The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1898-07-23

small Spanish war-cnft hiding in the shall
low bays and inlets of the island
The wheat crop of Cass county, Illinois,
is a failure, due mostly to chinch bugs
and rust. Oats and corn will also be
poor. The heavy rains and hail this
spring wrought havoc with apples. Peach
es and pears will be plentiful
Col. +. NJ. Stuart, for many years a
resident of the Philippines, says the OPP
portunities for enterprising Americans to
make vast fortunes in those islands dur
ing the next twenty years are boundless.
The outside walls of many of the houses
in Mexico are from three to six feet thick,
to withstand earthquake shocks.
The Topeka (Kan.) city council has
passed an ordinance imposing yearly tax
of $4,000 upon premium stamp companies
and upon business firms making use of
the premium stamps. The stamp COM
panies will contest the collection of the
tax in the courts.
An immense sun dial, certainly the
largest in the world, it at Haydn Horoo, a
large promontory extending 5000 feet
above the Aegean sea. As the sun swings
around the shadow of this mountain it
touches, one by one, circle of islands,
which act as hour marks.
| Twenty thousand eX-Confederate sol
diers will hold reunion at Atlanta, Ca,
from July 20 to %, inclusive.
The eight public bath housese in Phil
adelphia were patronized last week by
230, S95 men, women and children.
; Experiments made in the irrigated
parts of California and Arizona show that
good dates can be raised there.
At Dawson City, Klondike the price OF
flour has fallen from $75 to SIS a sack
and gold dust is selling for $l5 an ounce
Omaha union printers who go to wal
will have their dues RENTED, and, 4
married, 50 week will be given to then
families.
Considerable damage has been done tC
mountain towns on the Isthums of TIE
hauntepec by a series of earthquake
shocks.
The New York Cotton Exchange pro
poses to suspend brokers' who perpetrat,
wash" sales by means of fictitious quo
tations
Six members of family of the mann
} of Won Zostrow, of Sherburne, n. Y, hav
died of trichinosis from eating raw porl,
p Orders have been received at the nav,
e yard, Charlestown, Mass, to expend $40
5 600 in repairs upon the old irigate Min
nesota.
). The phosphate camp at Ponpon, S. c
= is wildly excited over the finding of $50
( 600 in gold by two negro diggers, VIII
!. dug up large chest and divided tn
contents.
). Ex-senator Don Cameron of Pennsy
) vania, has offered to the government fo
military hospital the free use of his fin
q estate on the South Carolina coast.
y \ meteoric stone weighing four tor
fell on warehouse in Flume, Austr
J. and set it on fire. The stone crashe
= through the house and was found burie
i'm the cellar.
N \ st. Petersburg newspaper chaacte
l. lies the destruction of Cervera's fleet {
brutal slaughter" and accuses the Anne
D. leans of employing some kind of new e,
! plosive machine or bomb contrary to il
telnational law.
n The repairs to dry dock No. ; at Il
T. Brooklyn navy yard have been compile
ed. 1t can accommodate the largest We
D. sci in our navy.
Of At Chesterfield, Ind, Michael Bronp
berg was taken suddenly and violently
@. last Saturday, the result of eating ca
le bage on which paris green had bee
sprnkled while growing to kill cabbai
n worms. His condition is alarming.
of II. w. Danforth, acting assistant su
geon. who is reported among the woun
tn ed at the battel of Santiago, is Il Milwa
kee man. He had previously served wi
ps the Cuban insurgent army, being perso
ip al physician to General Maceo for near
" a year.
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