The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-04-23
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
CONDENSED NEWS OF WORLD.
Crimes and Casualties in All Lands
Paragraphs About Prominent
Persons-Busine Conditions In
Brief-Peculinr Incidents Re-
corded by Many Observers.

Rapid work is going on to transform
the vessels at the Brooklyn navy yard in
to auxiliary cruisers.
At Commercial, Ky, the 3-year-old-s son
of Nat Corbin, while playing about a fire
in the yard, was burned to death.
The Uncompahgre and Ute Indians are
said TO be ugly over the dilatory tactics
of the land allotment commissioners
Diphtheria at Waverly, Mo-, has put
stop to all church and social gatherings.
Everything is being done to check the
contagion.
The total output of coal in the United
States in 1897 approXimated 1893 600
short tons, with an aggregate value of
sos, 100000
Postal Clerk Hart, arrested in Chicago
on charge of theft, gave as an excuse for
the crime that he could not live on SIP
week
Fire in Toxic, Japan, destroyed over
| 100 houses and rendered 1000 people
homeless.
Masked white men tarred and feathered
Mrs. Charles Saunders and Halls Atwood
and rode them on a rail out of South Lin
coin, Neb.
A man in Wabash, Ind has built up a
paying business in rabbit breeding, hav-
ing secured kind that are edible in sum-
mer as well as winter
Captain j. e. Bernier of Quebec is en-
deavoring to induce the Canadian gov
eminent to give him financial aid for his
proposed expedition to the north pole.
A system of improvement of the public
highways has been inaugurated in Pettis
county, Missouri The county court has
ordered an election on Tuesday, April 26,
to vote upon a proposition to establish
siX-mile road district, with Sedalia as
the center
After a pretty tight contest, in which
the Canadian Pacific railway lobbied with
great persistence and effect, the Corbn
railway bill was defeated in the house of
commons at Ottawa by A to GA. The
French Canadian members from Quebec
opposed the bill almost unanimously
Great excitement prevails III the Ha-
waiian islands about the threatened erup-
ton of the great volcano Muna Loa. The
cooled lava has dropped down the mount
; ain side 1000 feet, the great volumes Of
smoke are issuing from the crater. There
had been constant earthquakes and heavy
rainfall for two weeks previous to the
sailing of the Alameda. which brought
D.. the news to San Francisco last Thursday.
The American squadron at Hong Kong,
China, has completed arrangements for
putting to sea.
Thomas II. Tongue was renominated
! for congress by the republicans of the
First congressional district of Oregon
u The Cincinnati chamber of commerce
= has passed a resolution in favor of re-
ciprocity with Canada and Newfoundland.
+ The number of lives lost in the snow
+ slideat Chilkoot Pass. Kondike, will
reach 100. Sixty-nine bodies have been
found.
!, The postoffice department has prepared
i information for the postoflice employees
'' and postmasters who enlist. Their places
= will be reserved for them.
!, Having been surprised by the police,
burglar at Montreal Canada, jumped
: 40 feet from window into a snow bank
- and escaped, apparently uninjured.
A cablegram from London says that Mr..
: Gladstone may not survive longer than
" sixty days. That is the opinion of his
physician after having carefully dag
;, nosed his condition.
In 1877 Falcon island, in the Friendly
- group, began as a smoking shoal. Ten
years later it was a volcanic island 30O
feet high and over one and half miles
long. Now it is disappearing.
o A dispatch from Pittsburg, Pa, says
that the Carnegie Steel Company has re
: ceived an order for the steel plates and
i material for 100 torpedo boats from the
government. The work can be done in
. two weeks.
I The governor of Michigan has sent tC
~ the legislature a message recommending
y authorization of war loan of 100000
A scene of enthusiasm followed the read
ing of the message, and the bill wa:
passed within half an hour.
! A company has been chartered at To
: pella, Kan, with a capital stock of So,
" 100000, to colonize land grant of 1000,
d, 600 acres in the central part of Mexico
M with $4,000 Indians of the five civilize,
. tribes who are dissatisfied with the Dave,
> treaty.
=, The Illionis butterine law has been de
" clared unconstitutional by the state su
. preme court. The judges decided tha
manufacturers have constitutions
right to color butterine or oleomargarin
u yellow or imitation, which was prohib
" tied under the terms of the law.