The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-04-10
ALL OVER TIE WORLD
GRIsT OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Disastrous Course of Floods i'm the
Mississippi yaIIey-PrevaIent
War Talk in Europe.


Greece is talking of an international
loan of Sc, 100000
Johannes Brahmes the we'll known mu-
steal composer or Vienna is dead.
The German reichstag has passed to its
third reading the motion dDroSdllhS the
Jesuit exclusion act.
Michael Davirr. the Ir1sn member Of the
English parliament mas landed at New
York on his way to California.
The inaugural California derby, valued
at $4,000. was won at Ingleside by scar
borough native colt The mile ana
ouarter was covered in 2:11A.
Tt is understood at Vienna that the
mowers are determined to maintain the
bloeKade of Greece if that nation declares
war and thus deprive her OF her most
formidable means of attack.
The 54th annual boat race between
crews representing the English universe
ties of oxford and Cambridge resulted
in a victory for Oxford by barely Two
lengths The distance was four ana one
quarter miles, and the time ~ minutes
and II seconds.
President Kruger's claim against Great
Britain for indemnity as a result OF the
Transvaal raid amounts TO some So'VuV'oVo
J. b. Callejos sheriff Of Union county,
New Mexico, accidentally shot hlmseI
with fatal results in trying to draw rlne
from beneath bed In the jail
The war department has issued 1or-
NAL order consequent upon General Ru-
Wesley Merritt from Chicago to New
York and General Brooke from st. Paul
to Chicago, to command the military de-
partments of which these cities are the
headquarters.
All necessary shopping marketing, Wis
tting of doctors and the like in over
flowed sections of Greenville, Miss, is
done by skiffs. Every street contains
whole fleets of these
President Mckinley has inquired by tel
oft ha of states where
the foods prevail as to the needs of the
people and will ask congress to make an
Appropriation for the relief of the sur
fei@rs.
in chief accompanied by his aide-de-
camp. will soon start for Gibraltar to in
spect that fortress.
Many of the fruit men of California are
opposed to the feature of the new tarln
prohibiting the rebate allowed on i'm
ported tin, saying they will be obliged to
purchase American tin at higher prices
than foreign tin, and claiming that the
production of tin plate in the United
States is insufficient to supply the demand
of the Pacific coast
George f. Otter Companys carpet store
at Cincinnati, Ohio with it's stock val
ued at 100000, and insured for $l5OOOO,
was destroyed by fire in less than two
hours.
steamer from Mediterranean ports
has lust landed 1000 Italian emigrants at
New York.
The National Mining Bureau has is
sued a call for international gold
miners convention, to be held in Denver
on the 18th and 10th of June. The ex-
hibits will consist of refined gold ana
gold ores and a general mineral display.
Ex-Lientenant Governor Percy Daniels
has succeeded in interesting most of the
leaders of the leading ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
list statesmen of Kansas in an organlza-
. ,f0hi c fn a a
bureau of information concerning his
scheme to tax inordinate wealth and to
secure an amendment to the federal con-
stitution giving congress the power TO
levy such tax.
Reports of losses sustained by cattle
men of wyoming during the recent storm
are coming in slowly On many Of the
large ranches it is estimated the losses
will range from to 70 per cent or the
herd. The snow lies one and half feet
deep in Cheyenne and from five to 10 feet
in the ravines. Much anxiety Is felt Tor
many persons reported missing.
Among the diplomatic representatives
of the large countries at Washington, the
expression is general that following the
new tariff there will be large decrease
in imports, and that in turn Will be fol-
lowed by an increase of duties against
American goods The representatives of
the nations that are the most concerned
with reciprocity do not regard the reci-
procity feature of the present bill with
favor.
Bands of starving working people broke
out into open disorder at Malaga, Spain,
Sunday destroying property costing large
sums of money The police made many
arrests The cause of the outbreak was
lack of work The condition of things in
Andalusia grows worse daily. The gov
eminent is reinforcing its troops there.
Dr. Spencer Harris Of Circle City, in a
letter TO the Juneau News, says Pat Cas-
sidy was killed on Oscar blossoms claim
during January by a gravel cavein He
did not take the precaution to timber the
tunnel in which he working, and a
Viz body of gravel caved in on him. He
was conscious for some time after the &C
cident and called to his companions to
rescue him. They did all they could, but
before he could be dug out he had smoth-
cred to death.
The prince of Wales has sold his IA
NOUS racing yacht Britannia to James
Gorden Benefit
A formal ballot of one vote for each
candidate is being thrown in the sena-
torial contest in Kentucky.
King Humbert in the speech from the
throne at the opening of the Italian par
lament said the accord of the powers on
the eastern question tended to preserve
peace and prevent massacres.
DR.. J. h Walton, 30 years of age, a
we'll known physician of Dubuke, Iowa,
committed suicide in Chicago by cutting
his thoat with razor. He is believed
to have been temporarily insane as the
result of a recent illness.
The provincial legislature of British Co.
lumbia has passed the bill preventing
Japanese as we'll as Chinese from being
employed on undertakings aided by leg