The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-08-07
PROGRESS OF EVENTS
ITEMS GATHERED FROM VARIOUS
PARTS OF THE WORLD.
business Outlook, Personal Notes
and tn News of Fires. Ac-
cfdents, and So On.

Rear Admiral Miller will assume com
mand of the Pacific station as soon as hs
can reach Hawaii.
DIR. e. L. Eaton, pastor of the First NJ
Z. church, Des Moines, has been nomlnat-
ed for governor by the Iowa prohibition
lists.
A special dispatch from Athens saw
that the sultan has instructed Tawiik
Pasha, the minister for foreign affairs, to
sign the peace preliminaries.
The islands of Antingua, st. Kits and
Guadalupe of the Leeward group, eN-
perienced a severe shock of earthquake
Wednesday.
Captain General Weyler, it is announc-
ed, will take the field in a few days to
personally direct military operations III
the Havana province where several
bands of insurgents from so to 100 strong
are trying to reunite.
Street Commissioner Samuel G.. Bail of
Pottstown, grew monster turnip meas
uring 1917 by 1879 inches, and being 6l
inches in diameter. 1t weighs three
pounds and three ounces.
The last statement of the government
funds shows an available cash balance of
$236,69O,5O4 gold reserve, $l43,3s0,903
The annual increase of the German ma
ton during the last five years has been
more than five times as much as that of
the French.
In a downtown barber shop in Phila-
delphia is the sign in the shape of Il
tombstone bearing the inscription;
"Whiskers dyed here"
The town hall of Ayr, Scotland, built
to accommodate 1000 persons, and con-
tanning large organ, was burned recent
ly, causing damage estimated at from
$4,000 to 10000 pounds.
The United Kingdom has added to the
British Empire during these 60 years an
area of square miles of the land of the
earth equal to 81 times its own area.
A movement is on foot in Charleston,
to three years in the penitentiary by
the G. V. r. r.. station at Williamsport,
Md, to the Pittsburg market in three
days, ITO bushels of raspberries, weighing
10000 pounds. Mr. Long employs 20
pickers.
The crops in a strip five miles wide and
80 long in Rock county, Mimi, have been
entirely destroyed by hail.
Special Agent Morris of the general
land office has passed through Spokane
from Washington, ID. c., for Okanogan
county, to inspect the surveys of several
new townships that are about to be
thrown open for settlement.
IL l..
load cargoes of grain at Philadelphia, New
York, Baltimore and Newport News for
ports in the United Kingdom and Europe
making days record, which it is claimed
has never been equalled. To fill these
vessels will require over 100000 bushels
of grain.
The British foreign Office notified Am
bassador Hay this morning that Great
Britain accepted the proposition of the
United States for an international confer
ence on the question of pelagaic sealing
in Boring sea, to be held in Washington
the coming autumn.
In an engagement at Gazaland, Soutl
Africa, the government troops defeated
the natives the latter suffering loss .
300.
The Lakeview and Sunnyside Improve
ment Company of San Francisco has gon
into voluntary insolvency, with liabilitie
SOS, 24S; assets, plot in Lakeview and a.
interest in the dredger Atlas.
The bodies of George Tucker and w I
Harper, Arkansas young men, We're foun
near Seligman Mo-, the skulls of bot
giving evidence that they were beaten t
death, the motive probably being robbery
Two thousand pant makers in Ne,
York, Brooklyn and Brownsville, L.
have gone on a strike, believing they ca
compel the factory owners to pay MOI
than $3.50 per week.
Sheriff O. c. Erickson of Crow Wing
Mimi, took charge of Eugene Huffsinge
TillamOok, Ore, rancher, indicted f,
manslaughter in Minnesota in 1896, Il
having killed man in a fight
Claus Gustafson, an employee of the Re
Mountain railroad, was killed mes
NorthpOrt by being thrown over eli
200 feet, caused by the section car O
which he was riding jumping the tract
1t was impossible TO determine wheth,
deceased had any relatives or not, but Ii
tie being known about him.
Clifford Porter, the we'll known tur
man, died at his farm near Lexingto
Ky.
The decree for the sale of the Unic
Pacific railroad, as ordered by the Unite
States court, has been filed at Denver.