The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-08-20
NEWS OF HOME AND ABROAD
HAPPENINGS IN THE WORLD.
Items of All Kinds From All Over
Accidents and Crimes-Persons
Talked About-Notes of business
Matters and Doings.

killed herself with gas in New York.
The California Raisin Growers Asso-
citation has formulated plan to pool the
raisin product of the state.
A smokeless. powder factory is to be
established at Cleveland, o.. by com
pany which has government contract.
Cecil Rhodes is trying to get back at
the polls in the South African Republic
the power he lost by the Jameson raid.
Francis Murphy, the wel-known tenn
perance advocate, has been appointed
chaplain of the Fifth Pennsylvania regi-
ment.
Frank c. Fleming of Chicago was
crushed to death by falling 1000 feet into
crevasse in the Valdez glacier, Alaska.
Letters received from Alaska say that
many prospectors have abandoned their
search for gold and are locating coal
claims
Schlatter, the "divine healer" apollo
gized to the court in Philadelphia last
week for maliciously tearing down an
American flag, and was discharged.
During the furious electrical storm in
Philadelphia last Wednesday l-2 inches
of rain fell in one hour and three-quarters,
and the entire city was covered with
water several inches in depth.
An lS-months-old child in Chicago swal-
lowed a hat pin 6 inches long. The pin
was located in the chiId's stomach by
aid of X rays, and subsequently removed
/ by skillful surgeon without injury to
the child.
At Columbus, o., Ephraim w. Sells,
the elder of the Sells Bros, well-known
circus men, died of Bright's disease, after
an illness of several months.
Harvey county, Kan, has not single
cent of Indebtedness, according to figures
from the county clerks Office. Tax levies
for the coming year are unusually light.
Spanish officers surrendered at Santiago
will be allowed to take their wives and
children back to Spain at the expense
of the United States.
Near Circle City, Klondike, July /,
men who were trying to trace coal vein
found the richest gold deposit ever before
discovered in that region.
1t is reported at Yokohama, that Ha-
wall agreed to pay Japan 100000 to
settle the dispute about the exclusion OF
japanese immigrants from Hawaii.
The business community of Guatemala
having become tired of the frequent rev
olutions, would welcome annexation to
the United States or Mexico.
The federal court at Tacoma, Wash.
has decided that insurance companies
} must notify policy holders of arrearages
before they can decide policies forfeited
Philip Hanna, who was American con
sui at San Juan until the war broke out
has joined General Miles, to give him the
benefit of his acquaintance with the isl
J and.
California sheep herders are taking ad
vantage of the absence of troops to drive
! their sheep into the military reservations
They say the dry spell will cause 100000
sheep to die.
| Adjutant General Corbin, at the direc
, ton of the secretary of war, has ISSUED
an order granting sick and wounded sol
} diers at hospitals, when able to travel
| one months furlough and transportation
} to their homes
} 1t is reported from Berlin that the pub
; LEGATION of the memoirs of Prince Bis
r marck will be forcibly suppressed by thu
German government, as we're the memoir
OF Emperor Frederick on Prince Bis
marck's advice.
The entire herd of famous short horned
= cattle belonging to the Hon. John Nc
destroyed by a peculiar accident. While
2 grazing on high bluff overlooking thu
5 Missouri river, they were suddenly at
tackled by several swarms of wild bees
} which occupy the trees on the bluffs. II
( their terror and pain the whole herd
5 numbering 300 head, jumped off the bluff
, and were dashed to pieces on the rock
1 or drowned in the river.
3 A pet monkey belonging to gentleman
5 in Ottawa, Canada, deliberately commit
: ted suicide last week. Climbing to tn
: top of his large cage, he secured an oil
: coat which hung on the wall outside
a He tore the lining from the garment, and
e making one end fast at the top of hi
cage and placing the other end aroun
t his neck, jumped toward the bottom G
o the cage. He was found in this positio
5 strangled to death.
Y The celebrated French cave~hunter, n
), Martel, has explored natural pit j
}. the limestone of the Lozere. France, an
y made there most remarkable discovery
z. After descending vertical shaft for 20
e feet he reached an immense hall, slopin
e downward, at the lower end OF which wa
h a virgin forest of stalagmites, resemblin
y palm and pine trees. Some of these al