The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1899-08-12
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
n Complete Review of tho Events for
tho Past Week In This and Forei sn
iLsnds-summarixed From the Latest
Dispatches.


diers' home at Hampton.
John Cavanaugh was shot and killed at
Republic, Wash, by Willie Callahan. Cal
lahan acted in self-defense.
The assassins of President Heureaux
and their friends are in the mountain dis
trict about % miles north of Moca.
The United States cruiser Marblehead,
which is ON her way from Peru to Mare
Island, has left Coquimbo, Chile, for Cal
p lao, Peru.
The Oriental steamer Victoria reports
that before she left Kobe a typhoon was
raging which threatened serious damage
to shipping
Thomas Balm, liberal member for Went
worth, was elected speaker of the house of
commons at Ottawa to succeed Sir James
Edgar, deceased.
An accident occurred at Northport
Wash, resulting in killing Gus Ericsson
and wounding Thomas Joslyn, a fellow
laborer. a huge mass of rock fell on them.
The United States transport Senator has
arrived at San Francisco from Manila with
her flag at half mast, on account of the
death of Alexander Hawkins, commander
of the Tenth Pennsylvania regiment.
In the house of commons at Ottawa the
minister of militia stated that it had been
decided to withdraw one-half of the troops,
about 100 men, from the Yukon.
Stanley ID. Brown, l8-yearold son of
Alvah Brown, of Walla Walla, accidental
1y shot himself with a shotgun while hunt
ing. Part of the face and the top of the
ofr L. 1.
The operating committee of the Ameri-
can Smelling and Refining Company at a
recent meeting decided not to reopen the
shelters in Denver and Pueblo at the scale
recommended by the state board of arbi-
tration.
The Northern Pacific demands route
into Portland over the o. r.. & N. tracks. |
President Mellen declares he will build |
along the north side of the Columbia river
if his rival refuses to grant the concessions
desired.
John Thompson and his wife, an aged |
couple residing between Cable and Bear
Gap, Ga, were found dead in their home
with bullet wound in the head of each
There was every indication that Thompson
had murdered his wife ard then commit |
ted suicide. Jealousy is supposed to have
been the cause.
The college athletes who went to
England on July to compete with the
Oxford-Cambridge team have returned |
President Mckinley has purchased |
the famous Mckinley cottage" at the .
corner of North Market street and |
Louis avenue.
H. Victor Newcomb, formerly a sue
cessful business man of Louisville, KY,
was declared insane on the application
of his wife and son.
Dunsmuir, Cal, was the scene of a
double tragedy when Henry Brown,
mill sawyer, shot his wife and then
himself, both expiring Immediately.
A. Sutherland. merchant, was shot
and killed in Ardmore, I. T., by E. w.
Fairman, and A. Underhill, a bystand-
er, was seriously wounded by a stray
bullet.
David Dalton, well known swim
ming instructor of New York, who has
been stopping at Far Rockaway, was
drowned near Hog island near Rocka-
way Sunday.
At East Bernstadt, KY, Clyde
Thompson, aged Is. son of Deputy Unit
ed States Marshal George Thompson,
was shot and fatally injured by young
man named Holt.
A special received from Terrazas,
Chihuahua, Mexico, which is located
near the scene of the Yaqui uprising,
is to the effect that the Indians are ar
ranging for prolonged war.
The compositors and stereotypers of
the New York Sun, 120 in number are
on a strike. The press and composing
rooms were in darkness, but the editor
ial rooms presented their usual appear
ance.
Colonel J. B. Sanborn of the First
regiment of the Illinois National Guard
has invited the Tenth Pennsylvania
regiment on behalf of the Chicago regi-
ment of the Illinois National Guard to
stop in Chicago on August 80.
Fire entailing loss of about $780,
600 was discovered in the works of the
Glens Falls, N. Y, Portland Cement
Company The buildings, which were
of wood, burned like finder and in an
hour the entire plant was in ruins.
A horrible murder was committed in
Washington, d. c., Sunday. The MUIR
derer was Benjamin Smell, special ex-
aminer in the pension Office. His vic
tim was Liza Weissenberger, a girl IL
years old, who had been employed in
his household until three months ago.
Garfield, Wash, has suffered the