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

promoter, and formerly president of
the Commercial Gazette company, is
dead.
Citizens of the United States resid-
ing in Chez Foo. China, have made an
earnest appeal, through Consul Fowler
at Chez Foo to the charitable in Amer
lea and elsewhere on behalf OF the suf-
ferers from the appalling Yellow river
foods of this year.
Captain James Mcqueen Forsyth,
who has been recovering in the ma
val hospital at Philadelphia from a se-
we're illness, has received word from
Washington of his appointment to
command the cruiser Baltimore. now
in the Philippines.
The state department is advised that
Francis G. Randolph, an American cit
zen, has been found guilty of "delib-
crate homicide" at Bogota, Colombia.
Charles Mccoy and Carl Connor.
each about II years old, were boxing
| in Center, Indiana, when Conner gave
Mccoy a fearful blow over the heart,
causing a hemorrhage. The blood
poured into the abdomen in a stream.
Death was almost instantaneous.
The baking powder trust has been com
pleted and the $20,000OOO capital stock
was subscribed twice over.
Mr.. John Sherman is now better than
at any time since he was taken sick. His
recovery is confidently expected.
President Hill of the Great Northern
will deliver an address before the Inter
state Grain Growers Association, now in
session at Fargo, n. ID.
Six hundred employees OF the Fox Press
ed Steel Company have quit work because
the firm refused to grant an advance OF
10 per cent in their wages.
The ordnance bureau of the war de
partment has sent circular to the gov
ernor of each state of the union stating
that the arms and ordnance stores fur
nished the volunteers during the Spanish
war viii be returned to the state in kind
All the Mahoning mill owners have
voluntarily advanced the wages OF labor
ers from $l.l5 to $l.25 a day. Fifteer
hundred men will be benefited by the in
crease.
Albert Griffith, the Australian pugilis
known as young Critic" was declared
insane and sent to jefferson asylum, Chi
cago Little hope for his recovery is en-
tertained.
Six hundred and fifty operatives in tn
/ Warren, r. l., cotton mills are on strik
+ owing to the discharge OF an operativ
e who signed a paper calling for the organ
ization of a union.
g One hundred and fifty men are at worl
8 on the ruins of the Windsor hotel firG
The first human remains to be found o.
l. the Fifty-seventh street side Of the ruin
e have been unearthed near the wall OF tn
7. annex. There were recovered numbe
OF bones and portion OF skull.
e William A Brady and Martin Juliar
d on behalf of Jim Jeffries and Bob Fit
d simmons, have agreed TO accept the bi
of the Coney Island Jockey Club for
. 25-round contest between these tw
8 heavyweights. The contest will tax
t place May &C. George Siler Of Chicag
has been agreed upon as referee.
/ Acting Secretary Meiklejohn has issue
8 an order stating that gold having bee
q discovered on Anvik river and its tribl
taries within the limits of the military re
10 eryation of Fort st. Michael, Alaska, a
"a mining claims in the region, in accordan'
Is with the mining laws and usagts, are
be recognized by the military authorize
% in the reservation.
q The fall of snow during the las
n week in Vermont has been create
u than at any similar period this yea
y DR.. Charles Corey of Tacoma she
and killed his wife last week Will
4 the two were lying asleep.
n Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn ha
n made public statement concernin
! exports at Havana during Februar!
a II shows the total shipments OF t
=. bacco at 13,4SS bales. The great bul
10 of this went to New York. The tots
o exports of cigars for the month wa
- 1914 400. The total cigarette shil
n ments for the month were 1,OlO,4O
,t packages. The shipments of cut Il
bacco amounted to 1884 kilogramme
g. The shipments of leaf tobacco were
q barrels. The exports, free OF duty, du
"a ing February, reach 5,145,393 kill
grammes. chiefly sugar. pineapple
II. preserved fruits, old iron, etc.
=. General Isaac H. Bailey was foun
dead in his room at the Waldorf-A
q toria, in New York Death was dr
a. TO apoplexy.
Of
20 blizzard In Colorado.
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