The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-04-02
NEWS THROUGH THE MEEK
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of Information Gathered From
wide Aren---rolitical Happen
fnes and Industrial Notes-Crfme en-
and Accidents.

William NJ. Taggalt, editor of Taggart's |
Sunday Times, died in Philadelphia.
1t is officially denied that France de-
mands a Frenchman as director of the
Chinese postoffice.
Treasurer William II. Holdman of Elk
hart county, Ind, has been convicted of
embezzling $22 900 county funds.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, the
well-known novelist. has instituted suit
for divorce from DIR. s. w. Burnett.
Congressman Joseph Bailey of Texas,
democratic leader in the house of repre-
sentatives, will be candidate for the
speakership of that body next session.
The central Pennsylvania Methodist
Episcopal conference has voted against
the propositions for equal lay and minis
terial representation in the general CON
ference
Police Lieutenant w. F. Burke was
shot and killed by Park Haynes, alias
''The Irish Tinker" maniac, at SAY
Francisco, while attempting to arrest him
for disturbance of the peace.
George T. Nicholson has been appointed
traffic manager of the Santa Fe railroad,
to succeed w. +. Hite, deceased.
The Canadian military expedition to
the Yukon, which is to the number of
200 men and officers, will leave Victoria
about the middle of April
A Louisville, Ky, dispatch says that
Eugene Leigh is said to have purchased
h. -, h.
Derby, for $4,000. He is believed to
have acted for an eastern turfman, Phil
Dwyer being mentioned as the real pur
chaser.
In accordance with the plan decided up
on at the last convention of the American
Federation of Labor, organizers have
been quietly working for the past month
organizing the building tradesmen in Mil
waukee, Wis, looking to demand on
May for an eight-hour working day.
The grand jury Mt Chicago has return
ed indictments against George H, Jacks,
formerly chief of police of Muskegon,
Mich, and William H. Willows, charging
them with the murder of Andrew II. Nc
Gee. Jacks and Willows, it is alleged,
decoyed MCGEE to an apartment house on
the south side several weeks ago and muir
dered and robbed him
Colonel John w Mckenzie, a well
known veteran of the Mexican war, i:
i dying in San Francisco. He is a native
of Newark, n. j., and was formerly city
marshal of San Francisco and colonel O.
the First regiment of the Nationa
Guard CT California.
The Missouri supreme court mas declared
, the inheritance tax law unconstitutional.
Five small children of Pottsville, Pa.
ate wild parsnips, and will probably df
from the poison.
All gambling at Dawson City, Klondike
has been restricted to Legitimate games
q Governor Culberson of Texas has ISSUED
G quarantine against yellow fever on al
coast points and along the Rio Grande,
1 Pearl Eytinge, the actress, is in a New
York hospital, insane from the morphin
habit.
Eugene Saulsby, prominent politician
r of indianapolis, has been stricken with to
o tai blindness.
The French minister for the colonies ha
4 refused the petition of Nine. Dreyfus, VIII
o of Captain Dreyfus, to share the latter
: imprisonment on Devils island.
Many of the leading grain dealers of L
. linois ask for the repeal OF the law givin
i the right to elevator proprietors to trad
/. in the grain OF which they are merely pull
lie custodians
. Measures are being considered at Bon
a bay, India. to deal more effectively wit
:. the black plague, from which thousand
. of natives are dying.
n Jim Orr, versatile and Independent
g reformer in Kansas, is working for tn
passage of a law which will compel ever
6 man to refrain from signing another man
= note without first getting his wife's col
. sent
cablegram from London concernin
Mr.. Gladstone's health says: at was h
= own wish to be moved to Hawarden wit
as little delay as possible. Whatever til
precise nature of the facial pains, neura
; gia or the presence of some unhealth
, growth, there can be no doubt tina
:, though intermittent, they have occasione
=. severe suffering, and it necessarily follow
n that his physical powers and hearts a
# ton have become gravely enfeebled."
The attorney general of Texas has rule
D. that in consequence of the careless draf
ing of resolutions in the legislature the
10 will have to be two state elections in TIE
a. az this year. The regular election of sta
n officers will be on the second Tuesday
N November, and a special election will ha'
r, to be held the first Tuesday, which is ii