The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-10-19
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past week-In This and For
efgn Lands-Tal<en From the
Latest Dispatches.

field, Rockville, Wepener ana DeWeIsuoiP'
Orange River Colony.
Emperor William has conferred high
decorations upon all the leading officials
of the Paris exposition.
Chauneey NJ. Depew addressed a meet
ing of over a thousand students OF the
University of Chicago recently. His
speech was mostly on political lines.
Major Seldom Noyes Clark, widely
known newspaper man, who had been
connected with the Washington bureau of
the New York Tribune for % years is
dead.
The British war office has issued orders
that the bulk of the militia regiments
called out for service during the South
African war are to be dsbanded. This
will affect about $4,000 men.
Chief Constructor Hichborn, U. S. n,
has been awarded diploma and gold med
al for the Franklin Life Buoy, Hichborn
turret and models of war vessels exhibited
at the Paris exposition of 1900.
The wife of Rev. Meeder of the Evan
gelist church, near Pennington, Kansas,
jumped into a cistern with her 3-year-old
child and both were drowned. Mrs.
Meeder had showed signs of insanity.
The state department has been informed
by Consul General Holloway at st. Peters
burg that in addition to the recent changes
in the Russian tariff, an excise duty on
spirits and tobacco is now collected.
The launching of the Monitor Kansas has
been set for November 10 at the New
port News yards. 1t is expected that the
two monitors not yet launched will be in
the water before the close of the year
Three persons, father and two sons,
were burned to death in a shanty at RoX-
bury, near Boston, recently. The victims
are Edward Tousealin, aged 45; Edward
Tousealin, aged 81, and James Tousealin,
aged IA.
A general suspension of the building
trades in Denver is threatened as a re-
suit of a strike of union woodworkers at
the five large planning mills in the city, |
which was inaugunted to put stop to
the employment of non-union men, Union
workmen will not handle any materials
from these mills while the strike con-
tinues.
E. Bertwer, one of the saloon passengers
ON the Ward Line steamer Havana, who
was transferred to Hoffman island, was
taken sick last night and removed to
Swinburne island hospital for treatment.
Later he developed yellow fever
The exports from .-.e South German
consulates for the last quarter aggregate
$l0,5l0,2S0, a decrease of $25S,SS3 from
the corresponding quarter of last year.
From all of Germany, except Dresden, the
exports for the same period amounted to
$23,59S, l34, and increase of $l,225,77O as
compared with the returns for the same
time last year.
There will be no change in the name
OF Sir Thomas Lipton's cup challenger.
The Spanish-American War Veterans
have elected w. S. Rulings commander.
Secretary Long is negotiating with the
big steel companies for the purchase of
armor plate.
There were expressions of satisfaction
by officials and members of the New York
Yacht club when it became known that
Sir Thomas Lpton's new challenge was
coming on the Germanic.
Judge kirkpatrick in the United States
court has refused naturalization papers to
Robert Spalding, colored a native of Dutch
Guinea. The papers were refused on the
ground that the federal laws permit the
naturalization of white males only.
Stephen Stoltz and Fred Refs were Sc
verely injured by an explosion of an acct
ylene gas tank in the basement of Refs
saloon in Albany, Ore. Stoltz, who was
plumber, and Refs undertook to remove
the tank. They carried lighted candle
which ignited the gas which had formed
in the tank.
The high waters of the Wisconsin river
are beginning TO recede, but the Wolf and
Embarnss rivers are rapidly rising. The
water is now the highest it has been in
20 years, and is still rising. A further
rise of three feet, which appears probable,
will flood the lower parts of the city.
There was a sensation during the trial
of the desperadoes who held up the Ari-
IONA & New Mexico train at Fairbanks,
when George Owints, member of the
gang, was called to testify at Tucson, Ariz.
He made a clean breast of the affair." de-
scribing in every detail the circumstances
Of the hold-up and how the gang was or
gained.
The west coast of the island of Leyte
is in state of turmoil, the rebel ladrones
are actively plundering, the disturbers fol-
lowing offensive tactics, raiding and at
lacking and then returning to the gar
risoned towns, while the Americans pursue
in the mountains. General Mjica's officers