Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-05-03
The TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
VIEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
\ COmplet- Review Of the Events OF
the Fast Week-Ja This and For
etgn LandK-TMken From the
Latest Dispatches.


Callahan has been positively identi-
fed as one OF the abductors by young
Cudahy. He knew him by his brogue.
The Rev. Lyman II. Sherwood.
founder Of Lyon Music academy, is
dead at his home in New York. aged 73
years. He was ordained to the Episco-
! pal ministry in 1850.
Chicago manufacturers Of clothing
representing an aggregate capital OF
| SIS, ,O00. 900 to 100000. 900 have decided
| to form an association which will com.
bne with similar bodies throughout
the United States.
Ii Hung Chang sends word to the
Christian Herald that serious fam
inc spreads over the whole province Of
Han-si. Over II 900. 900 population NJ.
fected. Urgent relief Is necessary. The
conditions warrant immediate appeal.
The heaviest rain on record fell at
Topeka recently, the precipitation in
one hour being 1.67 inches. Lightning
tore the German Evangelical church
and killed John C. Cooper. a gardener
At Anthony. so miles south. three inch
es OF rain fell within two hours. and
congested the streams.
The ashing steamer New England
has established a new record. She ar
rived in Vancouver from the north end
OF Vancouver island. where In a single
day the catch aggregated 10000
pounds OF fish, On several occasions
the 100, 900 mark has been reached FOR
days fishing, but never before exceed.
ed.
! Twenty lives are reported lost in a
snowslide at Sunrise City, Alaska.
Many houses were caught in the ava
lanche.
Valdes, Alaska, Is crowded with idle
men anxiously awaiting beginning Of
work ON the government line to the
interior.
At Houston, Texas, In fire which
destroyed livery stable and three resi-
dences recently. five persons were
were injured.
/ Carefully compiled statistics show
that the gold production Of the Cripple
J Creek district up to the close of the
/ present month makes grand total OF
: over S100,000,000. Gold was first dis
covered in this camp in 1889.
, Light, life and air has broken in
} onto the five entombed miners at Au-
rora Ohio. Two were rescued alive.
. one was found dead and the other two
! are supposed to be hfeless. Grant
Shard was mangled by falling rocks
and earth and died instantly.
: Thirty-one billion dollars Is the ag-
gregate Of national debts Of the world
at the close OF the nineteenth century.
This Is ten times as much as in the
! closing years of the eighteenth cen
: tury. according to expert statisticians
of the treasury bureau devoted to this
: work. This bureau has just issued a
, statement on the subject, 1t apparently
being suggested by the recent an.
nouncement OF the new British loan
: of $500. 100000.
The Mechanics Savings Bank OF
/ Westerly, X. L.. Is closed. This action
: came as a great surprise to the town
. and great excitement prevails among
:, small depositors. The estimated
. amount OF deposits is something less
J, than 81 600, 900, the securities on theil
face values less than $1.100.000. The
number OF depositors Is about 200
Many OF the securities are western in
vestments, which are understood tC
/ have decreased In value year by year.
George Cummins. aged %. a son ol
/ d. w. Cummins. telegraph operator al
Northport. Wash, who recently re
turned from volunteer service in th'
Philippines, and was employed In th'
railroad yards as switchman. wa,
caught between two heavy ore car,
while making coupling. and killet
:, almost instantly. living only a few
minutes. He called by name favorit
sister May who lies very sick at home
and then asked to have his head raised
after which he gasped few times an
expired.
At Cincinnati Mrs. Richard Crater
: the wife Of housepainter. on bein
unable to keep her husband from
saloon. went to the place with one o
his kalsomine buckets and a whit
wash brush. She kalsomined hir
from head to foot in the saloon. II
n returned to the saloon after he had a.
l. clothing. She followed him again an
the next time kalsomined the saloor
keeper and his bar fixtures. and CAV
notice that she would repeat the pc
a. formance to anyone selling liquor {
Is her husband.
A. G. r. Sayler OF Iowa. the specis
I. agent in charge OF the best sugar II
vestigation Of the department OF agr
ID culture. is In Washington and has SUI
le mitted his report to Secretary Wilson
N He says this year shows an active ter
Q dency toward the institution Of ne
ID beet sugar enterprises. Next autumn
q he says. Michigan will have three ne
factories and Ohio. Indiana, Ne
~ York. Colorado. Utah, South and Mort
se Dakota and Illinois will install ne