The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-10-27
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

ing.
Chief Engineer Henry D. McEwan, u. S,
navy, retired, is dead, aged SO.
The cash balance in the treasury is SIP,
765, 1879; the gold reserve, $59. 46l, SS5
Assistant Secretary Simms of the interior
department has approved pension requisi-
tons amounting to $l2 625. O00
The 2O-round contest at st. Louis be-
tween Tom Tracy and Billy Mccarthy for
81, 500 purse, has been declared off.
George b. hyde. one of the largest hat
manufacturers of New York, gave in to the
strikers and about 100 of the old hands went
to work.
Champion Coroett says Fitzsimmons
must sign articles of agreement before
Wednesday or he (CorbetD will drop him
from consideration.
An Upper Marlboro, Md, dispatch says:
Stephen Williams, the negro who assaulted
Mrs. Hardesty and confessed, was taken
from jail and hanged.
A terrible explosion of fire damp occur
red in Anina colliery, Buda Pestb. Fifteen
dead and 90 wounded miners have already
been brought TO the surface.
The residence of Sylvester Yeagle, near
Carlisle, Ohio, was struck by lightning and
consumed. Yeagle and his two children
were killed and their bodies consumed.
street are in Jail in Washington on a charge
of stealing 81, 100 2-cent postage stamps
from the bureau of engraving and printing
Postmaster General Bssell has issued an
order that hereafter an address label NAV be
posted on the message side of an envelope
AS we'll as on the address side of a postal
card.
The attorney general has decided that
Floyd county. Georgia, bonds, which have
I Al. l.
conflict with the banking laws of the United
States.
A dispatch to the Pail Mall Gazette from
Johannesburg. says the excitement at
Lourenzn Marquee, Delacoa bay. is quoting
down. The town IS still surrounded by
Katfirs.
The father Of Smith Walsh. one of the
men killed outright at Washington court
house, is having atiidavits prepared, charg-
ing Sheriff Cook and Colonel Colt with
| murder.
Mounted police report that they over
took Antonio Sanchez. the noted bandit
chief, in the mountains and shot him to
death. Several OF his desperadoes were
wounded and captured.
An international anti gam bling associa-
| ton has been incorporated under the laws
of Illinois with headquarters AT Chicago.
The incoro6rators are Edward f Golf. Rev.
William Dirk and Thomas II. McCauey.
Mrs Warren Springer, wife of the Chicago
millionaire. has been indicted for attempted
Jury bribing during the trial of a suit for
condemnation of some of her husbands
Droperty brought by Metropolitan elevated
road.
Figaro says Roumania has Joined the
triple alliance composed of Austria Italy
and Germany and the visit OF the King of
Servia 10 Vienna and Berlin was in contem-
plation of still further changes in the drei-
bund.
While the Indian department officials at
one time showed desire to appoint civil
ans as Indian agents in the place of army
officers who were relieved. it has now been
! determined to fill such vacancies with army
officers.
Queen Regent Christana of Spain has in.
structed the government to prosecute the
proprietors and managers of several CATH
| Ollie papers which asserted that she had
caused the king to be enrolled as Free
! Mason.
! During fire in tue yards of the Thayer
| Lumber Company at Muskegon. Mich,
John Ellens assistant chief Of the fire de-
| partment, was buried under pile Of Lurn
ing lumber and died shortly after beng
rescued.
Advices from Port Au Prince, Hayti,
| say that President Hyppolite and his min
! lister of war had hand to hand fight in the
palace a few days ago. The minister of
war was badly whipped and is con fined to
his bed by his injuries.
Tbs murder trial oil SD. Warden, one OF
! the A. r. U. men under Arrest for Wrecking
| a Southern Pacific train during the recent
railroad strike, causing the death of EEgi-
neer Clark and four United States soldiers
has begun at Sacramento.
AT North Dover. Ohio, four masked men
! battered down the office door OF the c. NJ.
/ Oviatt Manufacturing Company after the
night watchman refused them Abundance,
hound and gagged the wa'chman, drilled the
safe and blew it omen with dynamite They
did not obtain much money.
Attorney General Olney has received a
letter from J. Adam Bede. United States
marshal at St. Paul, rendering his reslgna-
ton on the ground that he cannot consist
ent y comply wits the presidents letter in
1886. regarding federal otficeholders Ia king
part in political campaigns. His resigna-
ton has been accepted.
The suit of Mrs. Phoebe +. T. Linton of
Omaha against the London banking firm of
Cooper d Brown to -ecure deeds and mort
Cages on NEBRASKA land aggregating sew
eral hundred thousand dollars has been de-
cided in her favor. Now she will press
$500. 900 damage suit, which stories from
the London bankers provoked.