The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-10


diers that were landed from the United
States transport Seward. Soldiers were
regularly detailed day and night to
guard the cliff from being torn away by
the miners, who were only too eager to
get at the rich pay streak which was
already uncovered for width of several
hundred feet.
There have been four cases of plague
and two deaths from plague in London.
William j. Bryan in large measure
will be his own campaign manager this
year.
The new Japanese minister. Kogoro
Takahira, has laid his credentials be-
fore the president
Captain John Macintosh, senior
commander of the Ward line fleet, is
dead at his home in Jersey City, aged
GO.
The war loan has been issued in Lon
cent exchequer bonds at SO, repayable
at par in 1903.
1t is reported that straight cut of
! Is per cent has been ordered IN wages
of every employee by the American Steel
& Wire Company.
The population of Milwaukee, Wis,
according to the count just completed
at the census Office, is 2S5,315 In 1890
the population was 204, 46S.
John w. Trowbridge, a widely known
newspaper illustrator, formerly chief of
the art department of the Anaconda
Standard, died at his home in Engle-
wood, N. j., of cancer of the liver.
Alexander Jester, the octogenarian,
who has been on trial at New London,
Mo-, for the past two weeks for the MUIR
der 20 years ago of Gilbert Gates, was
acquitted. The jury took three ballots.
President Kruger and Commandant
General Botha have issued a proclama-
ton promising to pay all damage done
to farms by the British providing the
burghers remain with the commands.
One of three leather mail pouches in
transit from the general postoffice to
the sub-station 90" at Fifth avenue and
of more than $4,000 in drafts and
checks.
Martha Hendricks, aged II, and Paul
Warner, an clipping couple, lost their
lives near Poplar Bluff, Mo- by drown
ing in the Currant river while attempt
ing to escape from the angry father of
the girl.
Information from Rome is printed to
the effect that Antonio Lanas, arrested
as an accomplice of Bresci has con-
fessed, affirming that plot existed in
vOlving the simultaneous assassin alton
of King Humbert and Queen Marghe-
rita.
On the Canadian Pacific railway the
machinists, blacksmiths, boiler makers,
filters, laborers and locomotive paint
ers struck from Lake Superior to the
Pacific coast at Moose Jaw, Medicine
Hat, Revelstoke, Kamloopos, Vaucou-
yer, Winnipeg La Grande, Field and
Cranbrook.
At the recent meeting of the French
cabinet it was announced that the
would-be assassin of the shah of Persia
had given his name as Salson. A man
of this name who had been regarded
and watched as an anarchist. disap
peared from Paris in 1895 and had not
since been located.
Great forest fires continue to burn in
the Sierra Madre mountains. Unless
the flames are soon checked a large
portion of the San Gabriel forest re
serve in addition to the $4,000 or 20, 00(
square miles already devastated will bt
laid waste.
After one of the most bitterly con
tested campaigns ever known in Nortl
Carolina. the democrats and whit,
supremacy triumphed by a majority o
about 100000 Today's election dis
franchises the negro and changes tn
state legislature from its common ma
iority of republicans aud populists t.
straight democratic, insuring the de
feat of Marion Butler for reelection a
United States senator.
A special from Evanston. Wyo.. say
! that the Union Pacific will soon begil
= work on a big cutoff. The plan is t
construct new road between Fvar
ston and Salt Lake. avoiding Echo car
, Won and several other points. with &c
den on branch line. 1t is said tn
surveys have been made and part of tn
contracts already let.
Lieutenant Bresci, brother of Kin
Humbert's assassin. has informed th
!, colonel of his regiment of his intentio
TO leave the army and change his name
He will no Drovided with an aDDoin
!, ment in the civil administration.
duel with sabers has been fought b.
tween Captain TAM and Captain Ra
= cilli on the subject of Lieutenant Brel
: CTS course. Baccilli was wounded o