The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-05-05
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events OF
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

special trains 10 Kansas Oily, ouiy l.
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
Endorsed Ex-senator Quay and adopted
platform.
Portland, Oregon, is to agitate the mat
ter OF an appropriation for The Dailes
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
Picking that Shen Ping, a leader in the
reform party, was sentenced to serutude
for life.
Through the explosion of powder mag
agine at Kan Shau, China, recently, PA
houses were destroyed and persons lost
their lives.
Congressman Fowler win give to the
city of Elizabeth, N. j., a public library
building, fully equipped, the whole to cost
100000.
G. A. Pitcher, mining man, poisoned
himself with cyanide of potassium at
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 Flo Tsan-
hoi, leaders of the Saichiu brigands. a
reward of $4,000 and official rank are Of
Sered for the capture of each.
Three persons were killed and three Sc
werely injured in fire recently at New
York, in the six-story tenement house at
"A Forsyth street. The dead are: Hanna
Iaebowitz, Alelie Liebowitz, Joseph Lie
bowitz, 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 several
kegs of blasting powder and dynamite at
Iarimer, Pa.
The plague seems to have entirely dis
appeared at Honolulu, and the United
States consul has issued the first clean
bill of health to vessel departing from
here since December IL to the schooner
Bertha Miner, which sailed for Puget
sound on the l4th.
Seven thousand troops have been dis
patched to Shan Tung to suppress the in
surrection there, while the threatened ris-
sng in Canton seems to have ended in
smoke. There comes a statement that
around Wei-Hai-Wei the people are band
I'D to oppose the British and serious dis
surbanees are apprehended there.
The money market of Toxic is in
state of stringency. The banks have
Faised the rate of interest and are taking
precautions in advancing money. Share
quotations are rapidly declining. Baron
Hayashi, the newly appointed japanese
minister to England, leaves Japan for Lon
don, May 8.
Elmer /. Sheetz was arrested in San
Francisco as ne was boarding vessel for
Cape Nome. Sheetz was a st. Louis
broker, and on October "a last he was an
rested for fraud and gave bonds. He
jumped the bond and came west and ha :
been in this city since March. He organ
lied a company to exploit Cape Nome
Wales succeeded the marquis of Ripon as
grand master of English Freemasons and
Wednesday the anniversary was observed
by his reinstallation in the office with
elaborate ceremonies The prince appeare
IN his robes of office and with full regalia
and the ceremonies were participated in by
prominent members of the order from
~ - l.
among those invited to the ceremonies was
King Oscar of Norway and Sweden. who
Ss grand master of the order in the Scan
dinavian peninsula, having held the office
before his ascension to the throne. Con
grstulatory messages were received by tn,
prince of Wales from the crown prince o
Denmark and Prince Frederick Leopold o
Prussia, who hold the office of grand mas
Der among the Freemasons of their re
spective countries.
A strong company has been organize
30 operate railroads in Cuba.
Massachusetts, republicans have Ell
dorsed Secretary of the Navy Long 10
vice president.
Mrs. Jeanette Adams, who recentl
shot and killed her husband, the Cincin
matt agent of the Union Pacific railway
was acquitted of the charge of murder
Senator Mason has introduced a join
resolution to withdraw the United State
troops from Cuba, so as to turn the gov
srnment of that island over to the Gu
bans by July 4.
The attacks of the strikers in tn
building trades labor war upon the nor
union workmen were continued, a mo
assailing two teamsters, and an aged car