The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1897-07-03
AT HOME AND ABROAD
SUMMARY OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
Industrial Items. Record of Casual
ties and the Happenings of
the Week.

John B. Gordon has been unanimously
reelected the general commanding OF
ficer of the confederate veterans.
Four hundred delegates were present at
the populist state convention at Des
Moines, Iowa; c. V. Holley was named
temporary chairman. His address was
for the free coinage of silver at Is to l.
The Hawaiian annexation treaty form
ed the principal topic of consideration by
the senate committee on foreign relations
Wednesday. The treaty and accompany
ing papers were read and referred to a
subcommittee consisting of Senators For
aker, Davis and Morgan with instructions
to investigate the question and report to
the full committee.
The Lucky Star group of gold mines,
10 miles north of Fort Steele, has chang
cd hands. Donald Mckay and John Nj.
Burke secured bond on the properties
short time ago and they have just sold
quarter interest to Francis McLelland,
representing a syndicate of st. Paul cap
italists, for 100000, equal to the bond
on the entire group.
Spokane horsemen have decided to hold
race meet there July 3 and 4.
The large department store of Longini
& Thomas of Mankato, Mimi, is closed.
The liabilities are estimated at $4,000;
assets $4,000.
Cordeley g. Co., stock brokers of Bos-
ton, Mass, have assigned to Charles X.
Cobb of Nicholas & Cobb. 1t is believed
the liabilities will be $l50,000. 1t is uu-
derstood that the firm was caught short
in Boston & Montana Mining Company S
shares.
The federal council has authorized the
Swiss minister at Paris to sign the sup
Elementary convention, concluded with
the states in the Latin monetary union,
increasing the proportion of silver coins to
be struck off by each contracting party.
Congressman Edward Dean Cooke OF
the Sixth Illinois district was found dead
in his room in Washington, presumably
of heart disease. Mr.. Cooke retired about
IL o'clock at night, apparently in perfect
health. Cooke was a native of Iowa and
was As years old
The princess of Wales jubilee dinner to
the poor was success. About 10000
denizens of the slums were sumptuously
! entertained at various centers. The prin
} cess, accompanied by the prince of Wales
Princess Victoria of Wales and Prince
Charles of Denmark, visited the principa
} halls.
Fire in seven-story manufacturing
, building at Iaight and Greenwich streets
New York, drove 300 people, who were
employed there, out. All got out safely
except one man, who jumped from a win
dow and was badly injured. The princi
pal tenant was W. f. Dietz, lamp manu-
; factureT. The loss will amount to 5000,
600
The demand except in a few lines, i
nection with the Anglo-Egyptian expedi
? less pronounced than it was two month
. ago, says Bradstreets. There is no ma
terial increase in the volume distributed
compared with year ago, and prices 70
staples are lower. But there has been a
improvement compared with the situation
; prior to the presidential election of 1896
and as contrasted with last January
=. Many of the larger mercha nts and manu-
r facturers characterize the business recor
2 for the first half Of 1897 as a disappoint
= ment in contrast with anticipations i
p December, 1896. On the other hand, cor
dence is widespread in revival of de
+ mand this fall.
The Swiss government has, authorize
their minister in PARIS to sign the suppl,
n mentary convention concluded with til
q states of the Latin monetary union TO il
e crease the number OF silver COINS to
; struck by each contrasting party.
Il COrdley & Co. of Boston, caught shol
= of Boston & Montana Mining Company
e shares, have assigned to Charles X. Cob
q of Nicholas & Cobb. 1t is believed Il
= Liabilities will be about Sl50,0OO.
o. Four MormOns, Elders RyiaEch, Pon
e eroy, Parish and Jones, were nun out
Meridian, Miss, the other day They b
gan by making house house eanva
\. for converts, which so incensed the pc
pie that the first attempt to hold a NEE
ing was summarily stopped, and thin!
le were made so unpleasant that the evan
O. eIists left on the next days train.
n During the past season the Unit
IL States fish commission has distribut,
D. over a hundred million cod fry, hatch'
Is at Gloucester and Woods Holl, along Il
G. New England coast; 100000 shad, &C
Ne lected in the Potomac, Susquehanna al
IN Delaware rivers, were distributed alol
the Atlantic coast from Massachusetts
Florida; about a hundred million 10
= Iaf, fa1 To-, Ia,