The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-06-23
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This aud For
eign Lands-Taken From the Lat
est Dispatches.

The reichstag adopted Emperor Will
liam's pet measure and passed the navy
bill.
The st. Louis strike is waning. More
cars are now running than at any time for
a month.
Another strike is threatened in Chicago,
as the woodworkers will try to enforce
their demands.
The grand duke of Oldenburg (Nichola
Peter died Wednesday at his summer resi-
dence at Rastede.
Augusta Lehman, once a singer of in
ternational repute, died at Santa Cruz,
Cal, aged 80 years.
Terry McGovern fully lived up to his
title of featherweight champion by knock
ing out Tommy White, the clever Chicago
man, ON Tuesday, at New York.
August Hirshey, aged %, was drowned
Tuesday while bathing in the Boise river
near the Broadway bridge. His body was
recovered.
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 guerrilas
in Pangasinnan province, island of Luzon.
Laurence Lillis, capitalist well known
in California and Montana, where he for
merly resided, died suddenly at the Palace
hotel, San Francisco.
The north-bound passenger train and an
incoming accommodation train on the
Southern railway, collided 10 miles from
Atlanta, Ga. Engineer Mayfield and Flag
man Davis were killed, and eight trainmen
injured.
Sheriff Suffer of Frankfort, KY, has
gone to indianapolis with requisition on
Governor Mount from Governor Beckham
asking for the extradition of w. S. Taylor
on an indictment charging him with being
an accessory to the murder of William
Goebel
The chancellor of the Japanese legation
at Picking, 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. CO. prison, pending an in
vestigation 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, reports
ba - h.
four hours, fighting. The rebels were scat
tered and the Americans are pursuing
them. General Grants column had no cas-
ualties.
Thomas Lewis of Tucson, Ariz, a miner,
has been arrested ON a charge of setting
fire to the Catelina forests, where 5,O0O,OO
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 dlsas-
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 a crowd of negro
men and women recently, and as a 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 a fire in the cooperage
establishment of Paul Weidmann, Brook
Ign. The property loss is variously esh-
mated at from $4,000 to $25O,OOO. The
dead are: August Benedict, aged SO, and
John NJ. Lockwood, &C years old.
The division of customs and insular af
fairs announced a 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 o.
$7S7O59. The imports during March, 1900
from England, were 1915, SOC; from Hong
Kong, SALT ,422; from Spain, Sl22,04s anC
from the United States, SlO9,3s6
The postmaster general has issued al
order amending the previous regulation il
regard to postage rates between the UniteC
States and its island possessions. The or
der says that the island of Puerto Rico anC
the territory of Hawaii are included in tn,
term UNITED States" and the island o
Guam, the philippine archipelago and Tu
tuila are included in the term island pos
sessions of the United States"
Mrs. Gladstone, widow of William Z
Gladstone, died last Thursday.
The recent democratic state convention
held at Montpelier, VT, nominated full
state ticket by reclamation and declare,
for BRYAN and the Chicago nlatform on,