The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-08
DO|NGS through THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection of Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented la "A
Condensed Form-Culled from the Tel
-elgraph Reports.

his officers, restraining them from III
terfering with the regular course Oh
business at Ingleside.
serious collision has taken place
between Bulgarian and Turkish from
tier guards at Kozyl-Agob, between
Jamboli, eastern Roumelia, and Adrl-
.anople. on the banks of the ToonJa, DO
miles south of Jamboli According to
a dispatch from Sofia, capital OF Bull
garia. the Turks attacked a weak Bull
garian outpost, but the Bulgarians,
aided by armed inhabitants, repulsed
their assailants after a fierce fight.
Both sides suffered losses of killed and
wounded.
The funeral of the late Colonel John
M. Hamilton of the Ninth regular cav
airy, who was killed while leading his
regiment up San Juan hill on July LIST
last. was held from the state armory
at Geneva. N. Y. last week.
Samuel Halter, aged 3S, ticket sell
.er with Buffalo Bits Wild West show,
was shot and probably mortally wound
ed last week by VIM. II. Holland.
The bodies of George and Austin Bid
we'll. the men who, as leaders of gang
of confidence men, swindled the Bank
of England out of $1,0OO,OOO, reached
Chicago from Butte, Mont, where the
men died recently.
The Hong Kong authorities are
pressing for an extension of territory
ceded to Great Britain by the treaties
of Canton and Nan King on the ground
that more land is needed for govern
men buildings.
Jack Carr, the intrepid Alaskan mail
carrier, has broken the record from
Dawson to Skagway, coming out in III
days.
Miss Lily Post, the demented actress
who was confined in the city receiving
hospital at San Francisco last week
made a frantic attempt to gain her lib
erty while on the way to a private asy
lum for insane persons at Llvermore
She leaped from a carriage and almost
succeeded in escaping from her attend
ants.
One of the largest transactions II
Texas cattle since the first of the veal
was closed last week. Charles l. Ware
of Fort Worth, sold to Humphrey 4
,Critz. of Nebraska, 1000 head of CATTLE
for S19S, 900, or SIS per head. Deliver!
will begin May 18th for shipment t
Nebraska.
The jury in the case of w. M
Brandes, of Oakland Cal, accused o
beating his daughter to death, brough
in a verdict of murder in the secon'
degree.
Two bodies found in the ruins of TIL
Windsor hotel in New York last wee
were positively identified as those o
Miss Dora Hoffman of Baltimore an
Mrs. Auzeet AZee.
The steamer Newfoundland put int
Buena Vista harbor with 1900 seals
She reports that the remaining steam
ers of the fleet are daily augmentin
their catch.
Not a dollar of fire insurance is b'
ing written in Little Rock, Ark, an
the agents throughout the state hav
been notified to suspend all bushes
and send in their final reports so thei
business in the state may be speedil
wound up. This is due to recent tan
pering with the insurance laws in tha
state.
The common council have, by vot
of 81 to II, appointed a commissio
headed by Governor Pingree to negot
ate. purchase and operate all the stree
railways of Detroit under municipi
ownership.
The funeral train bearing the bodit
of $50 soldiers, who lost their lives
Cuba and Puerto Rico, arrived at Ros
lyn. Va, last week, having passe
through Washington without sto
The train was heavily draped
mourning and decorated with flags.
Rear Admiral C. c. Carpenter, +
tired, committed suicide last week in
sanitarium in Boston.
Ex-Secretary Sherman continues
improve steadily.
Miss Mary Wilson, a promineI
young society woman of Augusta, Kar
committed suicide on learning that A
va Dix, her lover. had been killed G
the battlefield of Malolos.
Richard Chamberlain, brother of ]
seph Chamberlain, secretary of sta
for the colonies, is dead in London.
Among the passengers on the hippo
Maru from the Orient last week we
Captain S. S. Saxton, formerly chief
General Kings staff in Manila, al
Brigadier General Reeves of the Thi
teenth Minnesota regiment. Bot
have resigned their commands and a
returning home.
The Chinese authorities have moi
fed the British consul at Tien rs