The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-06-02
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
Complete Review of the Events of
the Past week-In This and For
efgn Lands-TaI<en From the Lat
est Dispatches.

were recently destroyed by earthquake.
Delegates and others TO thu Kansas City
convention get one fare rates, good until
September 30.
Street car men are plentiful in st.
Louis, as more have hocked there than
can find places
The house leaders have decided 70 re-
duce the war taxes at the next session
of congress.
"A new tobacco combination has been
organized to oppose the American and
Continental Company.
The business portion of Lakeview, Or,
has been destroyed by fire. Lakeview
has population of 700.
Justice Gordon is to be the Great North
ern attorney at Spokane. His jurisdic-
ton will extend from Spokane to Minot,
South Dakota.
Frankfort, Ky, is now free from sol
diers for the first time since January 80.
The evacuation of the Beckham troops,
the last to leave, occurred this forenoon.
The war department justifes the con-
struction of a government road in Cuba.
Plauge has been stamped out, and there
are no more cases found in San Fran
cisco. Influential newspapers editorially
denounce the board of health. A house
to house canvass is to be made in China
town, but incubation is optional.
The Western Federation of Miners re-
elected the old officers and decided to
keep the headquarters of the organiza-
ton at Butte, Mont.
The American Tobacco Company
(trust) have purchased four of the
principal tobacco factories in Rich
mond, Va, paying $3,250,O0O for them.
Twenty three miners, ii white and II
negroes lost their lives in the explosion at
Cumnock coal mines, Chatham county, N.
C., Tuesday. The explosion is supposed
10 have been caused by broken gauze in
a safety lamp.
Queen Victoria has granted Lord
EtmthcOna and Mount Royal, the Cana
dian high commissioner a patent of his
title to Hon. Mrs. Robert Jared Bliss
Howard, his only child.
The village of Point Claire, 10 miles
from Montreal, has been almost entirely
wiped out by fire. Two hundred people
are homeless No fatalities.
The Western Federation of Miners and
the Western Federation of Labor Unions
nave DOLn ueclucu 10 0Olu buelI COuNSh-
tons next year in Denver.
A man has arrived in Seattle who says
he left the steamer Aberdeen en- route to
Cape Nome at Neah bay and returned
home. He says a riot occurred on board.
The officers landed part of the passengers
at Neah bay and tied up The captain
has sent to Seattle for officers.
"A correspondent of the London Times
says he has it ON unquestionable author
ity that within the last six weeks Presi-
dent Kruger has transferred the bulk OF
his property in the Transvaal to personal
friends in order to avoid its coniscation
by Great Britain.
An agreement has been reached between
the friends of Senator Clark of Mountains
and the senate committee on privileges
and elections to postpone any action upon
the senator's credentials until Wednes
day, the Both instant.
After being dragged through the streets
of Pueblo, Colo, at the end of rope fol-
40 yards and after the rope had broker
twice while the struggling and yelling
negro was being pulled up, Calvin Kim
blern, murderer, was lynched.
An east-bound freight on the Great
Northern, when about six miles east o
I,eayenwOrth, struck a large rock, turnin:
the engine over into the Wenatchee river
Engineer Norks was killed. The fireman
Jumped in time to save himself. Abou
five box cars went into the river witt
the engine.
Fred Mohr, a section hand on tn
Northern Pacific, was killed Wednesda,
near Cheney An extra east-bound freigh
train cOllided with a hand car on hig
trestle, throwing Mohr nearly $50 fee
through the air to the bottom of a dee
gulch. The other half dozen men on til
hand car escaped with their lives b.
hanging to the Ties of the trestle.
The announcement of the failure G
Price, Mccormick & Co., of New York
is made.
The New York democratic delegate
elected to the state convention fave
Bryan.
President Kruger, it is announced i
Cape Town, has issued a proclamation say
ing that he will defend johannesburg an
calling upon the Beers to fight to tn
bitter end.
A statement compiled Friday shows ths
since the st. Louis strike began thr'
persons have been shot and killed, si1
teen wounded by bullets and thirty-or
otherwise injured. Two hundred arres
have been made in connection with I'll
strike.
june l6 is fixed for the date OF Pr