The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-02-08
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.

on suspicion that he is Pat Grove, wanted
for kidnapping young Cudahy of Omaha.
At Truckee, Cal, John Ishan, known as
Young Botus, an Indian, while intoxi-
Gated, kicked and beat his wife to death.
PRESIDENT Mckinley has decided that an
extra session will be necessary, but ne may
not call it until he has entered upon his
second term.
The Spokane Falls & Northern round
house at Spokane was destroyed by fire
recently with loss conservatively esti-
mated at over $l5,O0G.
The will of Mary Delafeld Sturges, wild
ow of the Chicago banker, is filed and
shows the estate is valued at three mil !
ions. Six children share equally.
Lord Kitchener reports that Dewet has
been engaged by Knox 40 miles north of
Thaba N'Chu. Dewet intends again at
tempting an invasion of Cape Colony.
Fire recently almost destroyed the en-
tire business section of the little town of
Tolono, nine miles south OF Champaign,
Ill. The loss is estimated at 100000,
partially covered by insurance.
Major General Arthur Macarthur will
general OF the division of the Philippines
in april next, and will be succeeded by
BrIgadier General James f. Wade.
In row in the Italian quarter at The
North End in Boston recently one man
was killed and three were seriously
wounded. One of the men, Raphael Faiia,
is under arrest charged with murder.
Charles F. w. Nelly the former chief
of the bureau of finance of the Cuban post
office department, who was arrested in
Rochester, N. Y. in May last, charged with
embezzlement of $4,000 of the department
funds, has arrived at Havana.
Two lives were lost at the burning of
the Hotel Jefferson, l02-l06 East Fifteenth
street, New York. The damage by fire is
estimated at $4,000 The dead are Elnora
Downing 20 years old, nurse, and Eliza
beth Reynolds, 80, waitress.
The Western Society of the Army of the
Potomac has held its annual banquet at
Chicago. Nearly $50 members were pres
ent, in spite of the inclement weather
Captain Bradley Dean, president of the
society, presided The toasts were of a
patriotic nature, dealing with the services
rendered by the army of the Potomac
during the civil war
Louis Deburgh, recruit in the pro-
visional battalion at the Preside, Cali
fornia, claims to have fallen heir to for
tune of $4,000, and some valuable prop
erty near Paris which has been bequeathed
to him by the Countess de Lavon OF
France, who, he says, is his aunt. He
al 70 h.xvo d.
and says he was taken prisoner by the
English, but escaped on Portuguese sloor
while on the way to St. Helena.
AT Columbus, Ohio, the following list
of toasts for the Jefferson-J acks SON Lincoln
banquet, which is to be held on Lincoln's
birthday, has been given out: William j
Bryan, Jefferson" John P Altgeld
Jackson" Charles A. Towne, Lincoln
Senator-elect Carmack of Tennessee, "Jef
ferson to Lincoln" Senator Pettigrew
@'Lincoln Down to Hanna;" Representativ,
De Almond of Missouri, "Our Government
Should Be Controlled by the Ballot 30,
and Not by the Musket"
The legislature of South Carolin;
for the second time has killed a bill
prohibiting child labor in cotton mills
The anti-Jesuit demonstrations
which began in Madrid in connection
with the anticlerical play, Electra,
have spread to Valencia.
The French torpedo boat No. "a sanl
recently within a mile of shore a
Havre as a result of the boiler explod
ing. All the crew were lost with tn
exception of two.
John P. Mason, 48 years old, the al
legged defaulting clerk of the Cont
mental bank of New York, COMMITTEE
suicide by shooting himself in tn
head.
Fire from an unknown cause dc
stroyed the large plant of the Nationa
Wire company of Fairhaven. Conn.,, en-
failing property loss estimated a
$325,000.
Official orders were received by Co
Mills from Adjutant General Corbin t
take steps to graduate the first elias
of cadets on Monday, February IS, a
West Point
Fire at the w. B. Earthman Lumbe
company's plant, at Nashville, Tenn
destroyed lumber, ware houses, IL tel
ement houses and nine freight cars
Loss, 100000.
At all the blast furnaces Throughout
the Mahoning valley, Ohio, the bottoI
filters and helpers have accepted a r.
duction of 10 cents per day in wage
taking effect Immediately.
Recently John Greer, woodchoppe