Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-08-17
The TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
4 Complete Review of the Events Of
the Past Wcek-In This and For
eiEn lands-Taken From the Lat
est Dispatches.

A cable dispatch received from Blue
fields, Nicaragua, gives details Of fire last
night which did $4,000 damage in the
heart Of the town.
4 Bellefontaine car of the st. Louis
Transit company was recently blown up
at North ST. Louis. 1t is The first case Of
daylight dynamiting since the strike oc-
cured.
War office kilograms received from east
ern Siberia show the Chinese have destroy
ed the railroad in several places, inter.
rupting the passage OF trains. Re
pairs are proceeding. The Cossacks now
guard 2OOO vestas Of the frontier railroad.
President Mckinley has appointed Dan
lei a. Tompkins of North Carolina men,
ber of the industrial commission, to sue
ceed Ellison A. Smythe, resigned Mr..
fompkins is largely identified with the
cotton interests of the south and is one
Of the principal owners OF the Charlotte
Observer.
Veterans Of the Philippine war will or
ganize national society at the reunion
at Denver
The Indian famine relief fund at New
York has reached the $2OO,O mark, the
contributions received amounting to $780,
02O.
Secretary Root says the latest reports
from General Macarthur show the sick
ness in the Philippines as 8 per cent,
which he considers remarkably good
showing.
The Union Metallic Cartridge company
of Connecticut is working night and day
to fill orders from several governments
for ammunition.
Eleven person died one day last week
1t is persistently rumored in Lorenzo
Marquee that President Steyn has com
mitted suicide.
Perry S. Heath, secretary OF the re-
publican national committee, says that
Governor Roosevelt will start in Sep
tember for swing to the Pacific coast.
| The Catholic journal announces new
massaeres and disaster to the missions
in the southeast province of Chilli, China.
1t says that five priests have been Killed.
The wife Of DR.. A. c. Macdonald West
water of Lao Yang, Manehuria, com
mitted suicide at Armia, in consequence
OF mental depression caused by her eX-
citing experiences at New Chwang just
before her departure from China.
The grape growers and wine men are
now ut war in Caliiornia. The wine men
have called in their buyers and say that
they will buy no more grapes, as the grow
| b,I,
asking Sls for black grapes and SIS ton
for muscats
The following dispatch from Lord Rob
erts has been received at the war oIlice:
AS Warren has paciiied the western dis
tricts Of Cape Colony, | am allowing aim
to return home and am replacing the
whole Of the troops in the colony under
! Forester Walker"
After two years flight, in which they
almost circled the globe and outmitted
/ the police III score OF European and
American cities, Mr.. and Mrs. Abraham
Weinberg were arrested in their apart.
ments on State street, Chicago. They
are charged in Kansas City with embezzlc.
mcnt.
! Three steamers from Cape Nome have
arrived in Seattle, all bringing gold and
large number Of passengers. The Oregon
brought $345,OOO, the largest consien-
ment OF Nome gold since the discovery
Of treasure in that district the san Pedro
brought aDsut $4,000, and the Charles
d. Lane S50bOO.
Paul Jansen, who was arrested at East
Rutherford, y. j., three weeks ago,
charged with counterfeiting, hanged him
self in his cell in the Hudson county jail
New York He tore his coat into STRIPS
which he twisted into rope and fastened
10 the bars OF his cell door. Then. tyirg
the end about his neck, he threw his
weight on the cord and was slowly
strangled TO death.
The allotment Of f5,Ooo.Oo0 Of the
tI0,pO,Ooo English war loan to the
United States is received IN the higher
financial world as a good thing for Lon
don in the present position OF the English
banks. The brokers and small investors
severely, almost passionately criticize the
chancellor Of the exchequer, Sir Michael
hicks Beach, for privately arranging for
half ofthe so-caIled public loan and allow
ing the investment plum to 60 out Of
the country.
While there has been a noticeable alb
sence Of earthquakes in the last fortnight,
a volcanic eruption has taken place near
where, 10 years ago, the greater part Of
Mount Bandason was hurried into the ali
Azuma Yama was .ne scene OF an awful
explosion last week, sulphur factory
employing about 100 hands being sud
denly annihilated by a subterranean ex-
plosion. Only 20 Of the hands escaped
The fall of debris covered the ground two