The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-09
OVER. THE WORLD.
GLEANlNeS FROM ALL AROUND.
Deaths OF Noted PersOns-Fires, Rob-
berries and Accidcnts-Pointer in
Business Circles md General
News of the week.


crop is cut and the threshing is not much
behind.
Fire which broke out at Willow
Springs, 10 miles from Chicago, on the
drainage canal, destroyed nearly half the
town and made so families homeless. Loss,
about $4,000, with but little insurance.
The symptoms of Carlist agitation are
every day becoming more manifest at
Madrid and attracting the attention of
the Spanish gocernment. Carlist ennis
saries are visiting the province of Ma
varre and Castellon. where the party has
its strongest supporters.
General Alexander, the engineer APP
pointed by President Cleveland to settle
the boundary dispute between Costa
Rica and Nicaragua, has decided that the
eastern boundary of Nicaragua and Costa
Rica commenced at the harbor head of
Greyton, as claimed by Nicaragua.
Boston Commercial Bulletins review
of the wool market says that last week
beat the highest record on sales, ON ac-
count of the heavy purchasing on the
part of the manufacturers, mostly terri
torial woods. All prices are steady and in
sympathy with the London wool auc-
TONS Australians have advanced,
thought the Boston market is four cents
per secured pound below the prices es-
tablished at the recent advance in Lon
dom
Japan will enter the international chol-
era alliance.
Neal Dow of Maine, prominent in all
the temperance movements in this coun-
try for half a century, is dead
The death is announced at the Fort
Russell hospital, Cheyenne, Wyo., of
Chief Packer F. P. Delaney, one of the
best known and most respected frontiers
men in the west.
Senior Sagasta, the liberal leader, has
been entrusted by the queen regent with
the task of forming new cabinet in
Spain.
Robbers blew open the safe in the bank
at Chase, Kan. About $4,000 is missing.
Some of the money, currency, was de-
stroyed by the explosion.
William Herbert, the young desperate
who is wanted in Wyoming for many
crimes and was waiting trial in Whitman
county for horse stealing, broke Jail Sat
urday night and escaped.
Sufferers from dysentery throughout
Japan numbered 50,l2l up to September
IA. In Toxic % per cent of the cases
have proved fatal.
A census shows there are 1885 foreign
residents in the treaty ports of China.
There was also an increase of SO business
/ houses.
The emperor of China has forbidden all
sorts of banquets and junketing, because
an eclipse will occur on January %, 1898
An eclipse of the sun is said by the Chi
nese to be proof of the wrath of heaven
at the lack of virtue in a ruler.
1t is reported that 5000 Chinese have
started a riot at Swallow, China, opposing
the proposed founding of a Christian
church there. Braves to the number OF
1000 have been dispatched from Canton
to pacify matters.
Joseph Ladue founder of Dawson City
Alaska, the owner of large part of that
city, on his way to San Francisco, told 8
Chicago reporter that the stories of suf
fering to come this winter in Alaska and
the positive assertion that many people
will be starved in and around Dawson
are not true. He said that supplies are
not short nor will they be before spring.
The death is announced at st. Paul o
Samuel j. Mcmillan, United States sen
ator from 1876 to 1878.
One result of the formation of a Sa
gasta cabinet in Spain, it is believed, will
be the granting of amnesty to most if no
all the American prisoners held in Cuba
and the pardon of many Cubans con
demned to life imprisonment in the islanC
of Ceuta.
The large pork packing and beef pack
ing establishment heretofore occupied b.
the Minnesota Packing & Provision Com
pany at st. Paul, has been leased for 99
years to Swift & Co. of Chicago. Tn
plant is a large one and cost about 5000
600.
The London Daily Chronicle publishes
under reserve, sensational report that
strong London syndicate has sent tn
United States government, through Con
sui General Osborne, an offer to purchas
the Union Pacific railroad. According t
this report a New York syndicate has OF
fered 100000 pounds and the govern
= ment has decided to sell the road at auC
ton November ], believing that it Wi
realize at least 100000 and perhaps l l
1 OOOOO or 100000 pounds.