The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-09-23
DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-summariz From the Lnt-
est Dispatches.

tain Dreyfus, says that the condemned
man is hopelessly i'll.
The queen regent of Spain has signed
province of Vizcaya.
John Blanchard, for nine years editor in
chief of the Minneapolis Times, is dead.
after an illness of several months, aged 81.
A cyclone swept over the Island of
Bermuda recently. Many houses were
blown down and others unroofed. No
lives are reported lost.
Four men were killed and two injured
in head-end collision, which took place
OH the Rock Island, two and half miles
east of Oxford, Iowa.
The revolution in Venezuela, under the
leadership of General Castro, is gaining
ground. The insurgents now occupy
Neigua, three days march from Valencia.
The London solicitors of the French
consulate have resigned as a protest
against the verdict of the Dreyfus court
martial
The little town of Northwood, Grand
Forks, N. D., is completely destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at 100000.
Tnly DuSlhcSS nave lool bucll Shlllc
belongings.
Colonel Kosterlitzky at Magdalena, has
been ordered to hold his battalion ready
TO come to the scene of trouble between the
cowboys and Mexican guards at Naco, ut
moments notice.
The German third class cruiser Wichita,
while participating in the autumn maneu-
vers, exploded her boiler at Kiel, four
persons being killed and four others in
jured.
The British steamer Thermopylae, Cap
tain Phillip, from Sydney, N. S. W., via
other Australian ports for London, has
gone ashore at the entrance to Cape
Town. She is a wreck
Sir Thomas Upton has made an offer
of $250,000 for the estates which includes
the Lakes of Killarney, and if his offer
is accepted he will present them to the
Irish people in trust.
In February Peary will again move
north. The journey toward the pole will
be either by the Greenland coast or from
Cape Hella, as conditions may determine.
The Diana brings the news back.
DIR. j. ID. Griffith of Chicago has COM
pleted an official test of the Mauser pistol
used by the German cavalry. He says it
is effective to 500 yards. 1t is said the gov
eminent may adopt the weapon as re.
suit of the test.
The steamer Rio de Janeiro, just from
China, will pass into the hands of the gov
eminent for the transportation of troops
as soon as she is discharged and has gone
on the drydock. She will sail for Manila
September 25.
Becoming convinced that his fighting
strength has weakened, Jimmy Barry, for
a long time the champion bantam weight
has declared off his coming fight with
Sig Hart, and announced his retirement
from the ring.
The Brazilian government has protest
ed against the sale of the lands of the
duke OF SAKE to the German government
The government of Brazil has been in
formed that Bolivia has sent a division of
troops to occupy Acre.
The United States transport Tartar has
been detained at Hong Kong by the harbor
authorities under the British merchant
shipping act, whereby her capacity is lin
tied to $50 passengers, although the Tar
tar has licensed capacity of l340
The secretary of the treasury has decid-
ed, in view of the money stringency in
New York, to anticipate October interest.
This will amount to $5,596,526, and is due
on the per cents of 1897. The secretary's
action was taken without solicitation
The Ketchannie was lost in a storm off
the Tasmania coast, and the crew all
drowned. The crew consisted of John
Rockwell, master, AS, Hobart; Thomas
Price, Is, Bristol; Sigerd Maynussen, 49,,
Norway; Neil McKinnon, 81, Scotland.
The American Jewish new year book
recently issued, estimates the Jewish pop
Ilation of the United States at l,l03,SOO
New York has 100000; Illinois, $4,000;
Pennsylvania, $4,000; Ohio, $4,000; Cali
fornia, $4,000; Maryland, $4,000, and
Missouri $4,000.
Severe rains and floods have caused post
ponement of the Hungarian cavalry ma
neuvers near Papa, Hungary, at which
Emperor King Francis Joseph is expected
to be present. Ten soldiers were struck
by lightning at Also-Kasmark, four being
killed.
The government steamer Ramona
struck a skiff containing six belated
merrymakers in Quincy bay, ILL.,, all
were thrown in the water and three
drowned. The dead: John e. Web
kamp, Lulu Broye. Mary Mccarthy.
The other three were saved by clinging
TO beer keg from the overturned boat
An order for the organization of two