a in the army, became i'll, and coming un
1 der medical treatment, was discovered Il
> be a woman.
. The public funeral of Mr.. Giadston'
was not expensive. Some Of the news
; papers gave the cost at $4,000, but {
. competent authority says that the actua
= cost was about $4,000.
i In France the oxen that work in tn
' fields are regularly sung TO as an en-
/ eouragement to exertion. and no peasan
{ has the slightest doubt that the animal
o listen to him with pleasure.
b Fifteen years ago William Glenn, o
Y Powhattsn county, Va, was a dark mu
4 lattO. His color has been gradual,
y changing ever since, and now ne is whit
o with the exception Of a few spots on hi
l. face and neck. He says he has neve
n been sick.
. In the Island Of Minora, one OF tn
n PHILIPPINES, the humming birds are pug
. naeiOus little creatures. Thousands o
o them frequently attack huntsmen with
out the slightest provocation, infictin