The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-12-25
POINTS IN GENERAL NEWS
HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK.
Accidents md Crimes All over the
WorId-Business Affairs and Po-
IiticaI Considerations-Va of
Items.

condemned murderer of Blanche Lamont,
has been sentenced by Superior Judge
Bahrs at San Francisco for the fourth
time, to suffer the extreme penalty of the
law, the date for his execution being set
for January next.
The following nominations have been
sent to the senate by President McKin-
ley: Court of private land claims: Joseph
Reed to be chief justice, William M. May
of Tennessee, Thos. f. Fuller of North
Carolina, Henry G. Strauss of Kansas
Wilbur F. Stone of Colorado, to be asso-
eiate justices, reappointments, their terms
expiring December 81, 1897.
A bill has been introduced by Sena-
tor Wilson in the senate granting to the
Spokane Falls & Northern railway right
of way through the Colville Indian res
ervation and also for any branch line
commencing at point in Stevens county,
crossing the Columbia river and running
northwest by the most feasible route
through the northern part of said reserva-
tion to connect at the international boun-
dairy line with any road which may be
built from British Columbia.
President Mckinley has decided to put
a quietus on the protests formulating on
the Pacific coast against Attorney General
NeKenna of California as judge of the
supreme court, and sent in his nomina-
ton. The president is determined TO
stand by his attorney general to the end
Of the fight it is said. He will insist, It
is said, that McKenna continue as attor-
sey general until the senate confirms his
nomination as associate justice.
No appointments will be made by the
president during the holiday recess, ex-
sept in case of emergency.
William Terriss, the well known actor,
was assassnated, being stabbed with 4
knife as he was entering the stage door
Of the Adelphi theater in London.
Senator Frye has introduced a bill in
congress providing for the purchase or
construction of vessel for the revenue
cutter service on the Yukon, and appro-
rriating $4,000 for this purpose.
There were no services Sunday in the
cid Catholic church of Green Bay, Wis.
Rev. A. A. Miller, the priest of the parish,
has resigned his charge and accepted the
Protestant faith.
The death is reported at Tacoma OF
Jonas Stanup, one of the best known In
dams in western Washington, aged %
wears. In the Indian war of 1850 he took
an active part in defense of his people
she Puyallups-and at its termination re-
fused to surrender his gun to the govern
nent.
John (Kd) Mccoy, the noted ex-bank
burglar. whose record is known to the
police of all countries, was struck ON the
head with a club and probably fatally in
iured in New York by John McGinnis
proprietor of a Bowery lodging house
Lately Mccoy has earned a precarious
living by selling locks.
The establishment of Crook, Homer q
Co, dealers in plumbing, machinists and
millers supplies, occupying a seven-story
building at Howard and Saratoga streets
Baltimore, has been damaged $450,OOO by
FIRE. The loss is covered by insurance.
The state department has been ad
vised that the Canadian authorities have
surrendered upon an extradition warrant
James G. Bennett, who was arrested ano
held at Victoria on a charge of murderoui
assault upon his wife in San Francisco.
The state of Nebraska, by the attorney
general, has filed civil suit against ex
Treasurer Hartley and his bondsmen fol
1885 600 This is the amount which Hart
ley is charged with embezzling from thu
public school fund during his first two
years in office, and is only one of a mum
Der of similar suits.
The subcommittee of the senate com
mittee on Pacific railroads heard +. M
Gideon, the attorney who was charged By
j. X. Reddington on Saturday with hav
ing manipulated the land Office records
Nr. Gideon denied every allegation mad
by Reddington and insisted that Their
was no possibility of manipulating tn
records even if he had so desired.
T. c. Beatty, formerly supreme secre
tary of the A. p A., and prominen
lawyer of the middle west, and Henri.
Howard, have been taken from Strouds
burg, Pa, to serve a term of Is month
in the penitentiary Before he left Beat
ty wrote an account of his life, which h
headed "Life Experience of Smar
Fool"
'The American Congregation, the Prid
of Jerusalem" has been incorporated. 1t
principal headquarters are to be in NeN
York city, and it is intended to carry O
operations throughout the United State
and Canada The object of he organize
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needy Jews of all nationalities residen
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