The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1898-02-05
4 LOOK I'LL AROUND.
NEWS At HOME AND ABROAD.
items Of Information Gaaherea From
. Wide AFea-PoIifiesI Happen-
ings and Industrial sotes-crimes
and Accidents.

II was necessary to call out troops 1.
suppress an anti-Hbrew riot at MaIo
France.
Alfred Raymond Ockerman, alias Ray
mond, who is wanted in Portland, Ore.
for the embezzlement Of 5000 from Til
Benevolent Order Of Elks, has been ar
rested At Hastings, suburb Of Vancouver
b. q. Raymond has been in the neigh
boThood for about a fortnight, but unit
today succeeded in elnding the police
Ockernlan, who was formerly druggist
in Portland, agrees to 60 back, and b.
states that he can make good the shortage
which he claims only amounts to 5000.
Assistant Secretary Day has directed
the pension Office TO reopen and readindi
cate upon its merits the pension claim Of
w. D. Watson, late fireman Of the United
States revenue cutter Tiger. II WIS reject.
ed by the pension Office In January, 1906
on the ground that the men Of the revenue
service not being enlisted in the navy.
had no title to pension under the act q
june "a, 1870. The reason, the assistant
secretary holds. was not tenable or sound.
Receipts Of this seasons wheat crop at
Tacoma to date aggregate 6,I96. 42G bush.
els. The total yield for Washington, ac.
eording TO the state grain inspector, win
be about 100000 bushels.
Miss Mary W. Boord Of Metuchen. n.
j., = preparing TO lead a mining colony
into the wilds Of Alaska.
Russia viii soon demand of Turkey nav.
ment Of the whole balance OF her indeln.
nifty OF the Russo Turkish war.
The Italian government has found il
necessary 20 call out portion of its army
reserves to suppress the bread riots.
Trustees of Euphrates college, at Kar-
Poot, Turkey, have asked President Nc.
kinley for an assurance Of protection.
John D. Rockefeller, the Standard oil
magnate, proposes to spend S2OO.Oe0 in
improving the roads of Westchester coun-
~. New York
Colonel T.. H. Beaumon. a retired Unit
ed States army officer, believes that the
day of cavalry fighting is over, and that
what the army needs Is riaemen and
modern heavy gums.
Secretary Long says that instead Of be-
ing unprepaned for wLr, our navy is as
efficient, ship for ship, asthat OF any other
nation. and that our new ships compare
favonbly with any in the world.
+. \. Franker, formerly merchant at
Kansas City and Chicago, was recently
fiecced ont Of $3l 600 by Mexican sharp.
ers in the City Of Mexico and is TRYING
TO recover his IAOney by legal proceed.
ings.
The British steamer Tourmalin, IL Is
announced, while attempting TO
land arms and stores on the Sus coast
Of Morocco, Was interrupted by the Sher-
ifan Hassina, whereupon she opened fire.
The HasSina reciprocated and captured
one Of the ships boats with three En-
glishmen. The Moorish troops then de-
molished the villages favorable to for
eigners, killing numbers Of inhabitants
The president has nominated William
Of Washington 10 be surveyor
general Of Washington.
II. p. GFy has been confirmed by the
senate as United States attorney Tor the
district Of Washington.
The burning Of the AEcIntire block IN
Winnipeg caused loss Of 100000.
A Toxic paper states that there are
some O0.OOO troops in Vladivosiock ready
10 take the field at moments notice.
The RI. Rev. Ethrlbert Talbot, u. D..
IL D., former missionary bishop Of Idaho
and Wyoming. has been enthroned as
bishop Of the central PENNSYLVANIA do.
nese Of the Protestant Episcopal church.
On December -, the japanese merchant
steamer Nara Maru ran on hidden rock
II the Pescadore group and sank immc-
iiately. of her 80 passengers and crew
even only reached the shore. The drown
ID were all japanese.
According TO the statistics os the Jan.
lnese customs authorities, l6 foreign seal.
ng schooners, y British and four Amer
can entered HalSo.lstc and Yokohama
Turing the year 1897. Their aggregate
'atches were 1852, decreae of 1854 com.
pared with that OF 1880.
Thousands Of sheep are reported to have
from cold and starvation in west.
I'm Wyoming. The cold has been intense
or GO days and old.timers say that it Is
he hardest winter they have seen for 10 |
rears. Carbon county has 100000 sheep. |
md flockmasters there fear the loss will |
mount 60 q Oer cent. Losses among |
attic will not be 50 heavy. as owners had |
'een preparing for several years 10 feed
heir stock during severe weather.
The Sawyer and Goodman sawmill az
Wis. was destroyed by fire
Thursday. The plant was valued at
'l5OO0O.
The Chernkee.l.anyan Spelter Company's
arge plant at Rich Hill. No. was de-
troyed by fire. The plant was valued at |
sl50.0Oa.
The First Presbyterian church al New /
llbany, Ind, the largest in the city. was
destroyed by fire Thursday night, Loss.
SS0.O00s insurance, S20,000.
Harry Alhury, rs years old, Is dead in
he hospital at brooklyn. n, Y, Of lep- |
osy. He died OF tubercular leprosy, and |
I Is said that there arr not more than |
lalf dozen such cases in the country.
The Main street school building at Co.
umhHs Ohio, was burned. Three hun.
lred children were marched out safely |
md in an orderly manner by the teachers
Books and wraps were burned.
President caestas Of Uruguay is about
o publish a decree dissolving congress
NJ the troops in Uruguay are under arms
" order Of the president, who has taken
his method to suppress any outbreak
hat may como.
lake Erie Is the lake Of the ~wild cal" |
hn mama ..l.a.. A = l....l..... In. II n.