The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-02-26

American capital will control fully two
thirds of the undertaking.
Artificially spotted tobacco raised in
Connecticut is said TO be on the market.
Last year the exports of the United
States were so per cent larger than the
exports of France.
There have been four mysterious assas-
sinations in Houston, Texas, during the
past two weeks.
A French aeronaut is planning to go
hunting for Andree with team of bal
looms joined together
A tribe of Indians with yellow hair aud
blue eyes has been discovered in the
mountains of Sonora, Mexico
George Duffy, an S-year-old boy, has
confessed to setting fire to houses in Ho-
boken, n. j., with malicious intent
A race war is threatened between the
white settlers and colony of negroes re-
Gently taken to Blackwell, Okla.
Hawaiian annexation has the right of
way in the United States senate, and
test vote may be expected soon.
From all parts of China come reports
of attacks by natives on foreigners The
whole country seems to be in state of
anarchy.
The radical wing of the autonomist par
ty in Cuba has resolved to open negotia-
tons with the insurgents in the belief
that the revolution can not be suppressed
by force of arms. A number of PROPOSE
tions will be submitted to the insurgents.
with view of bringing about peace.
The recent cold weather in Arizona is
unprecedented. The river in the Grand
Canyon of the Colorado was full of float
ing ice, whereas the temperature in the
canyon is credited with partaking of the
nature of perpetual summer, regardless of
the temperature ON the plateau above
According to a London dispatch the
Spanish legations in London and elsewhere
are suffering from long delay in their re-
mittances, and diplomats have been forced
to privately defray the expenses of their
establishments.
Mrs Louisa Stoutz, a wealthy widow
of Portland, Ind, was robbed and muir
dered in her house at night. A postal
card written by one of the murderers and
addressed to the city marshal gave the
first intimation of the crime
Among the electrical patents recently
granted is one for an electric lamp for BIZ
cycles, and a dynamo for generating the
current armature is geared to a friction
wheel, which is revolved by the move
ment of the bicycle.
The lemon industry on the Pacific
coast is growing very rapidly. Two
thousand carloads will be shipped east
during the present season.
The body of Max Miller, which had
been buried beneath a snowdrift in a
street in Chicago for 20 days, was exposed
by a recent thaw
The British fishing schooner Spinaway,
heavily coated with ice, was blown from
the coast of Newfoundland across the At
lantic to the Azores.
Two representatives of the Japanese
government are on their way to Mexico
in the interest of a colossal colonization
scheme near San Benito.
Connected with the New York postoffice
are 20 branch Offices, 100 substations and
200 stamp agencies.
Flour is now being pressed into bricks
Tor use on the march and in camp. The
British government is testing it for use
in the army.
There is possibility that both branch
es of congress will adjourn about May l.
Rich gold quartz has been discovered in
the Pembina mountains, in southern Man
itoba-
The United States cruiser San Francis
co and the gunboats Bancroft and Helena
have arrived at Lisbon, Portugal, and are
prepared to reach any Spanish fleet in
case of war.