The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-09-04
SUMMARY Of NEWS
CHANCES ALL OVER THE WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Record OF Misfortunes, Mishaps and
Crimes, ns Well as of Indus
trial Progress.

signment. The assets are 100000; Ii
abilities not to exceed $4,000.
Civil engineers of Juneau-C. f. Garth
side and six assistants-are now survey
ing the White pass in the interest of an
English syndicate which intends to build
a railroad from Skagaway to the entrance
of the pass to Taku arm, distance of GO
miles.
The general strike of the cloak makers
of New York city and vicinity, which has
been threatened for a long time, has been
ordered. Henry Fisher of the board of
walking delegates of the brotherhood of
cloak makers announced that $4,000
cloak makers in the brotherhood would
be called out. More than 5000 went out
Wednesday afternoon.
News is just received that Prince Luigi
of Savoy, and party of Italians, reached
the summit of Mount St. Elias July 81 at
noon. The altitude indicated by the mer-
curial barometer is $4,000 feet. 1t is
the most successful expedition ever under
taken. The party was 81 days en- snow
and ice without sickness or accident.
The sixth annual session of the ma
tional irrigation congress will be held
in Lincoln, Neb., September rs, 20 and
30.
The Brotherhood of Locomotive En-
CINE Firemen has contributed $l4OO to
the national miners fund.
Joe Walcott knocked out George
Green in the 18th round at San Fran
cisco, Thursday night, after one of the
fastest fights ever seen in San Francisco.
Walcott led in nearly every round.
Green showed none of his old time dash
and vim, and seemed to be utterly at sea
in meeting and guarding against the
sturdy colored mans rushes.
William j. Bryan has returned to his
home in Lincoln, Neb., after an absence
of three months travelling in the west,
has been elected delegate to the APP
preaching county convention and will
take an active part in the same.
The site for Chicago's new 100000
postoflice is bed of mud, and the archi-
tects say piles must be sunk lO3 feet to
insure stable foundation.
The duke and duchess of York, who
are making a tour through Ireland, and
being feted and dined, and presented
with addresses of welcome by the vari-
GUS towns through which they pass.
With favorable weather for the next
two or three weeks the farmers of On
tario will gather the best crops they have
had for 20 years.
The Spanish government will immedi-
ately construct one large ironclad and
six cruisers of 5000 to 1000 tons to form
the nucleus of three squadroons.
Star Pointer and Joe Patchen, the
PAGERS, have been matched for mile
race at Mystic Park, September IL, for
$4,000, winner to take all.
During a severe windstorm at Chicago
the dancing pavilion at Norwood Park
was blown down and Mrs. Kate Brown
a member of a picnic party was killed
while several others were severely in
jured.
United States officials are overhauling
the records of the Puget sound custom
houses, and it is strongly rumored that
a number of prominent people, socially
r
with smuggling Chinese into the state
United States Consul Monaghan al
{ Chemnitz, Germany, reports to the STATE
department that American commercial
houses having agents in that country
are compelled to pay tribute on exports
: and suggests that the American govern
ment retaliate.
!, At the Buffalo Grand Army of the Re
public encampment resolutions have
been passed asking the government t.
give crippled soldiers the preference il
government positions, that the Nationa
Monument Association be requested t.
! aid in movement to erect monument
to Lincoln in every city in the land, re
questing the government to set aside GA
acres of land in the Indian Territor,
for the benefit of the Oklahoma soldiers
home, and to request the government t.
Z build a sanitarium in Charleston harbo
o in memory of Major Anderson of For
= Sumpter fame.
AS result of a first-class row owe
the carrying of delegates to the lette
r carriers convention in San Francisco,
= general rate war has been started fror
|. Chicago and Missouri river points, tn
t fare from Chicago and return bein
# $3.50, and that from Missouri rive
/. points and return $780,
J. A big labor convention is now bein
l. held in st. Louis. attended by Jane
Carson, state president of the Unite
g Mine Workers of Illinois, Eugene Y