The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-26
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
A Complete Review of tho Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-summarixod From the Latest
Dispatches.

gunDoat Newport mas Deeh ihaue'
Admiral Dewey was i'll with fever at
Leghorn. He remains on board the
Olympia.
The transport Senator has sailed for
Manila with about 700 officers and re-
cruits and signal corps
Fire at Westchester, N. Y, destroyed
st. Peters, Episcopal church and most OF
its contents. Loss, 100000.
The medal of the Order of st. Michael
and st. George has been conferred upon
L. b. S. Maxse, British consul at Samoa.
M. l.. Hayward was stricken with apop-
lexy at Brownville, Neb, where be had
gone to deliver an address at the Modern
Woodmen picnic. He will recover
Fred Patterson of San Francisco at
tempted suicide in Tacoma recently on
receipt of news telling of his wife's death.
He took sulfonal, but was saved by the
doctors.
General Otis has reported the death of
Second Lieutenant Joseph b. Morse,
Ninth infantry, of typhoid fever. Lieu
tenant Morse was chosen from the First
California heavy artillery.
1t is announced that Lily Langtry, the
actress, was recently married at the ISL
and of Jersey, to Hugo Gerald de Battle,
% years of age, the eldest son of Sir Hen
ny Percival de Battle, Bart, the retired
general and Crimean veteran.
The gross receipts of the San Francisco
postoffice for the fiscal yea enued June
81, were $lOO2, 47O, as against $92O,337
for the year 1878. 1t is the first time in
the history of the office that the million
dollar mark has been reached.
Twenty-Five wealthy farmers from the
middle states left st. Paul to buy homes
in the vicinity of Seattle and Tacoma,
and a party numbering 100 Hollanders
from South Dakota will go to these points
soon to see where they can locate.
Eight hundred cloakmakers of New
York, employed in Is shops, joined the
ranks of the strikers, increasing the num-
Der ON strike to a total of about 5000.
The strikers demand better wages and a
reduction in the working hours.
The British ship Westlothian, Captain
Curtis, which arrived at Cardiff from Ia
coma via Falmouth, reported that during
a gale encountered east of Cape Horn On
June 6 she lost her top gear and sails, and
the second mate jumped overheard.
A crowd stoned Big Consolidated car
in Cleveland. The conductor of the car
lay down ON his seat and fired several
shots at the crowd with revolver. No
body was hit, but the shooting had the
effect of dispensing the mob in short order
Young Critic, the once famous Aus
tralian pugilist, is dying in the Dunning
insane asylum, where he was sent a few
months ago. Physicians say he can not
live more than two weeks, as ne has re-
Gently become violently insane and sui
fered breakdown.
In East Middleburg, Vt, a man named
Eastwood went to the home of his moth
er-in-law and shot his wife and her moth
er, killing both. He then drove to Mid
dleburg, went to the residence of Frank
Fem, shot him through the heart, killing
him instantly, then shot at Fen's wife
and just missed her. He then went to the
residence of his wifes brother, 4. d.
Brown, evidently intending to kill him,
but could not find MIN. Eastwood es-
capped.
The Milwaukee bridge has been wreck.
ed by dynamite. Men hunting for the
bodies of M. Swanson and Carl Rylander,
who were drowned recently, decided to
use dynamite to bring them to the sur
face. One charge of 90 sticks of the ex-
plosive was exploded in the water directly
under the bridge, which is of iron and so
feet high.
After one of the most vexing pursuits
in the history of Montana, Clinton Dot
son and Oliver Benson were captured near
Central Park, Gallatin county. They are
believed to be the men who robbed and
murdered Eugene Cullinam, pioneer and
placer miner, near his cabin in American
gulch recently.
Reports from Okotsk sea gives the
catch of the whaler Charles w. Morgan
as 1860 barrels OF sperm oil and 90 pound.
of ambergris, and the California 900 bar.
rels of sperm oil, 1850 barrels of whale oil
and 5000 pounds of whalebone. Captain
Smith reports that on May boat was
capsized by a whale and Martin Cosgrove
a native of Hartford, Conn, was drowned
Government commissioners have eff
fected an agreement with the Crow In
dams which will become a treaty when
ratified by congress. About million
acres of land will be purchased on the
northern end of the Crow reservation
from Fort Custer to Yellowstone river
and from Pryor creek to the eastern
boundary of the reservation, embrac
ing the Little Big Horn and other