The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-07-21
NEWS ITEMS.

There is a coal famine at Dutch har-
bor
Captain Coghlan, who commanded
the Raleigh in the battle of Manila,
is critically i'll.
A terrific electrical storm. accom-
panied by rainfall of LIZ inches rag
err in Dubuque, Iowa, for three hours
recently. Nellie l.. McQuillian, aged
16, was killed by tightening.
Jack Moffet, of Chicago, got the de-
cision of AL. Neil of California, in the
twentieth round of a glove contest at
San Francisco, recently.
The transport. Hancock, has arrived
in San Francisco, "a days from Man
liza, via Nagaski. She brought 101
passengers and SAT soldiers. Five
deaths and two suicides occurred on
the voyage.
Senator Gear, the venerable statesman
health for year or more, but was not
considered dangerously ill until the final
summons came. He was beloved by all
associates.
Captain Healy, Master of the Nc
Culloch came to Port Arthur under
guard insane. He first attempted to
jump overheard, then attempted to op-
en- a blood vessel with a piece of a
broken medicine bottle.
The directors of the Dime Savings
bank of Newark, N. j., has closed the
institutions door until it's affairs can
be Strengthened out. Charles West
ervelt, the banks secretary and treas
- urer has been arrested.
= Six coal and ice storehouses, three
stables, frame dwelling, a number
of outbuildings and six Pennsylvania
freight cars were destroyed by fire re
Gently at Sewickley, suburb of Pitts
1 burg, Pa. Samuel Woods, a stable
q man, was burned to death and eigh
e horses were creamated. Loss $500
e Announcement is made that tina
Y George H. Davis has been appointed
r manager of the New York baseball
/ club, displacing Buck" Ewing. TIL
change, it is stated, was necessitate'
by the inability of Ewing to suppress
the feeling of factionalism that has ex
listed among the players during tn
present season.
Four men were caught in the act o
robbing Mason G. Whitehill's genera
store at State Center, Iowa last weel
- A number of citizens surrounded tn
building and a pitched battle ensueC
Ben. Whitehill one of the proprietor'
was shot in the leg. One of the roll
bers was also wounded, and with on
| Of &c OF nj
J. other two escaped.
t. "The gold democrats will not put
e ticket in the field this year." says v
5. d. Bynum, chairman of the gold den
l. ocratic executive committee in 1885,
d 1--WE cannot get our electors on the o
fetal ballots in New York, because tn
h votes we're cast for the party cand
n date for governor in 1898 and the stat
! law requires that certain number {
n votes shall have been cast for state o
! ficers in the preceding election befor
: the nominees of any party can go o
- the official ballot in the pending col
test.
- Charles w. Barnes, suspected of b.
ing one of the robbers who stopped tn
Illinois Central train and looted it's e,
press car of $4,000, three miles sout
" of Wickliffe, KY, recently, has bee
arrested at his home in st. Loui
John Nelson, of 1858 Finney avenu
ut Barnes partner, escaped from the d
As tectives, leaving trail of blood.
1T shots were exchanged between the f
IL gitive and the officers, who pursue
Il. him to Vandevanted station, where /
T. eluded them.
Id Fire destroyed five large and thr'
in small buildings formerly used by Il
is Chicago Great Western railroad as +
as pair shops at West Park, just outsiC
st. Paul About three carloads
shingles were destroyed. Loss, 500
:, 900. There was a high wind BLOWN
and the flames spread from the c
~ house to the adjoining buildings al
~ freight cars, of which there were
ID great number in the yard. The shoI
III had been used as store houses by Il
H. Coast Single company, and 800 ca
n loads of their product were in Il
Al buildings.
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