The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-19


The number of enlistments for the vol
unteer regiments up to Wednesday was
III ,297.
Andrew Carnegie has given $4,000 to
found public library at Keighley, York
shire, England.
About $1,000 worth of damage was done
in Anaconda by cloudburst that took
place west of the city.
The British battleship Sans Pareil, while
returning from the maneuvers, sank the
British ship East Lothian, Captain McFar-
lane, 1889 tons, at Torquay, England.
Ben Thompson, colored, "a years old,
was lynched at Alexandra, Va, for at
tempting an assault ON Lillian Clark, the
S-year-old daughter of Edward Clark.
First Sergeant John jackson was shot
and killed at Fort Douglas by Private w.
H. Carter, and the latter was then shot
and instantly killed while resisting arrest.
Former Governor w. Y. Atkinson of
Georgia is dead at his residence in New
man, Ga. He had been ill for 10 days. He
was one of the leaders of the democratic
party in Georgia.
A horrifying accident occurred 80 miles
east of Moscow, Idaho. The l9-months-
old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. M. B. Thorn
burg was literally roasted alive in a wagon
bed of burning straw.
The Glenn-Lyon miners of the Susque-
hanna Coal Company, 1900 in number,
Joined the Nanticoke strikers, and now all
the employees of the company in this re-
gion. a total of 5000, are out and the
mines are closed.
The first run of the New York Yacht
Club from New London out into the sound
as far as Watch Hill and back to Gard
iner's bay was one of the most successful
in the clubs history. The Columbia beat
the Defender.
1t will not be long now before the
wounded and invalid members of the First
Washington volunteers, who have been
getting back their health and strength at
Preside hospitals, are on the way to their
homes in Washington.
An electric car of the Big Consolidated
line in Cleveland, Ohio, was blown up near
the Euclid avenue barns Tuesday. The
car was badly torn. The motorman, name
not known, was badly hurt. There was
one passenger on the car.
Official advices from Old Point Comfort
and Hampton, Va, to the marine hospital
; state that no new cases of yellow fever
have occurred in that vicinity since the
one reported at the soldiers home Tues
day, and that there have been no deaths.
1t is learned that a movement is on foo
to form another whisky combine to op
pose the Kentucky Distilleries and Ware
house Company and to take all the plant
: which that company failed to acquire, o
about so per cent of the entire number il
the state.
In a wreck on the Bitter Root line o
a the Northern Pacific, caused by a land
9 slide, freight engine No. 1854, running 2
miles an hour, left the track Is miles fror
Missoula, near Florence. Engineer Beeb
t. was killed, Brakeman Babeock was SER
r ously injured.
e The steamer Empress of China bring
+ meager details of the wreck of the steame
Munobaki Maru in the Orient. Just befor
h the Empress of China left Yokohama on
s boat load containing nine survivor
n reached Yokohama. Another boat col
D tanning 20 persons was reported safe. Tw
boat loads were lost.
r The United states cruiser Olympl
v has arrived at Leghorn, Italy.
% A recent storm caused great destru
" ton of property in Hicksville, Ohio
Secretary Root is beginning to get
\. firm grasp on the administration {
IS the war department.
# John Engle, "a years old, was kille
two miles west of Rochelle, ILL.,, by
/ Northwestern train.
The Rev. ]. Fl. Bomberger of Colur
6 biana declines to accept the presidenC
of Heidelberg university.
N Patterson McClurg of Bloomingto
,e ILL.,, aged 81, committed suicide by Gu
If ting his throat with a razor.
70 The strike of the employees of IL
n American Smelling & Refining Cor
h pany of Denver is declared off.
Miss Oliver Roy, of Fond du Lac, wis
aged %, was run down by Northwes
ern switch engine and instantly kille
4 Ethel Burnham of Crawfordsvill
h. Ind, was dragged to death by a COZ
70 she having attached the halter to h
# wrist.
or James Murphy, 247 Shaw stree
Vi Montreal, QUE, was killed upon Il
or tracks of the ST. Joseph, South Ber
n & Southern railroad.
Patrick Drury, Of Springfield, II
while experimenting some repairs
his house, took hold of trolley wi
70 and was instantly killed.