The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-12-30
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A Complete Review of the Events for
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Martin has again been elected senator
from Virginia.
Hanna gave Christmas gifts TO men who
recently refused to strike at Cleveland
Thomas Jones plunged TO death from a
railroad trestle at Spokane Wednesday.
Powerful factors on Wall street prevent
ed a panic recently. Ten to twenty mil
lions were turned loose to bolster the
market
a big fire at Florence, S. c.. destroyed
a hotel, city hall, bank and other build
ings.
DIR. f. Benjamin Andrews of Chicago,
may lose his job for taking sides with the
British.
Thousands of men are rushing to vol
unteer in England, eager to ayenge the
recent defeats.
SIMPSONS pay has been cut down, as he
must hold grade before the salary at
saches to the position.
Corporal STRIVING of the Northwest
mounted police and two comrades are
missing on the Edmonton trail.
The Illinois supreme court has held the
anti-department law, passed by the last
legislature, to be unconstitutional.
Brig Gen. Edward S. Kellogg, recently
promoted. from colonel of the Sixth in
fantry, has been placed ON the retired list.
A member of the Universal Netherlands
union has arrived in this country with an
appeal to end the war between England
and Transvaal.
The transports Hancock and City of
Puebla have arrived at Manila with the
Forty fourth and a portion of the Forty
third infantry aboard.
Plans on an elaborate scale are being
made for the big convention of live stock
raisers and dealers, to be held in Fort
Worth, Tex, early next month.
Robbers recently went through a Pull
man coach in Missouri and forced their
victims, under threats of shooting, to sur
render their watches and money. When
the train slowed up the thugs escaped.
Hugo Hunfalvy, lawyer of New York,
says there is no possible question that two
electricians in Chicago, E. p. and C. s..
Karoly, are heirs to an estate in Hungary
worth 100000 florins, or about $4,320,.
900.
Sanford White of Dunbar, Pa, was shot
and killed by David Pierce, a colored en-
ploye. Pierce Immediately ran, with more
than 200 persons in pursuit. He was
chased for two miles, when his pursuers
came within shooting distance, and he
fell, riddled by bullets, and died in a
short time.
Chicago junk dealers are accused of
stealing miles of copper wire.
In Manila cemetery Gen. Lawton's re-
mains are temporarily laid to rest
Gold shipments to Europe last week
probably aggregated four millions.
Ice broke on a skating pond in Brus-
sells and forty children were drowned.
General Miles thinks the Transvaal
people are well prepared for trouble.
Carnegie has raised the wages of all
employees at the steel works at Pitts
burg.
Crown Timber Inspector Willison of
the Klondike has resigned to engage in
mining.
Proposed new classification of freight
rates, it is said. will ruin the small
shippers.
McGovern beat down and knocked
out Harry Forbes of Chicago in the sec
'ond round.
The cruiser New Orleans has ar
rived at Manila just two months out
from New York.
A large order is said to have been
given to a continental firm for artil
llery for Filipinos.
A plan to refit the historic old craft
Constitution and make her a training
ship is being considered.
]. H. Sanders. a well known resident
of Chicago, killed himself in a Mem
phis, Tenn, hotel recently.
The large dry goods house of John
M. Conklin & Son of Brooklyn has
made a general assignment.
Sol Smith Russell will retire from
the stage for year or more at the con
clusion of his interrupted engagement
at Chicago.
Commission men and fruit dealer:
of New York report scarcity of ban
anas for the holiday trade almost with
out precedent.
A wreck on the New Jersey Contra
railroad at Highbridge. N. j., recent,
resulted in one death and the injur,
of five persons.
Captain B. w. Bjornsted. formerly o
the Thirteenth Minnesota volunteers
has been appointed captain of thu
Forty-second infantry.
Edward Worstell, laborer, at Lewis
ton, Idaho, died from the effects of ex
posture when for 81 hours the unfog