The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-03-04
DO|hGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection OF Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented In ~
Condensed Form-CuIled from the Tel
eIgrsph Reports.


ence was based upon the question of con-
structing railroad into the Republic
mining district.
William Wayne Belvin is under arrest
in the Waldorf Astoria, charged with
threatening the life of the Denver mil
honaire, David H. Moffat, and also with
trying to defraud the hotel out of 1923.
The United States gunboat Wheeling
has arrived in Vancouver, B. c., from
Alaska.
Miss Ada Rehan, the leading lady OF
Augustin Days company, has been en-
gagged, with Mr.. Days permission and
approval, to create the part of the hero
inc in the next Drury Lane drama.
The commissioners of Golden Gate park,
San Francisco, have accepted an offer by
Claus Spreckels to erect a marble or
granite music stand, to cost not less than
100000.
At st. Louis, in the trial of Campbell
Aligair on the charge OF murder, photo
graphs purporting to portray every stage
of the assault were brought forth by the
state and allowed as evidence The entire
tragedy as the prosecution presents it
was acted out before a camera.
Orders have been issued for filing in
of the fifty-mile gap between Surf and
Elwood, on the coast division of the
Southern Pacific railroad. This will COM
plete a new trunk line from San Francis
co to Los Angeles within year.
Frances Saville, the opera singer, who
states that she is a citizen of California,
has brought suit against the Madison
Avenue hotel in New York to recover
$4,000, the value of a casket of jewels
which she alleges was stolen from her
apartments in the hotel December 0, 1898.
Total receipts from customs and taxes
in Americas island possessions are: In
Cuba, from July IS, 1898, to January 81,
1899 (six ports not reporting for Janu-
ary), $l,3l2,372; in the Philippine ISL
ands, from August ID, 1898, TO December
81, $l,Sl9,Sl3; in Porto Rico, from Aug
nst Is. 1898, to December 10, 1898, 49,
643,6O2.
Lieut.. Commander c. P. Rees, u. S. N,
who was the signal officer with Admiral
Deweys fleet, and who stood upon the
bridge with the admiral during the bat
tie of Manila, has arrived in Topeka,
Kan, to visit relatives. The naval Off
Ger was received by the governor and
both branches of the legislature, and
spoke briefly before both the house and
senate.
An appeal has been received by the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on
behalf of the flood sufferers of the Shan
tung province of China. Those signing
the appeal are American anu English peo-
pie. The state that the Chinese of the
district have raised something like $780,
600, but this will go but a short way, as
there are over 100000 people starving.
The transport Roanoke has sailed for
Manila with full cargo of supplies for
the troops. She took away II recruits
for the Fourteenth infantry, IL men of
the Twentieth infantry and two men and
81 recruits for the Twenty third infantry.
The consummation of the $25,000,0OO
combine, the New York Gas, Light, Heat
Power Co., has been made possible
by the decision of the directors of the
Standard Underground Cable company to
surrender to the combine $l46,000 worth
of bonds of the United Electric Light &
Power company of New York held by il
as collateral.
Negotiations will probably be complet-
cd for the sale OF the plant of King, Gil
bert & Warner company of Columbus
Ohio, to the Bessemer steel plants of the
national organization. The plant is one
of the largest in the west.
Attorney General Monet OF Ohio has
filed motion in the supreme court ask
ing that +. b. Squire, secretary of the
Standard Oil Company, be cited for con
tempt. Secretary Squire refused to pro
duce certain books demanded by the at
torney general during the taking of tes
timony in the cases against the Standard
Oil company, before the master commits
sioner.
With regard to the reported Anglo
German agreement, Prince RadziwiIl Of
France remarked: "An entente between
such serious commercial rivals as Great
Britain and Germany is almost impos
sible
Emil Beme, a cabin passenger on the
North German Lloyd steamship Saale
was arrested in New York on charge o.
smuggling.
President Mckinley has notified the
Moravian college for women that it might
announce the fact that as far as the
present outlook was concerned he would
be able to attend the exercises on the
l50th anniversary of the seminary to b,
held on June ID President Mckinley as
sures the college he would be acccmpan
led nv Mrs Mckinley.