The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-10-08


by Italy to discuss measures for the sup
preston of anarchism will be held in
October.
The Spanish peace commission has been
instructed to maintain SPANS indisput-
able sovereignty over the Philippine ISL
ands.
John Donahue, a San Francisco cable
gripman, found SCI 900 belonging to
George Mulligan, a returned Klondiker.
He was given $40.
General Lee may not be given the COM
mand of our army of occupation in Cuba.
General Wade of the regular army is like
ly to get the place.
Mrs. Berry of New York finding burg
lar ransacking her house, choked him into
submission and marched him to the police
station.
Hogs are dying of cholera by hundreds
near Valparaiso, Ind. 1t is estimated
that farmers of that section i'll lose from
$4,000 to $4,000.
General Miles is of the opinion that it
would not be safe to send the army of
occupation to Cuba before the middle OF
November or the first of December.
1t is said in Washington that General
Wheeler will organize and equip the cav
airy division for Cuba, but that he will
not accompany the expedition.
General Blanco has issued an order all-
thorizing the soldiers of the Cuban army
to travel unalmed on railway trains in the
provinces of Pinar del Rio and Havana
The failure of many prospectors to reach
Dawson City, Klondike, gives rise to the
belief that they have persisted in the float
ing marshes between the Nelson and Pease
rivers.
Jesse Wilkerson, son of a Sedalia. Mo-,
policeman, fell and broke both legs the
other day. 1t as the 18th time his left
limb has been broken during his short
life. The right leg has been broken four
times. The right leg has been broken
four times, the bones of the l0-year-old
boy being so brittle that the least shock
fractures them.
Commissioner Scott does not believe
that the war tax will be repealed by the
next congress, as the proceeds will be
needed for some time to come to meet the
war expenses of the government
The Rough Riders horses were sold in
New York last week. The best one of
the lot was bought by farmer for $40.
The sale realized $4,000 less than the
horses cost the government.
Last week, in Kansas City, /. A.
Moore, clock repairer for the Western
Union Telegraph Company, was instant
ly killed by fall of three feet. He was
standing on short ladder winding a
clock, when he fell backward to the floor
breaking his neck.
The public schools at Muscogee, l. T..
opened last week, and for the first time
in the history of the Indian Territory
white children residing there had an op
portunity to attend, public school ad-
vantages having heretofore been exclus-
lively confined to Indian children.
A Cynthiana, KY, man went home to
supper the other night and found his
wife standing on her head wedged in be
tween the bed and the wall in such a
way that she could not move. The poor
woman was nearly dead, and without any
coaxing promised her husband after she
was restored that she would never again
try "summersets" to reduce her fairness
She paid New York firm 81 for a re
ceipt for obesity. At last reports she was
as fat as ever.
This years income in Oregon from
grain, hops and wool is estimated at $l4,
100000
Capt. Brooks was murdered on hi;
yacht Chispa, off San Francisco, by two
pirates.
Iowa towns along the Mississippi rivei
report the water lower than at any time
since 1861.
The American flag will be raised Owe
San Juan, Puerto Rico. with elaborate
ceremonies.
Richard Malcolm Davis, the southern
novelist and educator. died in Balti
more, aged 76 years.
The agitation in Jamaica for anneXa
ton to the United States has almos
provoked open violence.
Sir Arthur Curtis, an English baron
is reported to have been murdered by n
dams in the Klondike.
An old Georgia law, requiring negroe
to sit on the three rear seats in stree
cars, is being enforced.
Over 10000 men marched in a big pa
rade in Brooklyn last Sunday as pub
lie protest against blasphemy.
A congress of mothers. under the au
spices of the national organization, vii