The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-24

gentine Republic and Uruguay has been
signed.
Gustave Frey, gambler of San Fran
cisco, dragged his wife into the street and
shot her dead. He then killed himself.
Pinkerton detectives, armed and in uni
form, have been ordered by the chief of
police to keep off the streets of Portland.
The Old Dominion steamship Hamilton
ran into the German steamship Macedo-
MIA off Long Branch and it is supposed
that the Macedonia subsequently sank.
The responsibility for the riots of April
30 in the Occur d'Alenes and the murder
of Smith and Cheyne has been placed by
the coroner's jury upon the miners
unions as organizations.
j. Frank Davis, chief deputy collector
of internal revenue for the district of Or
egon, Washington and Alaska, has been
suspended pending the decision of the de-
partment at Washington, ID. @.
Senator G. w. Fairbanks of Indiana,
Captain Terry of the battleship Iowa and
James j. Hill, president of the Great
Northern, were guests of honor at ban
quet at the Rainier Club in Seattle. Pres
ident Hill acted as POSTMASTER.
The turnout in Butte, Mont, on Min
ers' Union day was the largest in the his
tory of the organization. Fully 5000
miners and smeltermen and other work
ingmen were in line. Edward Boyce,
president of the Western Federation OF
Miners, was the orator of the day.
Samuel Simpson of Portland, poet and
journalist, is dead.
fbo n oil of
Louis l. Martin of Spokane, was drowned
Wednesday.
Talks with cabinet officers bring the
belief almost to a certainty that the pres
ident will upon his return from his east
ern trip issue call for volunteers of at
least $4,000 men
The Masonic grand lodge at Washing
ton has passed resolutions modifying their
action of last year in extending recogni-
ton to negro lodges. The effect of the
resolutions is to leave recognition of ne
gro Masons with each subordinate lodge.
Wilbur Boyce of Butte, Mont, commit
ted suicide by taking an overdose of NOR
phine. He was a sergeant OF Rough Rid
ers in Captain Stivers troop, Grigsby's
command, and a son of James r. Boyce
formerly a prominent merchant of that
city.
A cloudburst occurred in the mountain.
north of Spofford junction, Texas. The
immens volume of water rushed down the
mountain, side sweeping everything be
fore it and converting dry arroyas and
small creeks and rivers into raging tor
rents and completely flooding the valley
and level country below. At the sheer
ranch of M. L. Butler every living thing
was swept away, and the entire Butler
family were drowned.
Ex-United States Senator Benjamin
e. Harding of Oregon, is dead.
The German derby in Berlin was
won by Baron Springer's Galifard.
Rev. DR.. Wood, of London, former
president of the Wesleyan conference
is dead.
Lawrence Townsend, the new United
States minister to Belgium, has beer
received by King Leopold.
Nicol (2:0SA) the fastest trottei
bred in New England and owned by
Malsolm Forbes, of Milton. is dead.
Howard Blackburn of Gloucester
Mass, set sail in his little sloop-riggeC
cross the Atlantic.
In collision off Frederickshaven be
tween the German steamer Arthuso
and the British steamer Mauritius, the
Arthusof was sunk, ten of her crew be
ing drowned.
Johnson's island, Lake Erie, which
was famous as prison for rebel sol
diers during the civil war, has beer
sold at auction for $4,000.
Blase Patri, of Cleveland, a railroad
section hand, has proved himself a hero
and was fatally injured in an attempt
to save woman from death.
An eastbound freight train from
Portland collided with an excursion
train returning from Astoria east OF
Linton station. One man was killed
and five injured.
The trials of the Occur d'Alene strik
ers are likely to extend over a period
of months. The defendants will insist
on a separate trial each, and will make
every effort to prolong the hearings.
1t is announced semi-officially that
any increase in the tax on American
bicycles in Germany is impossible be
cause commercial treaties with Austria
Russia and Italy exclude such a thing
Eli j. Stubblefeld. connected with
the robbery of Missouri Pacific train
near Sedalia in November last, was
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