The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-03-12
NEWS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD
Items of Informat fon Gathered From
n Wide Area-Politfca1 Happen
tngs and Industrial Notes-Crtmes
and Accidents.


mill stuffs was destroyed. Several Mil
waukee and st. Paul cars on the track
were burned
Edward T. Price, aged A., prominent
and wealthy business man of Lexington,
KY, committed suicide by shooting him
self in the forehead. He was respondent
ever i'll health.
The latest election returns in Ontario
show the liberal government has been sus-
tanned by majority of three. The fig
ures are 48 liberals, 43 conservatives, one
patron and one Independent. There is
one constituency yet to hear from.
Augustus St. Gaudens has deserted
America for Europe His studio in New
York city, which he has occupied for Is
years, is for rent in the future, and
the famous sculptor will make his home
ia Paris.
The largest mortgage ever filed in FL
Paso county, Col. has been placed on rec
srd in the county clerks office at Colo
rado Springs 1t was filed by the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific railroad and is for
the sum of $l00,000.000 in favor of the
sentral Trust company of New York, to
secure the payment of certain bonds. The
mortgage is on the railroad and its equip
ment.
San Francisco reports that the fear If
drought and failure of the crops, which
had given a gloomy color to reports from
the interior during the latter end of win
ter, have been in a great part dispersed
BY the recent rains. So opportune were
they that now far from feeling apprehen-
sion the agriculturalists of California are
M a most optimistic frame of mind, and
save in a few localities are contented with
the outlook.
Fred Moore. the murderer OF Tom An
derson, was taken from the county Jail
at Senatobia, Miss, and shot to death by
a mob of 80 persons. Anderson and Moore
suarreled about some trivial matter.
Moore followed the man and shot him five
times, afterward placing the body on the
railroad track to hide the crime.
Bradstreet's says: February bank clear
ances, as reported to Bradstreets, point
TO an immense volume of business done
in the country during the past month. The
total clearances, though naturally smaller
than January's record in totals, are evi
IDENTIFY so only because of February being
a short month. The total clearances
though naturally smaller than January
records in totals, were evidently so only
because of holiday still further curtail
ing the time available for business trans
actions for the reason that the average
daily elearances were larger than thos'
g ha nj we
heavier, not only than for any previous
February on record, but larger than mos
months of normal years.
The machine shops of the Union Pacifi
at Laramie, Wyo., have been closed, anc
all the employees discharged.
A 10 per cent reduction in wages ha
gone into effect at the Boston Company
cotton mills at Waltham. Mass
The Indian commissioners, in their an
nual report, say that there is evidence o
steady progress in industrial pursuits anc
education among the Indians.
All of the ranches and cattle of Beatt,
Bros. in Kansas and Oklahoma, hav
been sold to the Bryce-B Bryce Cattle Com
sany of Montana for $350,000.
Superintendent Gayle of the Indiana Oh
Company has discovered a process of oh
tanning gas from wells which have beer
drowned out by water, and is buying il
cid abandoned wells.
The house committee on pensions ha
reported favorably the Gibson bill. eX
tending the benefits of the pension laws t
ex-eonfederates who enlisted in the unio
army before September l, 1864.
Father Isadore, who was in charge @
the Catholic mission at Anadarco, Okla
killed Father Placadius by the Academia
discharge of gun while hunting.
In the case of bequest to the Smith
sonian Institution the supreme court c
the United States has decided that ma
can bequeath property, the title to whic
is in his wife, where she holds it simpl
as trustee for him.
Peter Christensen, wealthy and e'
centric farmer living near Sacramento
Cal, died few weeks ago. 1t develop
that he left will which was in the Gust,
ay of San Francisco lawyer, who ha
since died. The lawyers executors mai
ed the will to Christensen, and it is no
in the dead letter Office, whence it will
reclaimed and probated.
The executive committee of the repul
lean congressional committee is announ
ed as follows: Representatives Hull
Iowa, Cannon of Illinois. Mercer of N
braska, Senators Proctor of Vernon
Gallinger of New Hampshire, Wilson
Washington, Representatives McClear
Minnesota, Loudenslager of New Jerst
and Pearson of North Carolina.