The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-11
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRE
A Complete Review OF the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-summsrixed From tho Latest
Dispatches.


There was a snowstorm general through
out Kansas last week.
Monsignor Amino, chief chaplain to
King Humbert, is dead.
Mrs. Sarah Stevenson, mother of former
Vice President Stevenson, is dead.
The cabinet council of Spain decided to
suppress the pensions of all former min
isters
Queen Marie Henriette, who has been
suffering from bronchitis-pneumonia is
very low.
The water in the James river at Rich
mond, Va, is up 20 feet at Columbia and
is still rising.
The police board of st. Louis has adopt
ed resolution enforcing the saloons to
be closed on Sunday.
According to the reports of his physic-
ians Rudyard Kipling is now far advanc-
ed on the way to recovery.
The wages of 5000 employees of the Riv-
erside iron works in Ohio, will be increas-
ed 10 per cent commencing March 9th
Among the projects to which the short
session of Congress was unable to give ia
vorable consideration was that to have Il
battleship named ''The American Boy"
In the course of a recent conversation
Dreyfus declared that his return to
France was imminent, but for the past
month he had received no news.
The transport Valencia, which sailed
TOT Manila, carried in addition to $50
soldiers, stores and supplies, 81 100000 to
pay the troops now in the Philippines
The Wellman steel works at Chester,
Pa, have ben sold to a syndicate of CAPT
talists represented by Frank Samuel, a
Philadelphia broker.
1t developed at the meeting of the Cen
trail Federated Union at New York that a
paper hangers strike, if it comes, will be
due to troubles among the workingmen.
A determined attempt at suicide was
made last week when Edward White de-
hberately took off his coat and walked oil
the end of the city wharf at Nelson, b. c.
He was rescued.
Lady William Beresford of London,
formerly Mrs. Louis Hammersley of New
York, and later the dowager duchess of
Marlborough, has sailed for the United
States
The circuit court of the state of Mary
land, composed of Judges Boyd, Stake
and Sloan, decided the church case in
Smoketon, Md, in favor of the liberal
church.
The bubonic plague is raging at Bonn
bay with unparalleled severity. Accord
ing to official returns there were 9l2
deaths last week, but these are quite un-
der the mortality.
Fitzsimmons and Jeffries may decide
the ring championship at Bergen Beach,
near New York City. Martin Julian says
that the owners of the resort have offered
$4,000 for the fight
A dispatch from Manila announces that
the American authorities there have un-
dertaken the protection of German inter
ests and that the cruiser Kaiserin Angus
ia has left Manila Bay.
Another blizzard struck Nebraska mt
Nebraska City, three inches of snow fell
and the mercury reached zero. Syracuse
reports sixty mile an hour gale with
the mercury below zero.
An order of the board of police com.
missioners at st. Louis, Mo-, that all
saloons be closed until midnight Sunday
under the provisions of the law was car
ried out TO the letter
The French steamer Cheribon. Captain
Aillard, chartered by the Spanish govern
ment, has arrived at Valencia from Glen
fuegos, by way of st. Michaels, with re-
patriated Spanish troops.
Commencing March 10 10 per cent
increase in wages in every department of
the Riverside Iron and Steel plants at
Wheeling, w. Va, will go into effect
About 5000 men are affected.
1t seems to be generally anticipated in
wool circles in Philadelphia that the
amalgamation of a number of large wool
en- manufacturers of this city into a large
company is a matter of the near future.
The body of ID. p. Ewing, member of
the firm of the Tyler Banking Company,
of Tyler, Texas, was found in the Taylor
bottling works. Near him was found an
empty morphine bottle indicating suicide.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail says that the leader of the
rebels in the province of An Houi, the
notorious desperate, Nui, has been cap
tured, fifty of his body guard being killed
1t is said at the war department that
there is no cause for apprehension on ae-
count of the detention of the transport
Sheridan in quarantine at Gibraltar
There is nothing more serious than mild
type of measles aboard.
A case of smallpox was discovered in
big downtown apartment house in Cleve-
land, Ohio, in which nearly 400 people
were lipinr The victim is an ATTORNEY