Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-05-17
5INMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
.rrws OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
/ Complete Re>ie" "f the Event" o.
-. Past Week-in This RUd For
sr-.~. Lands-Taken From the
latest Dispatches.

uoulton Needham, secretary and
,,..snrer Of the Washington Baseball
Cub, Is dead.
Az Nelson, B. c., last week, Jimmie
nnrns and Charlie Goff fought twenty
.ounds to a draw
omaha has resumed its normal wide
men condition, Mayor Moores blue law
enforcement having been abolished.
The boiler at Reilly's sawmill, near
stroud, O. T., blew up recently. killing
Oscar McAlly, engineer. and fatally
sc,lding Solomon Reilly.
Fully 10000 men and boys ran riot
N the streets of Detroit for more than
4hree hours one day last week and
II continual running fight with police
Il men, both mounted and on foot caused
great excitement in the heart OF the
city.
set Of boilers at the Highland hoist,
operated by the Homestake Mining
company, at Lead, s. D. blew up with
terrific force recently. The engineer
was killed and two helpers seriously
Injured The Homestake company Will
| be badly crippled Until the hoist and
sawmill can be repaired.
The passenger steamer Bon voyage
caught fire in Lake Superior recently
and was beached near the portage ship
canal. A telephone message from Red
Ridge, the village nearest the spot
where the steamer was put ashore, says
L that five passengers, all women, were
drowned in getting from the boat to
the shore.
Miss Dora Mcdonald Of Detroit,
Mich, who apparently died several
days ago., and whose condition was
such that her physician, DR.. George 8.
Field, refused to pronounce her dead,
after 80 hours suspended animation
owing to uncertain signs of life about
the body, died today after being in a
cataleptic state for 43 hours.
On a farm near Bloomington, ILL.,,
Merritt Chism killed his wife. AS she
was starting to church in buggy with
the two little daughters of Chism, her
stepdaughters, 1. quarrel arose. Chism
jumped into the buggy and with knife
cut his wife's face and neck. He then
threw her into the road, jumped on
her and stabbed her repeatedly.
A strike involving directly 100000
machinists and indirectly 100000 men
in the metal working trades is expect
ed to take place May 80, unless some
arrangement is effected in the mean
time This is the statement made by
President James O'Connell of the In
ternational Association of Machinists,
who has his headquarters in Washing
ton, u. c.
At Fairbury, N. j., horse doctor
named Zeigler and Frank Browner,
were having fight back Of Colby's
billiard hall when the Rock Plains
switch engine, pushing train Of cars
out OF the way, ran over the two men
cutting off both Zeigler's feet and in
jurng Browner's right hand. The men
were drunk. Zeigler has since died
and Browner will lose his right hand
j.. Pierpont Morgan has gone to
Paris and will not return to America
before next June.
Adjutant General Hoffman of the
New York national guard dropped
dead recently while in consultation
with Major General Roe.
OF 120 cases of bubonic plague in
Hong Kong since January l, 112 have
died, including one victim bitten by
rat. who expired in IL hours.
The steamer Owensboro, a towboat
owned by the Green River Coal Trans
portation company of Evansville, Ind.
was burned to the waters edge a,
Calhoun, KY, recently and four lives
We're lost.
1t is now definitely known that moi
more than five lives were lost in the
wreck OF the steamer City of Paducat
at Brunkhorst Landing, Ill.,, Sunday
night, and even this number may bt
reduced to four.
EDWARD Rice, the Shoshone county
idaho, murderer who was sentenced
10 death for the killing of Matt Male,
at wallace, and who now has an ap
peal pending in the supreme court
mas developed symptoms Of insanity
after lying unconscious for 70 hour,
from the effect of blow received
during an alteration with Charlie.
anderson. Charles C. Elms. proprieto
OF the Chicago saloon died in Seattl,
tuesday. Anderson is under arres
ana will be tried for murder.
combination of outside steel con
Germs with capital of 5000. .0o0. 0OO
Is said to be in progress of promotio,
pE John w. Gates. John Lambert an,
isaac l.. Ellwood. the promoters an,
oreanizers Of the American Steel 4
Wire company.
mere is a report from Tientsi,
mat 10000 insurgents have assemble,
at Lang-liu-tsang and that they ar
nduiging in all kinds of excesses. vic
iatlng women, robbing houses an,
piundering tax collectors and decla,
ing their intention of setting IN
new emperor.
The works at East Helena of III
American Smelling & Refining com
pany. which were closed down re