The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-10-29
SUMMARY GENERAL NEWS.
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Minor happenings of the Day
i'm All Parts of the WorId-The
Aftermath of the War-Business
Features-Crimes and Accidents
Facts of Interest.

The emperor and empress OF Germany
have started on their journey to the Holy
Land.
Congress will be asked at its next SEES
sion to provide for the defenses of Puerto
Rico and Hawaii
Tho captain and crew of the steamer
Sea Ghost were killed and eaten by Sol
ONION Island natives.
Cora Smith, life prisoner in the Iowa
pcnitentiary, committed suicide by swal-
lowing live spiders.
The railroads are said to be planning
movement for reduction of price for
riding in Pullman cars.
Capt. James Goldsbury of Warwick,
Mass, who reached his Tooth birthday
February 10. 1897, is dead.
Yellow fever has paralyzed business in
Mississippi and thousands Of people are
fleeing from their homes.
Nearly $4,000 Spanish soldiers, included
in the surrender of Santiago, Cuba, have
been transported to Spain.
The Spanish government is employ
ing twenty-one vessels in transporting
troops from Cuba and Puerto Rico to
Spain
The insurgent camps throughout Cuba
are celebrating the anniversary OF the be-
ginning of the ten years war.
Fifty-five warships for the United
States government are under contract,
and twenty are nearing completion.
Recent census report on agricultural
products of Massachusetts shows $52 $780,
AZ worth and $2l9,957 PA land value.
Three Spanish vessels have adopted the
American flag under which to sail in tlaf-
ticking among the Philippine islands.
Pension sharks are already sending out
circulars to Spanish war soldiers Offering
inducements for business in their line.
The United States representative on the
Island of Guam, in the Pacific, admins
tiers all of the offices from governor down
Captain McCalla, who commanded the
cruiser Marblehead through the war, has
been given command of the Norfolk navy
yard.
Citizens of Portland, Ore, have sub
snibed $1,000 to buy a sword of honor
to be presented to Captain Clark of the
battle ship Oregon.
Samuel Ensign of Rockford, H., just
released from MORO Castle at Havana,
Cuba, where he was imprisoned for eight
cen years, arrived home last Wednesday.
William f. Travis has been arrested in
New York as a professional burglar. lie
had handsome home, and his wife and
family, it is said, knew nothing of his
calling.
1t is estimated in Madrid that the cam
paigns in Cuba and the Philippines have
cost Spain total of 3,O0OOOOOOO pesetas
OF about $6OO,OOO000
The war department has discovered a
system of frauds whereby enlisted sol
diers are seeking discharge by means OF
forged appeals
The Corean minister of justice has been
dismissed for permitting the savage mu-
tilation of the bodies of executed men and
women.
1--WE San Francisco bankers have saile,l
/ for Honolulu, there to establish the First
/ National bank of Hawaii with a capital Ct
81 100000.
Sheriff Houpt of Hot Springs. Ark, has
been indicted, charged with being short
about Sl7 900 in his accounts.
The sultan has ordered the Withdrawal
of all the Turkish troops in Crete in com
pliance with the joint note OF the powers
\ monument was dedicated in Paris t,
the soldiers of France who fell in the
/ Franco-Prussan war.
The socialist party met in Paris, France
and denounced governmental interference
with the right to strike.
Anti-semitic riots occurred at KossOw il
Austria Galicia. Ten persons were killed
and others wounded
Drs. Lane and O'Reilly have made re
port to the surgeon general insisting upoI
the immediate establishment at Havana o
an American fever hospital for the purpos'
OF isolating yellow fever patients.
Colonel Clous has received plan of ev
cry fertilization on the island OF Cuba
Gen. Wood received requests from TIVE
companies for railway concessions - on
line between Santiago and Manzanillo ant
the other between Santiago and Havana
These requests will be forwarded to Wash
ington.
Hobson expects to get the Infanta TIE
resa off to the United States by the end o
October He finds it impossible to raise thu
Cristobal Colon from the sea because o
the swell, and has built trolley line on
to distance Of $50 feet, with suspension
bridge, and the compressed air pumps ar,
now in position.
Owing to the yellow fever quarantine a
New Orleans, the Morgan line of steamer
/ will uso ~ b;,o D,Sc frav CO.., al ro,yo.