The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-06-10

to France.
Senator Fairbanks is on his way to
Seattle, Wash, thence to Alaska, on a
six weeks pleasure trip on the cutter
McCulloch.
The mystery of the disappearance of
$4,000 from the specie tank of the
steamer Alameda on her voyage from
Sydney to San Francisco, is still I'M
solved.
Congressman David B. Henderson of
Iowa has received enough pledges to
elect him speaker of the house of rep
resentatives.
The steamer Orizaba from Skagway
reports the mysterious disappearance
of J. c.. Ellis, chief engineer of the tug
Golden Gate.
An Italian laborer named Paste is
sentenced to be hanged on August 10th
at Nelson, B. G.. He shot Terence Ry-
an at Cranbrook the evening of April
9th.
John Flanagan, worlds champion
hammer thrower, wearing the N. Y. A.
G. colors, won new fame by throwing a
hammer 1874 feet 10 inches and making
new record.
A thousand employees of the Tennes-
see Coal, Iron & Railroad Company,
have received an advance of 2h cents
per ton. This is the fourth advance
within a few months.
In view of the continued publication
of inflammatory memorials in the San
tiago press. General Brooke has issued
an order directing the appointment Of
press censor there.
Mrs. Johanna S. Schilling, of New
York, aged 35, with her two daughters,
Gertrude and Edna, were found dead
in tenement. All had been axphyxi-
ated by gas. doubtless turned on by the
mother.
Admiral Dewey's health is still i'm
proving. He will not visit England on
his homeward journey, but will proceed
straight to Gibralter and thence to
New York, where he expects to arrive
at the beginning of October.
1t was a premeditated riot that took
place Sunday in Paris on the weigh
ing ground of the Autiel race course.
The object of the rioters was to insult
President Loubet and perhaps In the
heat of action and fight, to get rid of
him.
M. Emile lola, who has returned to
Paris, has written asking the public
prosecutor to send a notification of the
sentence which the Versailles court
passed upon him in the libel action
growing out of the charges he brought
against the officers who conducted the
Esterhazy courtmartial.
} Sheriff Bradbury, of Kootenai coun.
ty, has sent official notices to the SUI
perintendents of the railroads inform.
! ing them of their infringement of the
anti-alien laws of the state of Idaho
and warning them that unless the law
is complied with and they discharge
all employees Immediately whose EN-
ployment is forbidden by law. arrests
and prosecution will follow.
Two cases of smallpox have been dis.
covered in San Francisco.
Frank Thompson, president of the Penn
sylvania railroad, is dead.
= The steamer Pelican was lost while er
route from Puget Sound to China.
Brigadier General Charles King of the
Philippines has been morally discharged
Joe Corbett, the baseball player and
brother of the ex-pugilist, was married
Wednesday.
julius F. Edison, who is engaged in the
engraving and publishing business in Chi
cago, has failed
DIR. w. E. Moore, one of the oldest ant
best known Presbyterian divines in the
country, is dead.
; The First Bank of Skagway has CLOSED
its doors and j. G. Price has been ap
pointed receiver.
The American Academy of Medicine ha
elected DR.. G. II. Hudson Makuen of Phil
:. adelphia president.
9 l.. G. Hastings, assistant treasurer o
the Rock Island railway, in Topeka, com
:. mitted suicide Sunday.
The dominion government has disal
y lowed the anti-Japanese law passed by tn
last provincial legislature.
+ The British ship Puritan has arrived il
Victoria, b. c., 10Y days from Cardiff
r This lowers the sailing record one day
Imports of wheat into Liverpool for tn
:. week: From Atlantic ports, 60,9OO quar-
!. tiers; Pacific ports, none; other ports
$4,000.
e Joseph LaBerga, notorious agent o
i General Weyler, who outraged defense
l,ss women and killed children, was lynch
e ed Tuesday in Cuba.
e General Carlos Ezeta, ex-president o
San Salvador, is dangerously i'll in Oak
o land, Cal Grave doubts are entertained