The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-07-07
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
L Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eIRn Lands-Taken From the Lat
est Dispatches.

The Nilsson rendering WORKS near
| Cheektowaga, N. Y, burned recently.
Loss 100000
David Bell, formerly a wellknown
lumberman of Canada, is dead at his
home in New York.
The battleshir The Oregon went
ashore off Hoo Kie island. Jardine,
Mathieson & Co. are sending her assist
ance
Two slaughter houses in Chicago, &C.
cupied by Hess Brothers and Rudy
Brothers, were destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Total loss $4,000.
Pugilist Tom Sharkey and Mrs. Lii
liam Bauer, a widow of a Chicago sa-
loon keeper, will be married this week.
Sharkey met Mrs. Bauer while in Chi
cago this spring.
Thomas w. Flannelly, who murdered
his father, David Flannelly, and sher-
if w. P. McEvoy, of San Meteo county
Cal, the night of October 26th, 1897, at
Redwood city, was hanged today. He
had nothing to say on the scaffold.
A private telegram received from
Colombia, says the situation at Cartha-
gena and Savanilla is very grave, that
fighting is proceeding and that the for
eign residents are leaving hurridly.
One fireman was killed and II 9TH
er firemen injured and nearly 100000
worth of property destroyed by fire in
the machine shop of the Best Manufac-
turing Company on Twenty-fifth street,
Pittsburgh. David Williams is dead.
The assessment on the Sunset Tele-
graph & Telephone Company has been
raised by Assessor Dodge of San Fran
cisco, to s1,000,0OO. Heretofore the
corporation has never paid taxes on
more than an assessed valuation of
$4,000 for its franchise.
The transport Grant, which will sail
Monday for Nagasaki, and thence, it
is believed, to Chefoo or Taku, will car
ry 500 men of the Sixth Cavalry, which
in addition to hospital corps made up
at the Preside, 800 recruits and 200
marines, will constitute the force.
Judge Arthur H. Noyes, of Minneap-
oils, the newly appointed jurist for the
Second United States District of Alas
ka, comprising the st. Michael and
Cape Nome Districts, arrived in Seat
tie en- route to his post of duty. He
is accompanied by his wife and official
staff
The reduction in wages at the Brook
Ign navy yards, will be from to 5
cents a day in the following grades:
Plumbers helpers, block makers, brass
fnishers, tin roofers, wire workers,
M fool mo and hOi1nr
makers. There has been an increase
of about 25 cents for the wharf build
ers and ordinance men.
The steamer George w. Elder has ar
rived in Portland, nine days from Cape
Nome. The Elders passage was a
quick one. She left here on May 26,
and arrived at Nome on June IA. The
Elder brings news of two shooting af-
trays which occurred at Nome recent
ly. On June IS, A. G. Lucas, watch
man for the Alaska Commercial Com
pany, while guarding some land for the
company, was accosted by ]. Lyons,
another claimant, The men became
involved in an alteration and Lucas
shot Lyons, the bullet taking effect in
the mans stomach. Lyons was also
armed, and fired five shots at Lucas, all
taking effect. Lyons wound was fatal
and he died the following day.
Soldiers are to be better paid for
service in Puerto Rica, Alaska and the
Philippines in the future.
Rear Admiral Philip, commandant Of
the Brooklyn navy yard died Saturday
afternoon of haart dicaaca
The Prohibition national conven-
ton adjourned sinie die after having
placed in nomination for president Jno.
G. Woolley, of Illinois, and for vice
president, Henry B. Metcalf, of Rhode
Island.
All the iron, steel and tin plate mills
under the jurisdiction of the amalga-
mated association have closed, but
there will be no strike, as is customary
on June 30 each year, when the wage
scales are unsigned.
The weekly bank statement shows
these changes: Surplus reserve, in
crease, s1.S32,525; loans decrease,
s1,157. 300; specie, increase, s455, 400;
legal tenders, increase, s193,S00; de-
posits, decrease, s2,733,30O; circula-
ton increase, s91, 500. The banks
now hold $685. 1916 in excess of the
requirements of the 25 per cent rule.
There is threatened uprising on the
Rainy river, Ontario. Three thous.
and Indians are gathered near the
mouth of Rainy river. Leach Lake
Indians are said to be among them
melting them IN rnurdar and nillapa the