The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-05-27
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
A Complete Review of tho Events for
the Past Week in This and Foreign
Lands-summsrixsd From the latest
Dtspstches.

Filipinos from San Isidor, the rebel CAPT
tai.
Count Badini, the former prime minis
ter of Austria, recently tried to commit
suicide.
Admiral Dewey says that he will ar
rive in Hong Kong on the Olympia on
May %.
japanese Buddhist priests who are pros
elyting in Annoy have already made over
1000 converts.
Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M. Smith,
Tenth infantry, has been retired, after 30
years service.
Ex-Governor of Washington John H.
McGraw, and General E. M. Carr of Seat
tie are meeting with great success in mill
ing, on Little Manook, Alaska.
The Russians are prosecuting work
night and day at Port Arthur. The har-
Dor has been dredged to accommodate
ships drawing 20 feet of water
Congressman Cushman of Washington
has appointed Darrell Palmer Wickersham
of Tacoma as cadet at Annapolis, and
Fred j. Whitaker of Palouse alternate.
1t is reported among influential Chinese
that secret treaty has been signed
whereby Japan promises the aid OF troops
to China should Germany seize Shan
Tung.
Two japanese engineers surveying IN
Annoy were set upon by Roman Catholic
natives, dragged to a Catholic church and
treated with indignity in the presence OF
Spanish padre.
An urgent telegram has been received
from Governor Jao of Kashgaria stating
that Russian emissaries have been caught
smuggling firearms to the Mohammedan
rebels The governor asks for lo,ooo men.
Francis Smith Edwards, aged az
years, is dead.
Addison Parker, aged 81, well
known turfman, is dead.
James G. Harris, ex-treasurer OF the
Union Pacific railroad, is dead.
The Cheyennes on the reservation
are again becoming restless and ugly.
The Nineteenth Illinois volunteers,
Colonel Campbell, were mustered out
last week.
The fleet of revenue cutters which
will patrol Bering sea this summer has
received orders.
The reported death of Eugene, for
mer empress of France, is entirely
without foundation.
Laborers unearthed box of bones
which were pronounced to be from
human body, in st. Louis.
A building in the course of con-
struction at Creefeldt, Prussia, col
lapsed, killing II workmen.
General Arolas, former Spanish mil
itary governor of Havana, is suffering
from an apopleptic stroke.
After the July quarter only half of
the laborers imported into the Ha-
waiian islands may be Japanese.
The Spanish cruiser Reina Mercedes
has arrived in Hampton Roads at 2:SO
in tow of the Merritt wrecking tugs.
The war department has turned over
to General Shafter the complete direc-
ton of all military affairs in Alaska.
Senorita Errazuriz, only daughter of
the president of Chilli, Senior Don Fred
erico Errazuriz, was married Sunday
Andrew Woods, negro barber, was
killed and three men were accidentally
shot during the melee in Joplin, Mo,
Sunday.
Edward Elleck, who two months ago
ended a service of IS years as paymas-
ter in the custom house, n. Y, has COM
mitted suicide.
Luke Greenwald, of San Francisco.
just arrived from White Horse, reports
that the Yukon river is open from Lake
Lebarge to Dawson.
Ten thousand people came out to at
tend the public reception rendered
Rear Admiral Schley in the rotunda Of
the city hall, Omaha.
DR.. P. H. Fisher, prominent den
fist and a man of a family in Ogden,
Utah, was shot by Miss Laura Gertsen,
a former school teacher.
Raymond Kasey, years of age, Of
Waynesville, drank carbolic acid, sup
posing it to be cough medicine, and
died in a few minutes.
Levi Moore, of Kansas City, shot and
perhaps fatally wounded Mrs. Jennie
Campbell, his former mistress, and
Mrs. Ella Lands and Mrs. Anna Meek,
in a jealous rage.
The town of Porosow, in the govern
ment of Warsaw has been destroyed by
fire. Twelve lives were lost and 5000
people driven from their homes are
camping in the fields.
A mysterious tragedy was enacted
at the little village of Middleboro,
Ohio. Mrs. Rachel Austin and her son
were murdered in their home and the
house burned over their heads.
More serious trouble is reported