The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-08-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CHANCES ALL OVER THE WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Record of Misfortunes, Mishnps and
Crimes, as Well rs of Indus
trial Progress.

A dispatch from Havana says that of
fetal information has reached Havana of /
a decisive battle between loyal troops and /
insurgents forces in Matanzas in which /
the Spanish troops were routed with
heavy losses.
The injunction which stood in the way
of the new glucose combination by re-
straining the sale to it of the American
Glucose Company of Peoria, ILL.,, has been
dissolved and the transfer took place inn
mediately, certified check for over So
100000 being passed in order to forestall
any similar attempts at complication.
j. A. Knowlin, live stock commission
merchant of Kansas City, has bought i'll
Oregon $4,000 sheep which are now being
driven overland to Kansas, where they
will be fed next winter and spring This
immense herd has been divided into II
bands, each of which is driven by eight
men. Knowlin expects to reach Kansas
with the sheep by October.
Five hundred coal miners employed by
the Albert Coal Company at Lethbridge
Canada, are out on strike for an advance
of 10 per cent in wages.
The annual report of the Oregon Rail
way & Navigation Company for the year
ending June 80, 1897. shows an increase
of 81 OLE ,32l in net earnings over the pre-
vious year. Total earnings, $4,7lS,354;
operating expenses, $2,779,O47. Net earn
ings, 81 ,939,307.
The property of the chicago Sugar Re
filming Company has befl formally trans
ferred to the Glucose Sugar Refining Com
pany of New Jersey for the consideration
of $6,25O,OOO "and other valuable con-
siderations" The plant consists of an
enormous sugar refinery and glucose fac
tory which have been in operation for Is
years.
A special from Colleen, ILL.,, says:
Frank Campbell, who was the trusted
lieutenant of General Bradley, was
forced to flee for his life from the strikers
camp west of town. He was pursued by
an angry mob of Slavs who charged him
with having sold Bradley and his men out
to the Colleen Coal and Copper Company
The Falls Creek tannery at Falls Creek,
Pa, has closed down because of the APP
pearance of a peculiar and terrible di-
sease among the employees, of whom four
died within a few hours after they were
seized. 1t is supposed to be caused by
handling hides which were imported from
China and which contained germs of an
unknown and dangerous disease
Captain w. II. Shafoe, one of the best
known racing men in the south, com
O1if a1 hV
Gallatin, Tenn, apparently withou:
cause.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock of St. Louis has
been appointed minister to Russia. Mr.
Hitchcock is a great grand son of Ethan
Allen, who captured Fort TiconderOga
lin the name of the Great Jehovah and
, the continental congress-"
Captain General Weyler has rendered
his resignation as commander of tho
Spanish forces in Cuba. His campaign
was brought to an inglorious close, ht
having been chased into Havana by the
rebels on the last day of the protracteC
struggle.
} All of the big labor leaders in the coun
= try have assembled at Pittsburg to aiC
: the miners in their fight for higher
t wages. President M. d. Ratchford of tn,
United Mine Workers of America fron
5 the West Virginia districts, says tn,
: working men are bound to win; they ar
: daily growing stronger, and have nov
! reached the point where the courts hav
< been compelled to step in and enjoin th
e striking miners from carrying on thei
n organization. Samuel Gompers said l3
: 600 out of 10000 diggers in West Vii
ginia were now striking.
Eli Burney of Whitehead, Ala, win
. was forbidden to visit his sweethear.
: shot and fatally wounded the girls fath
= er, afterward escaping.
= Several hundred tests of adulterate,
: tea, imported by a Portland Chinese firm
n were rejected by the Tacoma customs in
spector, regardless of the protests of tn
company's agent.
= Governor Rogers has received an inv
n tation from the governor of Texas in
wiling him to send four delegates to tn
national prison association meeting i
. Austin, October 1920 The delegate
g must pay their own expenses. No on
v has been found.
= The eighth international congress {
n pharmaceutical chemists is in session q
e Brussels, the direct object of the tw
a weeks meeting being to discuss hygien'
II pure water supplies, public health an
:. sanitary legislation.
Ex-Collector of Internal Revenue o. y
, Welburn of San Francisco has been form
% ally indicted by the federal grand iur