The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-05-12
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
Complete Review of the Events of
the Past week-In This and For
efgn Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

In case of defeat the Beers will not stay
in Transvaal, but will seek new homes.
General Merritt is relieved at his own
request from command of the department
of the east.
Allen has been formally inaugunted as
governor of Puerto Rico, the American
colony. The entire populace turned out.
Boilermakers to the number of 250 have
gone out on strike at Chicago, thus COM
pletely tying up the p shops in which
they had been employed
General Otis will not return from .Ae
Philippines untlI the autumn, as has been
reported. He will probably be assigned
to the department of California.
Judge Cantrill Wednesday ordered
change of venue to Scott county for the
trial of Powers, Davis and others charged
with completely in the Goebel murder at
Frankfort, KY.
Katherine Lotus, the l4-year-old daugh-
ter of Patrick Lotus, of Seattle, was 80
seriously burned at her home while light
inc a fire. that she died a few hours later
from the effects.
Bankers estimate that the American
visitors to the Paris exposition will spend
abroad this year $40,0OO,000 more than
is usually spent by Americans in Europe
during the vacation season.
1t is feared that Eric Ericsson and Pete
Foss have found their tombs in the Great
Lardo glacier. Their bodies will remain
in their sepulchre of ice till snow melts
in June and they can be given earth to
earth burial. The two Swedes were
miners.
Andrew Carnegie, who refused to con-
tribute to the Dewey arch, has given
$1,000 to the fund for the widow of Ser
geant Douglas, who was killed at Croton
Dam during the recent strike. In sending
the check Mr.. Carnegie wrote: Sergeant
Douglas fought not for foreign conquest,
but for peace and order at home"
Robert Wilson, a private in the Sixth
United States artillery, was fatally shot
in San Francisco while walking with Mrs
William Denner, wife of a private in Com
pany H, Eighth infantry The shooting
is generally thought to have been an at
tempt at murder, though there are some
suggestions at suicide.
Two hundred Klondike miners are
stampeding up White river, Alaska, to the
scene of the latest gold discovery. The
find was made last winter on a nameless
tributary of the river which empties into
the Yukon, II miles above the mouth OF
Stewart river. According to reports re-
celved recently at Dawson, the diggings
yield from $40 to $50 per man. but little
is known as to their extent. The gold is
coarse and pans give from 10 to 80 cents
The Standard Oil company, the biggest
dividend payer among American indus
trial corporations, gladdened the hearts
of it's stockholders Tuesday by declaring
a quarterly dividend of $40 per share pay
able on June 10. This makes an aggre-
gate of $50 per share which the great
trust has placed to the credit of stock
holders since January l, last. John D.
Rockefeller owns individually 10000
shares of stock of the Standard Oil Com
pany His fortune will therefore be aug.
mented by $3,lOO,OOO as result of the
action taken by the board of directors
Since Jan. j. d. Rockefeller has drawn
dividends aggregating $l2,400,o00. 1nis
is, however, only small portion of the
amount to which Rockefeller has been
entitled by reason of the earnings of the
/ standard Oil Company. The company
owns only 81 per cent of its many subslI-
larry companies. Rockefeller owns the
other 40 per cent. His total income there
fore from all sources allied with the
Standard Oil Company has been since
January l, 1900, approximately $4,000
900.
Democrats of Iowa indorsed the Chi
cago platform and declared for bimetal-
lism.
The belief is growing that Aquinaldc
was killed by the Ygorote tribesmen, as
they have no trace of him.
Three thousand peasants are in open in
surrection in Bulgaria.
Sugar and tobacco will soon begin to
move again from Puerto Rico.
The divorced wife of Deputy Customs
Collector E. T. Hatch of Alaska was found
dead at Forest Grove, Ore.
Lieutenant Colonel Eskridge has been
compelled to give up his command as he
was injured at San Juan.
Dismissal from the service is the pun
ishment of Major Kirkman for conduct
unbecoming an officer at Manila.
-Four Americans were killed and re
connoitering party of the Twenty-sixth In
fantry surprised and surrounded by in
surgents.
One of the boilers of the Booth Kelly
Lumber company, at Saginaw, Ore, ex
ploded at sawmill No. /, instantly kill