The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-01-06

ne past year IN lTdue SHOWS IdlluTeS
fewer in number than for the last seven
years, and vast increases in the capaci-
ty and earning power of the Nations
factories.
Alfred Morrison, of New York, prof
fessor of languages, mistook his wife
for burglar during the night and shot
her at their home In Mount Vernon. n.
Y. Mrs. Morrison exonerates her hus-
band from all blame. He is almost in
die.
At New York the jury in the trial of
William Neufeldt for the killing of his
cousin, Mrs. Nathan Kronman, return
ed a verdict of guilty of murder in the
first degree.
Pool Grinslead, editor of the Wath-
ena Star at Troy, Montana, was SEN
fenced in the district court to II
months in the county Jail under a con-
viction of criminal libel.
Applicants for pensions by the SOL
diers of the Spanish war. Pacific coast,
number 701, divided as follows: Wash
ington, 1888; California, 25S; Oregon,
1885,
Rev. Sylvester Malone, pastor of the
Roman Catholic Church of ST. Peter
and st. Paul, Brooklyn, and a member
of the board of regents of the Universe
ty of New York, is dead.
Charles S. Kendall, of New York, for
merly a manufacturer of sash. doors
and blinds, has filed petition in bank
ruptcy. His liabilities are $385,S75. of
which $1S1,S 75 is unsecured.
The two seven-story buildings at 425
to ass East twenty-fourth street, n. Y.
occupied principally by the wall paper
factory of William Campbell & Co., are
destroyed by fire. The loss is fully
100000.
A large German mail steamer, be-
lieved to be one of the Hamburg-Amer-
gale in East bay, about a quarter of a
mile off Dungeness, the southern ex-
tremity of Kent.
Jim Hill to let employees in on the
ground floor and sell them stock.
Shares now worth s175 will be disposed
of to the Great Northern workmen at
par, and no large blocks will be allot-
ed to any one man.
Norval Baptie, the Bathgate. N. D.,
skater, covered a mile on the ice at
Lake Minnetonka in 2:OS fiat. This is
claimed to be Az seconds faster than
the time made by Tim Donahue, of
Newburg, N. j., some vars ago.
The ship Eclipse, so days from New
Castle, was struck by squall or water
spout on December % and in five sec
onds her mast had gone, 13 sails were
split and one seaman, who was aloft
was carried away so far from the ship
that he was never seen again.
Alfred Borlini, the defaulting teller
of the American Bank & Trust Com
pany, is no longer in the custody of the
sheriff. His shortages have been made
good by friends and the bank official:
have signed a document releasing hin
from all further claims or demands
AS a consequence there will be no pros
ecution. The amount paid was $500
DR.. Wickliff Smith, of Indianapolis
surgeon of he 10th Indiana regiment
was killed together with his Cuban boy
Francisco Sousa, three miles from Del
phi by Wabash train. Both were
bundled up so that they did not heal
the train and drove on the track.
Eugene " Smalley editor and pub
Usher of the Northwest Magazine, il
dead at his home in st. Paul. AS ;
newspaper man, author and publisher
: Mr.. Smalley was one of the most widely
known writer's fthenorthwes [. AS
political correspondent he had Travelled
through almost every state in the uniol
He was president of the Nationa
! Sound Money League.
A movement is reported to be on foot t
organize combine TO control the lin
output of the country.
A. dispatch from Manila announces tn
capture of Aguinaldos wife and sister
and Is Filipinos by Major Marchs bat
, TALON.
, The fight between Peter Maher an
kid" Mccoy at Coney Island resulted i
a victory for the latter in the fifth round
3 In fire in New York tenement fla
recently a 6-months-old child was burne
to death and several people seriously In
jured.
American troops won a victory over
} party of insurgents at Cabuyoa on NeN
r Years day, killing about 30 and takin
| $50 prisoners. The American loss wa
E two killed.