Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-05-25

eNS ReSo0SV VI hbSituS sea,
From returns already received from
numerous local unions, the Lynch cam
paign committee in Syracuse claims the
election of James NJ. Lynch OF Syracuse
as president OF the International Typo
graphical union by plurality Of about
2300
A deal is pending for the transfer
from the hands of capitalists in Mon
terey OF the steel plant there in the
Wellman-Seaver Engineering company
o. Cleveland. Ohio. The authorized
capital for the Monterey company is
100000
Articles Of incorporation of the Nome
Railroad company have been filed in
San Francisco. The company PROPOSES
to have a main line four miles long,
with branch line two and half miles
long. The road will run from Nome
toward April creek in Alaska
A. c. Bergum. a military prisoner at
the Presidio, was shot and instantly
killed while trying to make his escape
with several other prisoners. The dead
man was a private of the Twentieth
U. S. infantry and was serving a three
years sentence for sleeping at his post
during service in Manila The other
prisoners were captured.
Many buildings AT Autlan, Mexico.
were recently destroyed by earthquake
Delegates and others 10 the Kansas City
convention get one fare rates, good until
September 80.
Street ear men are plentiful in st.
Louis, more have locked there than
can find places.
The house leaders have decided TO re.
duce the war taxes at the mex, session
of congress-
organized 10 oppose the American and
Continental Company.
The business portion Of i4,ke,iew. Or.
has been destroyed by fire. Iakcsiew
has a population of 100.
Justice Gordon is TO be the Great North
ern attorney at Spokane His juri-.lic-
ton will extend from Spokane to Minot,
South Dakota.
Frankfort, Ky, is now free from sol
diers for the first time since january 50
The evacuation of the I,eckham troops,
the last to leave, occurred this forenoon.
The war department justties the con
struction Of government road in Cuba.
Plauge has been stamped out, and there
are no more eases found IN san Fran
CISCO. influential newspapers editorially
denounce the board of health. A house
to house canvass is to be made in China
town, but incubation is optional.
| Tho Nastnrn Eal.~,t,,p s
elected the old officers and decided to
Keep the headquarters of the organiza-
tion at Butte, Mont.
Twenty three miners, ! white and IL
negroes lost their lives in the explosion at
Cumnock coal mines, Chatham county, NJ
&, Tuesday. The explosion is supposed
to have been caused by broken gauze in
a safety lamp.
! Queen Victoria has granted Lord
stntheona and Mount Royal, the Cana
dian high commissioner, a patent of his
4 title to Hon Mrs Robert Jared Bliss
Howard, his only child.
The village of Point Claire, l6 miles
! from Montreal, has been almost entirely
wiped out by fire. Two hundred people
are homeless No fatalities.
/
| The Western Federation of Miners ana
the Western Federation Of Labor Unions
| have both decided 10 hold their conven-
tons next year in Denver
a man has arrived in SEATTLE who saws
he left the steamer Aberdeen en- route ta
Cape Nome at Neah bay and returned.
nome He says a riot occurred on board
The officers landed part Of the passengers
at Neah bay and tied up. The captain
has sent to Seattle for officers.
An agreement has been reached between
4 the friends Of Senator Clark of Montana
and the senate committee on privileges
and elections to postpone any action upon
the senator's credentials until Wcdnes
day, the 3Oth instant.
After being dragged through the street,
Of Pueblo, Colo, at the end Of rope for
40 yards and after the rope had broker
twice while the struggling and yelling
negro was being pulled up. Calvin Kim
blern, murderer, was lynched.
A correspondent of the London Time.
says he has it on unquestionable author
Ity that within the last six weeks Pre-l
dent Kruger has transferred the bulk o
hi, property in the Transvaal to persona
friends in order TO avoid it's confi-catioi
by Great Britain.
An st-bound freight on the Grea
Northern, when about six miles east 0
Lravenworth, struck a large rock, turnin,
: the engine over into the WeDatchee river
Engineer Norks was killed. The fireman
jumped in time to save himself. Aboa
FIVE box cars went into the river viii
: the engine.
Fred Mohr, section hand on tn
Northern Pacific, was killed Weinesda,
near Cheney. An extra east bound freigh
train collided with hand car on higl
trestle throwing Mohr nearly $50 fee
through the air to the bottom of a dec
gulch. The other half dozen men on tin
hand car escaped with their lives b,
hanging TO the lies Of the trestle