The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-10-01
HOME and FOREIGN ITEMS
THE WORLDS NEWS IN BRIEF.
Occurrences of All Kinds mt Home
and acknowledgements for the
Curious-Itcms of Accidents and
Crimes-Persons worthy OF Note.

Astor's Honduras syndicate will push
its work along now that the war is end
ed.
General Miles plan is to reduce the
army by reducing the number OF com
panies in a regiment.
The king of Korea and the crown
prince, who were i'll from supposed pois-
oning, are recovering
Benoit, Miss. reported free of yellow
fever
Italy is enmged at Colombia over the
Cerruti claim. cf
The free soup kitchens in Havana are
being gradually closed.
The pecan crop of Texas is almost a
complete failure, and prices are advanc-
ing. "C
The Fourth United States infantry re-
turned with 235 men to Fort Sheridan,
ILL.,, where it was located before being
called out.
Two million bicycles have been made in
the world since the wheel was perfected.
Mount Vesuvius Is in violent eruption,
and the spectacle is the grandest since
1872.
Detroit, Mich, has been chosen by the
Sons of Veterans for their encampment
in 1899. lFrrs
The treasury department has received
$lSO,000,000 thus far from the sale of war
bonds.
The supply of food at Dawson is report
ed to be sufficient to carry the camp
through the winter.
More than 1000 Jews Joined the vol
unteer regiments in the United States to
fight against Spain.
The Indians in Supia, Ariz., are left
destitute, in consequence of the destruc-
ton of their crops by a recent storm.
A committee of three statesmen having
no interest in the case will be selected to
determine the Alaska boundary.
During the extremely hot weather last
August Dakota farmers did their field
work at night by the light of the moon.
Heirs to the estate of George M. Pull
man say that debts against the New York
property, worth 100000, will wipe it out
The cartmen who haul sand to Rome for
builders work 10 hours day for 35
cents and sleep in the stables with their
mules.
The queen regent of Spain visits daily
the sick soldiers who have returned from
Cuba, and attends personally to their
needs.
During riot among striking plasterers
on the outskirts of st. Louis, one man
was fatally and three others seriously in
jured.
Miss Cora Flood, daughter of the Cali
fornia millionaire, has donated Nlenlo
Park mansion and $40 acres of land to
the University of California.
The japanese press is almost unani-
nous in expressing the hope that the
United States will permanently retain and
govern the Philippine islands.
In Green county, KY, near Greensburg
IA human skeletons have been found in
a cave. The remains are evidently those
of a prehistoric people.
The Kankakee river, in Illinois, is said
to be slowly drying up, on account of
the drainage of the swamps from which
1t receives its supply of water
The annual convention of the national
Baptist association, at its meeting in
Kansas City, decided to enter the mission
AIRY field in Cuba Immediately.
Bradstreet reports the crop impairment
in August proved to be less than feared,
and the average condition of the leading
crops, notably wheat, corn, cotton and
potatoes, is better than one year ago.
Major General Davis has disapproved
the findings of the court martial in the
case of Captain Duncan, accused of tam
pering with confederate soldiers graves
and ordered the captain released from ar
rest and returned TO duty.
The government will send troops to
garrison Cuba early in October
Spanish troops from Cuba and Puerto
Rico are to be landed at different ports
in Spain.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis is Frustrated over
the death of her daughter, Miss Winnie
Davis.
Behring sea seal herds are disappearing
so rapidly as TO threaten extinction of
the sealing industry.
Australian rabbit skins are being con-
Verted into seal skins for the American
market
The Italian government has recon-
mended to the powers that international
action to be taken against anarchists.
Fully $500 people are homeless, and a
loss of $2,500.000 was incurred by the
incendiary fire at New Westminster, b.
c.
The Italian government has notified
the car that if the pope is represented