The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-12-07
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
81 Complete Review OF the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
.efgn Lands-THken From the
G.@test Dispatches.

Inc police OF noDOkeil, ~. u, nave ic-
.ceived letter alleging the existence of
a plot to assassnate President Mckinley.
The writer of the letter gave the name of
the alleged chief conspirator, which the
police refuse to make public at this time.
Fire recently destroyed the roundhouse,
several engines, rotary snowplow and
much valuable property of the Great
Northern railway at Blackfoot, Idaho.
The fire was caused by sparks from an
engine. The loss is estimated at nearly
;&2fD0,000.
Robert E. A. Dorr, president of the
Mail and EXPIRES company and publish
Ger of that paper, is dead. Death was due
to a complication of diseases. Mr.. Dorr
had been in ill health for about six
months. He leaves widow and a son
and daughter. There will be no change
an the management of the Mail and Ex-
press company.
Friends of Colonel Charles DENLY,
Evansville, Ind, assert they have reasons
to believe that the late United States min
dster to China is to be sent back to that
post to succeed Minister Conger, who, it
as believed, will soon resign his office. MIR.
-Conger succeeded MIR. DENLY at Pekin.
Colonel DENLY is now in the east.
The Colorado Springs, Col, lodge of the
Benevolent Protective Order of Elks has
appointed committee to draft resolu
tions against the wearing of elk teeth as
,emblems of the order. Reported wholesale
slaughter of elk in the west for the teeth
anfuenced this action, and copies Of the
resolutions will be sent .to--the different
lodges throughout the country with the
idea of effecting the adjustment of traf-
sic in elk teeth.
Lord Roberts, cabling from Johannes
burg, reports a number OF encounters
with the Beers at widely separated points,
IN which the British captured some cattle
and a few prisoners and suffered slight
casualties. The most serious affair was
an engagement with the forces of General
Delarey, numbering about 1000, with
three guns, who opposed General Glenn
.ents, marching toward Retfontein. The
Beers, the dispatch says, were completely
dispersed.
spencer Williams, a negro, was shot to
death near Lake City, Fla, by a mob.
Williams, who recently arrived here from
Pensacola, shot and dangerously wounded
City Marshal Strange and William
Strickland, business man of this city,
while resisting arrest. AS soon as the news
of the shooting became. known citizens
armed themselves and, forming IA posse,
followed the desperate on horseback and
.afoot and overlook him today in
swamp. The negro was literally shot to
pieces, fully 200 bullet holes being found
in his body.
The Rogers Locomotive Work. at
Paterson, N. j.. have closed down fin
ally.
bacher, a silk manufacturer, has as
signed.
Phillips made a third of a million
his profits in the corn corner at Chica-
go last week.
Eighteen are dead and five more will
die as a result of their injuries in the
recent San Francisco horror.
At Winnemucka, New. westbound
'freigt train No. 205 was wrecked and
Fireman F. j. Jones Instantly killed.
J. Thomas Baldwin, the famous land
master, is dead from blood poisoning,
the result of simple injury. He was
born in Lowell, Mass.
The American Sheet Steel company
mas announced an advance of 81 per
ton on black sheets, with correspond
ing advance on galvanized sheets.
The municipal council of Speyer
has adopted a resolution to place
commemorative tablet in the house
where the late Henry Willard was
born.
Oscar Wilde is dead. He expired in
an obscure house in the Latin Quarter
sos Paris from meningitis and was re-
cefved into the Catholic church on his
.deathbed
The Canadian railroad employees
have complained to the government
against the importation of United
States labor while they are debarred
from entering the United States.
The attempt of Turkey to pay off in
.demnity by giving contract to Amer
leans is a trick The Cramps are amaz-
ed. They do not understand that the
government shall participate in profits
they earn.
A boiler exploded recently eight
miles west OF Bellefontaine, Ohio, kill
ing Upton Moore and Kelley Heaton.
eCharles Mohr was fatally hurt. They
were farmers and were engaged in
sshrsdding fodder.
Mrs. Emma Van Iiewah, convicted
of murder 10 the first degree for having
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