The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-11-02
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Tnken From the
Latest Dispatches.

announced, is ,4S0,Uo3, against l,zoo,ioo
in 1890. This is an increase of 276,923, or
% per cent.
Rev. Dr. j. N. Crang of Baltimore drop
ped dead in the pulpit while addressing the
Presbyterian synod Of Virginia.
A negro was lynched by a mob OF his
own race for assaulting a colored girl at
Wellston, Ga. Another negro was lynched
near there for a similar crime last week.
William A. Paulson, convicted of recev-
ing deposit in the Central Trust q Saw
ings bank of Chicago, of which he was
president, while knowing the bank to be
insolvent, today was sentenced to serve an
indefinite sentence in prison
A special dispatch from Madrid says the
French steamer Faidherbe (late Chigwell)
was sunk in a collision with the French
steamer Mitidja, which was seriously dam
AGED. but succeeded in reaching Alicante.
The Mitidja rescued eight of the crew OF
the Faidherbe, but "a other members OF the
crew were drowned.
No credit was given in the best informed
circles to the report that the control OF the
Pacific Mail company had passed from the
Huntington and Southern Pacific interests
to Chairman Hartman of the Union Pac-
fife.
Three hundred strikers held up trolley
car at Mahanoy City, Pa, that was carry
ing about 40 men to work at st. Nicholas
colliery. John Fisher, who resisted, was
severely beaten.
Sir John Cowan, Bart, of London, Is
dead. He was born in 1914.
Colonel ]. r. Ross died at his home
in Indiapolis recently, aged SO years
He was widely known in X. of P. cir
cles
A battle was fought between imper-
ial troops aDd Boxers October 20, and
the rebels were routed, 600 of them be-
ing slaughtered.
John l.. Sullivan was recently oper-
ated on for hernia. The doctors say
Sullivan will not be able to leave the
hospital for six weeks.
Dispatches from Mukden to the war
Office say that proof is at hand that
400 native Christians were massacred
at Mukden' before the Russian occu-
patton.
The safe in the bank of Seeds Broth
ers of Bridgeport, Ind, was blown open
by burglars recently and robbed of over
$1,000 in cash and many notes. The
robbers escaped.
The schooner Llorem caught an cleo
trio wire in the bay at New York and
exploded the torpedoes that were laid
during the war An American schoon-
er had narrow escape.
The steamer Alpha has arrived at
Vancouver from the north. Her pas
sengers say that there is now little pos
sibility of the completion of the Daw-
son telegraph line this winter.
The Elezabethport Banking Com
pany, from which William .Schriber
stole little over 100000 in two years,
has made a settlement with Mrs. Annie
Hart, upon whom much of the money
was spent.
General Azcarraga will take the port
folio of minister of marine provision
ally at Madrid. Admiral Mozo having
withdrawn from the ministery owing
to the refusal of the premier to allow
an increase of the navy cadets.
Joseph Chamberlain secretary Of
state for the colonies and his son, John
Austen Chamberlain civil lord of the
admiralty, have sailed for Giberalter,
whence they will proceed to Malta, to
visit Sir Francis Wallace Greenfell, the
governor of Malta.
The body of Captain De France, son
of the general of the same name, has
been discovered at the bottom of a prec-
ipice beyond Maurendon, in the COM
mune of st. Martin Dare Captain de
France left camp last spring and it was
believed he had been murdered.
The imports of specie last week were
1894, 1913 gold and $35,977 silver. The
exports OF gold and silver from this
port to all countries aggregate 81 ,019,-
$40 silver bars and coin, and $4,000
gold. The imports of dry goods and
merchandise were valued at S11,117-
651.
The one hundreth birthday of the
late field marshal Won Moltke was mar
ked recently by Emperor William caus-
ing a general army order to be issued
extolling Won Moltke, thanking Prov
idence for giving the fatherland such a
man. and expressing the hope that the
army will emulate his martial virtues,
and thus derive strength for the full
fillment of the exalted and difficult mis-
sion assigned to it.
The Transvaal has recently proclaim
ed part of the British empire, the pro-
clamation being attended with impress
ssive ceremonies The rova1 standard