The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-22
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.


Judge Daniel Scully of Chicago is dead.
The first snow of the season fell at Oma-
ha on the 14th inst.
Trial of the Debs contempt case has been
postponed until September 25.
Rear Admiral Kirkland, U. S. N, has as
sumed command of the European squad
ron.
The motion for the appointment of a re-
ceiver for the Colorado Irrigation Company
has been put over for two weeks.
The maneuvers of the First and Seven
tenth army corps have begun at Scholbit-
ten. Emperor William is present.
The $40 600 forfeit which Peter Jackson
wosted with William J. Davis of Chicago for
fight with Corbett has been taken down.
News received from St. Petersburg ind-
Gates that the czar's sickness is cerebral,
complicated with ailment of the kidneys,
Mrs. Anne Rogers, sister OF the late GEN
eral John A. Logan. took morphine with
suicidal intent. 1t is thought her Lille will
be saved.
A sensational bill for a receiver for the
Chicago Nickel Works has been filed at
Chicago. The concern was capitalized at
$l20, 900.
The golf championship of America was
won at Newport by William G. Lawrence
of the Newport Golf Club. His score was
1873 strokes.
Towns in southwestern Spain, along the
Mediterranean coast, have been visited by
severe storms and floods, in which many
| lives were lost.
The custom of publishing the list of un-
claimed letters at the postotfices will be
abandoned for lack of an appropriation to
meet the expense.
! A Paris paper says the emperor of Ger
many is trying to organize conference of
! the powers with view of bringing about
| general disarmament.
| Commodore William A. Kirkland, u S.
! n, who succeeds Rear Admiral Erben in
command of the European station has ar
rived at Plymouth, England.
/ District Attorney Butler of New Orleans
has filed in the district court a suit for the
impeachment of Mayor Fitzpatrick. He is
charged with favoritism. incompetency, etc.
An official dispatch from Pretoria capital
of the Transvaal republic, South Africa.
says the chief leaders of the insurgent KAT
| frs have surrendered to the Boer command
ers.
Judge McKenna of the United States cir
cult court has appointed Aldace f. Walker
receiver of the Atlantic IL Pacific railroad
vice J. w. Reinhart who resigned some
days ago.
The Idaho stage was held up, 10 miles
north of Ukiah, Cal, by masked highway
man. The Wells Fargo box was taken,
i but the amount of the treasure secured is
unknown.
About 800 delegates were present at the
national convention of the Kelley League
at Colorado Springs. Harrisburg, Pa, was
selected as the place for holding the next
convention.
At Alexandria, Ind, a natural gas explo-
sion wrecked the express and telegraph
building. Samuel |. Meyer and family
were buried in the ruins. Ali will recover
except Meyer.
The Pennsylvania democratic state con-
vention reconyened to I'll vacancies on the
state ticket. Thomas Collins and Henry
Myers were unanimously chosen candi-
dates for congressman at-large.
General francesca Debourbon, who last
week issued a manifesto claiming heritage
to the house of France, will be kept under
military arrest for two months as punish
ment for issuing the manifesto.
News has been received that President
| Hypolite ordered the arrest of 10 men
whom he believed to be the instigators of
the plot to assassinate his daughter and
these men were shot within "a hours.
A telegram from Batavia states the Dutch
/ forces, after hard fighting, which lasted all
day, captured Basingaban, where the Mat
aran rebels were concentrated. The rebels
TeIehteu 70 Matarani Mhich is fortified
place.
The charred remains of Joseph Strong
and his 14-year-old daughter were found
where their house had been burned, in Jack
son county. Kansas. 1t is believed they
were robbed aud the house fired to conceal
the crime.
The superintendent of state insurance
of Massachusetts has revoked the license of
the Commercial Alliance Insurance Com
pany of New York. deficit of SIC 900 hav-
ing been found by an examination of the
New Y FORK department.
The Republic of Colombia has presented
Nicaragua with a second protest claiming
sovereignty over the Mosquito reservation
under old Spanish titles 1t is reported
that President Nunez will 60 to Bogota to
calm rising troubles there.
Warrants have been issued for the arrest
of President c. q. Cheney and John
Holmes OF the Western Bank Note Conn
pany. They gave bail in So, 600 each to
appear in st. Louis November 5. The
charge is the same as that against the gov
ernor, auditor and treasurer of Mississippi.
printing bills similar to United States cur
rency.