The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-07-01

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The steamer Apache, plying between
Columbus and Apalachicola, Fla. sunk
in the Chipola river near Wewathicka,
Fla, and four persons were drowned.
The brick-layers' strike in Berlin has
been settled by a court of arbitration,
and men will get advances in wages in
September and December of next year.
The most violent thunder storm in
the recollection of the oldest residents
of Spokane. struck that city Sunday
morning. Three buildings were struck
by lightning.
The British armed sloop Buzzard, In
trying to reach the French treaty shore
recently, collided with an iceberg near
ST. Johns, N. F.. which stove in her
bows.
Captain Jas. Entwistle of the navy is
to be retired July 8th. Commander
r. Rush, attached to the naval library,
has been ordered before the naval re-
firing board July LIST.
The stock yards strike in Chicago,
which at one time threatened to tie up
by the packers granting the increase of
20 Genus q Gay demanded.
kid" Mccoy has signed contract
with the Colorado Athletic Club of Den
yer, Colo, to fight any three men who
may volunteer to meet him, one each
on July 10th, 18th and oath.
Nearly 5000 pants-makers have gone
on strike in Manhattan, Brooklyn and
Brownsville, N. Y, throwing 5000 Ital-
ian women and girl finishers out of
work.
The golden jubilee of the North Am
erican Saengerbund will no doubt be
the most largely attended event this
week that was ever known in Cincin-
natl, Ohio.
According to a we'll defined rumor
the tramways of the Chilcoot Pass
route from Dyea to the Upper Yukon
lakes are to be purchased by the White
Pass & Yukon Railway Company
1t is the intention of the University
of Pennsylvania to enter team next
year in the Olympian games at the
Paris exposition and also in the Eng
lish championships.
In the suit of the Nevada company
owners of the Nevada Central railroad
against P. T. Farnsworth. the jury rem
dered a verdict for the plaintiff on the
second cause for action for s77.122.
Five men embarked in rude boat of
their own construction on the Yellow
stone at Big Timber, Mont, bound for
Bismarck. Their boat was capsized at
Gray Cliff and w. H. Sullivan of Chi
cago, and w. Lawrence were drowned.
President Timothy Dwight, the ven
cradle retiring president Of Yale, has
preached his last baccalaureate sermon
before the graduating classes of the
academic and scientific departments.
The trans-Caspian region of Asiatic
Russia, which is under the Jurisdiction
of the encouragement of Causasus,
Prince Beriatinski, is threatened with
famine owing to the prolonged drouth
and plague of locusts.
The widely circulated story that dy-
ing prisoners at the Wardner prison
had been denied the services of a priest
is denied outright by Father Becker.
Occur d'Alenes.
Deserters who have reached the Brit
ish lines say the Khalifa is confined in
a narrow valley by the Tagals, friend
ly body Of tribesmen. The latter state
that they have killed 500 of the Khali-
fa's followers during the recent battle.
The large six-story building on the
corner of Pearl and Purchase streets,
Boston, was swept almost clean by fire,
the owners and numerous occupants,
mostly small publishing concerns, sus-
tanning loss of nearly s1S0,000.
When the body of Miss Belle Slavin
was found recently in the National
Bank of Commerce in Wichita, Kansas,
death having resulted from a bullet
wound in the head, it was supposed she
had committed suicide Later devel-
opments seem to indicate that the
young woman was murdered.
President-elect Arthur Twining Had.
ley delivered his first speech since he
was made the official head of Yale be
fore the graduating class of the Hill
House high school of New Haven
Conn and made profound impression
Professor Hadley attacked the trusts
praised the navy and criticised the
army.
The first trial trip of the new Amert
can cup defender Columbia which took
place in Narragansett bay, was more
successful than either her builders OF
her owners had reason to hope. Not
only did the new boat show herself to
be seaworthy in every particular, but