The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-11-05
HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Minor Occurrences of the World
in brief Neutrality-suspicious.
and Crime-isusiness Annir- ana
interesting EvcntS-Notcs of Mis-
<,eIIaneouS happenings.

t,phoon, and sand storms in the Orient.
General Lee will command the first eN-
nedition TO Cuba, unlcs, lac asks to be
believed.
This years crop of peanuts in Virginia
promises to be very large and OF fine
quality.
The cost of guns alone for United States
coast defense during the war was 81
1000.
l'uncd States Senator Proctor Of Yer
lp,nt, has been reelected by the lcgisla-
rurc.
The coal mining town Of Wellington,
Vancouver island, is sinking, and great
disaster is feared.
France seems to be preparing for war.
She is fully manning all her coast forts
and modifying her fleet.
The report that Ii Hung Chang had
been married to the empress dowa9er OF
China was newspaper joke.
There are seven United States trans
ports in the harbor of san Francisco,
waiting TO convey troops To Manila.
Secretary Long will ask congress to
increase the number of sailors allowed
fE the navy from 1850 to 10000.
Six thousand distressed farmers recently
tnvadcd Toxic, Japan, and petitioned for
s,n extension Of the period of tax eXemp-
Zion.
President Mckinley has ordered that
Jefferson Barracks, st. Louis, be made as
large a military post as any in the coun-
FRY.
Reports from consuls show that Amer
ncan imports into China continue to in
crease, while those of all other countries
decrease.
At Pittston. Pa, last week, at night,
Torcoran brothers cut away feet of Il
el0uble frame house which encroached on
rheir land.
Billy Walker the pugili,t. who was
t>uockcd out by candy" Dupont at Oma
ma, died after having been unconscious
tifty-six hours.
The United States transport Berlin
sailed for Santiago, Cuba, from New York
with 100000 rations for starving Cubans
The war department has issued com
piiation Of notes on the Philippines both
historical and geographical.
Swedish papers state that traces of Prof
Andrees balloon polar expedition have
been found in Franz Josef land
General Otis has cabled the war depart
nent from Manila that the better class
OF filipnos do not want independence.
Last Sunday the Cubans at Santiago
celebrated the thirtieth anniversary of tho
declaration of Cuban independence
The cruisers Hannibal and Hornet and
'thc monitors Puritan and Terror have
bc'A laid up in reserve at Norfolk navy
Ye,rd.
The Vermont legislature has passed an
act making a bounty on wolves, panthels
and bears, 81; lynx, So; foxes, 6Oc, and
aattleSuakes, 81
President Ruily of the Swiss confcdels,-
tion, still continues to receive threatening
iettess from anarchists. and is closely
yusl'lcd by the police
Az Boston, Mass Patrick Rosch and
John Crice quarrled on the roof of
fourstory building, grappled each other
an iiendish struggle, fell to the ground
and died.
elVsidcut Lawrence of the Ohio Wool
zion Of cotton planters and woolgrowcrs
20 bring about high tariff on raw ma
terials.
Al san Francisco Cal. franklin Brown.
"a hypnotist Of note, died at the German
hospital. lie tried to hypnotic lion
several months ago, but the animal bit
him, causing blood poison
Rptpuf statistics I,,,. I
wears there are more boys than girls, but
over - years there are more women than
amen. and from the ayes of 90 to 100 the
proportion is about three to two in favor
'Jf the women
At Che recent New York meeting of the
directors Of The O. r. a y. Co.. those
gentlemen had a conference with the ml-
any powers Of The Northern Pacific rail
way. The result of which conference i.
sad 10 have been AN agreement to a plan
Whcne0y the recently talked Of cut oiY'
oi the Northern Pacific through the Bit
Ter Root mountains is to be built bv the
Northern Pacific and the O. II. 4 y.
Jointly and to be opemtcd by them in a
similar manner
The distribution of free ration, in san.
nayo province j, demorllizing the Gu
bans
wild Bill" Turner a desperate noun
tam character Of kentucky hats been
Killed
All the British North American squad
s'on has been ordered to mobilize at Hall
saN
The United States supreme court has