The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-07-14
The TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
a Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eIgn Lands--Taken From the Lat
est Dispatches.


toned for boycotting liquor stores.
According to a dispatch from Cape
Town, President Kruger is reported to
have moved to Nelspruit, the Transvaal
station for Lydenburg.
A car on the Webster & Dudley street
railway and car on the Worcester x
Webster road came together ON a down
grade at East Webster, Mass. Nearly
score of persons were injured, three of
whom it is feared may die.
The dead: j. Il. Hamilton, genera. SUI
perintendent; Bradley Reeves, engineer;
Edward Shannon, telegraph operator;
Yardmaster Carr, Master Mechanic La
lime and Conductor Bradford.
Quartermaster Captain Chas. T. Baker
of the U. S. A. transport Sumner will
shortly appear before San Francisco SUI
perior judges to show cause why he should
not be compelled to pay $4,000 damages
for assaulting and imprisonlng John Cal
way, formerly chief steward of the same
vessel.
A complaint has been filed in which
Galway alleges that on June 8 Baker as
saulted and imprisoned him in a compart-
ment six feet square. Here, he says, he
was kept on bread and water for two days
and nights in temperature which varied
from 20 to l2O degrees. The complaint is
backed by several afiidavits.
On the Fourth in New York
city in the search for victims. of the
North German Lloyd fire three bodies
were found off Fourth street. One was
identified as that of a longshoreman
named Henry Kunz. The two others were
charred beyond recognition. A fourth
body was taken from the river at the foot
of Bay street, Jersey City. 1t was that
of painter on the Saale.
At the Ohio River railroad shops in
Parkersburg, w. Va, a yard engine run
ming at good rate of speed went through
an accidentally opened switch and struck
a large train of gasoline cars. One OF
the tanks took nre. A cannon ball was
fired through the remaining tanks of oil to
let the fluid out. Instantly after the shot
was fired one tank exploded. The smoke
rose hundreds of feet into the air, and
after it had cleared away dead bodies
were scattered here and mere and injured
were lying all over the surrounding terri
tory.
Charles Wesley Dickinson, inventor Of
the geometry G lathe, which made sue
cessful counterfeiting of bank notes i'm
possible, is dead at his home in Belleville,
n. j., aged II. He manufactured ma
chimes for banA note engraving for the
United States and many foreign govern
ments.
The Crucible Steel Company of America
is proceeding rapidly toward its torma-
ton. On Monday the directors of the
Benjamin Atha & Illingsworth Company
of Harrison, n. j., which was the last OF
the important companies to hold out, met
in Newark and decided to grant the pro-
moters an option on their crucible and
open hearth plant and cast their fortunes
with the other concerns. The new com
pany will have an authorized capital OF
$50,OO0,0O0
Women of Iowa can not vote is the ue-
cision handed down by the court, but it
may be appealed.
AS a result of the celebration of indie
pendence day with firearms, toy cannon,
giant crackers and other forms of explo-
sives 80 persons were killed and 1925
wounded, according to reports received
from l25 cities. The toy pistol and the
toy cannon are shown to have done as
deadly execution as sometimes has been
done in war, as those loaded with bullets
and aimed to kill. SKyrockets and powder
explosions, the premature discharge oil
Fourth of July cannon help to complete
the list of mishaps. In several instances
persons were killed through runaway ac
cidents due directly to fireworks.
A fire loss of $4,000 was caused by the
fireworks.
In Chicago boy was killed. There were
no costly fires in the city. Frankfort, Ky.
alone suffered fire loss of $4,000 due Il
= firecrackers. Other cities also suffered
heavily. Out of this total of 1925 people
hurt, +42 can attribute their injuries tC
crackers and dynamite torpedoes. The
deadly cannon firecrackers did most of thu
execution. Out of l52 injuries by firearms
) in 81 cities the toy pistol caused 100.
Franklin McLeary, the Canadian
actor, died recently brain fever.
In the athletic tournament at LondoI
the Americans captured the lions share
, of the prizes
Twelve persons at Chicago succom
bed to the excessive hot weather on,
day last week.
Senator Jones of Arkansas has beer
reelected national chairman of thu
r democratic committee.
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