The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-08-27
NEWS HOME and ABROAD
ITEMS FROM EAST AND WEST
Facts and Occurrences From All
Qunrters-Matters Curious and
Peculiar-Persons Talked About
Accidents md Crimes.

Mrs. Margaret Fallon, buried last
Thursday, at Kings Ferry, n. Y, was
said to be III years old.
The Texas State Horticultural Society
enumerates and names ll9 varieties of
plums raised in the Lore Star state.
Violent storms and floods in the Island
of Formosa resulted in the loss of hun
dreds of lives and great damage to prop
erty.
Denmark has placed the seaport of Co.
penhagen in state of military efficiency
in fear of a conflict between England and
Russia.
The list of postoflices in the United
States now includes Hobson, Va; Sigs-
bee, Ark; Dewey, n. c.; Sampson, Fla,
and Manila, Ky.
Prof George F. Barker of the United
State geological survey will go to the
Philippines to examine the coal and pc
troleum deposits.
Charles Pope, an electrician, while
working with street railway wires in New
York, received a shock of 1000 volts and
escaped serious injury.
Gold has been found between London
and Manchester, on the line between Clay
and Laurel counties, Ky. A sample has
been forwarded to New York for analysis.
Late advices from Sitka, Alaska, state
that large and extensive coal deposits
have been discovered at Whale bay, on
Baranof islands, about forty miles from
Sitka.
The superintendent of the mint at San
Francisco estimates the gold output of
the Klondike this season at not to exceed
$6,000,000. Food riots are feared at Fort
Yukon.
Senator H. NJ Teller and wife of Colo
RADIO have been spending a week in East
ern Washington and Northern Idaho,
making their headquarters at Spokane,
where on Saturday evening a reception
was given for them by Senator and Mrs
George Turner.
Emperor William of Germany has eX-
tended an invitation to representatives
of Evangelical churches in the United
States to attend the ceremony of ded
icating the Church of the Redeemer at
Jerusalem on October 81.
In view of the success which has at
tended the use of dynamite guns in Cuba,
the Russian minister of marine is arrang
ing to mount such weapons on four Rus
sian warships. Their use will be extended
if they turn out to be satisfactory.
The West Indian weather service was
practically inaugurated last Wednesday.
when reports were received at Washing
ton from the observation stations estab-
lished there. The system is now in COM
plete working order, and the signal service
department will be enabled to forecast
the terrible West Indian hurricanes that
for years have swept the Atlantic coast
without warning
Sampson and Schley have been made
rear admirals; Captain Clark of the Ore
gon has been advanced more numbers
than any other captain, and Wainwright
goes up higher than any other officer.
The war department has under consid-
Grafton the establishment of army camps
as Lexington, Ky; Knoxville, Tenn; and
Tryon, n. c., to which the troops now at
Chickamauga may soon be sent.
Krupp is building 5-centimeter (2-inch)
paper field guns for the German infantry,
They are so light that single soldier
can easily carry one, while the resistance
of the paper is greater than that of steel
of the same caliber
Col. W. f. Cody received the name OF
aP,HaIo p;lI, from, tha foot that no had
the contract to supply meat to the mcr
who were constructing the Kansas Pacific
railroad, and that he almost always gave
them buffalo meat.
Our war with Spain lasted three months
and twenty-five days.
A plague of reaches infests the northern
portion of West Philadelphia.
The Piccadilly Club of Cincinnati viii
present loving cup to Admiral Dewey.
c. r. Clifford, a legless man, and whit
only has one arm, was arrested at Au
burn, Ind, charged with horse. stealing.
Bannock Indians who have been slaugh
tering elk near Jackson's Hole, Idaho
will be driven back to their reservation.
Divers in Lake Huron have recovere'
600 tons of copper from wreck 100 fee
deep, after it had lain there for 32 year;
While cutting tobacco near Lancaster
Pa, Henry Barr stopped to pick up
stalk and gouged one OF his eyes out wit
his cutter.
Father Kozlowski, recently excommu
nicated, filed his threatened suit agains
Archbishop Feehan at Chicago for $50
600 damages.
A trolley car on the Nassau line {
Brooklyn jumped from the track in Me-