The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-11-19

can be collected and conveyed to the
earth.
The life insurance companies doing bus
mess in Canada have agreed hereafter not
to accept risks on the lives OF married
women unless they happen TO be the
bread winners of the family; or, in other
words wholly independent of their hus-
bands. The decision was arrived at with
view OF checking the crime OF wife muir
der for insurance.
John Hays. who discovered the rich
copper deposits along the south shore OF
Lake Superior, celebrated his oath birth
day in Cleveland. o.. the other day. In
the early forties he landed at Copper Har-
Dor, and with two Indians as guides went
on foot to Milwaukee, prospecting as ne
went. 1t was in lS47 that he opened the
first mines.
Emperor William is expected TO visit
Cadiz on or about November 20
David Kahnweiler, inventor of the cork
jacket life preserver, died in New York.
Japan is expected to prohibit seal and
otter hunting along its coast next year.
The Turkish troops at Retimo, Island of
Crete, having refused to leave peaceably,
nave been forcibly removed by the Rus
sian admiral.
Mary Alexander died in st. Louis last
Wednesday at the remarkable age of lib
years.
The Bank of Spain has advanced to the
treasury 6O,000,OO0 pesetas for current ex-
pcnses.
The outbreak of yellow fever in Havana
is causing great anxiety among American
officials there.
T. b. Potter, the founder of the Golden
! Club, the once famous free trade organi-
zation, died in London.
Daniel r. Kennedy, of Lynn, Mass, VINO
was supposed to have been murdered in
Portland Me, has turned up alive
Germany, it is stated, will not show her
hand in the Philippine controversy until
the negotiations take more definite form.
The Venezuelan arbitration court has
received over 2200 documents in English,
Spanish and Dutch, covering four centur-
les.
The critical political and military situa-
ton in Europe has caused a sharp advance
in prices of provisions in all the markets
of the world.
Douglass Island, Alaska, now has sew
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capacity for the reduction of $500 tons OF
ore per day.
1t is believed by many well-informed
! persons in Manila that a conflict between
the Americans and Filipinos is ultimate.
! " unavoidable.
Benjamin Smith and wife, aged 90 years
respectively, travelled on foot all the way
from Whitehall, Greene County, ILL.,, to
Chillicothe, o.
At a religious meeting in Kansas City
Mrs. Jennie Walker expressed a desire &c
die and had hardly finished when she sanl
to the floor dead
In the Rogue district in Cuba heavy
floods have ruined sugar cane and fruit
crops which have just been planted foi
the first time in three years.
At North Grafton, Mass, posse Of citi
zens surrounded three burglars who hac
broken into the postoifice and captured
two and killed one OF them.
Jamaica negroes are invading Cuba IL
large numbers. They are vicious, lazy anC
sLiftless people and add to theinumber O
destitute to be rescued from starvation by
the United States government
The navy department has decided to ne
four single-turret monitors and make new
contracts for building four double-turre
monitors capable vi going TO sea.
a species of elk, with enormous antlers
has been discovered in the Olympic noun
tains, of the state OF Washington, by Pro
fessor Elliott of the Field Columbia Muse
unl, Chicago, and named Roosevelt"
tale OF fearful suffering is told by TN
captain and crew of the schooner Jenni
f. Wiley, which was wrecked in a recen
West Indian storm. They drifted abou
for three weeks with nothing to eat bu
raw fish
The damage by fire, smoke and water 4
the capitol buildings in Washington is no
so great as at first supposed, and it is be
lieved the repairs will not cost more thar
$4,000 and can be made before congress
reassembles.
a negro lynched two years ago at Mays
field. 5 c., for murder, is said to have lef
! written statement, which has just bee
found, confessing that he murdered tn
Voolfolk family, for which Thomas Woo
folk, the eldest son, was hanged, protest
ing his innocence.
The torpedo boat destroyer FaIragu
during her trial trip at San Francisco, ha
made 80 miles an hour when the air pun
broke down. For ~ minutes she mad
81. 80 knots an hour. The contract II
, quirements call for speed of 30 knots a