The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-18


The Rome correspondent says; The
Pope continues to improve, but his physi-
clans say he shows great weakness, which
is rather alarming to his encourage.
According to a dispatch from Sydney,
n. S. w, no less than one hundred per
sons persisted in hurricane that swept
Queensland.
six-story tenement at Bayard st.
was destroyed last week in New York.
The Marysville wooden mill, in Cal,
was almost destroyed by fire, the loss
being placed at $4,000.
A dispatch from Allahabad India,
says it is reported from Yarkan, Chinese
Turkestan, that large force Of Russian
troops has arrived at the Russian post
Fort Murghabi, on the Murlabi river.
The report that the Italians have seiz-
ed San Nun, province of Che Kiang,
which the italian minister, Sgnor Mar
tino has demanded as naval base and
coaling station, is officially declared un-
founded
The North German Lloyd steamer
Frederick der Crosse, Captain Diehl,
which arrived at Bremen on March 9Th,
is aground off Schulau in the river Elbe.
Hon. j. f. Tillman, register of the
treasury, is dead
Ex-State Senator j. C. Hoar, Of Wash,
is dead
The Chicago has been detached from
the squadron of Rear Admiral Sampson
and has sailed from Havana to Hampton
Roads, under Admiral Howison.
Captain Thomas w. Shields, well
known river man and lieutenant under
General Price, in the Confederate army,
is dead.
Thomas p Donaldson, the diver, who
was injured in diving into a tank at Mad
ison Square Wednesday, is dead
Nine. Schumann Heink, the famous
contralto singer is critically i'll with cry
sipelas in New York.
Mr. Kipling is still improving. Una
BILE to keep Mr.. Kipling in ignorance of
his favorite daughter Josephine's death,
the news was broken to him tonight by
DIR. Durham. The blow was a heavy
one, but the father bore up bravely.
The Daily Telegraph of London, ex-
presses its intense satisfaction at the un-
wonted scene of review of American
troops" at La Valetta, island of Malta,
on Thursday, by Lieutenant General Sir
Francis Grenfell, governor of Malta.
Sherman E. Day as special master has
sold under foreclosure at auction all the
lands granted the Union Pacific Railroad
Company in Wyoming.
General Manager Parker of the Chica-
go, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, has
announced that the three thousand sec
ton hands and other employees of the
cOmpany's roadway in his department
We're to be given an immediate advance
of from five to ten per cent in wages.
Lon. Edwards, of Los Angles, who shot
and killed his mining partner, Charles l
Evans, at their cabin west of Ashland
last week, will have to answer to a charge
of murder which has been filed against
him by District Attorney Watson.
The u. S. transport, Conemaugh, ha!
sailed for Manila with 300 mules.
Detective Steele has arrived with vii
liam O'Keefe who over five years ag
p shot two men here in saloon and afte
being arrested, jumped his bond. He wa
captured in Seattle. Wash
h North of England coal merchants ar
: alarmed at the steady growth Of tn
$ American coal trade to European port
n that formerly took English coal.
Secretary Long has directed circula
II letter to the commanding officers of a
u navy yards and stations, recting tn
IS passage by Congress of a resolution pro
, viding for the payment of so per cent &C
ditional for all work in those yards an
II stations in excess of eight hours per da
e. performed by laborers.
L In a conflict recently between the Spar
<, ish soldiery and number OF mutineor
convicts at Santonia, sixteen miles eas
l. of Santander, the site of an importar
= arsenal, and OF several military mag
he zines, one convict was killed and sewers
% wounded.
Orders have been received by Capital
IT Robinson, of the United States Quartz
i masters department, to purchase lSC
lie tons of hay, oats and bran and 10000
n feet of assorted lumber for direct shi
ment to Manila, The supplies will
e, carried on the ship Marion Chilcott, no
n, at Seattle.
m DIR. Chas. f. hurry, son of DR.. R.
ID hurry, one of the best known and hig
is ly respected residents of Sewickley, Pa
shot and instantly killed John Jenninl
$ (colored), his fathers butt er, withol
rs cause.
&c Four men have been arrested in CT
g, cago charged with demanding $500 blac
of mail from Frank H. Cooper, of Sieg'
Al (so,rov e. y,