The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-08-06

Under the management of Gen. w. II.
Gentry, OF Lexington, KY, the members
of the Gentry family in Missouri. Illinois.
Indiana, Tennessee, Texas and Kentucky
are to hold a monster reunion next month
at Crab Orchard Springs, Ky.
II. f. Hawk, his father-in-law, f. f.
Phiffer, his daughter Grace and negro
servant named Pink Glenn of near Texar-
kama, were poinsoned by eating a water
melon said to have been poisoned in the
patch where Hawk bought it. Glenn
died.
The first bale of cotton raised in the
United States this year, which was pre-
sented to President Mckinley by the cit
liens of New Orleans, was sod at the New
York Cotton Exchange last Wednesday
for $500 and the proceeds donated to the
United States hospital fund.
Star Pointer paced a mile at Detroit,
Mich, in 2:0l II.
The army of invasion to Puerto Rico
will number $4,000 when completed.
It is reported ex-senator Brice has de-
cided to again enter Ohio politics.
The bodies of six infants were found
last Friday on a vacant lot in Boston.
The Pennsylvania alien tax law has
been declared unconstitutional and void.
The town of Skaguay, Alaska, is still
under martial law and all saloons are
closed.
Owing to the great number of sick, the
garrison at Santiago is breaking down
with overwork.
Artillery is being concentrated in the
Northern Sierra in Spain, where Carl
list rising is feared.
The Mississippi state board of health
has released the town of McHenry from
yellow fever quarantine.
Twenty school yards in Boston were
opened as Fairgrounds for children dur
ing the summer months.
A wealthy American named Reegel lost
his life last Saturday on Mont Blanc by
falling into the crater.
Smallpox in Jackson county, Ky, has
led to strict quarantine regulations, ex
tending over the entire county.
Secretary Alger says there is no foun
dation for the report that the Cuban
have been cut off from rations.
One of our first class battleships, prob
ably the Oregon, will be sent to reinforc
Admiral Dewey at Manila.
Captain Eulate, of the Spanish cruise
Vizcaya, who is prisoner at Annapolis
is betraying evidences of insanity.
Druggists of Iowa have begun boy
colt on proprietary medicine dealer
who raised prices because of the war taN
Ex-Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii wi
seek to recover from the United State
crown lands and a large sum of money
A Madrid dispatch received in Londo
says that the young king of Spain is SUI
fering from an attack of measles
At Tampa, Fla, disabled officers return
: ing from Cuba speak in the highest tern
: of the work of the colored troops in Il
fighting at Santiago.
" Margaret Waldstein of Boston has gor
u to New York hospital, asserting ths
9 she was hypnotized, and the doctors al
" unable to relieve her.
The convention of United Confederat
Veterans at Atlanta, Ca, decided to hOl
s the next annual encampment at Charlie
-, ton, S. G.
4 Examination of the bulls OF Cervera
- ships showed that and inch guns ha
proved more effective in destroying the
2 than those of larger size.
D. The crew of the cruiser Brooklyn pr
d scented to Commodore Schley the compa
,s taken from the Infanta Maria Teresa.
10 The customs duties to be collected
$ Santiago are to apply whether goods a
shipped from the United States or 9th
n countries.
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