The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-17
AT HOME AND ABROAD
SUMMARY OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
ties and the Happenings of
the Week.

murderer, has been electrocuted at Sing
Sing, n. Y.
Spokane county's commissioners, who
counted the money in the hands of the
treasurer, found that $76,Ol5.94 was on
hand.
The commission sent to India to inves-
tigate the bubonic plague report that the
bacilli enter the body through the ton
sis, it taking four OF five days to incu-
bate. There is no fear of it entering Eu
rope.
The interurban electric car between
Bay City and Saginaw crashed through
an open draw bridge, carrying seven pas
sengers into the river, drowning woman
with three children and seriously iniuring
three men.
Secretary Gage has written to Senator
Allison suggesting that tax of cent 4
pound be put on all refined sugar made
of stock imported prior to the pending
bills passage believing that several mil
lions of revenue would be derived from
those best able to bear it.
Henry Whitaker, a young farmer re-
siding six miles north of Cameron, Mo,
shot and instantly killed Miss Thompson,
young lady with whom he had been
keeping company, because she had spent
the Fourth in Cameron with another
young man. Whitaker then blew out
his own brains.
At the International Gold Mining con
vention in Denver, 600 delegates, repre-
senting 20 states from all sections of the
union, were present the first day and BOG
more were to arrive on the second day
The mayor welcomed the guests for the
city and the governor for the state, this
latter also explaining the purpose of tho
meeting.
Saltwater, Mimi, reports that st. Groin
lake has risen IA feet, and 100000 feet
of logs have broken away
The United Mine Workers headquar
tiers report from 600 to 100000 miner
out on a strike.
The Idaho board has pardoned RicharC
Peeke, who was serving life sentence
for the murder of Prosper Langrois, il
Boise county, in 1885. He pleaded guilt,
to murder in the second degree.
The Cripple Creek district during tn
first six months of the present year pre-
duced $6,O75,OO0 gold, and it is predicte
that the output for the year will have
coinage value of $l4,000,000.
The senate committee on commerce
after an exhaustive inquiry into tn
charges against John Goodnow, nom
mated consul general to Shanghai, and I
II. Warner, nominated consul to Leipsi
has agreed to report both with favOrab
recommendations. The committee ais
decided upon a favorable report in I'll
f case of F. H. Heustis, nominated for co
( lector of Puget sound, Washington.
= The first melting of the conferees of Il
5 senate and house on the tariff bill bega
Thursday. The democratic members
, the conference remained less than 10 mil
utes They withdrew upon an intimate
from the republicans that they desired 4
! opportunity to reconcile their difierenc
= before consulting the democrats Wit
. the departure of the democrats the repu
v leans entered upon a general exchange
1 views
S President Mckinley has decided
Y spend his summer vacation at Lake Chan
plain, unless congress adjourns in tin
for western trip in July.
D w. w. Tullis, member of the Tex
d state sanitary board, has announced tn
he has found a herd of cattle in Rand
70 county infected with Texas fever, and 5
$ counties through which the band pass
4. have been quarantined.
% Judge j. j. Dehaven of San Francis
/ has decided that superior court has
o. right to interfere in a Chinese deport
10 ton case in which a United States COZ
10 missioner has decided that the accus
: should be returned to his native countl
r. United States Consul General Lee h
II rendered an account to the governme
70 of the $4,000 intrusted to him by &C
Il gress for the relief of distressed Anne
IS cans in Cuba. His report shows til
Is only $4,000 was spent, although aid W
l. given to every American who sought
in A motion for new trial has been ma
ID at Helena, Mont, in the case of 10
10 Bloor of Kalispell, secretary of the 81
ID ate sentenced by the district court
no Lewis and Clarke county to one year
rs the penitentiary for secreting the sala
in bill. The motion is made on the grOu
is that the jurors trying the case were p
he mitted to read the daily papers DUR
Oh the progress of the trial.
no The Northern Pacific has begun 5
A. against several hundred families oc
plying land in Columbia, Cowlitz q
&c. Clarke counties claimed by the railrC
no company.
While six negroes were eXcavating
a street RAILWAY at Lexington. XIV. one