The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-06-11
GLANCE OVER THE WORLD.
NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS.
business Pofnters-PersonaI Notes
Curious Facts-Record of Crimes
and CasuaIties-Progre of Manu-
Observation-Disclosures Notes.

4l0.
Mrs. Betsy Barker, of North Grafton,
Miss, has just celebrated her Tooth birth
day.
Days of grace, customary in banking
methods, have been abolished in Rhode
Island.
In broad daylight, at Dover, n. H.,
tramps boldly walked into livery stable
and stole horse.
In all the seaeoast cities there is great
demand for insurance against loss by
bombardment.
All the large breweries in Cleveland. O.,
except two, are to be consolidated into |
one corporation.
Forty Krupp guns have been struggled
from Germany through France into Spain
as kitchen furniture.
Count Eugene A. Van Waldick of Hol- |
land, has enlisted in the United States
army at Cleveland, Ohio.
The government has accepted the offer
of battery by John Jacob Astor, of New
York. 1t will be equipped for mountain
service.
Shocked by the undraped figures in the
statuary hall of the Omaha exposition
Miss Dorothy Manar took an AK and
chopped number of groups to pieces
OF the 100000 population of Spain
about l2,000,0 900 can not read or write
100000 have no visible means of sup
port, and more than $1,000 are profess
sional beggars:
The number of foreigners in Japan is
only S246, of which 3642 are Chinese,
1873 English, 1922 Americans, 49S Ger
mans, 39l French, 222 Russians, l27 Port
uguese and 80 Dutch.
Horse meat has become a staple article
of food in Manila. None but the wealthy
can afford to buy beef, which now sells
for 81 per pound. Potatoes are sold by
weight, at so cents a pound.
The widow of George NJ. Pullman, the
, Chicago millionaire car builder, has re-
: nouced the will of her husband and ac-
: cepted her dover right, which enables her
to provide for her sons.
, The French government has issued an
5 official denial of the rumors of the occu-
patton, cession or sale of any Spanish
5 territory to France. Cuba and the Phil
t ippines were mentioned in the rumor.
4 Senior de Castro, at Tampa, Fla, just
D from Matanzas, says that if the United
$ States does not aid the Cuban recon-
centrados within three weeks nearly all
/. of them will die of starvation.
e The rainy season is just beginning iii
[ Cuba.
Tampa, Fla, is now secure against hos
d tile attacks.
France and the United States have
= / etopo1 a roo;rroo;fxr frodo a
l. The black plague is making frightful
:, Roadway at Hong Kong, China.
d The production of California sweet
/ wines from August l to May l was 1000,
s. 600 gallons.
e Train loads of walnut logs are constant
d ly arriving at Philadelphia for shipment
to Europe.
Governor Leedy of Kansas has refused
J. to commission Jerry Simpson to raise {
regiment of volunteers.
d The Hamburg American steamer Bra
silla is loading at Baltimore 100000 bush
els of grain for Germany.
}. Guadaur and r. NJ. johnson will row
1t for the worlds sculling championship a
10 Vancouver harbor July l.
al The three Spanish spies who attempte'
TT to blow up Fort Taylor, at Key West, es
lg capped to sea in small boat
Or Weyler is represented as being anXiou
to go to Cuba, and if sent he declares h
1T will invade the United States.
n At the suggestion of General Wheeler
OF the cavalry which will invade Cuba vii
at be provided with Calling guns.
ID A list of Spanish spies in the Unite
n. States has been secured by United State
IN secret service detectives at Montreal.
L. The Philadelphia common council ha
a passed bill appropriating $ll 100000 fo
ty new city buildings and Improvements.
The postoffice department will allo,
natural history specimens to pass throug
the mails as samples of merchandise"
1t is reported that United States An
err bassador White is much pleased at ev
dences of strict neutrality on the part {
Germany.
81 William Meehan, pioneer gold hunt'
- on the Yukon river, was shot from an
- bush by Indians near Skaguay, Alask
-. and instantly killed
- Senator Lodge of Massachusetts has i
~ troduced in the senate a bill for the al
no nexation of Hawaii, as an amendment
,es the war revenue bill.
ON The postal clerk force at Chickamaug
IF Park has been increased and is now equ
Ilv to that required by community of 2SC
TO- 600 population in other places.
no Fire destroyed nearly 100000 wort
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