The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-01-21
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERSE TRICKS FROM THE WIRE
A Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week in This and Foreign
Lands-Summarized From the Latest
Dispatches.

Ashland, Wis, reports the grip is disas-
astrously prevalent in north Wisconsin
lumber camps.
The executive committee of the Interna-
tional League of Press Clubs has decided
to hold the annual convention in baltimore
early in April.
Mary and Thomas Miller, Albert Wilson
and Walter Brown were run down and
killed by train on the Pennsylvania rail
road near Larimer, Pa.
Henry Jones, negro, who assaulted and
murdered Mrs. Nancy Welch, a white wild
ow, near Richmond, N. c., confessed his
guilt and was lynched.
The Sturgis, Mich, board of public
works decided to award the contract for
the city's new electric light plant to the
Chase Construction Company of Detroit
for $4,000.
President Iglesias of Costa Rica had in
terviews in London with Mr.. White, the
American charge daffaires, and with the
Prince of Wales and the Marquis Of Sal
isbury.
John w. Jones, miller of Prospect, o.,
has filed a petition i'll bankruptcy in the
United States court at Toledo. He says
he has debts amounting to SOL 600, with
no assets.
The Bricklayers' and MasOns' Interna-
tional Union, in session at Hartford, Conn,
Endorsed the cigarmakers' blue label. The
delegates were rendered banquet and
ball.
The American liner New York, formerly
the auxiliary cruiser Harvard, left New
York Wednesday on her first passage since
the Spanish war as a merchantmen, going
to England.
At their own request, Brigadier Gener-
ais William w. Gordon and w. C. Oates
OF the volunteer army have been honor
ably discharged from the military service
of the United States.
w. S. Forman of East st. Louis, H.,
former commissioner of internal revenue
is in Washington on his way to annapolis
to visit his son, who will graduate for the
United States naval academy in February.
The budget committee of the reichstag
was informed by the secretary of the navy,
Admiral Tirpitz, that a new naval pro
gram was not to be introduced
The Oxford, England, trades council
passed a resolution heartily approving the
scheme for establishing a college for labor
leaders at Oxford, to be known as Ruskin
Hall, and pledging every assistance posi-
BILE
Count Klaus Won Egloffstein, who was
recently obliged to leave the German army
on account of his debts, has been arrested
at Berlin on a charge of forgery. Egloif
stein was the director of the notorious
gambling club, Der Froelichen.
Justice Brewer, of the United States
supreme court, has sailed on the White
Star Line steamship Majestic for Liver
pool. His visit abroad is in connection
with the meeting of the Venezuelan boun-
dairy commission, of which he is member.
Mrs Henry Haskell Powling, manager
of the Star Hosiery mills at Hdgama, n.
Y, filed a petition in bankruptcy in New
York City Her assets are given at about
$4,000 and the liabilities at a bout $780,
600, of which $4,000 is secured by mort
cages.
w. \. Rodenberg of East St Louis, ILL.,,
congressman elect from the Twentyfirst
district, is in Washington, looking the
ground over and becoming acquainted with
the ways of statesmen. He will succeed
Jehu Baker in congress, his term begin
ming March 4.
Rev. Gregory Doyle, on trial at Nun
fordville, Ky, for completely in the MUIR
der of Lydia Bracher, has confessed he was
the author of her shame. Professor Me
Clure, well-known educator in that sec
ton. is serving a life term for his part in
the fatal operation.
Isaac S. Plant and Ralph Plant, former
ly in business with Samuel Kahn as the
Mercantile Cloak Company, filed a volun-
tary petition in bankruptcy in New York
City. Liabilities, $l55,34l, incurred in
1890. Isaac c. Plant has individual liza
bilities of $l2,9s9 Petitioners have no as
sets.
Robbed and Consigned to Death.
St Louis Jan lS-Frederick Millikin