The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-31
PROGRESS OF EVENTS
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
Business Outlook, Personal Notes,
md tn News of Fires. Ac-
cidents, and So On.


A special dispatch from Copenhagen
says carrier pigeon has been caught in
the vicinity of Tromscoe, North Point,
Norway, with the following stamped upon
its wings: 'North pole passed fifteenth"
The death of Rev. Peter Havermans,
the oldest Catholic priest in the United
States, took place at Troy, n. Y, the 9th
er day. He was born in the province of
North Biabant, Holland, March 2S, 1906,
and was ordained at Client in 1880, c5ra-
ing to America a few months later.
The government has decided to prose-
cute some editors of newspapers in Poona
district, in India, which have been most
conspicuous in the publication of seditious
articles calculated to stir up the natives
against British rule.
The North American Trading and
Transportation Company, in which p. b.
Weare and John Cudahy of Chicago are
heavily interested, has chartered another
steamer, which will sail from Seattle Aug
ust loaded with 1000 tons of provisions
and 50 or 20 passengers for st. Michaels
on the Yukon river.
An advance of 40 cents on coal coming
into Cleveland from all West Virginia
fields has been declared, the advance be-
ing forced by the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road which raised its freight rate on West
Virginia coal to As cents, the object of the
advance being to exclude the coal from
this state.
The last statement of the government
funds shows an available cash balance of
100000 O4; gold reserve, $l43,3sO,9O3.
Secretary Bliss has approved for patent
to the state of Washington 36l9 acres of
land, selected under grant to aid the nor
NAL schools, located in the Vancouver
land district.
Joseph Burton, foreman of construction
of the Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
Company, was instantly killed at Salt
Lake by coming in contact with live
wire while he and his men were stringing
a new line.
The jury before which Dr. Sydney
! Goodmason was tried at Ponca, Neb., for
numbering his wife returned verdict of
not guilty. This was the second trial,
Goodmason having been convicted at the
/ April term of court.
f. c. Walters of Rossland, of the Ca
madam Gold Fields Company, who has
been in Ottawa and the east for the past
six months. has returned with $4,000,
which will be used in developing the
properties owned by the company.
Jennison's Park hotel at Holland,
Mich. a summer resort, burned with 4
loss of S25OOO0.
Ex-United States Senator Doolittle OF
Wisconsin is probably fatally ill at Prov
idence, r. L., of Bright's disease.
j. +. Ostrander, for five years professor
of civil engineering and the mechanic
arts in the University of Idaho at Mos
COW, has been elected to a professorshiI
in the Massachusetts agricultural college
at Amherst. salary $500 per year. The
professor is permanently located in thu
east.
Governor Mount of Indiana has ISSUED
an appeal to the people of that state 10
aid for the stricken coal miners.
Various Nebraska points report terrid
wind and hail storms. At Franklin tn
wind blew a hurricane, several houses be
ing unroofed and a grain elevator dc
stroyed At Kearney many windows wer
broken by hail stones.
The desire of Germany to institute
European control of Greek finances still
hampers the settlement of the indemnit
question.
The New York cotton mills in SacC
Mo-. are about to shut down for fiv
weeks. the reason assigned being the r'
cessity of reducing the output. The mill
employ 1900 operatives
Receiver John II. Bryant has sold tn
Seattle Coal & Iron COmpanys propert
to the Murphy-Grant Company of Me-
York and four more creditors for $3.50
> 600. The purchasers are five creditor
whose claims the supreme court decide
were prior.
= Donald Alacleay, a prominent merchai
of Portland. Or, is dead. Mr.. Maclea
was pioneer and well known through
= out the northwest He was the father-n
law of Joseph d. Grant of San Francisc
who married his daughter Edith on Jun
e "a last.
During the session of congress ChurC
: Howe of Nebraska was appointed an
G confirmed as consul general to Apia, 5
O moa. He does not care to take the pla
d and has now been selected for consul
v Palermo, Italy. and Luther w. Osborn
V a lawyer of Blaire, Neb., will be name
= for consul general at Apia.
4. j. j. O'Brien & Co., of San Francis
J. have assigned. The exact figures ha'
t. not as yet been ascertained, but are c