Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-06-15

| title OF fedtherweight champion by knock
ing out Tommy White, the clever Chicago
man, on Tuesday, at New York.
| Mrs. j. Henschel, who recently removed
to Great Falls, Mont, from Spokane, acci.
dentally killed her nine year old son with
| revolver
August Hirshey, aged p, was drowned
Tuesday while bathing in the Boise river
near the Broadway bridge. His body was
recovered.
Laurence Li!lis, a capitalist well known
in California and Montana, where he for
merly resided, died suddenly at the Palace
hotel, San Francisco.
Macarthur reports the capture of Gen
erals Rhizon, near Mexico, and Cavestany
at Alcala, both important, the latter being
a very prominent leader of the guerrila-
| III Pangasinnan province, island of Luzon
| Sheriff Sutter Of Frank fort. Ky., has
gone to indianapolis with requisition on
Governor Mount from Governor Beck ham
asking for the extradition Of w. :. Taylor
on an indictment charging him with being
an accessory TO the murder of William
Goebel
The chancellor of the japanese legation
at Peking, Sugi Yama Akira, while pro-
ceeding alone and unprotected on official
duty, was brutally murdered by soldiers
OF Tung Fuh Slang, the favorite body
guard of the empress, at Navigate railroad
station recently.
Samuel Martin, French Canadian from
Montreal, is in the insane ward of the
Vancouver (B. C.) prison. pending an in
vestiga ton Of his story that he murdered
a man named McHugh on the Victoria
bridge, in Montreal, afterward throwing
the body into the river.
General Grant, who led reinforcements
with artillery, against the insurgents in
the mountains east OF Samiguel. report,
the capture OF the rebel stronghold after
four hours fighting. The rebels were scat
tered and the American, are pursuing
them. General Grants column had no cas-
uaities.
Thomas Lewis of Tucson, Ariz., a miner.
has been arrested on charge of setting
fire to the Catelna forests, where 5,OOO.OOO
feet of timber was destroyed. A miner
who was with Lewis became incensed be-
cause the pine needles hurt his feet and
set fire to them, causing the most disas.
trous forest fire ever known in the south
west.
Two Kansas City detectives, Matt Ken
ney and Henry Sparks, undertook to stop
street fight between crowd OF negro
men and women recently, and as result
Of an exchange of shots Rufus Bennett, a
north end tough, and Ora Childs, the lat
ter woman, were killed and Chas. Jack
son, proprietor of barber shop, were Sc
riously wounded.
Three men were killed, eight so badly
burned or manned that they are in the
hospital. and three other men are missing
as the result of fire in the cooperage
establishment OF Paul Weidmann, Brook
lyn. The property loss is yariollsly esti-
mated at from $4,000 TO $250,OOO. The
dead are: August Benedict, aged 50, and
John NJ Lockwood, 6G years old.
The division of customs and insular af-
fairs announced decrease in the amount
OF the imports into the port of Manila dur
ing the first three months of 1900 as con-
pared with the same period OF 1899 OF
$1s7 O59 The imports during March, 1910,
from England, were 1878 .sOG: from Hong
Kong, $4l7 ,422; from Spain, $l22 ,O4s; and
from the United States, SlO9,3s6.
The postmaster general has issued an
order amending the previous regulation in
regard to postage rates between the United
states and its island possessions. The or
der says that the island of Puerto Rico and
the territory OF Hawaii are included in the
term United States and the island OF
Guam, the philippine archipelago and Tu-
tuila are included in the term island pos
sessions of the United States