Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-04-05
THE telegraph SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
4 Complete Review Of the Events OF
the Fast Week-In This aHd For
~IEn Lands-Tmken From the
Latest Dispatches.


OF big strike at Pelly.
oxford snatched victory from Cam
bridge In the boat race.
General Funston Ii to be made briga-
disr In the general army.
The retirement OF salisbury can not long
be delayed on account Of MS faiiiHg
health.
James Stephens. the well known Fee
nian leader Of the 1866 movement. iS
dead In Dublin.
OF 1900 bakers threatening to
strike In Manhattan and Brooklyn on
May /, 5000 have already decided to
strike.
Active preparations are being made
for the holding OF the Pacific States
floral congress In San Francisco during
May II. Is and l6 next.
A terrific rain and hail storm passed
over northern Texas recently. Damage
at Dallas from water in cellars and
stores Is estimated at 100000.
Joseph II. Willard OF Omaha and Gov
ernor Charles II. Deidrich OF Hastings.
| Neb., were elected United States sena-
tors respectively for the long and short
term by the joint session OF the two
houses of the legislature in Nebraska.
The Jefferson hotel Of Richmond.
Va, which was erected and furnished
by the late Louis Ginter. Mt a cost of
81, 900 900. was destroyed by fire recent
ly.
! Tb. Northern Pacific gross earnings
| for February were $2.066.71S. an In.
crease OF $21O,999. The net February
earnings were $942.526. an increase Of
| $28. $50.
Joseph a, Conlin. the postoffice clerk
who was arrested recently In San Fran
cisco, charged with the robbery OF $43.-
900 In registered mail last fall. plead
ed guilty.
At Frankfort. KY, the court OF ap-
peais has granted new trials to Caleb
Powers and James Howard, under SEN
tence as having been connected with
tho Cochcl assassination.
steps have been taken to establish
Il diocese of the Protestant Episcopal
church OF America in the Philippine
islands. with a resident bishop and du-
iy appointed ministers
A dispatch to the London Leader
from Kieff says that II Is reported that
an officer OF the household attempted
to assasslnate the czar. He fired at his
majesty, but missed He then shot and
killed himself
Announcement Is made that the
Schenectady locomotive works have Sc
cured the patent right to build railroad
engines of the socallcd prairie type
In this same connection the Burlington
management has given an order for 81
engines at cost OF $4,000
Mrs Emma Robinson. widow with
four children, living In Rochester, N
Y, has received from Washington
lawyer the information that her name
appears among the list OF heirs to {
vast property situated In central Penn
sylyania. valued at nine millions.
At Columbia, s. c.. the Bank OF Co
lumDia forwarded to the Bank OF Com
MERGE of New York $4,000 In pape
money. When the package arrived a
Its destination Saturday 1t was discoy
cred that the money had been removed
; and brown paper substituted.
Money still piles up In the U. s
T treasury. The surplus. II tied up. will
= cripple business Secretary Gage say
reduction OF taxation will draw none!
out. and he refuses to buy bonds. No
= does he think 1t wise to increase gov
ernment deposits In the banks.
: The steamer Amur from Skagwa,
y brings the news from Dawson that dur
Ing tho recent stampede to Gold Rul
! and Eureka so men staked one CLAIM
and made rush to record 1t. while a
l. the mouth of Gold Run 100 men mad
wild scramble for three claims.
Peter Karpovitch. the assassin o
Bogoliepon. Russian minister OF publ
y instruction. has been sentenced to 2
u years penal servitude. with loss 0
J. civil rights. The announcement tina
y he had been sentenced to life imprisor
J, ment In fortress was erroneous.
" At Mobile. Ala. detective Morris an
Policeman Bressingcr recently attemp
- ed to arrest two negroes suspected O
- the murder OF u marshal at Gulfporl
y Miss One negro named Davis resiste
= and shot Morris and Bressinger. pro,
~ ably fatally. He In turn was kille,
The other negro was captured.
y As u result of quarrel over tn
" right to Craze sheep on n strip OF pra
!" tieally worthless ground near Csc,
G Grand county Colo. John Setman I
faysou. Utah, Is lying dead. and +.
Campbell. surveyor OF Grand count.
" Is under arrest at Moab. awaiting
7" preliminary hearing on the charge c
~ murder.
" A $40 900 900 syndicate deal Is pen,
ing In San Francisco. and with its su
eessful contamination the entire hsl
u ing and packing industry on the Pacif
coast VII, be controlled by one big co
w. poratton. The principal stakeholder
" In this aew syndicate. should the deal
u b. closed. will include the we'll know
= New York fnaneiers. j. rierpont Mo
gar. August Belmonth. w. Seligmal
'e ]. Seligman and the presidents OF SCI