The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-09-03
THE WORLDS NEWS IN BRIEF
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS.
Curious and Peculiar Happenings
Discoveries i'm Nature and Science
The business Progress of the
WOrId-News of Crime and Acct
dent.

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Hail has ruined the tobacco crop in the
vicinity of Lancaster, Pa.
The city council has dispensed with the
police force at Waxahachie, Tex. owing
to the decision of the state court of Grim
inal appeals that municipalities have no
jurisdiction.
The China (Cal.) sugar factory has be-
gun operations with force of 2G0 men.
The beet supply available will keep the
factory in operation three months. The
crop is estimated at $1,000 tons.
Windholm Siehold, the last of the
group OF men who founded Gunterville,
Ala, died in that city Friday. He was
70 years old and a native of Germany
This year is the centenary of the bat
tie of the Nile and of Napoleon's landing
in Egypt.
Two thousand makers OF children's
clothing won their strike and returned To
work in New York.
The longest canal in the world is in
Russia. 1t extends from St. Petersburg
to the frontier of China, and measures
near $500 miles.
Many deaths from heat have occurred
in Germany, and a number of destructive
forest fires have broken out ON account
of drouth.
The last battle of Manila was fought
during a fierce thunder storm, the rain
at times obscuring the view of the ships
from the shore.
The president,it is believed,w will recon-
mend a revival of the grade of vice add
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miral Dewey. n
Millions of men in India live, marry
and rear apparently healthy children up
on Is Cd a week, and sometimes it falls
below that.
If pair of herrings could be left 10
breed and multiply unulsturbed for a
period of twenty years, they would yield
an amount of fish equal in bulk to the
globe on which we live.
Spanish commercial classes and prop
erty owners of Havana favor the annex
alton of Cuba to the United States rather
than the setting up of an independent
government under the Cubans.
AS this country consumes practically
half the worlds production of coffee, the
annexation of Hawaii and Porto Rico,
and control of the Philippines will be OF
great benefit to the public.
The Commercial Cable Company, at
New York, announces that censorship has
been raised on all commercial code and
cipher messages to and from Cuba, Puerto
Rico and all the West Indian islands.
Henry S. Treadwell, postmaster of South
Boston and supreme lieutenant governor
of the Pilgrim Fathers, claims that for
six months during 1868, Weyler, then a
young man, worked for him at So week.
At White Lake, n. Y, Fred Recknall
mistook his son Philip for deer while
hunting and shot him, death ensuing soon
after A few years ago another son,
George, was shot and killed in mistake for
a bear.
The barn of Peter Foy, ten miles north
of independence, Iowa, was struck by
lightning last Wednesday night and five
sons of Mr.. Foy, the oldest being 10, who
were sleeping in the hay NOV, were
burned to death.
Our new Philippine possessions will of
fer some strange and interesting eXper-
fences to Americans visiting the islands
for the first time. One of them will be the
hutlike chow shops in which stewed grass
hoppers are sold.
The general association OF colored Bap-
lists of Kentucky, in session at Frank
fort, adopted resolutions favoring the
sending of colored missionaries to Cuba,
Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii
anticipating annexation by this country
The last two descendants of Christie.
pher Columbus are said to be occupants
of a poor house at Cadiz
1t is said that an ordinary caterpillar
increases 10000 times in bulk 30 days
from the time it is Matched.
Captain Evans of the battleship Iowa
is suffering from typhoid-malaria at the
Roosevelt hospital, New York.
The cabbage still grows wild in Greece
where it originated. Radishes are ma
tive to China, but have been grown il
Europe for centuries.
Governor Scofield has pardoned PatncE
Mcdonald, an inmate of the state prison
sentenced for life. Mcdonald is over 81
years old and has been for 80 years
trusty.
Jose Castellanos, alias George Wander
bilt, the Spanish spy imprisoned at Fort
presence in Atlanta excited such hos
tile demonstration that he had to b,
placed in the police station for safe keep
ing.
Senior Vicuna, envoy extraordinary am
minister plenipotentiary of Chile TO tn
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