Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-09-21
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
COmDlete Review Of the EvenAs for
the Past Week In This and For
elwa LanAs-Bsnm arisea rP00 the
Latest Dispatches.

The fight OF President Kruger to Lorenzo
Marques may enable General Botha to
bring the war To a close.
| Lord Roberts reports from Machadodorp
that General French was heavily engaged |
with the Hoers in the hills west of Barber
ton and that General Hutton had gone to
Genera! frenchs support.
The Givernaud silk mill at Allenston,
Pa, employing 400 hands, is idle. Three
hundred weayers struck against decrease
VI ID per cent in wages. The superintend- |
ent oi the mill said the cut was only tenn
porary.
The strike Of the anthracite coal miners
OF the Lickawail district is practically |
certain, for every mine that Is working
today short handed, and some are en-
tircy shut down. Throughout the upper
valley there was almost complete stoppage.
Eight hundred butchers employed in the
packing houses Of the Jacob Dold Pack
ing company and klinck's and Danhy's
packing houses at Buffalo, N. y, are Oh u
company to discharge two men who reius-
ed to pay their dues to their union.
One OF Minister Congers dispatches was
in answer to cabled inquiry Irom the de-
partment as to the fate oi Missionaries
CORTLAND Van Rensselaer, Hodges and
wife, Elsie Campbell Hodges, who were
killed. The couple were natives OF Pnn-
adclphia and belonged to the Presbyteri
mission.
Three attempts were made recently to
wreck Union Pacific trains west of Alb
ilcnc, Kansas. lies were pulled On the
track in front OF the local passenger train
and the flyer westbound, and heavy iron
on the track before the flyer eastbound.
The distractions were discovered and
trains stopped in time to prevent any dam
age.
From all parts OF the United States
anu some portions Of England many thou
sands oi dollars are pouring into Houston,
Texas, for the rcleief Of Texas destitute
storm sufferers. Train loads OF provisions
and clothing are also hurrying toward
Houston and Galveston and the refugees
who have arrived here are being made as
comfortable as possible.
The general opinion Is that spinners
around Manchester will stop univers-
ally during the first fortnight in Octo-
Der. Some producers are having re-
course to Egyptian and Peruvian cot
ton to complete their contracts.
Almost record trip from the eastern
coast was made by the large steamer
Bosnia, which arrived in San Francis
co. AZ days and 10 hours from Philadel.
phia. She is chartered by the German
government to carry cavalry horses to
China.
Alice Maud Newlands, formerly Of
Forrest, ILL.,, shot herself through the
heart at the Newlands residence at
Galesburg, having previously been ar
rested with her husband, DR.. Freder-
lex Newlands. charged with violating
the postal laws.
Rear Admiral Montgomery Sicard
, died OF apoplexy recently at his summer
home at Westernville. Rear Admiral
Sicard had been on the retired list
since September 1898. At the break
Ing out OF tho Spanish-American war
no was in command OF the North At
lantic station, but on account OF his i'll
health was relieved by Captain William
I. Sampson.
Acre after acre OF what was beautiful
woodland last week Is now stretch OF
blackened. smoky ground over which
dense smoke hangs In clouds. The
brush fires which sprang into activity
with the recent gale have simply dew
astated great region OF Plymouth
county. Mass.
According to the Lorenzo MARQUES
. correspondent Mr. Kruger Is virtually
a prisoner In the residence OF the dis
trict governor This Is at the Instance
OF the British consul who protested
against Mr.. Kruger using Portuguese
territory as base for directing his ex-
ecutive affairs.
.sany vessels were recently wrecked
by the storm ON the Alaskan coast
Hanna may 80 on the stump as he i
about 10 yield To iie solicitation of repub-
l,ean leaders.
Kruger A. not deserter, as the Boer
enNoys say he was authorized 10 leave
the lransvaal.
/ ~" '""NN " Ahc s'''he'N III thr HaAct-
/ ton district have considerably Increased
fccntiy by recruits from nearly every col.
, hrty in the region.
At Nlnnemusea. New, recently three
unmaskrd men entered the First Nation
r al bank and robbed it Of large sum Of
money, the exact amount not yet being
, known.
/ MIR Kruger, the former president of
: the South African republic, did not sill
, ia' Europe on the German steamer Her.
fog September "a. as he originally intend
ed
Spring Lake. \. J.. summer resort
i near seagirt. has been destroyed by hre
4 Anlons fine baltsangs burned were three OF
The larYr>t hntrl. IN the nlacc The tnt Al