The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-04-23
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
CONDENSED NEWS OF WORLD
Crimes and Casualties In All Lands
Paragraphs AbOHt Prominent
PeFaons-BasIness COnditisns IN
RTief-PeeHIiAF accidents ne
corded by Many Observers.

Rapid work is going ON to TRANSFORM
the vessels at the Brooklyn navy yard In
to auxiliary cruisers.
At Commercial, n.y. the 3year-old-son
of Nat Corbin, while playing about IRE
in the yard, was burned to death,
The Uneompahgre and Ute Indians are
said u be ugly over the dilatory tactics
Of the land allotment commissioners
Diphtheria at Waverly, Mo, has put
stop to all church and social gatherings
Everything is being done to check the
eontagi0n-
The total output OF coal in the United
States in 1897 Appropriated l9s, 2oO,D Oo
short tons, with an aggregate value Of
Sl9s, 10000.
Postal Clerk Hart, arrested in Chicago
on charge Of theft, gave as an excuse toI
the crime that he could not live ON sl2
week.
Fire in Toxic. Japan. destroyed over
100 houses aud rendered II 900 people
homeless
A man in Wabash, lad, has built up
paving business ia rabbit breeding. hav'
ing secured kind that are edible in sum
mer as well a. winter
Captain j. T. Bernier Of Quebec Ia en-
deaVoring to induce the Canadian gov
ernment to give him financial aid toF his
proposed expedition 10 the north pole.
\ system Of improvement Of the public
highways has been inaugurated ia prttls
county, Missouri The county court has
ordered am election On Tuesday, April 20,
To vote upon a proposition to establish a
six mile road district. with SsdaliA a.
the center
After pretty tight contest. in which
the Canadian Pacific railway lobblsd with
great persistence and effect. the Corbin
railway bill was defeated ia the house oi
commons at Ottawa by ~ 10 "a. The
French Canadian nisnbefs from Qdsbsc
opposed the bill almost unanimously.
Great excitement prevails In the Ha.
wailAn island, about the threatened erup.
ton Of the great volcano Muha L0a. The
coolrl hva has dropped down the mount
ain side l60O feet. the great volumes oi
smoke are ie-uing from the crater. Theirs
had been constant earthquakes and heavy
rainfall for two weeks previous to ths
sailing VI the Alameda. which bFuagh.
/ the news 10 san Francisco Last THURSDAY
I The American squadron at Hoag Kong
China, ha, completed arrangements tn
/ putttng TO '~a-
| Thomas II Tongue was frnomtnatsd
tor eunsrs-, by the republicans Of ths
/ First congregational district u Oregon.
+ The Cincinnati chamber II cummerrs
Ia. passed a resolution Ia favor Of rr
ciprOeity With Canada and New fDundla nj
/ The number of lives tost in tho saSw
/ 'lid"at thilkoot Pass, klUndiks. wil
reach TOO. SIXTY MIA b.o,iiss have b~~t
found
The Po-tohiee department has prepares
information for the postDsIhso employee
and p1stmaNters who enlist. Their place,
will be reserved foe them.
Having been surprised by the police
burglar at Montreal Canada, Jumps
30 feet from Il vindow into a suow bani
and escaped, apparently uninjursd
\ eablegrnm from LOadon says that Mr.
Gladstone may not survive longer thai
-iVty days That /, the opinSaa Of At
physician after having carefully dag
noasd his condition.
In ls11 Falcon island. in the Frsadly
group, began a. a smoking shoal Trs
years later It waa Volcanic STAND Va
f"rt high and over one anal a half Hails,
long. Now It IL disappearing.
\ Dispatch from PittsburE. Ia. say
that the Carnegie Steel Company has ~
eeived an order for the steel plates an,
material for 100 torp~io boats irotn N,
government. The work can be done IL
two weeks.
The governor Of Michigan has sent 1,
III" legislature a message rroummendin,
authorization Of war loan Of $500 DO0
a serns"ot enthusiasm followed the read
ing OF the message. and the bill wa
passed within half an hour.
A company ka. been chartered at To
peka, Kan, with a capital stock II 81.
10000 to eolonizs land grant of 1000.
40 acres IN the central part Of MrNir,
with 5000 Indians Of the five ciytlifs,
tribes who are dissatisfied with the Dave
treaty.
The Illiouis buttsrine Law has been de
eiared unconstitutional by the state an
PremS court. The judges dScided tha
manufacturers have constitutions
right to color huttrrine or olcomargarin.
yellow or imitation. which was prohib
tied under the terms Of the law.