The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-11-12
NEWS FROM HOME and AWAY
BRIEF ITEMS OF THE WORLD.
happenings of All Kinds From All
parts of the GIobe-StOrms and
Casumlties-Crimin Occurrences
business Notes of Many Lands
General Events of Interest.


recent blizzard was over $4,000
Deputy marshals have left Walker.
Mimi, to round up renegade Indians
The emperor and empress of Germany
have safely arrived in Palestine.
Admiral Dewey has released the Span
ish sailors whom he captured at Manila.
Repairs on the cruiser Chicago.are near
ly completed; she has been practically re-
built.
Many Spanish officers in Havana have
applied for positions in the United states
army.
The danger of further outbreaks OF the
black plague in Vienna has been greatly
diminished.
The cattle outlook in southern Texas
and northern Montana is better this seal
son than ever before.
The United States has notified Spain
that the shipment of guns from Cuba
must be stopped forthwith.
The much doomed Peace river country
of Alaska has brought nothing but hard
Ships to prospectors.
American commissioners at Havana are
taking measures to hasten the Spanish
evacuation of Cuba.
Governor Russell OF North Carolina has
issued proclamation condemning pollt-
ical outrages in that state.
New York police believe they have I'M
earthed an extensive scheme to defraud
life insurance companies.
Senator Hale of Maine has been fined
$40 for violating the state game law by
shipping game out of the state.
The agricultural department, after two
years of experimenting, finds that the
swine plague can be easily and ineXpen-
sively exterminated.
Advices from Hawaii intimate that the
people of the islands expect delegate i'll
congress, with rights to debate and vote
on all measures.
During the blizzard last week snow
drifted in Chicago so that street ear traf-
fic was DISTRACTED i'll many parts OF the
city.
Postmaster General Smith las directed
that Hawaiian stamps be recognized at
their face value on articles mailed in Ha-
wall.
A movement is on foot in Buenos Ayrcs
to divert the trade OF Spanish American
countries to Spain as against the United
States.
The quarantine in Mississippi towns
against all points has been raised.
Hali;5x dock yards are very busy IN
getting British warships ,eady for ser-
vice
Captain j. b. Foraker, son OF the Ohio
senator, is sick with yellow fever in Ha-
vana.
\ Paris paper declares that the sec.et
papers in the Dreyfus case were burned
several days ago.
The whale catch in the Acc,ic this sea
son was one OF the largest Oh record, rep
resenting about Sl,0OO,o0O.
Chicago is making IL strenuous effort
to secure the next Methodist Episcopal
general conference, to be he'd in 1900.
France is terribly excited over the re-
port that England proposes to proclaim a
protectorate over the whole Of Egypt.
The president has received a petition,
signed by 100000 Cubans, asking for
SPANS immediate evacuation OF the isl
and.
Secretary Wilson has AWARDED to New
York firm the government contract for
seeds at S70,97s for l4,23S, l6S packets.
independence Hall, Philadelphia, mas
been restored to its colonial appearance,
and rededicated with appropriate ccrc-
monies.
The Dawes commissions report or re
organization Of the Indian Territory calls
especially for provisions Tor education Of
the people.
Two deaths from the black plague of
India occurred on the French bark Ouch
ess Anne on her recent trip from Homo
lulu to San Francisco.
BY January l the University Of Chicago
expects to raise S2,00O,OOO, which makes a
gift of same amount from John d. Rocbe-
feller available.
\ large number of negroes are tlocking
into the Indian Territory, and Agent Wis
dom fears serious trouble between them
and the Indians.
Hannah West and Abraham Huffman
are under arrest at Washington Court
House, o., on the woman's confession for
having beheaded Louis Ball T. years ago
with razor
The president has approved of the
court-martial sentence dismissing from the
navy Chaplain Mcintyre, OF the battle
ship Oregon who reflected on Admiral
Sampson in lecture.
4 number of vessels are stranded on
sandbars in the Yukon river and frozen
in, and when the ice breaks up next
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