The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-05-03
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complies Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.


wants a quarantine.
"Billy" Smith, the American pugilist
who was knocked out in a glove contest al
the National Sporting club recently, died
Governor Odell of New York has signed
the bill authorizing women taxpayers IL
villages and towns to vote on proposition;
to expend money for public purposes.
Mgr. Falconia, the papal delegate in Can
ada, will succeed Cardinal Martinelli a;
papal delegate in the United States, and
that Mgr Zalesby, the papal delegate il
the West Indies, will succeed Mgr. Fal
coma.
News has reached London of severe
battle in the vicinity of Fort Darwin, Ma
shonland, between force of Charterland
police and natives from Chintzi under the
outlaw Mapondara. Sixty of the outlaws
were killed.
At Chicago two men will die as the re-
suit of a shooting ARRAY that occurred in
the Harrison street police court room just
after the court had adjourned. The
wounded men are Policeman William Mes
senger and DR.. Nelson.
The famous Humbug silver mine, To-
Gated at Tintic, Utah, has been sold by
Jesse Knight of Provo for a quarter of a
million dollars cash. The purchasing par
ties are j. E. Dubois, millionaire mine
owner of Dubois, Pa, and E. W. Center, a
Salt Lake capitalist.
Brigadier General Sir Frederick Lud-
gard, high commissioner and commander
in chief of Northern Nigeria, and Colonel
G. V. Kendall, with force OF West Africa
frontier troops, have completed a success
full campaign against the powerful slave
raiding emirs of Bida and Kontagora, in
Northern Nigeria.
Once again peace rumors are in the air,
says London correspondent. Mrs. Botha
has been in correspondence with Lord
Kitchener, and as a result it is believed the
British commander in chief has agreed to
receive the three Boer generals-Botha, De-
larey and Viljoen-within the next few
days. While nothing is definitely known,
it is expected, perhaps not without signifi-
canoe, that the news should reach London
from Amsterdam that Mr.. Kruger is afraid
that Mrs Bothas efforts will cause her
husband TO surrender
Governor Hunt of Idaho has decided
to escort President Mckinley across
this state.
British Columbia is again in the
uhroes of a political crisis brought
about by the governments bill to Dor
row $5,000,000 to substitute railways in
the province.
The Great Northern expects to con-
meet with Canadian line at boundary
and have connection with Republic and
Kettle river districts in operation this
fall So says President James j. Hill.
The official name of the exposition to
be held in Portland in 1905, as decided
upon by the Oregon and Washington
commissioners tonight is 'The Lewis
and Clark Centennial and American
Pacific Exposition" The whole is to
be surmounted with the legend:
where rolls the Oregon"
The steamer Pilgrim burned recent
ly to the waters edge at Ballard, a
suburb Of Seattle. Circumstances sur.
rounding the conflagration were sus-
picious. Parties rowing to the doomed
steamer say that a strong odor of kero-
sene was in the air. She was insured
for $4,000. The owners claim she was
worth $1,000.
The coroner's jury at Helena, Mont.
found that Matthew Hager shot Charles
Geiss at Marysville with intent to kill
and he will be tried for murder. The
evidence showed that Hager had de
clared his intention of shooting Geiss
while in conversation with another
man. When they met in saloon Ha
ger went upstairs to his room, Dor
rowed a revolver and fired the fata
shot with it.
At Springfield, ILL.,, unostentatiously
and without any ceremony, the re
mains of Abraham Lincoln and tn,
other members of his family which
since March 10, 1900. when the worl
of rebuilding the Lincoln monumen
commenced, have been reposing in
temporary stone vault near the monu
ment, were recently replaced in tn
crypt in the monument which has beef
built by Illinois at a cost of 100000.
E. e. Marvin, chief clerk of the Ian,
department of the Northern Pacific, re
Gently at the Lewiston land office
placed Mounta Rainier scrip on 1000
acres of white pine land in the Clear
water country. The land filed on ad
joins the selection of $4,000 acres mad
last year, thus increasing the holding
of the company in one body to 5000
acres. The lands are south OF the mort
fork of the Clearwater, in the best an,
most extensive white pine belt in tn