The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-07-19
SUMMARY TELEGRAPH NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past WeeIs-In This and For
eign Lnnds-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

thermometers Ou lut SbitCtc NthN AAOiA
two to four degrees hotter
The Minnesota state pardon board has
approved the parole of Cole and James
Younger, who have been in the Saltwater
penitentiary for the past % years for com
plicity in the robbery and murder at the
time of the raid on the Mortified, Mimi,
bank.
The town of Port La Vica, Calhoun
county, Texas, was swept away recently
by storm. Nearly all the houses were
blown away and large number of boats
were wrecked. No lives are reported lost.
Port La Vica is ON the Gulf of Mexico, on
La Nica bay.
Glasgow. Mont. July ll.-Sherih Griffith
has arrived for reinfOrcements and brought
the first authentic news of the where
abouts of the bandits who held up the
Great Northern express near Malta. lie Is
confident that he has the outlaws cornered
60 miles south of the railroad on the north
side of the Missouri river and between
the river and the Little Rockies
The state department has received the
amount of the American idemnity claims
against Turkey-$95, 000-through the
American legation at Constantinople. The
money was paid by the Turkish govern
ment to Mr.. Leishman, our minister at
Constantinople, and was by him placed i'll
the Ottoman Imperial bank and drafts re-
mitted for the amount. These drafts have
Just reached Washington.
Fire destroyed the O'Brien boiler
works at st. Joseph, Mo. Loss esti-
mated at 100000.
Kansas grain is burning up in the
worst heated spell since the summer of
1860. Corn also is failure.
Sunday was the hottest day of the
season in southern Kansas, the Their
mometer registering as high as 118 in
thu sun.
E. H. Conger, United States minister
to China, will sail Wednesday from
on the steamer Nippon Maru, en- route
to Pekin.
Six persons were drowned while surf
bathing at a picnic of the Hebrew Ga
mahl Hazad, at Daufskie beach, near
Savannah, Ga.
Nine. Melba is suffering from an at
tack of laryngitis and her physicians
have advised her not to sing at Covent
Garden for a week.
Coleman and James Younger, who
were granted a conditional parole by
the board of pardons on Wednesday,,
last, have been released from the Still
water penitentiary.
At Springfield, O., Paul Hague,
known as Prof. Zeno. an aeronaut, was
fatally injured Sunday afternoon at
Island Park, falling 200 feet. His para
chute failed to open.
With a capitalization of between ST.,
100000 and $3,OOO,OOO, II of the chief
vaudeville theaters between Chicago
and the Pacific coast are about to be
merged into a single property.
At Dennison, Texas, the worst drouth
ever experienced was broken Sunday
afternoon by terrific rainfall of over
two hours duration, the volume of rain
being almost equal to a cloudburst.
At Niagara Falls, N. Y, Carlisle Ora
ham Sunday afternoon made his fifth
successful voyage through the Whirl-
pool rapids in barrel. The start was
made from the Maid of the Mist land
ing below the falls.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
hopes that the corn crop Of the western
states has not yet been ruined by the
drought. He is disposed TO believe the
reports as to the damage have been ex
aggerated.
The steamer John S. Kimball, July
4 from Nome, has arrived in Seattle
with 20 passengers and $4,000 in golt
from the district, consigned principally
to a local bank. She reports that st
Michael, as regards the discharge o
freight from steamers, was still ice
blocked July 8.
M. Santos Dumoit's cigar shaped bal
loon, driven by a motor, had trial re
Gently from st. Cloud, across Paris
around the Eiffel tower and back to ST
Cloud. The papers say the trip wa
quite successful and that the balloon
assembled and descended apparently a
the will of the aeronaut-
In all parts of France Sunday, tn
national fete day, the anniversary o
the fall of the Bastile, was celebrates
with much enthusiasm and withou
disorder. There were reviews at al
naval and military stations, followe
by Examinations, fireworks and ball
in the evening. The Parisians partici
pated with their usual zest.
Up to within week the outlook 70
the harvest in the middle west was IA
vorable. Wheat was doing we'll in Mir
nesota and the Dakatas. but 1t is nov