The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-12-18
POINTS IN GENERAL NEWS
THE HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK
Accidents and Crimes All Over the
WorId-Business Affairs and Po-
IfticnI Considerat of
Items.

grand commander of the Grand Army of
the Republic, and one of the promoters
of the Grand Army colony in Texas, has
closed deal with John E. ("Shanghai")
Pearce, the great cattle king, for land for
1000 colonists, who will move immediate
ly after the beginning of the new year
The undertaking is fashioned after that
at Fitzgerald, Ga
The defalcation of A. R. Spofford, IL
brarian of congress, will amount to $4,000,
and the authorities are uncertain wheth-
er the man is a knave or a fool. Seven
hundred dollars was found in an old desk
belonging to the librarian, much of it in
shin-plasters. Many postoffice orders
have never been cashed, and the entries
in the books are for less than the amount
received. Spofford will be removed.
United States Ambassador Hay and
Mrs. Hay have dined with Queen Victoria
at Windsor and slept at the castle.
The Washburn & Moen Manufacturing
Company state that several of the larger
wire manufacturers are proposing to form
a new corporation, under the auspices of
j. p. Morgan & Co. of New York.
General Agent Herman of Haverstraw,
of the Amoskeag corporation at Manches-
ter, N. H., is authority for the statement
that the cut in cotton mill wages in Fall
River will not be followed in that city;
that the Fall River action pertains only
to the mills of that city, and it is not
probable that the example will be follow
ed in other New England cities.
According to startling report made to
the Boston Globe by a St. Louis man,
Mrs. Luetgert, the supposed victim of the
sausage manufacturer murderer, so-called,
in Chicago, is alive and well. Mrs. Luet-
CERT was seen in Boston during the month
of July and acknowledged her identity.
besides giving more or less explanation
relative to the reasons which caused her
to leave her husband, who is again being
tried for his life.
Lewis Noxon of Elizabethport, n. j.,
is to build a stern-wheel steamboat spe-
cially designed for use on the Yukon
river, for the Philadelphia Exploa ton &
Mining Company, which is about to send
an expedition under charge of Prof. An
gelo Heilprin of Philadelphia. The party
will have eight members, who expect to
spend two years in Alaska.
The latest reports of late fights in Pinar
del Rio province of Cuba show the Span
ish loss was more than claimed. The dead
or wounded include one colonel, one ma
jor, seven captains, IL subordinate Off
GERS and IA prvates. Most of the wound
ed will die. The rebel loss was IA. The
rebels used explosive bullets.
Governor Black has pardoned Albert H.
Smith, who in 1890 was sentenced to Sing
Sing for II years. The convict was SEN
fenced for a series of forgeries, by which
he swindled his partners in the firm of
Mills, Robertson & Smith, stock brokers'
out of over 100000, causing their fnan-
cial ruin.
Charles Fleischman of Cincinnati sew
eral- times millionaire, is dead. He was
born in Hungary in 1884 and came to
America in 1866. The founda ton of his
great fortune was laid by the invention
of patent machinery for use in distilleries
Until recently he was president of the
Cincinnati Commercial tribune Company
He was also president of ,.le Market Ma
tional bank He had an extensive inter
est in the turf, and was the employer of
the famous Jockey, Tod Sloane.
A counterfeit $40 silver certificate is
in circulation in Denver, Col
Rev. Dr. f. B. Cherington of the West
kane, Wash, has accepted a call from the
Minister Congregational church of Spo
Plymouth Congregational church of San
Francisco.
There were no services Sunday in the
old Catholic church of Green Bay Wis
Rev. A. A. Miller, the parish of HTHr
Rev. A. A. Miller, the priest of the parish,
has resigned his charge and accepted the
Protestant faith.
Sioux City, Iowa, Christian Scientists
have dedicated new church the first of
that faith ever built in Iowa. 1t costs
$4,000, all of which was fully paid when
the trustees accepted the building from
the contractors.
Secretary Kopalowitz of the executive
board of the United Brotherhood of Cloak
makers announces that a membership If
$4,000 will be formed before the first of
the year. The unions of Chicago. Bos-
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, st. Louis
and Cincinnati favor it.
James Cave, a printer, living at Pat
terson, n. j., has been notified that he
has fallen heir to a fortune of $4,000 by
the death of his grandfather, James Cave,
which occurred in western Missouri on
Thanksgiving day. A few months ago
Cave started for the Klondike with a com
panion named William White, but the lat