The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-07-01
DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
An Interesting Collection OF Items from
the Two Hemtspheres Presented In y
Condensed Form-Culled from tho Tel
elgraph Reports.

rlngt0n OF Butte fell into tub OF DOlllng
water and was scalded to death.
Antoine Heneaken, a well known min
ing man, was killed in Seattle by falling
from a staging.
The Natal volunteers in England have
been officially ordered to hold themselves
in readiness for active service.
The total receipts from all sources at
the ports of Manila and Iloilo during
the first four months of 1899 were 81 ,4l4,-
636.
Congressman Payne of New York, Dal-
zell of Pennsylvania, Steele of Indiana,
Hull of Iowa and Heatwole of Minnesota,
will sail for Alaska from Seattle June 20.
Non-union colored coal miners were
brought into Evansville to take strikers
places, when they were fired upon by I'M
known parties. Six men were shot, three
fatally.
Peter Maher, the Irish heavyweight pu
gilist, scored quick victory over his fel-
low countryman, Mike Morrisey, of Tip
perary, before the Lenox Athletic club
in New York.
A tremendous consolidation deal on
Wall street is practically consummated,
whereby all the whisky and alcohol con-
Germs in the country are combined under
one supervision.
Daniel Patrick, the negro who was &C
cused of assaulting Miss Bessie Ireland,
in Scranton, Miss, confessed the crime.
At l o'clock in the morning the mob as
saulted the Jail at Scranton and half an
hour later the negro was taken out and
lynched.
Mataafa recently surrendered 1850 more
rifles and the loyalists have given up
1000.
The Bermuda reciprocity commission
has arrived to open negotiations for a
reciprocity treaty.
The 3-year-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs NJ @. Hull in Boise, Idaho, was
burned to death recently.
Copies of the insurgent organ, indie
pendencia, show that the Filipinos' hopes
of success are kept ahame by political
movements in America.
Secretary of War Alger has given in
direct confirmation to the report that
General Joseph Wheeler is to be assigned
to duty in the Philippines.
General Otis recently received a letter
signed by native women of the province
declaring that if all the men were killed
the women would still keep up the fight
against the Americans.
The Mexican government has designat-
ed O. commissioner to present the extra
dition case against Mrs. Rich, now held
in Texas on the charge of having killed
her husband in Mexico.
Burt Thomas of the internal revenue
service at San Francisco has seized ESQ.,
al. ,o1 ok -,
the Capital cigar factory, the largest CT
gar factory in that city.
The first consignment of United States
mail from the Yukon in the past two
months has reached Seattle. There were
IA sacks of it, containing about 10000
letters. The Topeka brought $4,000 in
gold.
A stringent law for the protection of
workingwomen goes into effect in Ne
braska July l. 1t is expected that it will
cause the substitution of male for female
employees in many shops, stores and fac
tories.
Frederick w. Peck, United States com
expects to visit Denver in the near future
missioner general to the Paris exposition,
to consult with the mining men of the
west in regard to the mining display at
the Paris exposition.
The situation in the smelter strike
in Denver presents no new develop
ments.
Early Sunday morning a tornado
struck Bradley, Nebr., and partially
wrecked the town.
Two Russian engineers and ten Cos
sacks have been killed by brigands
near Kirin, Manchuria-
Fire damaged the Moro-Phillips
Chemical Works, in Camden, N. ]
to the extent of 100000.
The first celebration Of the Fourth
of July in Hawaii under American SOW
ereignty is to be a memorable one.
Hall Adali, the Turkish wrestler,
threw three men twice each in So min
utes at Cripple Creek. Colo. recently.
The strike of 200 textile workers at
Brunn, Moravia, after lasting two
months, has been settled by compro-
mise.
Fire at Laurel, Del, destroyed prop
erty valued at from $125,000 to $780,
900, including a number of stores and
one hotel.
The minister of marine has assigned
the sum of II, 100000 roubles for dredg-
ing and the construction of two moles
at Port Arthur.
While Miss Nellie Kendall and G. G..
Batting were walking in Seattle they
were held up by two men, one of whom
fired at Batting.
The government of the South Afri-
can Republic is ordering large quanti-