The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-17
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
The Minor happenings of the Day
i'm All Parts of the World-The
Aftermath OF the War-Business
Fentures-Crimes and Accidents
Facts of Interest.

Oh
This years cranberry crop in Wiscon-
sin is estimated at $4,000 barrels.
Six counties in Georgia are under water
as the result of the terrific storms OF
last week.
General Brooke is in command of Amer
lean troops in Puerto Rico during the
absence of General Miles.
The customs receipts at San Francisco
in August were $5G7 273, the largest on
record for any single month.
The State of Kansas produced this year
one bushel of wheat for every man,
woman and child in the United States.
French papers hitherto hostile to Drey
fus are now strenuously urging the
French government to grant him a new
trial.
Sixteen thousand dollars of hidden
treasure left by William IL. Ferris, vino
died recently at Mount Vernon, n Y,
has been found.
During the past four years the San
; Francisco mint coined $l53,697 1874, of
which $l25,0O0,000 was gold of Pacific
coast production.
States exceeds that of Germany by about
y 100000, and that of Great Britain by
34,000000.
, The population of Palestine is increas-
ing rapidly. Ten years ago there were
u only $4,000 residents in Jaifa. Today
there are nearly 10000.
Dawson City now has two newspapers
- The Yukon Midnight Sun and the
= Klondike Nugget. Both are weeklies and
u are sold at 80 cents per copy.
Col. T. c. Upper, veteran of the
= = civil and Indian wars, is dead in Cleve-
i land, O. He fought in forty-seven battles,
), and was never wounded.
u The Spanish officials at Havana have
= required Miss Clara Barton to pay duties
=, !, and fines upon Red Cross supplies which
she took to that port.
An insurgent hospital has been estab-
' lished on the outskirts of Havana City,
=" where Cuban and Spanish soldiers meet
on the most friendly terms
Policeman John Bootheny of New York
- rescued from drowning twelve young men
VI who were thrown into the water by the
> breaking of gang plank.
An interesting point regarding the
49, black plague in India is its increasing
- viruence-from 80 per cent of fatal cases
~ in the first week of April to 80 per cent
- five weeks later.
wv An historic landmark in Railway, n.
eu j., the Bridge street bridge, over which
." General Lafayette rode into the old town
~ ~ is being torn away to give place to a
new structure.
- Philadelphia physicians are greatly in
terested in the case of Harry Gibson
~ who lived for weeks after his ascending
= iugular vein was severed.
u General Polavieja, who is regarded as
IL the possible dictator of Spain, says the
Spanish people are thoroughly Disguised
with the present leaders.
ed Superintendent Andrews of the Chi
cago schools proposes teaching Spanish
to enable the boys who so desire to fiji
{" themselves for business in our new ter
ritories.
- Chinese and japanese merchants have
l. been defrauding the British Columbian
customs department out of thousands o
WIN dollars with double sets of invoices.
his An excursion train returning from Sai
yer Sebastian to Bordeaux, France, was sur
ave rounded by flames in "A burning forest
OF and had a narrow escape from destruc
inc ton
DIV, Explorer Lerner's expedition in searel
TO of Andrce. the missing arctic aeronaut
on. has returned to Hammerfest, withou
ion having found any traces of the balloon o
ter its occupants.
oth Many of the big milk dealers who sur
IiE PLY New York, Philadelphia and seasid
for resorts are said to be using chemicals t
ar keep the milk sweet, and these preserN
ose atives are pronounced very injurious, pal
the ticularlv to children and invalids.
The United States gunboat Nashvill
enc received the first news of the signing
ana the peace protocol from the SPANS
a el cruiser Infanta Isabel. which put int
.ao,. Gibara. on the north coast of Santiae
will province Cuba, when the Nashville Wa
sed. lying there.
Among the passengers of the auXilial
cruiser Resolute. just arrived at Mo
tauk point, Long Island, from Santiag
re- are the marines who made the first Ian
now inc in Cuba, at Guantanamo bay, al
'eni n held Fort McCalla against the repeat
lost attacks of the Spaniards.
atch
ings Prescott, Ariz., claims that IL lurnlsh