The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-04-08

disturbance.
President Loubet was a spectator at |
the Auteuil races at Paris and was |
warmly received by the people.
A powder car belonging to Great |
Northern freight train blew up at Ev-
erett, Wash, last week, killing one
tramp and wounding two others who
were riding in an adjoining car. In
addition to the powder car two cars
containing mixed freight were burned.
Workmen digging in the ruins of the
Windsor hotel in New York last week
found the bodies of two men nearly in
tact One was practically identified
as that of Harry w. Loree, a mail
clerk. The identity of the other is UNI
known.
Judge Silas U. Pinney. of Madison,
Wis, is dead He was a member of
the state supreme bench for seven
years.
The steamer Tartar has arrived at
Victoria, b. c., from the Orient after
stormy voyage. She brings news of
the massacre of 90 farmers by aborig-
ines at Byorsetsu, Japan. Germany
is said to be concentrating a feet at
Annoy with the evident intention of
selling Futsien.
The Chilena bark Eliza, that went
ashore while on her way from Puget
sound to Shanghai with a load of lum-
Der. was to be sold at auction after the
Nippon Maru left Hong Kong.
Grant G.. Glllett, the Kansas plunger,
who escaped to Mexico after abscond-
ing with "a cattlemen's money, claims
10 have made a contract with a Chica-
go stockman named Burke to look af-
ter his cattle interests in Peru. Soon
after his arrival in Mexico, Gillette
purchased hotel at Chihuahua, which
he is said to have just sold at loss.
The pulpit supply committee of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in
New York decided to recommend that
Rev. Alex Connell be called as pastor
of the church to succeed the late Dr.
John Hall.
Judge William Cowles James, OF
Council Bluffs, Ia, is dead, aged 6e
= years, of heart failure.
A furious Easter snow storm ragged
in South Dakota all day, about sis
/ inches having fallen.
} According to a dispatch from Hong
Kong serious disturbances have re
5 Gently occurred in the vicinity of Can
: ton and a British torpedo boat ha!
, been sent to protect British interests
= The destroyer will soon be followed b.
= other vessels carrying troops.
Z A deed transferring the interests o
t the Minneapolis & Pacific Railroad
l. company to the Minneapolis & ST
Louis company was filed in the Offic
n of the secretary of state last week. Tn
+ amount of the transfer was over 81
:, 100000.
& The first shipment of cherries of tn
e season which has been made was
y box from the ranch of ]. H. Ough, &c
o ing to Chicago. This promises to be
record-breaking year for apricoti
[. which, with favorable weather, will b
If in the market by the middle of Apri
It 1t is announced that Count de viii
d Gonzalo, former Spanish ambassado
to Russia has been appointed SPANS
e ambassador to Great Britain.
k Contracts have been let for the shil
If ment over the Cheyenne & Norther
d of 1900 cars of southern cattle to tn
ranges of northern Wyoming an
o southern Montana.
s. Oscar Strauss, United States mil
n lister, had an audience with the sulta
g last week at Constantinople. The IL
terview, which was protracted, was {
e. the most cordial character.
"A Arobhicbon Tovar with tho hiob
re of Ballon, Arequipa, Puirredeon, Pun
IS Falconio, Suillinao. Rico and Chach
ir poyas, have left New York to atten
ly the council at Rome.
n The London and Southwestern Raj
at way company's steamer Southwestern
which was sent to search for the bodi'
tie of victims of the wrecked steam,
IN Stella, went ashore last week.
IT, Baroness Hirsch, widow of the la
ct Baron Hirsch, the Hebrew phila
al thropist, is dead. The baroness leav,
several million pounds sterling, chief
es beQueathed to charities.
in The naval store ship Celtic HI
is reached Manila.
ed It has been decided that Admir-
p. Howison's flagship Chicago will pr
in coed to the South Atlantic station V
the Mediterranean and Red sea al
e thence around Cape of Good HOP
a touching all the principal ports.
1t was reiterated by two members
to the cabinet that no consideration W
be paid to any proposition for the C
mt ban army outside the 100000 fun
D., now awaiting their acceptance.