The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-05-26
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-TaISen From the Int
est Dispatches.


way system cars are being operated with
the help of non-union men, many OF whom
were secured from outside points.
A resolution was adopted by the Min
nesota republicans indorsing former Sena-
tor Washburn for vice president and in
structing the state delegation to present
his name at Philadelphia if circumstances
seem prOpitious.
An unknown man jumped from the
Brooklyn bridge Wednesday. When he
came TO the surface he was picked up
by a passing tug. 1t is not known wheth-
er he was hurt.
The boiler of a torpedo boat exploded
at st. Petersburg, killing six persons.
The French line steamer La Gascogne,
which has sailed for Havre, carried 3d.
100000 in gold.
Plague has appeared again in Japan
and IL deaths have occurred in the last
month in Osaka.
A dispatch from the Maritime Exchange
states that the British steamer Samantha
was wrecked near Port Hastings, n. S.,
but that her crew was safely landed.
The secretary of the interior has received
information that the Indians on the
Tongue river in Montana are becoming
restless and that an incipient messiah
, craze" has made its appearance there.
An official cable from the government
of Cauca, Panama, reports that victory
was obtained by General Prospero Brin-
son over the revolutionary forces com
manded by General Tribe at Lebriga in
the department of San Antander, May 10.
The fire in Greenwich, Conn, destroyed
five business blocks, the Catholic church,
one of E. @. Benedict's stables and few
other buildings, causing a total loss of
i$l5O,OOO.
Fire destroyed one side of Main street
in the business portion of Green Meadow,
MINI. The loss is estimated at $4,000,
with one-third insurance. The origin of
the fire is unknown.
The postmaster of Havana Is under ar
rest, as by his signed confession he ad-
nits to taking cash from the money order
funds to supply his personal needs. He
also admits other Irregularities
Rev. A. NJ. Echolz of Middlesport, o.,
commissioner to the Presbyterian gen
eral assembly, representing the Athens,
o., presbytery dropped dead in the audi
forum of the Washington and Compton
Presbyterian church. He was seated in
a pew in the rear of the church when at
tackled with heart disease.
Hong Kong papers say that the police
have eoniseated large quantities of fire
arms and ammunition intended for dis
trfbution among the lawless classes in
China. Piles of Mauser rifles, hundreds
of revolvers and bayonets, 10000 pounds
-.af gunpowder aud 100000 rounds of am
munition have been captured near Chin
Wan. Twenty-Five men in charge of this
illegal arsenal have been arrested.
A telegram from Hoping, Sweden, re-
lports that as the steamer Hoping was pass
ing the Prinz Karl. man sprang upon
the deck of the latter vessel and shout
ed: ''If any one comes near l will shoot"
At the same moment woman was seen
hanging over the ships side shrieking for
delp. The man escaped in a boat When
the Prinz Carl was boarded it was found
thai l men on board had been shot, seven
OF whom, including the captain, were dead.
quarters.
1t is stated that within the last fort
night bankers of Paris have, through the
Bank of France, negotiated a loan of $751;
100000 from New York bankers. This
money is needed to finance enterprises in
cidental to the exposition year in Paris.
While France is one of the richest coun-
tries in the world. its stock of gold was
insufficient to meet all the demands that
have sprung up this year, and the banker:
of Paris have borrowed here at compare
lively low interest rates in order 20 pre-
vent any enterprise from tagging. The
big loan is to be shipped in installments
averaging about 100000 a week. Tn,
second installment has gone, and the
movement will continue for about thre'
weeks longer. The loan was negotiated
by the National City bank and most o
the foreign banking houses participated il
1t.
The royal military tournament wa
opened in London by the Prince o
Wales at Agricultural hall, Islingtor
under very happy auspices.
Two Yosemite valley stages were he'll
up at Big Oak Flat by lone highway
man. One stage was going into and tn
other was coming from the park. TIL
robber secured $500.
Negotiations for the sale OF the Raw
hide mine, the once famous gold pre-
ducer of Tuolumne county, Cal, to a