The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-08-07

Mayor Strong of New York has an.
nounced the appointment of Colonel Geo.
Moore Smith of the Sixty-ninth regiment
to succeed Colonel Fred Grant as police
commissioner.
Edwin Flanagan, who has been on trial
at Atlanta, Ga, for the murder of Mrs
Allen and Miss Stack, has been found
guilty and sentenced to be hanged Aug
ust 5.
Dispatches from Berlin say the most
disasterous floods in centuries are occur
ing in Silica, 100 persons being drowned
and the loss already amounting to many
millions of marks.
A hundred Cuban prisoners, recently
pardoned at Madrid, have arrived at
Gibraltar. en- route to New YORK. Span
ish government organs believe the freed
will reioin the injurgents.
At a meeting of the republican com
mittee of Jasper county, Ga, resolutions
were adopted denouncing the Partially OF
recent administrations to negro republi-
cans, and decided the white members OF
the party in the ninth congressional dis
trict would no longer tolerate discrimina-
ton.
The most brilliant dinner party of the
Newport season was that given by Las
penard Stewart in honor of Vice Presi-
dent and Mrs. Hobart.
James Cavanaugh, a Philipsburg,
Mont, engineer wiper, has been arrested
for criminal assault upon his two daugh-
tiers, aged 8 and ID, the girls stating the
incestuous relations have continued a
long time.
William Cummings, a non-union labor
leader, was shot and killed by an un-
known party at Scottdale, Pa. Cum
mings was quarreling on the street with
some union men at the time the shot
was fred.
Jennie Young, known as Baroness Won
Turkheim, has begun divorce proceedings
against her illustrious husband, alias
Robert Ludwig Won Turkheim, on the
ground that the man had another wife at
the time of their marriage.
A dispatch from Mata states that 400
Welsh fusileers have started for Crete.
Lowell Teeney, prominent farmer liv-
ing at DeKalb, a small town near St
Joseph, Mo-, was shot and killed on the
crowded village streets by William and
Charles Brown, brothers of a young girl
whom Teeney had succeeded in debauch-
ing.
Employees have been granted an in
crease of wages at the quarries at La
mont, Ill.
All the departments of the Cleveland
Rolling mills are opened, giving work tc
about 2OOO men.
A band of moonshiners attempted tC
enter the house of Frank Simmons, q
miles north of Huntsville, Ala, Sunday
morning, and the leader, Dudley John
son, was killed.
II. c. Mellor, an old and respected resi-
dent, shot and killed his son James, ageC
25, at Quigleyville, Col, in a quarrel ovei
the right to use a certain field as ;
pasture. James first struck his father
The murderer gave himself up and salt
he merited punishment, as he had com
mitted terrible crime.
A remonstrance has been issued by thu
professors of Brown university and sen
10 HltiuDtiS VI tHt NOi pol"oi ~ PiD
tests against the action of the latter bod,
with reference to President Andrews, ant
asks for reconsideration of the who'll
matter. The document lays stress on tn
Importance of freedom of thought an'
speech, and especially in universit,
where there should be no such thing Il
political prejudice.
Another hot wave passed over the cen
trail states the first of the week.
Governor Rogers appointed a. j. Bleth
en-. editor of the Seattle Times, regent Q
the state university at Seattle, to fl
the vacancy caused by the death of tn
late John Wiley, for the term endin
March, 1902.
The Hawaiian government decided o
July % to issue no more six months res
, dence permits to Chinese. This practice
: exclusion following the lines of America
legislation means much to American Ii
borers.
The governor has refused eXecutiN
clemency to George 5. Young of Colun
> bia county. Wash, now serving Il
" years term in the pententiary for catt
stealing who was convicted October !
D., 1894. although the senate board of pa
!, dons recommended his pardon on Jul
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