The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-01

The influenza is raging in Berlin and
the death rate is heavy.
The actual work of taking subscrip-
lions for stock in the worlds fair cor
Doration has begun.
A petition to Queen Victoria signed
by q 900 British subjects in the Trans
wall has been handed to the British
agent at Pretoria praying her majesty
TO secure reform of the abuses from
which the Uitlanders are suffering and
claiming their position is intolerable.
With a superiority In cleverness, !
quickness and ring generalship which |
was apparent from the first round. Kid |
Mccoy was very properly awarded the !
decision over Jos Choynski at the end |
of 20-round contest before the Ma
tional Athletic Club In Mechanics pa
vilion in San Francisco last week.
Paris is suffering from the scourge
of Influenza. The deaths during the
last seven days have been 238 above
the average.
General Greeley has received cable
dispatches from Cuba announcing that
the military telegraph lines have chen
completed between Sancti Spiritus and
aCiege D'Avila in the centre OF the is
land and between Holguin and Vic
toria de Las Tunas, department of San
tiago.
Jules Cambon, French ambassador
to the United States. will soon be APP
pointed ambassador to Italy. to sue
coed NJ Niscard. who is about to re-
sign.
Chris Bosser a carpenter, shot and
killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Brehm,
and then fatally wounded his wife last
week, at Appleton, Wisconsin.
Montezuma University, at Besse-
mer, Alabama, was destroyed by fire
last week.
The organization of the American
School Furniture Company. capital
stock $1,500000 has been completed.
The little town of Liberty, in De
Kalb county, Tenn. is almost wiped
off the map. A furious tornado swept
over 1t.
Tom Broderick, Of Yonkers. knock
ed out Mike Farrager, of Youngstown,
Ohio, last week.
The newspapers of St. Petersburg
publish pitiable accounts of the condi-
ton of the so-called famine districts
of Russia, especially Samaria, in the
eastern part of European Russia.
Michael Munkascy. the famous Hun
garian painter who has been secluded
in a hospital for the insane at Bonn
for more than two years. is dying.
Colonel M. ]. Payne. sx-mayor of
Kansas City, has filed a petition in vol
untary bankruptcy in the federal court
there.
John Butter, said to have been the
oldest bachelor in the United States, is
dead at Huntington. l. l.. in his 1O1st
year.
Archbishop Hennessey is seriously
Ill at the archepiscopate residence at
Dubuque, Iowa.
Joe Goddard, the famous Australian
pugilist, better known In fistic circles
as the Barrier champion" has decid-
ed to retire from the ring.
When the will of Rev. Edmund Dru-
ry Copper, rector of the church of the
Redeemer at Astona. L. l.. was filed
for probate, it was found that 1t be-
QuedJneu LDe Dulh VI luo cSIdtc VI PSci-
900 to his wife who died several years
ago. The will would have been mop
erative but that 1t bequeathed his IL
brary to the University of the South
at Suwanee, Tenn.
Marquis Salvage Raggi, who sue
ceeds Signor MARITIME as Italian minis
ter to China, is expected to reach Pekin
about the end of next month. He will
open negotiations with the Tsung Ii
Yamen concerning Italy's request for
a concession at San Nun bay.
John Gilbert who slew his wife and
four children with Ratchet on Feb
ruary 28th last on his farm near Indus
try, Kan, pleaded guilty when put up
on trial at Clay Centre. Kan. and was
sentenced to death.
The German battleship Oldenbure
broke her anchor and went aground
near Kiel during heavy snowstorm
1t is reported that Mohammedar
rebellion has broken out in the prov
ince of Kan-Su, the most northwestern
province of China.
The popular actress Lola Banzolla
exclaiming "'Tis love that kills" sho
herself with a revolver on the stage IL
full sight of the audience during per
Torrance at Gill, Syria, and was re
moved In dying condition.
The Danish government will ash
parliament to vote credit to send thu
cruiser Fyon to China In connection