Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1900-04-27


United States, when asking that the
year 1901 be devoted to the formation
OF an independent government for Gu.
ba. which shall begin to act on its own
responsibility after the end Of 1901.
The will Of Rufus Wright, who was
mysteriously shot and killed in the
Leland Hotel at Chicago, has been filed
for probate. 1t disposes of an estate
valued at 100000. This is believed to
be conservative estimate, and 1t is
expected that the estate will figure up
over $1,00O000. According to the peti.
tiun filed with the court the personal
property valuation is 100000 and the
real estate 100000. The dead million.
air manufacturer distributed $l2S.O00
in personal bequests among relatives
and Others but left nothing to charity
or public institutions.
An extensive forgery Of sugar trust
stock is revealed in Chicago
Tammany Hall will 60 in body on i've
special trains to Kansas City, July 4.
Quay's friends at Harrisburg, Pa, have
indefinitely postponed the celebration.
Ohio republicans at their recent conven-
| ton indorsed the administration Of Nc
Kinley.
Pennsylvania republicans in convention
inaorsed Ex-senator Quay and adopted
platform.
Portland, Oregon, is to agitate the mat
tel of an appropriation for The Dailcs
portage road.
1t is announced at La Sale, ILL.,, that
1900 coal miners employed by the Spring
Valley Coal company have struck.
A telegram was received in Canton from
Peking that Shen Ping leader in the
reform party, was sentenced to servitude
for life.
Through the explosion of a powder mag
azine at Kan Shau, China, recently, 224
nd Uses were destroyed and persons lost
their lives.
Congressman Fowler will give to the
city of Eliza beth, n. j., public library
building, fully equipped, the whole to cost
100000.
| c. A. Pitcher, a mining man, poisoned
himself with cyanide Of potassium at a
Seattle lodging house recently. Despond-
ency over financial troubles is supposed to
have been the cause.
! The viceroy OF Canton has taken active
measures to capture Au San and Fo Tsan.
hpi, leaders of the Saichiu brigands. a
reward Of $4,000 and official rank are Of
fered for the capture of each.
Three persons were killed and three Sc
verely injured in fire recently at Ne"
York, in the six-story tenement house al
"a Forsyth street. The dead are: Hanna
L,ebowitz, Alelie Lebowitz, Joseph Lie
howitz, all children.
One man was blown almost to atoms
two men received injuries probably fatal
and eight men and one girl received seri
Gus injuries by an explosion of severa
kegs of blasting powder and dynamite a
IArimer, Pa.
The plague seems to have entirely dis
appeared at Honolulu, and the Unite
. States consul has issued the first cleal
:. bill of health to vessel departing froll
+, here since December II to the schoone
q Bertha Miner which sailed for Puge
sound on the l4th.
Seven thousand troops have been dis
,. patched to Shan Tung to suppress the IN
. surrection there. while the threatened ri.
ing in Canton seems to have ended
!, smoke There comes statement tina
= around Wei Hai-Wei the people are band
"a ed to oppose the British and serious di'
= turbances are apprehended there.
/, The money market of Toxic is IN
state of stringency. The banks hay
j, Iraised the rate OF interest and are takin
;, precautions in advancing money. shar
:, quotations are rapidly declining. Bsro
a Hayashi, the newly appointed Japane'
!, minister to England, leaves Japan for LoI
don, May 5.
Elmer l.. Sheetz was arrested IN "a
:, Francisco as ne was boarding vessel Il
"a Cane Nome. Sheetz was IT. Lou
"A broker. and on October "a last he was
70 rested for fraud and gave bonds.
AZ jumped the bond and came west ana nj
been in this city since March. He orsal
.. lied company to exploit Cape Nome.
;, Twen,y.six years ago the prince
,s Wales succeeded the marquis OF Kipon
:. grand master of English Freem sons al
,s. Wednesday the anniversary was obsefs'
az BY his relnstalation in the office vi
elaborate ceremonies. The prince appear
or in hi, robes of office and with fun feeai
20 and the ceremonies were participated IN
I;s nrominent members of the order fro
or many parts OF the United Kingdom eh'
-n among those invited 10 the ceremonies "
he King Oscar of Norway and sweden W
i Grand master Of the order IN the oea
on dnavian peninsula, having held the ON m
,,v before his ascension to the throne. "a
a gratulatorv messages were received by
ba nrince of Wales from the crown prince
NJ Denmark and Prince Frederick Leopold
co- Prussia. who hold the office OF grand nj
nd ,er among the Freemasons OF theit
ct spective countries.
a. chancellor McGill Dead.
we New York, April 23.-chanceiior Ar
eel onaer r McGill died at his residence