The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-11-18
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
A Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week in This and For
eign Lnnds-Summarized From the
Latest Dispatches.

Francisco, after a rough passage OF Il
days from Nagasaki. She had but IL
passengers, including several discharged
soldiers.
Sunday school teachers of the Missis-
sippi valley states recently had confer
ence to teach the children lessons from the
Bible.
The tenth annual meeting of the Iowa
Library Association met in Cedar Rapids,
Ia, with about 100 Librarians in attend
ance, representing all the large libraries
in the state.
The bark Katie F. Troop is loading l.
100000 feet of specially selected timber
at Vancouver, B. c., for the Cramps of
Philadelphia, to be used in building Unit
ed States ships.
The board of trustees of the home for
children and aged women, Minneapolis,
Mimi, has received from Ex-Governor and
Mrs. John S. Pillsbury the sum OF $780,
600, to be invested in a permanent fund,
the interest to be spent towards the main
tenance of the institution.
The Russians are marching toward
the Afghan frontier.
The general arbitration treaty be-
tween Paraguay and Argentina has
been signed.
George w. Kern, Of Allentown, Pa,
proprietor of hotel, shot himself and
wife in fit of anger.
r. M. Robinson, prominent mer-
chant of Dunlap, Tenn, was shot re-
Gently and robbed of $4,000.
Jack Moffat, the Chicago middle
weight, won an easy victory in Chi
cago over Frank Purcell of California.
Dave Sullivan and Joe Bernstein
fought 25-round draw tonight at the
Broadway Athletic club last week in
New York.
Chester La We're and Kid McCloskey
fought before the Butte Athletic Club.
La We're had the best of it from the
start and got the decision.
Mysterious Billy" Smith defeated
Charley McKeever of Philadelphia in a
20-round bout at catch weights at the
Broadway Athletic Club, New York.
Colonel Arthur L. Wagner, adjutant
general of the department of the Da
kotas, has left for the Philippines
where he has been detailed for ser
vice.
The president has appointed former
Governor Joseph w. Fifer of Illinois tC
be a member of the interstate com
merce commission, vice w. ]. Calhoun
resigned.
The whaling bark Anna Hicks ha:
arrived at San Francisco from the Ok
hotsk sea with $500 pounds of whale
bone, 615 barrels of whale oil and Al
barrels of sperm oil.
Communication with the eastern
parts of Jamaica, particularly the sec
ton beyond the line from Morant ba,
to Port Antonio, inclusive, was recent!
visited by a hurricane.
At Piano. Cal, Reese Martin wa
shot and killed by his 19-year-old son
Frederick. The young man accused hi
father of striking his mother. H
claims that he acted in self-defense.
Brass bullets are being used by tn
Filipinos against the Americans. Tha
fact was discovered wnen bullet wit
a brass casing was extracted from tn
leg of a soldier at the Polytechnic hos
pital in New York recently.
Brigham H. Roberts of Utah is to 81
as a member of the house of represent
atives in congress, but only for
month, and he is not to be unseate
because he is a polygamist He is
resign after being sworn in.
The safe and Office furniture of tn
Melvern bank of Melvern, Kan, was d.
molished by an explosion of dynamit
touched off by robbers, who then loo
ed the place, securing $500 in none
and several thousand dollars in note
and checks. They escaped, leaving u
clue.
AS the result of an investigated
conducted by an anti-Quay newspape
five men, all residents of the city {
Washington, are held in bail for coul
on charges of repeating, impersona
ing election officers and making frau
ulent returns.
A counterfeiting outfit and sat
blowing tools were unearthed by I'll
police at No. ZIG Huron street, Chicag
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Fay, the occupan
of the fat, were arrested and the p
lice believe they have broken up gar
of desperados that have become excee
ingly lively in Chicago of late.
John B. Sherman has rendered b
resignation as president of the UniC
Stock Yards and Transit Company,
take effect January l. For "a years M
Sherman was an officer of the corpor
ton and for 33 years of this time i
directing genius.