The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-10-02
NEWS OF THE WORLD
BRIEF MENTION OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
Record of Misfortunes, Mishaps and
Crimes, Well as of Indus
trial Progress.

Mlchael cross, the composer and or
ganist of Philadelphia, is dead.
Louise Michel, the notorious French
anarchist it is said, will leave Paris in
few days for the United States.
Major Edward l. Merrill, aged 20 years,
died at his home in Pennington, Maine,
Sunday. He was the secretary of the
ways and means committee of the ma
tional house of representatives.
The declaration is made at Madrid and
is being generally circulated that the
Spanish troops in Cuba have recaptured
Victoria de Las Tunis, which was taken
by the insurgents under Calixta Garcia
and Jesus Rabion, September 5.
The Afridis and Orakais of the Tirah
country, on the frontier of India, at
council held at Bagh, have decided to re-
sist the British advance. They have sent
message to Gholam Hyder Khan, the
ameer's frontier general, asking him to
help them.
President Mckinley passed Sunday
quietly at Adams, Mass. In the morning
the president and the Misses Mabel and
Grace Mckinley, accompanied by their
host, went to the Congregational church.
The church was crowded and was decor
ated with flowers. The usual order of
services was observed.
The attorneys for the Panama Railroad
Company have placed on record in New
York a mortgage bonding all the proper
| ty, rolling stock steamship, wharves and
other appurtenances of the Panama Rail
road Company in the sum of $4,000,0OO.
A disappointing rye crop is indicated by
final returns to the American Agricultur-
ist Instead of some 28,000,000 bushels,
as expected from earlier indications, the
crop of the United States now figures out
about 25,000,0OO bushels, 100000 more
than last year, and 100000 less than in
1895 and 1894 Latest European crop ad-
vices are confrmatory of serious short
ages, especially in Russia.
J. w. Follert. government produce
merchant at Trail, b. c., accidentally shot
last Sunday while enjoying a days out
ing, is dead, having never recovered con-
seriousness.
Secretary Sherman still, according to
interviews in the Spanish newspapers, de
sires a solution of the Cuban question by
November at the latest, as he fears the
"iingoes" will make themselves heard on
the reassembling of congress.
The supreme court of the state OF
Washington filed an opinion to the effect
that L. s. Hewlett is still commissioner
of arid lands, and a peremptory writ Of
mandate was ordered issued directing the
state auditor to issue warrants for the
payment of his salary as such officer.
Henry George has been unanimously
nominated for mayor of Greater New
York by the United Democracy, com
posed of numerous free silver and Bryan
clubs. Mr.. George once polled 6S,OOS
, votes as labor candidate for mayor o
New York. His strength, if he should
accept, would be drawn principally from
the democratic vote.
, The slaughter of a mother and her sil
children occurred at the home of Johl
Blocker, farmer, living eight mile
northwest of Carrollton, Iowa. Blocker
the fendish husband, completed hi
bloody work by sending bullet into hi
; own head, inhicting a fatal wound. TIL
, family were prosperous Germans, and a
far as is known, had lived happily. N
, motive for the tragedy has been dis
closed.
q The instruction in Nicaragua has bee
I suppressed.
Benjamin F. Tracy has been nominate
{ for mayor of Greater New York by tn
I republican convention, on the st. Loui
platform.
George Fred Williams of Dedham ha
been nominated for governor of Massa
chusetts by the democratic state CONVEX
ton on a platform that squarely indOrse
that adopted by the national conventio
G at Chicago last summer.