The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-04-30
ITEMS FROM I'LL AROUND
CONDENSED NEWS OF WORLD
Paragraphs About Prominent
Persons-Business Conditions In
Brief-Peculiar Incidents Re-
corded by Many Observers.

pounds of ivory.
A naval reserve battalion of 100 men
has been formed at the University OF
Michigan at Ann Arbor.
The insect population of single cherry
tree infested with aphides was calculated
by prominent entomologist to be r.
100000.
John Jacob Astor, president of the
Findlay, Fort Wayne Western railway,
has offered to place his road at the free
disposal of the state government of Indi-
ana for the movement of troops and sup
plies.
There are no orphan asylums in Aus
tralia. Every child who is not supported
by parents becomes a ward of the gov
eminent and is paid pension and placed
i'll private family, where board and
clothing are provided.
1t is reported from Barboursville, XIV.
that five more murders have resulted
from the Baker Howard feud, among the
victims being the wife and two children
of one of the participants. The murder
ers fled to the mountains.
Key West reports that the United
States government has established a CEN
sorship on telegrams, forbidding trans
mission of code messages to or from Ha-
vana.
Captain General Blanco has published
a decree confirming his previous decree,
and declaring Cuba to be in state of war.
He also annuls his former similar DEGREES
granting pardon to insurgents, and places
under martial law all those who are
fII lfxy Of
against peace or against the independence
of the nation. seditious revolts, attacks
against the government or against the
authorities, and those who disturb public
order by means of printed matter.
California stockmen are guarding
against drouth by leasing swamp lands
The United States military attaches at
st. Petersburg and Vienna have been
called home.
Edward Bellamy, author of Looking
Backward" is dying of consumption at
Denver. Colo.
Paul Anton Kranke, in Philadelphia,
sued Mrs. Weinstein for $500 damages
for not providing him wife, according
to agreement.
The oldest house in Pennsylvania, in
Chester, has been badly damaged by fire
1t was built in 1868 and was long used
as tavern and later as a theater.
Every staunch boat in New York har-
Dor that is over 100 feet long and capable
of carrying one or two rapid-fre guns
will be pressed into the naval service at
once
The fleet of whalers, icebound off
| Point bo,
cial courier overland for relief Over $50
men are imprisoned by the ice.
The value of a sermon has been fixed
by the Georgia legislature at SO. This
lis the amount paid to the ministers who
preach at the state convict camps.
A dispatch from Singapore says that
/ Spanish officials and we'll TODD Spanish
families are fleeing from Philippine ISL
ands, escaping from the rebellion which
is rapidly spreading there They report
that Manila is panic-stricken.
A dispatch from Berlin says that it
is learned from an authentic source that
Germany took the lead in pledging the
continental powers to maintain absolute
neutrality in case of war between the
United States and Spain.
A band of six female bull fighters is
now making a tour of the principal cities
of Mexico. The girls are pretty and all
in their teens; and their strength and
dexterity are really marvelous,and theex-
hibitions they give draw large crowds
In order to protect the Behring sea
sealing fleet and the steamers which are
expected to bring gold from the Klondike
during the summer, it is proposed to as
sign a strong detail of revenue cutters,
armed tugs and coast survey vessels for
duty in the North Pacific
At Linden, near Charlottesville. Ind, is
stacked up $4,000 tons of cornstalks, the
raw material for a cellulose factory, which
is now in course of erection there. The
farmers from the country have hauled
in the stalks when they could not do
other work. and were paid So ton for
them.
AT Mississippi City, Miss, where the
sheriff is also tax collector, thieves pried
open the window of the sheriff's bedroom
on the night of the day he made his tax
collections. and with a fishnet caught
his trousers, and, pulling them to the
window, rifed the pockets The sheriff
slept with light in his room.
Hiram Maxim. the American inventor
of rapid-fre guns, says that the war
will be terribly one-sided and the result
a foregone conclusion. He claims that
ANY superiority which the Spaniards
have in number of ships is overwhelming
ly counterbalanced by the greater
strength equipment and speed of the