The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-12-20
HORLD'S KEH BRIEFLY TOLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Complete Review of Happenings I'm
Both Eastern and Western Hemis-
pheres for the Past Week-Nation-
al. Historical. Political and Per-
SODaI Events TerseIy ExpOunded.


heavy rains, two miles east of Peru, Ind.
Fifteen are reported injured
Chief of Detectives Seymour is in re-
ceipt of telegram from the chief of po-
lice of Los Angeles announcing that Henry
X. Fleischman, cashier of the Farmers &
Merchants bank absconded recently with
100000 in currency and no trace of him
has been discovered.
At Red Lodge, Mont, because her
lover did not return, Fannie Hundley
swallowed whole bottle Of strychnine,
dying in terrible agony twenty minutes
later. Her sweetheart was Rumsey
Chance.
The William Mckinley Memorial
Arch association has determined to
change it's plan of operation and to APP
peal to congress instead of to the pub
lic for the erection of the proposed me-
mortal arch at Washington.
Austin Craig, of Sumpter Ore, gen
eral mine and real estate promoter, rep
resentative of the Bank of Sumpter.
stage agent, city recorder and postmas-
Ter of the town of Whitney, was arrest
cd recently on the charge of larceny by
balee for the alleged embezzlement of
funds entrusted to him for another pur
pose.
Had Admiral Van Reypen not been
reappointed Monday he would have re-
tired within a year in the grade of
captain. On December % next, how
ever, he will have served forty years in
the army and navy and so may retire
as an admiral.
At Troy, Idaho, recently, W. H.
Mann. brakeman on an extra train, was
run over by an engine and instantly
KILLED.
Mr.. Hanna on ship subsidies, in
speech before Bostonians at a banquet,
pointed out to the merchants that
America pays yearly into the pockets of
Foreign ship owners 100000, 900. Wat
terson of Kentucky also spoke.
A handcar containing three Italian
Aaborers was struck by a Northern Pa
cifc freight train ON a curve near Shir-
ley, Montana. One of the men was
torn to fragments, but the other two es-
capped uninjured.
Jacob Schaefer holds championship
of world at billiards. In New York he
defeated George Slosson in a 4OO-point
game by a margin of 35 points The
contest was mediocre and brilliant by
turns. Schaefer also defeated Morn
ingstar.
Mr.. Lawson, of Boston, says that con-
troll of the United States Metal Selling
company had changed, and was now
owned jointly by the Amalgamated
Copper Company, the Rothschilds and
the Calumet & Hecla Mining company.
He declared that the Metal Selling com
pany had contracted to buy for five
years from January l the product of
the Amalglmated, the Calumet Hec-
Ia and the Rio Tintos mines.
The Democrats completely over
whelmed the Republicans in the recent
Boston elections, Gen. Patrick A. Col
Inns being elected mayor over Mayor
Hart by the largest plurality in a quar-
ter of a century. The Democrats like
wise obtained control of both branches
of the city government elected their
street commissioners and practically
all their candidates for the school com
y
strongly in favor of license
John Hay has been selected as the
orator for the memorial service in
honor of the late President Mckinley
20 be held by both houses of congress.
The jury in the trial Of Mrs. Lola
Ida Bonnie, accused of the murder Of
James Seymour Ayros, Jr., the young
census clerk killed in the Kenmore no
tel last spring, returned a verdict o
mot guilty after being out about fou
hours
f. ID. Elliott representing the Grea
Northern railroad, called at the Fou
Courts. St Louis. and announced tina
one-third Of the $4,000 offered by hi
company would be awarded the six de
tectives who arrested Fitzpatrick, tn
Montana train robber suspect
Members of the executive committe
OF the national council of the G. A. f
at a meeting in Chicago decided to hol
the next annual encampment of tn
organization at Washington, d. c.
has been directed that the encampmer
be held in the fall, although the exaC
date will not be selected until tomo
row.
Laura Bullion, the female companio
of Ben Fitzpatrick, the Montana trai
robber suspect, who was convicted {
having in his possession forged n
tional bank notes, was today sentence
by United States District Judge Adam
to five years Imprisonment in II