The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-01-08
POINTS IN GENERAL NEWS
HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK.
Accidents and Crimes All over the
WOrid-Business Affairs and PO-
liticaI Considerations-Var of
Items.


banker and broker of New York, is dead,
aged A. With Henry Clews he founded,
20 years ago, the firm of Henry Clews &
Co.
According to a special dispatch from
Shanghai, the British Admiralty has re-
Questioned three of the Empress steam
ships belonging to the Canadian Pacific
railway.
An English syndicate has secured con-
troll of the Trinidad Asphalt Company,
and after the first of the year the head
quarters of the concern are to be located
in London instead of in New York, as
heretofore. The capital of the company
is to be increased from $3,500,0OO to So
100000.
A fire at Port-au-P Prince, Hayti, destroy
ed 800 houses, including a number of
warehouses, hotel, church and It's par
sonage. About 5000 people a~c rendered
homeless
The overturning of a lamp for heating
glue in Whitney's planning mill started a
fire which destroyed property valued at
100000 and threatened to wipe out the
city of San Bernardino, CAL Fourteen
residences, an Episcopal church, a skat-
ing rink and hardware store were burn
ed, and the fire was only got under con-
troll when needed help arrived from the
adjacent towns
The representatives of the powers have
refused Turkey permission to replace 1900
time-eXpired troops ON the island of Crete
1t is conceded that the cotton mills in
mill oil Mt al
England mills and reduce the wages of
operatives. Twelve thousand employees
will be affected.
Mrs. Annie Fowler, aged 50, was burned
to death in the house of Frank Graham at
Bordentown, n. j. The house and ad-
joining property were consumed entail
ing loss of $4,000. Graham's family
was aroused by the mewing of a cat in
time to escape.
The Farmers & Traders State bank At
Oskaloosa, Iowa, has closed its doors. The
following card is on the door: "This bank
will rec i've no more deposits. but will at
once pay its depositors in full as fast as
their claims may be presented" The bank
had found business Improbable.
The senate and house committees on
public lands and territories are at work
on legislation for Alaska, preparing the
way for action by the two houses. The
matter has been talked over in the com
mittees and there will be some decisive ac-
ton shortly after the holiday recess. The
chief problem is to provide for better gov
eminent.
Gales and floods are reported in several
parts of Portugal.
Judge e. II. Bennett, the venerable dean
of the Boston law school, is dead
The usual quiet of New Years day was
disturbed by false report that Prince
Bismarck was dead.
Rain is still badly needed in Australia
A Sydney newspaper estimates that the
loss of stock in the last three years has
amounted to $50,000,000.
Confirmation has been received from
New Guinea of the murder of the German
governor and police by natives. The bodies
of the victims were cut in small pieces.
The grand jury at Chicago has return
ed indictments against Aldermen John
Powers and William O'Brien for running
gambling houses.
Vice Admiral Sir Ward Herbert Sey-
mour, X. c. b., who has been appointed
British commander in-chief on the China
station. succeeding Admiral Boiler, has
started from London for Hong Kong, ac
companied by his staff.
The gold output of Colorado in 1897 i:
estimated at $50, 100000, an increase OF
$6,OOO.OOO over that of 1896. The silver
produced was worth $l2,s07 O76; lead
$2,74l .672 copper, 81 200 ,053.
The agents of the leading cotton man
ufacturing corporations in Rhode ISLAND
have decided to reduce wages. The cut
down will average II per cent. 1t vii
take effect January II.
Theodore DurTant has again been remOv
ed to the death cell in the San Quentin
(Cal.) penitentiary to await the hour o
his execution, which has been fixed fol
1890 a. m, January T.
Captain Rich, formerly chief engineer
of the Wisconsin Central, and later con
nected in the same capacity with the 500
line, has been appointed director Of rail
ways in China.
At the commencement of 1898 the Unit
ed States has lS4464 miles of completed
railway If the average of the last II
years is reached in the next two years, a
seems not unlikely, the year 1900 will
open with l9l 800 miles.
The sash and door plant and planin:
mill of c. J. Hamilton & Co., at Buffalo
n. Y has been destroyed by fire, tOgethe
with an immense stock of lumber TIT
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