The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-03-26
NEWS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of Information Gathered From
Wide Area--PoliticaI Happen
ings and Industrial Notes-Crimes
and Accidents.

In India the rdododendron grows TO a
height of 30 feet. Nangolds and camo-
miles in North Africa reach height of
four or five feet.
Judge Anidon at Deadwood, S. d. in
structed the jury in the case of the Bux.
tons against the Golden Reward to return
a verdict of $4,000 in favor of the plain.
tiff. Valuable mining property is involv.
ed in the suit.
Thomas Mexican, one of the wealthiest
and most prominent citizens of Phila-
delphia, is dead. His wealth is cstimat
ed at between $l0,O00,000 and $4,000 600.
The Home Savings bank of Sioux City,
Iowa, has closed its doors. The assets
are said to be 100000 and the liabilities
100000, of which $4,000 is school funds.
President Springer OF the National Live
Stock Association, with the approval of
the executive committee, has appointed
George l.. Goulding OF Denver, commit
teeman from Colorado, treasurer of the
association.
A dispatch from Shanghai states that
Russia informed China that the latter's
delay in replying to the Russian demands
would be construed "a an acquiescence in
the Russian occupation. of Port Arthur.
Sir Claude Mcdonald, the British minis
ter at Pekin, is said to be urging China
TO resist.
The Texas and Massachusetts, battle
ships, now with Admiral Sicard's squad
ron, have been ordered to proceed at once
from Key West to Hampton Roads, where
they will Join the cruisers Minneapolis.
Brooklyn and Columbia, and other YES
sells yet to be selected, forming a new
naval division.
The first disbursement under the recent
act of congress appropriating $50,000,000
for national defense has been made by
the treasury department on an executive
order for $l4j,9 9j to be cabled to London
to the credit of Sir William Armstrong
in part payment for - apid-fre guns
including mounts and ammunition
Hon. Blanche X. Bruce register of the
treasury, is dead. He was born in Prince
Edward county, Virginia, March /, lS4l.
He was of African descent, was born Il
slave, and received the rldiments of cdu-
cation from the tutos of his masters son.
The republican state convention of
Rhode Island has nominated the. follow
ing ticket; Governor. Elisha Dyer; lieu.
tenant governor, William j. Gregory /;
secretary of state, Charles p Bennett; at.
torney general, w. Is. Tayncr; general
treasurer, w. A. Reed; adiutant general,
G. A. Sackett; auditor a. c. Lands; SUI
perintendent of education 7. B. Stocllwell.
Rev. Samuel Belts. the cowboy preacher,
is going to the Klondike, says Grand
/ Rapids, Mitch, dispatch He will do
evangelical work along the way. He is
building a l9-foot long, 46-inch beam, gal
vanizcd iron paddle and sail canoe, with
air tight compartments and room for bag
gage, and about April / will start on his
long voyage His route will be through
the lakes, Erie canal and along the At
lantic and Gull of Mexico coast to Calves
ton, and thence by rail to Los Angeles,
He will follow the Pacific coast north
ward to the gold regions and expects "a
get there some time next season. He will
be accompanied by his son.
Gray wolves are preying upon young
cattle in the vicinity of Laramie river
Colo.
An epidemic Of measles and humps is
prevailing among the pupils of the State
Normal school at Emporia, Kan
The British admiralty has ordered that
all British war-ships be painted black Oh
white, abandoning the uniform gray color
now in vogue.
Tho convention of cattle raisers at Fort
Worth, Texas, raised subscription foi
a monument to the dead OF the battles hiT
Maine
Efforts are being made at Richmond
Va, to transport the old Libby prison
back to that city from Chicago, where
it was OH exhibition during the World
Fair.
SPANS ideal hero, Franscuelo, the cele
brated bullfghter, who has been honoret
by the Queen Regent and high officials o
the government. is dead, and all Spain j.
in mournin"
The department of agriculture reports
last years crops still in the hands of tn,
farmers as follows: Wheat, l2l ,O0O,OOt
bushels; corn, 7S3O0O,OOO bushels; oats
272 100000 bushels.
MIS-. Helen A. Clark renowned the pro
vision of the will of her late husband
which gave her life estate in propert,
worth 81 100000, in marrying j. Charlie
Linthicum, young lawyer, at Baltimore
New South Wales paid last year $3.50
600 for the destruction of noxious anima
pests. Among the varieties. slaughtere,
| co., Lo,,nt;aa N,aro handieoofs nanap,olor.