The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-08-31

Mainland, is only a comparatively small
! item in the total amount of damage.
In a four handed duel in Potuk coun-
ty, Texas, resulting from a quarrel over
family affairs, Gabe and Cicero Copeland
were instantly killed and John and Chas.
Baker probably fatally wounded. The
men battled at twenty PAGES with Win
chesters.
Michigan was visited last week by a
disastrous electric storm.
Carnegie says he will not stump the
country in the interest of Bryan.
Three cities in New York will be
honored by William Jennings Bryan's
presence in October.
The Chicago Stock Exchange will
construct private telegraph lines and
send its own quotations.
The San jose scale has made its ap-
pearance in the borough of Brooklyn.
The scale has been discovered in 35
different places in the borough.
A number of whites were recently
slain by blacks in New South Wales.
Ten were beaten to death. Natives
surprised helpless women and children
a: night.
During a storm recently two little
children of Charles Bunker were killed
by bolt of lightning while at play on
their fathers farm two miles north of
Milwaukee.
The grand circuit meeting at Read
vile closed with the notable feature of
Anaconda pacing mile in 2:021h,
thereby winning the 2O4 class and de-
feating by narrow margin Frank Bo-
cash and Searchlight
Reports from Cape Nome by the
steamship Tacoma indicate that much
lawlessness prevails there, and from
eight to a dozen robberies occur night
ly and people are not safe from attacks
of thugs after nightfall.
General Lord Roberts has confirmed
the sentence of death imposed upon
Lieutenant Cordua, formerly of the
Stats artillery, who was convicted of
being a ringleader in the plot to alb
duct General Roberts and kill British
officers.
Another gold strike on the Alaskan
coast is reported Salmon fishermen |
made the strike near Kadyak creek |
1t is another case of beach gold |
and the grains are so promising that J
a number of miners leaving Cape Nome
have gone to the new district.
Elder Marion S. Hawkins, mission
airy of the Church of Jesus Christ of !
Latter Day Saints, is under arrest at
the Four Courts, st. Louis, accused of |
pushing Clarence Fuhrer, years old,
to his death beneath a moving train
at Mount Vernon, Ind.
The whole number of deaths at Nome
since June 1, as shown by the records ,
of the coroner is II, of which 20 were
natives. There has been only one
death from smallpox. There have been
in all 20 cases of smallpox in the hos
pital, nearly all of which were of
mild form. Most of the deaths are
from pneumonia.
A terrific storm ragged at Nome Au-
gust Z. 1t wrought disaster along the
waterfront, and as a result the beach |
is lined with wreckage and stranded /
vessels of all descriptions. According /
to a waterfront man, out of 6S steam !
launches only five remained aflOat, and /
of 72 barges but seven are riding the
sea the others having either sunk or
drifted ashore.
Whipped into insensibility in less
than two rounds" is the story in brief
of Tom Sharkey's meeting with Bob
Fitzsimmons at the Coney Island Sport
ing Club recently. Fitzsimmons was
the victor, Sharkey the loser. Sharkey
was confident that he would prove to
be Fitzsimmons' master in the ring,
but the result of the battle and the
brevity of it proved that Fitz is still a
great fighter and able to beat the best
of the heavyweights. He has beaten
Corbett Rubin and Sharkey.