The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-01-12
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

32O,OOO ounces OF silver.
Five inches of snow has fallen at Nice,
and a further downfall is threatened.
The engagements of gold for shipment
abroad today amounted to S2S50,0o0.
There were renewed earthquakes Mon
day at Reggie Di Calibria and Messina,
Italy.
Colonel C. c. Chandler, assistant quar-
termaster-general. has been placed on the
retired list.
Miss Susan FennimoTe Cooper, daughter
of James Fennimore Cooper, is dead, in
her SOD year.
Colonel f. H. Heyl, inspector general of
the department of the Missouri, died sud
denly at Chicago.
Serious differences of opinion exist be-
tween King Alexander of Servia and his
father, ex-King Milan.
Emperor William, after his New Years
reception at Berlin, visited United States
Ambassador Runyon.
Nearly the entire business portion of
Perrysville, Ohio, was burned Wednes-
day morning. The loss is heavy.
Richlouski & Sayets great petroleum
refinery at Batoum, on the Black sea, has
been burned The loss is enormous.
Fire burned the laundry of Edward
Road of London The charred remains of
eight inmates were found in the ruins.
The 12-round match between Lavick and
George Siddons at Cleveland, Ohio, was
declared a draw at the end of the 18th
round.
Argument was closed before Judge
Bartch at Salt Lake in the San Pete coun-
ty mandamus cases, but no decision was
rendered.
Thomas Benton Coulter, sixth auditor
of the treasury during eX-President Har-
rison's administration, is dead at Union
port, Ohio.
Judge Graham of Denver, has appointed
f. F. Arthur receiver of the Gold Nugget
Mining & Milling Company, and his bond
was placed al $4,000
The Philadelphia grand jury has found
true bill against Charles w. Mowbray,
the English anarchist. charging him with
making a seditons speech.
A. P. Barker, a pioneer of Colorado, is
dead, aged p. He built the first cabin in
Denver, in 1858, and organized the first
Masonic lodge in Colorado
Brussels newspapers assert that Amer
lean cattle brought to Belgian ports will
be subject to a prohibition similar to that
Captain John Taylor, receiver of taxes
of Philadelphia, is dead. He was a candi-
date for commander-n-chief al the recent
national G. A. r. encampment.
Truesdan, Spreta & Co, New York re-
tail dry goods merchants, have made an
assignment to j. Underwood. The liza
bilities were 100000; assets, $11S,OOO.
Edward Powers champion colored light
weight pugilist of Michigan, has been SEN
fenced to three years in prison for lar
ceny committed at South Bend, Ind.
EX-Congressman George W. Adams has
formally announced himself a candidate
for the United States senatorship from
Illinois, now held by Senator Cullom.
Nathan Fuller and Charles King, drov-
ers, of White Haven, Pa, were killed on
the Lehigh Valley road by a freight train
running into the rear of another on
siding.
The Central Trust Company of New
York has filed an application in the
| United States court at Omaha for a sep
arate receiver for the st. Joseph & Grand
! Island road.
A. j. L. Roddck, Andrew Winters,
/ George Alexander and G. D. Kiger, held
for murder and confined in the county
jail at Nashville, Tenn, escaped by saw
ing the bars.
A dispatch from Wheeling. w. Va, says:
Nelson Whitaker, the millionaire iron
manufacturer, has issued a public letter,
announcing his candidacy for the United
| States senate.
By the explosion of a boiler in c. b.
Wilson's saw mill, at Metz, Mo-, c. b.
Wilson and w. w. Smith were fatally in
jured and Z. c. Smith and e. Gillespie
badly scalded.
The California School of Mechanical
Arts, the last of numerous magnificent be-
quests made to the San Francisco public
| by the late James Lick, will be formally
given to the people this afternoon.
1t is reported that the Tong Haks (reb-
els) of the Corean province Of Chollado
have founded new kingdom, named
! kanian. 1t is added that member of the
Ming family has been throned king.
Edward r. Carter, the defaulting clerk
| of the New York bank of Commerce who
is charged with embezzling 1000 from the
institution, pleaded guilty and was held
to await the action of the grand jury.
Secretary Herbert has RENTED the IN
expired portion of the sentence of Lieu
tenant e. D. Bostwick, suspended for one
year by court-martial for drunkenness.
while attached to the Ranger at San
| Diego.
A dispatch from Vienna says 1000 men
on Saturday attacked the convent farm
at Staminiti. The police sent to the scene
were overpowered, and the military had
to be called upon Twenty arrests were
made.
An Omaha paper declares there is
good reason to believe that the anti-pass
rule recently enacted by the railroad man
ayers is intended for a blow at railroad
labor organizations more than for -,