The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-06-16

M. ]. Henry, who has returned from
Skagway, reports the finding of the
body of Fred Clayson, the murdered BIZ
cyclist, on a sand bar below the rap
ids.
Tom Sharkey easily defeated Yank
Kennedy in the first round of what was
to have been a 25-round bout before the
Broadway Athletic Club, New York,
last week.
Union men of Philadelphia. will not
march in the parade in honor of the
republican national convention, because
non-union labor completed the conven-
ton hall.
Anton Olsen and a man named Stew
art, owners of a general store at New
man River station, near Phoenix, Ariz.,
were murdered by a party of Mexicans,
the motive being robbery.
A hard freeze recently at Minnewau-
kan, N. D., formed quarter of an inch
of ice. Much wheat was cut back to
the ground. The crop can not exceed
one-half the ordinary yield.
The river boat T. p feathers sank
recently at Bouger's Landing, rs miles
above New Orleans The loss is $751;
600. There were 20 persons on board,
all of whom reached shore safely in
lifeboatc.
To the best informed men in financial
circles it would not be surprising if
monetary difficulties should arise in
Europe at any time, and should origin
ate in the German capital.
The troubles of Estes G. Rathbone,
former director of Cuban posts, seem
to be increasing. The auditors depart
ment has thrown out $4,000 worth Of
vouchers, including $4,000 twice, most
of them at Muncie. Ind. The Fidelity
Company has been notified that it will
be held responsible on Mr.. Rathbones
bond.
The car strike at Hanover, Germany
has caused numerous excuses. The
police proved unable to quell the riots
and military detachments were called
upon to clear the streets.
There were only three killed out of
200 men imprisoned in a mine at Glous-
ter Ohio, which was wrecked by an ex-
plosion. The rescue work was so en-
ergetic that 1877 laborers were taken out
gasping but alive.
In accordance with the provisions of
the military academy appropriation bill
the president has issued COMMISSIONS
to Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles and
Major Gen. H. c. Corbin, adjutant gem
eral of the army.
Thomas Jefferson Johnson, known as
Cyclone" Johnson, was shot and in
stantly killed recently at Carmel, 16
miles north of Indianapolis, Ind, after
he had shot and killed Deputy Sheriff
Carey, who was trying to arrest him
for assault and battery.
Two bridegrooms were drowned in
Lake Bennett. They were Will Hilliker
OF Helena and Clayton Schock of Seat
tie. They left Barbe in a canoe and
were capsized. An unknown party of
three men and two women were drown
ed in Windy Arm by the sinking of a
barge.
Perhaps the most thrilling and pic
turesque incident of the entire Philip
pine war occurred at Catublg, on the
island of Samar, where in April last q
party of 81 enlisted men of Company
K, Forty-third infantry, held at bay a
force of some 600 insurgents during
four days of fierce fighting, reinforce
ments arriving just in the nick of time
According to a dispatch from AGRA, a
native rumor is in circulation that Sir
Frederick Hodgson, governor of Gold
Coast colony, made a sortie from Coo
massie, where he had been besieged by
the Ashantis, but was forced to retire
and ultimately to surrender. Mail ad
vices from AGRA, dated May II, say:
Fifty thousand Ashantis are in arm:
and the insurrection is spreading. L
is impossible for white men to go into
the interior successfully during the
rainy season."
Our New WHrships.