The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-11-19


The first troops for Cuba will leave
about November 22 under Brigadier Cen
eral Carpenter.
Mrs. George Bear of Kansas City com
mitted suicide just one week after her
marriage
Nue. of the illness among troops at
Manila is due to their indiscreet eating
and drinking.
The battleship Texas is in drydock and
being placed in fighting trim at the Brook
Ign navy yard.
Hypnotism was employed by New
York hospital surgeon in subduing an ep-
ileptic patient, who had overcome five
policemen.
The diphtheria epidemic in the western
part of Scioto county, o.. is becoming
alarming.
The 22d Kansas regiment, now en- route
TO Manila, will vote on the state election
in mid ocean.
Lord Aberdeen at banquet in Ottawa,
Canada, spoke eloquently in praise of the
United States.
General Blaneo will leave Cuba Novem-
her 20, and Pando will be i'll command of
the Spanish forces.
Inhabitants of Bellefontaine, o.. are
alarmed over the rapid spread of small
pox, and hundreds of people are being
vaccinated daily.
A party of seven gold hunters from
California is reported to have been en-
quilted in quicksand recently near Lake
Bennett, Alaska.
A new republic was born on November
], called the United States of Central
America, composed of Nicaragua, Saliva
dor and Honduras.
Extraordinary activity prevails in
British naval and military circles in Hong
Kong. England is ready to fight all Eu-
rope, if necessary.
The abode of the Virgin Mary was Civ
en- by the sultan of Turkey to the en-
the German Catholics
Moonshiners in Cleburne county. Ark,
are making war on informers and the law
abiding element and troops may be nee
essary to quell the trouble.
United States Consul Hanna at San
Juan, Puerto Rico, warns Americans to
remain away from the island at present.
There is no work for mechanics. clerks
or laborers.
Rear Admiral Miller, who hoisted the
stars and stripes over Hawaii. advocates
the Nicaragua canal and the construc-
ton of a large number Oh first class battle
ships of high speed.
A party of boys playing Halloween
pranks in Toledo. O.. frightened an aged
woman, Mrs. Sanger, 50 badly that she
died before the arrived OF a physician.
The first test OF Krupp ar1nor plate
was made at bethlehem. Pa. Three shots
we're fired from an S-inch gun, the pro
jectile weighing 253 pounds, and the We
locity ranging from 1900 10 1000 feet per
second. The plate was not cracked.
The Grand Army of the Republic is
formulating plans for its national en-
csmpment, which will be held in Philadel-
phia next summer. At that meeting IT
will be decided whether soldiers OF the
Spanish war shall be admitted
to the association.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kas., says
that complaints are being received there
by the state board of railway commits
sioners regarding the scarcity Of grain
cars at many Kansas points. The com
plants say that it is impossible TO gel
ears to handle the grain.
A peculiar disease has broken out
among the horses in the north part OF Car
roll county, Ind, and several have died
The animals threats become intiamed 81
that they cannot swallow, and conse
quently they starve to death. There
seems to be no remedy for the disease.
The transport Peru has arrived at "a
Francisco from Manila. There were l5O'
United States soldiers sick at Manila
when the Peru sailed and smallpox wa
spreading rapidly among the troops. Ih
filth poured into the canals by the CHI
nese is a prolific source OF disease
John Hubbard and William Lamont
who are now serving time in the stat
house of correction at Iona, Mich, conii'l
ed to three fellow prisoners that yea
ago last September they murdered an'
robbed Ludwig Herman, veteran soldier
They will be held and tried for the crime
which has hitherto been a mystery.
The remarkably small accumulation
of wheat at the principal shipping point
lead experts TO believe that farmers ar
about TO unload their wheat on the mar
ket almost unanimously, demonhzin
prices and creating a panic. The sharp
and gamblers are getting ready to eve
ND with the farmers for holding back 10
better prices
Nikola Tesla has invented an apparatu