The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-02-10


Nicholas Hotzaler stabbed and in
stantly killed Mrs. Louise Schaefer re-
Gently in the dining room of her home
at 4435 Princeton avenue, Chicago.
Hotzaler then shot himself, dying al
most Immediately.
There was quite severe earthquake
at Abbotsford. b. c.. last week, the
seismic disturbance being almost I'M
precedented in this part of the coun-
try. No serious damage was done, al
though dishes ratified and plastering
was cracked.
A dispatch from Zurich states that
the report that Menelik is arming men
is untrue and that the negus has not
consulted French and Russian experts
as to an attack on the English from
the rear.
Among the passengers on the quar-
antined Australia, from Honolulu was
Arthur Sewall, ex-candidate for vice
president, who has been on a visit to
his son, II. M. Sewall. special agent of
the United States in Hawaii.
The cost of the war to the end of the
fiscal year. March 81. is estimated at
30,000,000 pounds. The house of COM
mons has already granted 10000, 900
pounds, and the Times says another
100000 pounds will be asked for.
r. V. Wilson, accused of the embez-
Element of $4,000 from the Great
Northern Express company at Frank
lin, Washington, has started back TO
the scene of his alleged crime in Gus
tody of Special Agent Hunt of the ex-
press company.
The steamer Farallon's officers re-
port that a Prince of Wales island In
dian shot and killed the latter's native
wife. Later the assassin returned and
again opened fire. The Russian gave
dead in his tracks. The fisherman gave
himself up to the authorities.
Fire in indianapolis, Ind, destroyed
George w. Stout's wholesale grocery
store, spread to adjoining buildings oc-
cupied by Brinkmeyer, Kuhn & Co.,
wholesale grocers and the Hendricks
Vance company, causing a total loss
estimated at $350,000. Insurance was
Sc per cent of the value.
Mr.. Darnel. United States consul at
Nogales, Mexico. has telegraphed the
state department that there is not a
word of truth in the story that six
Americans were shot by order of Cen
eral Torres near Guaymas because
they were found with the hostile Yaqui
Indians.
The fast train on the Plant system
xyoc
Fla. Engineer Kennedy was instantly
killed. One passenger was killed and
the body so mutilated 1t has not been
identified. The son OF II. p. Herndon,
mail agent of this city, died at the
Sanford hospital.
The senate in executive session re
Gently took up The Hague peace treaty.
There was a brief discussion of it. but
no opposition was developed. The
treaty would have been ratified, but
under the rule it had TO lay over "a
hours after being read. The extradi-
ton treaty with the Argentine Repub-
lie was also read and considered, but
went over for the same reason.
Charles II. Cole formerly president
OF the Globe National Bank, who is
charged with embezzling and misap-
propriating 100000, the property of
the bank waived examination and was
held in $780, bond for the grand jury
or the district court, which sits March
20. Benjamin K. Smith and BENJAMIN
Walls of Boston were accepted as sure
ties. Cole was brought here early in
January from Los Angeles, Cal.
A cable from Manila was received by
the quartermaster's department stat
ing the Hancock sailed from Manila
for San Francisco on January 80 with
the bodies of 462 dead soldiers. The
Indiana Is expected in Immediately
with 200 bodies and the Ohio with 1873
arrived today. These, in addition to
the 159 which came in on the Picking,
make an imposing total of nearly 1000
soldiers who lost their lives in the
Philippines and have been brought
home to the United States for final in
terment
After joint conference lasting near
ly two weeks at Indianapolis, Ind, the
delegates from the United Mine Work
ers of America and the Interstate OPP
orators Association finally adopted a
scale which is a compromise between
the first demand of the former and the
first offer of the latter. The scale adopt
ed is a general advance of 2.21 per cent
and is satisfactory to miners and oper-
ators of Ohio, Pennsylvania and In
diana and will be accepted by the I'LL
nois miners and operators