The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1901-05-31
SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
the Past Week-In This and For-
etxn LAnds-TakeA From the
Latest Dispatches.

the president and his party will leave
San Francisco Saturday. They viii
go direct to Washington. and nj
stops will be made except those made
necessary by railroad arrangements
Alaska may have a new governor
soon after President Mckinley re
turns to Washington. Governor Johr
G. Brady's term expired this month
and he is now holding office through
that provision of the law which keeps
him till his successor is appointed.
The president and Secretary OF
State Hay have been in constant com
munication with Washington during
all their journey west Dispatches
from our foreign embassies have been
continually arriving. and the Chi
nese situation has received special at
tention-
The greatest food In the history OF
Elizabethtown. Tenn. swept through
there recently, drowning three per-
sons and wiping out 81 dwellings The
names Of the victims are: Mrs
Gregg, Mrs. Fiiley and a negro named
Souchong Others are missing and
are believed to have been drowned.
The cadets dismissed from the
West Point military academy as the
result Of the recent disturbances
there are: Henry L. Bobby, Nebras-
ka; John A. Cleveland. Alabama;
Trangett F. Teller. New York; Ray
mond A. Lynton. Michigan; Birchie
o. Maha7ey. Texas. All these cadets
are OF the second class
The following cadets have been
suspended: Olan Caleshire. Ill-
nois; Benjamin F. Mcclellan. Mississ-
ippi; James A. Shannon, Minnesota;
Charles Telford, Utah. of the second
class; also Thomas N. Gimpering Of
Ohio and Henry Hawley OF New York,
Of the third class These cadets are
without pay until April !.
1902.
Reports from Pekin are to the ef-
Iect that Marshal Won Waldersee has
informed the Chinese his troops will
not leave Pekin until the court re-
.urns and he Is himself received In
imperial audience. The French have
withdrawn from the Shan-si expedi-
ion and the English have refused to
axe any paH in 1t.
Captain Frederick J. Barrows, Thir-
eenth volunteer infantry, late depot
Of the department OF
outhern Luzon, who was charged with
and selling government ,
to be dfshonorably discharg- .
d and to undergo five years impris-
nment. Both Barrows and Boyer {
rill eventually be removed to Leav-
nworth prison, Kansas.
According to adyices from Dawson
May IS, by the steamer Cottage
ity, the Yukon river at Daw-
On is clear Of ice. On the at
,rnoon Of the 14th thousands of peo- =
lie were attracted to the river front I
= the cracking Ice, which was heard :
n miles. The scene was awe in !,
bring and business Of the Klondike :,
etropolfs was suspended. Ice accu- j
ulated In the river above the city :,
a considerable height and so great 4
.came the pressure that the Ice In
ont Of the city gave way, and with
roar and rush 1t soon disappeared
ID formed large jam about mile
low Dawson. :. :.
The United States revenue cutter =,
ant has come of the rocks in Saan- W
sound. -
The village Of Esparagossa, province -
! s,orm o. oan 49, ti1Isd ch
The wooden steamer Baltimore foun- 'e'
red recently in Lake Huron near Au
BILE and IL OF her crew Of IA were
owned.
Thomas Morris Avery, founder Of ore
Elgin National Watch company, DEF
d recently in Chicago. from q stroke in