The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1897-08-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CHANCES ALE 0vRR THR WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.


6ailatin, Tenn, apparently without
cause
Ethan Allen Hitchcock Of st. Louis has
been appointed minister to Russia Mr..
Hitchcock i q great grand son Of Ethan
Allen, who captured Fort MeonderOga
i'm the name Of the Great Jehovah and
the continental congress"
Captain General Weyier has rendered
his resignation as commander Of the
Spanish forces in Cuba His campaign
vas brought to an ingloFioas close, he
having been chased into Havana by the
rebels On the last day of the PrOtracted
struggle.
All ef the big hlor leaders in the eoun-
try have aSsemhaed at Pittzburg to aid
the Eainers IN their fight for higher
wSge& PFessasat NJ D. Ratehiord of the
United Mine Workers Of America, from
The West Virginia districts, says the
working mcn are bcnnd to win; they are
daily growing stronger, and have now
reached the point where the courts have
been compelled to step in and eniOin the
striking miners from carrying Ola their
organization Samuel GOmpers said Is
600 out of 10000 diggers in West Viz
glnlA were now striking.
Eli Burney of Whitehead, Ala, who
was forbidden to visit his sweetheart,
shot and fatally wounded the girls faith
er, afterward escaping.
Several hundred tests Of adulteFated
tea, imported by Portland Chinese firm,
were rejected by the Tacoma customs in
sPector, regardless Of the protests of the
eOmPany's agent
Governor Rogers has received an invi-
tation from the governor of Texas in
viting him to send four delegates to the
national prison association meeting in
Austin, October 1920. The delegates
must pay their own expenses No one
has been found
The eighth international congress Of
pharmaceutical chemists is in session at
Brussels, the direct object of the two
weeks meeting being to discuss hygiene
pure water supplies, public health and
sanitary legislation
Ex-Collector of Internal Revenue o. n
Welburn of San Francisco has been form.
ally indicted by the federal grand jury
upon the charge of having embezzled
S2l22 between September 30, 1895, and
May, 1897. There were 43 counts Bal
was fixed at $4,000 and promptly fur
nished.
The annual conference of the priests
Eucharist League" opening at the Uni
Yersity of NotTe Dame, South Bend, Ind
August IL, will be attended by 20
priests and IL bishops, among the latte
being Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati anC
Ar.bhsakOr VESIltarra ~ nnaklu
David G. Swain, U. S. A, retired, judg,
advocate general, is dead.
Michael Angiollilo, the anarchist as
sassin of Premier Canovas de Castilloe
who was tried by court martial at Yer
CARA, was found guilty and sentenced /,
death.
Information is obtained at the Office o
the chief grain inspector of Minnesot:
that the wheat crop of that state and tn,
DakOtas would run 100000 bushel
short of expectations
The employees Of George G. Heitzel 4
Co, manufacturers Of worsted goods o
Chester, Pa, have been notified that tht
wages paid in 1892 would be restored on
September next
A special from Rome says it is reported
that the pope viii excommunieate Primes
Henri of Orleans and the Count of Turin
as dueling is forbidden by the Roman
Catholic church.
The attempt Of Senior Romero RobIedo
the Spanish minister of justice, to assum.
the conservative leadership, has failed
Following his public declaration in favol
OF the retention of Captain General Wey
Ter in Cuba, and against any reeonsidera
ton with the dissident conservatives, thu
principal conservative leaders have giver
their adhesion to General Azcarraga, tn.
acting premier and the minister for war
who remains at the head Of the govern
ment
Frank Brooks Of HollisOn, Cal, wa,
instantly killed while standing in tn.
doorway Of his home by stroke of light
ming.
The president has appointed Louis A
Walker Of Helena, Mont, to be meter al
the United States assay Office at Helena
Mont
A letter comes from Edward Thorp say
ing he had cleaned up $4,000 on the
klondike in eight weeks. Thorp left Sc
attic year ago.
The steamer City of Kingston has iust
sailed from Tacoma for Dyea and Skaga
way, Alaska, with 90 passengers from thi,
port, and took on board 200 at Seattle
Max Wiley, clerk for Bernheimei
Bros, whisky merchants of Louisville
KY, was shot and fatally wounded by 10,
c. Kouwenberg, a gauger. The shooting
was the result of an old grudge
While No. Is freight train, on the Grea
Northern, was crossing the switeh-baeI
over the Cascades tree blew down, strik
ing box car in which two boys wer
stealing ride. One was killed instant
ly. His name can not be learned. He wa
IL years old and from Salt Lake. Tn,
other boys leg was broken.
The elevator of the Davenport. Iowa
Glucose Works was the scene of two ter
rifie dust explosions, as a result Of which
four lives were lost and two persons seri
Ously injured.
Senator Sherman has acknowledged III,
receipt Of O'ertures Of the French govern
ment, though Ambassador Patenotre. fo,
negotiating a reciprocity clause Of tn,
new tariff law, and the secretary adds an
assurance that he hopes to take I'D the
important subject at any early day.
The eannery Of the Pacific Northwest
Packing Company at Blaine, has been en-,
tirely destroyed by FIRE, together with L..
900 eases OF soekeye salmon ready for