The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-10-28
DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events for
the Past week i'm This and Foreign
Innds-summar ixed From the Lat
est Dispatches.

tent on Texada island.
A big fire did considerable damage in
Knightstown, Ind. One fireman was killed
by falling walls. Several others are miss
ing. The loss will be 100000.
The newspaper Patra at Manila has
been suppressed, and its editor, Senior
Utor, Spaniard, placed under arrest on
the charge OF printing and publishing Sc
ditious documents.
Major Frank h. Upham, treasurer, act
ing quartermaster and commissary OF the
soldiers home at Santa Monica, Cal, in
stantly killed himself by accident.
Ten pounds of giant powder exploded ut
the 300-foot level of the Rabbits Foot
mine near Eureka, Utah, where the men
were at work, killing james Redford and
Oscar Slett The other men were brought
to the surface alive, but almost sutfocated
by gas Paul Berk, miner at the Grand
Central, was killed by shot going OF
while he was still in the Wine.
Dan Creedon of Australia knocked out
Pat Ready of Washington in New York
in the eighth round of what was to have
been a 25-round bout at 1913 pounds
Admiral Sampson, in the speech made
at Morgantown during the reception TO
Captain Chadwick created sensation and
contributed most interesting chapter 10
the unwritten history of the Santiago
campaign.
State President j. NJ. Hunter arrived at
Spring Valley, Ills, on the call of the eX
ecutiye committee of that district, and
called a strike of 1000 miners employed
by the Spring Valley Coal Company. The
men all struck, and the supply of coal
from this point will drop 5000 tons. The
difficulty which brought on the strike is
alleged to have been the refusal of General
Manager Dalzell to stop union dues at the
company's office.
The sale of the Sutro street electric road
ia San Francisco was formally consum-
mated, after some spirited bidding in
Judge Cofey's court, the purchaser being
the Sutro Street Railway Company, and
the price to be paid $4,000.
DIR. Klapper, editor of the Deutsch
Agrar Correspondent of Berlin has been
sentenced to Imprisonment in a fortress
for six months ON account of lese ma
jeste for criticising Emperor William.
Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho
has protested against the proposed re-
movsl of federal troops from the Occur
d'Alene district.
"A large number of men have handed in
their names to Captain p. Mel. Form of
the Rossland, b. c., rifle company, as vol
unteers for the Canadian regiment now
being formed for service in South Africa.
Joseph Heinitzi, the alleged mine salter.
80 LODI in, fha t,.l
Wash, awaiting his friends to put up
$1,000 bail before he can be set at liberty.
The American bark Wilma, Captain
John Slater, caught fire at Tacoma dock,
and will be a total loss. She was loading
at the st. Paul 4 Tacoma Lumber Com.
pany's mill for Australia, and had 100000
rect of lumber below her decks at the time
of the fire. This, with the vessel, which
was uninsured, will make the total loss
S34 900.
Georgia Parker, an unfortunate liy
ing in Rossland, B. c. died from drink
ing a quantity of corrosive sublimate.
Vincent Burch, waiter ON the ferry
boat Sausalito at San Francisco, wa.
stabbed to death by Manuel Mcbride
cook on the same vessel.
Columbia is three time winner
She tore across the finish line six min
utes TO the good in the third race, s,
the cup remains in the United States.
Chicagos population was increased
by $4,000 in one day by the decision o
the Illinois supreme court, which ha
ratified the election of last spring, an
nexing part of Austin TO the city.
Choynski whipped Jimmy Ryan O
Australia in a decisive maner. IL
showed himself a better man all round
In the seventh round three Touchdown
proved too much for the antipodean.
The Great Northern road has latel
bought 10000 900 feet of fir timber il
Washington, nearly all of it for tn
roads proposed ore dock at Alloue
bay.
Harry Elkes, the professional bicy
ciist, was injured by being throw
from his wheel on the Berkeley ova
track. He sustained 4 badly lacerate
wound on the left leg and his left arr
was broken.
The dwelling once occupied by form
er President Van Buren, at 81 Eas
Twenty-seventh street, N. Y, has bee
sold and il is announced that the prof.
erty will be converted into a bushes
block.
An Ashcroft, B. c., report states tina
there was big robbery at the Caribo
mine, near Quesnelle Forks. The bi
safe in the Cariboo Hydraulic Con