The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-18
DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection OF Items from
the Two HeInispheres Presented In a
Condensed Form-cuIIed from the Tel
elgrssph Reports.

rgan snow belt prevailed last week.
An effort has been made to consolidate
builders of pipe. organs into combine.
Khalifa Abdullah, the Dervish ruler
in the Soudan, is suffering from leprosy.
Rolin NJ. Squire, formerly commission
er of public works of New York, is dead.
Frank Guilfort, one of the Guilfort
Bros. well known circus gymnasts, Is
dead.
Rev. W. c. Dickinson, ID. D., well
known Presbyterian minister of Chicago,
is dead.
Fire at Chenoa, ILL.,, resulted in the
death Of an unknown printer and the loss
of seven brick business blocks with their
contents.
Captain Morton Levy Phillips, comman-
der of the United States revenue cutter
Boutwell,, is dead.
Throughout the Wisconsin valley dis
trict the snow is from one to four feet
deep on the level.
A movement is on foot to form com
bination of plain and decorated lamp
chimney manufacturers
NJ. Secretan, founder of the Society des
Metaux, and chief agent in the great cop
per ring of 1888 is dead.
Thomas OFFICER, Council Bluffs bank
er, lost a roll of bills containing $4,000 in
the streets OF Omaha, recently.
Johnny Griffin, the Braintree lad, in
his day one of the cleverest feather
weight fighters in the world, is dead.
John Kelly and j. Burns have been ar
Il. so.o nfk o,, ar,,Y, ioot 4.
ed in the Amherst bank robber, in Wis
eonsin.
Five persons were killed and forty in
jured in collision between two eXcur-
sion trains last week near Rakata, on
Rakata river.
The Rev DIR. Byron Sunderland has
been appointed pastor of the First Pres
byteran church in Washington, to sue
sseed Rev. T. De Witt Talmage.
Almost the entire plant of the Cum
mer Lumber Company, situated on the
st. Johns river, four miles north of Jack
sonvile Fla, was destroyed by fire.
Advices have just been received that
on February l3 half a block of the bust
ness portion of Dawson, Alaska, was de
stroyed by fire, the loss aggregating $50,
1000.
The will of Herbert Stewart, a wealthy
New York engineer and contractor, be
aueaths $4,000 to establish the Herbert
Stewart scientific fund at Yale univeri
sity.
Marquis Villamejor, who in the latte
part of 1887 offered Senior Sagasta, theI
premier el0,000 to start a national sub
scription for the increase of the fleet,
dead.
The Union Club of Malta, gave luncl
con to the officers commanding the Amer
lean troops on board the United State
transport, Sheridan, on their arrival e
route to Manila.
The American Missionary AssOciatio
has voted OF establish in Puerto Rico a
once Christian schools like those it ha
established in this country for the mt
groes in the South.
William Abb, the Italian murderer {
James Lacey is under arrest in SPOKANE
The blizzard that swept over the cour
try east of Omaha, Nebraska last weel
was the worst ever experienced.
The committee of the Granite MANI
facturers Association and the Cutter
Union, reached an agreement and tn
strike which has been in progress for tw
weeks, has been declared off.
The demand of the foreign governmer
for a concession of San Nun bay int
mates that stronger measures than I'll
ultimatum of Signor Martina, the Italia
minister at Pekin, will be necessary.
VIM. A. Douchette, % years of ag
was arrested in st. Cecilia church, Bosto
on the charge of embezzling $4,000 fro
the collection box. Marked bills place
in the collection box were found in h
possession.
The following statement has been
sued showing the total number of dealt
reported TO the sdiutsnt generals off
between May LIST, 1899. and February ?
1899: Killed in action 329 died
wounds, l25; died Of disease, 5277; tots
573l.
Mrs. Cornelia Poirier and Samuel Pa
slow were hanged at st. Scholarship
Que, last week. Life was declared e
tinct in eight minutes. The necks
both were broken.
While searching in Alaska the meal
of becoming rich. fortune of $4,000
awaits Reginald Dawson, of Chicago,
India.
An explosion of several hundred poun
of powder occurred last week in the Coz
modore mine, at Creole, Colo, creatii
great havoc and killing three men.
According to dispatch from Bomba
Il