The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-12-02

William (. Brooks, colored. was
hanged foi the murder of his wife in
November, 1898, at Billings. Mont.
Tommy West was given the decision
OYER e. ank Craig, known as the "Har-
lem Cotfee Cooler" at the end of the |
,Ath found of what was to have been |
a 25-rOund bout at catch weights at
New York.
The department of the interior at
Ottawa, Ont, has received information
thas at the smallest computation $4,000
Fiulanders will arrive in Canada next
spl ing. The majority of the immi-
e: ants will be from South Finland.
The horribly mutilated bodies of a
woman and her three children were
found at their home on a small farm
about q mile from the town of Mont
.,omery. Pa. A peddler named Hum
mel, who married the woman short
lime ago, is missing.
Harry Hall, alias Ferguson, has been
in jail at Seattle two weeks, and the
sheriff and a representative of Pinker-
toms detective agency say that they
believe him to be one of the six men
/ WHO ublu up OOlOh oSAh$ SAesAA 49,
Albany county, Wyoming. last June,
and who murdered sheriff during
their fight.
The upper stories of A. Krolick 4
CO.'S Wholesale dry goods store at De-
Il oft, burned the lower four stories
flooded by water, and the adjoining
wholesale dry goods house of Strong,
Lee & Co. was also badly flooded, max
ing total loss of approximately $780,
600. The fire is supposed to have been
aused by crossed electric light wires.
! A rapid rise in Trinity river, Tex, Is
causing serious damage.
Nearly half of the business portion OF
| Weston, O., was burned recently.
Kansas City offers nearly 100000 for the
next democratic national convention.
e Gen. Otis will come home soon, as he
l needs rest, and the war is nearly ended
e Cubans are vexed at the idea of an Am
erican civil governor, and protests arr
: coming fast.
: Existing differences between the Detroi
s street railway employees and employers viii
t be settled by arbitration.
Baron Paul Vietinghoff, Representative
l, of the Russian government, IS in Chlcag
= buying horses for the cars army.
n The first train through from Talien Wal
n on the new Chwang & Munkden railwa
e has left with engineers for Port Arthur.
William f. Miller and his secretary an
IF chief boomer, Cecil Leslie, of the Flankli
T, syndicate, the 0per-cent-a-week concer
lr of Brooklyn, have not yet been arrested.
N Farmburg, Ind, was the scene OF TEL
n. riffs explosion. Some unknown person {
persons placed dynamite beneath the III
er dertaking establishment of w. j. Woo
in of that place, and the explosion wrecke
rg the building and broke window gla
q throughout the town.
IN Sir Francis Wingate, in a battle wit
q, the khalifa's force, near Gedid, capture
5000 men, women and children. Osms
of Digna, the principal general of the khalii
lie, is still at large.
Ia Ii Hung Changes appointment as mini
N, ter of commerce is regarded as distinct
"a, a step in the right direction, and as like
is to improve greatly foreign commercial
lations with China.
ok A passenger train on the o. R. & N. W
to wrecked one mile from Rooster Rock,
al miles east of Portland. by a landslide. (
nd gneer Robert Hunter was instantly kill'
mt Fireman Milor was thrown under t
wreck and killed.