The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1900-07-07

Of the London Athletic Club at Siam
ford Bridge, Saturday, the Princeton
men alone competed, but the Pennsyl-
vanlans and Georgetowns were inter-
ested spectators. All the Americans
appeared to be in excellent trim and
said they were feeling fine. Perry of
Princeton was entered for today's mile
race, but was not allowed to compete.
owing to the fact that he was suffering
from water in the knee, which will
probably debar him also from next Sat
urday's contest.
There are from 25 to 80 seriously in
jured, some fatally.
Women of Iowa can not vote is the re
cision handed down by the court, but it
may be appealed.
According to a dispatch from Cape
Town, President Kruger is reported to
have moved to Nelspruit, the Transvaal
station for Lydenburg.
A car on the Webster & Dudley street
railway and a car on the Worcester 4
Webster road came together ON a down
grade at East Webster, Mass. Nearly
score of persons were injured, three of
whom it is feared may die.
The dead: j. Ii. Hamilton, genera. SUI
perintendent; Bradley Reeves, engineer;
Edward Shannon, telegraph operator;
Yardmaster Carr, Master Mechanic La
lime and Conductor Bradford
Quartermaster Captain Chas. T. Baker
of the U. S. A. transport Sumner will
shortly appear before San Francisco SUI
perior judges to show cause why he should
not be compelled to pay $1,000 damages
for assaulting and imprisoning John Cal
way, formerly chief steward of the same
vessel
A complaint has been filed IN which
Galway alleges that on June 9 Baker as
saulted and imprisoned him in a compart-
ment six feet square Here, he says, he
was kept on bread and water for two days
and nights in temperature which varied
from 20 to l20 degrees. The complaint is
backed by several aflidavits.
On the Fourth in New York
city in the search for victims of the
North German Lloyd fire three bodies
were found off Fourth street. One was
identified as that of a longshoreman
named Henry Kunz The two others were
charred beyond recognition. A fourth
body was taken from the river at the foot
of Bay street.. Jersey City. 1t was that
of a pa inter- on the Saale
Charles Wesley Dickinson, inventor of
the geometry G lathe, which made sue
cessful counterfeiting of bank notes inn
possible, is dead at his home in Belleville
n. j., aged II. He manufactured ma
chimes for banA note engraving for the
United States and many foreign govern
ments.
The Crucible Steel Company of America
is proceeding rapidly toward its lorna
ton. On Monday the directors of the
Benjamin Atha & Illingsworth Company
of harrison, N. j., which was the last of
the important companies to hold out, met
in Newark and decided to grant the pro-
moters an option ON their crucible and
open hearth plant and cast their fortunes
with the other concerns. The new com
pany will have an authorized capital of
$4,000, 900.
At the Ohio River railroad shops in
Parkersburg, w. Va, yard engine run
ming at good rate of speed went through
an accidentally opened switch and struck
a large train of gasoline cars. One of
the tanks took hre. A cannon ball was
fired through the remaining tanks of oil to
let the fluid out. Instantly after the shot
was fired one tank exploded. The smoke
rose hundreds of feet into the air, and
after it had cleared away dead bodies
were scattered here and mere and injured
were lying all over the surrounding terri
tory.