The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-08-27
NEWS HONE and ABROAD


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Accidents anA Crfmes.
The West Indian weather service was
practically inaugurated last wednesday.
when reports were received ct Washfne-
ton from the observation stations estab-
lished there. The system i now in CON.
plete working order, and the signal service
department win be enabled to forecast
the terrible West Indian hurricanes that
for years have swept the Atlantic coast
without warning
Sampson and EchIey have been made
rear admirals; Captain Clark Of the Ore
gon has been advanced more numbers
than any other captain, and Wainwright
goes up higher than any other officer.
The war department has under c0naid-
Grafton the establishment Of army campo
as Lexington, KY; Knoxville, Tenn; and
TryOn, n. C., 70 which the troops now at
chiekamsnga may soon be sent
kTuPp i building 5-centimeter t2-iaehl
paper field guns for the German infantry.
They are 20 light that single soldier
can easily carry one, while tho resistance
Of the paper i greater than that Of steel
Of the same ealiber.
Col. W. r. Cody received the nams Of
Buffalo Bill from the fact that he had
the contract to supply meat to the men
who were constructing the Kansas Pacific
railroad, and that he almost always gave
them buffalo meat
Our war with Spain lasted three months
and twenty-five dayA
A plague Of reaches infests the northern
portion Of West Philadelphia
The Piecadilly Club Of Cincinnati win
present q loving cup to Admiral Dewey.
G r. Clifford, q legiess man, and who
only has one arm WAS arrested ct An
burn, Ind, charged with horse stealing.
Bannoek Indians who have been slaHgh-
tering elk near Jacksonis Hole, Idaho,
win be driven back to their reservation
Divers in Lake Huron hare recovered
COO tons Of copper from wreck leo feet
deep, after It had hin there for ~ years.
While cutting tobacco n@r Lancaster,
Pa, Henry Barr stopped TO pick up
stalk and gOuged one Of his eyes out with
his cutter.
Father KoElowskd, recently exeommu-
nicated, filed his threatened suit against
Archbishop Feehan at Chicago for $50
COO damages
A trolley car on the Nassau line Of
Brooklyn jumped from the track in New
York city. Thirty persons are reported
TO have been seriously injured.
Italy is the FIRST Of the powers 70 IeaTn
lesson from the war. The navy depart
ment has given orders that wood shah not
be used on b&ttleship&
The American colony at Sydney, New
South Wales, has eabled to Washington
praying the government to retain p0sses-
SION Of the Philippine islands
Princes Kainlani Of Hawaii and Cap
tain P. Bradley Strong, son Of ex-AlAyor
Strong Of New York, are engaged 70 be
married The announcement has been
made in Honolulu.
California is preparing to establish an
experiment station and school Of instne-
ton in the grating and planting Of vineA
Governor Barnes Of Oklahoma spent =
short time in the guard house at Fort
Reno last week for failing to give the
eOuntersigu.
A Hong Kong dispatch says that the
officials Of the Manila cable are anxiously
awaiting permission to repair, and cable
steamer Is now waiting At Singapore for
instructions.
A labOrer working on the Guerrero rail-
road in Mexico dropped lighted cigar.
cite into a eask Of giant powder, and a
fearful explosion followed, killing three
Mexi0ns and tearing OF the leg Of q
fourth.
After covering Michigan and Ohio at
tempting to obtain q marriage license,
Harry Lewis and Dora Cross Of MAlinta,
Ohio, were married by Squire Hague at
Napoleon. The girls parents objected 20
the marriage.
II. Claus of Nanaimo, B. c., who was
convicted e numbering his partners,
Burns and Henderson, while on their way
to the KlOndike. cheated the gallows by
committing suicide with strychnine, fur
nished by his wife.
Miss Aslang Larsen, q professional
nurse in New York City, was bitten by =
mosquito at Mystic, Conn. The insects
poison bafiled all medical treatment, and
she died in great agony. Her face was
lgreatly swollen and disAgured.
The pen which was used by Secretary
Day in signing the peace protocol was
given to Chief Clerk Michael Of the state
department, who had bespoken it NJ.
Thibeaut, secretary Of che Preach en-
bAssy, secured that used by the French
ambassador.
1 The Michigan peach crop Is much better
and larger than hst year. The early va
rieties are ripe and the peach season In
that state viii be fully open next week.
Michigan peach growers say they can
make money selling peaches At 20 cents q
bushel this year.
! Alexander La Duke Of the Second Via
consin has been convicted by eourt-mar.
tial at Ponce. Puerto Rico, q killing
, Thomas Stafford, q regular army private
, in wine room at Ponce. and sentenced
, 10 life imprisonment in the penitentiary
at Leavenworth, KaA
At the sugar conferences In Brussels ths
: delegates Of Great Britain, Germany, Aus
trh. Hungary, Belgium and Holland wers
ready to propose the abolition Of boun,
ties, while those Of France and Russia In.
. sisted on their retention. Sweden and
. Spain would agree to anything.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson Of Brooklyn, n
Y. left their home last week for visit a
New Haven. Vt. leaving three little chill
dren alone In their residence, with but Il
D cents for food. TIA children were rescued