The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-07-02

pital to the Philippines under charge of
the United States navy as needed.
ExQueen Natalie of Servia is reported
to be organizing an expedition to Cuba
to nurse sick and wounded Americans and
Spaniards.
1t is reported that the people of Japan
are strongly in favor of a triple alliance
consisting of Great Britain, the United
States and Japan.
Mr.. Gladstone at the time of his death
was a member of the Royal Academy of
Great Britain, holding the sinecure Of
fee of professor of ancient history.
For the third time in six months the
Shideler postoffice, eight miles north of
Muncie, Indiana, was robbed last Monday
day night. The booty amounted to $50.
Gen. Weyler says that instead of send
ing Ceryera's squadron TO Cuba to. be
bottled up at Santiago, it should nave
been sent to destroy eastern coast cities
of the United States.
Two hundred girls belonging to local
No. "a, of the United Garment workers,
at Wappinger Falls, New York, have con
tributed several truck loads of provisions
to starving Cubans. sos
David Ferris, a retired New York gro
Ger, driven to frenzy by the constant
nagging of his mother-in-law, shot and
killed her and then turned the weapon
on himself with fatal results.
Minneapolis tailors are taking steps to
abolish sweat shops and to organize the
women and girls engaged in the tailoring
business so that they can obtain fair
wages for their labor.
Frank Shafter, railroad man of Nor
walk, o., has recovered a verdict of So
600 against the Nickel Plate Railroad,
by which he was formerly employed, for
having black listed him.
Sixteen-year-o Jessie Low, of Dayton.
O., was awakened from a nap on a couch
down stairs in her home by dream that
a certain upstairs room was on fire. She
ran up stairs and found it just as it APP
peared in the dream, and she put out
the fire.
Patrick Fay, Boston waiter, 80 years
old, who died at hospital recently in
supposed poverty, left 900 to Boston
charities. The money was saved from
UPS received from guests AT HOlclo NHele
he worked from 1850 to 1860 .sls
The special committee of the United
States senate on the Nicaragua canal has
agreed to report bin providing for its
construction, the stock to be held ex-
clusively by the governments of the Unit.
ed States, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
A. G. Waite, of Waverly, Lafayette
county, Mo-, is the tallest man in the
state He is six feet eight inches in his
socks, and is one of a family of ten, the
tallest of whom was seven feet eight
inches His smallest sister is six feet
eight inches tall. The Waites are rela
tives of the late Chief Justice Waite.
Drouth has made sheep fodder so scarce
in Australia that thousands of men arr
being employed in the various districts
cutting the boughs of oak, apple anC
other trees for food for the starving ami
mails, and in skinning the sheep that per
ish in the mud at the failing water holes
-Four residents of Seattle, Wash, ar,
about to undertake a journey of 300
miles--from Seattle to Rampant City-i
24-foot boat, sailing and rowing al
the way. Thirteen hundred miles of tn
trip will be across the open Pacific, hun
dreds of miles from land, and 700 will b
through Behring sea.