The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-02-12
A LOOK ALL AROUND.
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of Information Gathered From
Wide Area-Politicni Happen
fngs nnd Industrial Notes-Crimes
and Accidents.

general of Washington.
H. p Gsy has been confirmed by the |
senate as United States attorney for the
district of Washington.
The burning of the McIntire block in
Winnipeg caused loss of 100000.
A Toxic paper states that there are
to take the field at a moments notice.
The Rt Rev. Ethelbert Talbot, d. d.,
Ii. D., former missionary bishop of Idaho
and Wyoming, has been enthroned as
bishop of the central Pennsylvania do
cese of the Protestant Episcopal church.
On December "a, the Japanese merchant
steamer Nara Maru ran on a hidden rock
of the Pescadore group AM sank imme-
diately. OF her so passengers and crew
seven only reached the shore. The drown
ed were all japanese.
According to the statistics os the Jap
anese customs authorities, l6 foreign seal
ing schooners II British and four Amer
lean entered HakodGte and Yokohama
during the year 1897. Their aggregate
catches were 1852, decreae of 1854 com
pared with that of 1896
Harry Albury, Is years old, is dead in
the hospital at Brooklyn, n. Y, of lep-
rosy. He died of tubercular leprosy, and
it is said that there are not more than
half dozen such cases in the country.
Thousands of sheep are reported to have
persisted from cold and starvation in west
ern Wyoming. The cold has been intense
for GO days and old-timers say that it is
the hardest winter they have seen for 10
years. Carbon county has 100000 sheep,
and fiockmasters there fear the loss will
amount to 25 DER cent. Losses among
cattle will not be so heavy, as owners had
been preparing for several years to feed
their stock during severe weather
The Sawyer and Goodman sawmill at
Marionette, Wis, was destroyed by fire
Thursday. The plant was valued at
$4,000.
The First Presbyterian church at New
Albany, Ind, the largest in the city, was
destroyed by fire Thursday night. Loss,
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The Cherokee Lanyan Spelter Company 5
large plant at Rich Hill, Mo-, was de
stroyed by fire. The plant was valued at
$780, 900.
A revolution has broken out at San
Jose, Costa Rica.
The japanese government is seriously
considering the retention of Wei Hal Wei
for an indefinite period, even aften China
pays the war indemnity.
A COW derailed the north bound Texas
special on the Iron Mountain road, 81
miles south of st. Louis, resulting in the
death of the engineer and fireman and
slight injury to two passengers.
1t is reported that the Cross river ex
petition, composed of Niger coast protec
torate troops, was mastered while de
stroying towns about Assay creek. The
Royal Niger company has sent force o
constabulary to rescue the prisoners.
Six tiremen, including a district chief
a captain and lieutenant were killed
at Boston fire, which burned out tn,
interior of ive-story building on 8lcr
rimac street occupied by G. W. Bent
Co., manufacturers of beds, bedding, etc
An order reducing the shop forces be
tween Omaha and Ogden has been issue,
, by the Union Pacific. Two hundred an,
, seventy-five men are dismissed from tn
shops at Omaha, Grand Island Nortl
Platte, Sidney, Cheyenne, Laramie ant
Ogden. One hundred of these come from
Omaha. The officers of the road DECLINE
to say how long the reduction will b.
in force. The Omaha shops worked 1901
men 40 hours during the week.
The United States canal company i
about completing its examination of tn
western division, including Lake Nicar
aqua and westward to the Pacific, OIL
Monday next. The commissioners hav
examined the ground several hundred fee
deep by boring. The commissioners vii
travel on foot from Ocha to the Caribeal
sea at the rate of about three miles
day, examining both sides of the rout
and wading 20 miles through the swamp
! a cablegram received at the war de
partment from DR.. Jackson at Alton
Sweden, announces that the MantobaT
chartered by Lieutenant Devore for tn
. government, had just sailed from tina
. port for New York with $50 reindeer an
E rs Laplanders to care for the animals an
4 drive them. The war department is nov
making arrangements for the transports
ton of the deer across the continent fror
New York to Seattle.
The war department has recalled tn
attention of congress to the need of &C
ditional military protection in Alask'
u and in this connection says: 'Informa
. ton received at this department indicate
the necessity of legislation to provide e
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