The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-11-15
WORLD Ne Ms BRIEFLY IOLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES
Complete Review of happenings In
Hoth Eastern and Western Hemis-
phereS for the Past Week-Nation-
al, Historical. Political and Per-
sonaJ Events TerseIy ExpOunded.

Fire at Jennings. La, recently de-
stroyed property valued a. more than
100000.
The payment 10 Indians of the funds
appropriated by the last session of con
gress for their Siletz reservation lands
has commenced at the agency.
Mrs. Alexander Drysdale, wife of one
of the most prominent Eureka Flat
(Wash) ranchers, committed suicide
by taking strychnine recentlv at her
home twelve miles from Prescott.
c. G. Ross, an oller Il. Lne NOr,nport
smelter. made a misstep and fell thirty
feet TO the brick pavement Of the blast
room. Internal injuries are feared.
Fire has practically destroyed the
business portion of Clifford, n. ID. Loss,
$4,000. Insurance, $21 900. The fire
probably was started by burglars in
their attempt to blow safe in butch
er shop.
In a light between the crew of an o.
r. G N. freight train and tramps, who
were stealing a ride, Walter Rose of
Shawneetown. ILL.,. was shot by Con-
uuClOt iAaAt1ui4hf L1ll AnAl1n telSI VI
Portland Rose is in a hospital here
in a serious condition, but he may Ill
timately recover.
At Port Huron, Mich, recently, fire
dstroyed two large adjoining grain ele-
vators owned by the Botsford Elevator
company. entailing a loss of $500, 900.
The loss on the building is estimated
at $l25. O0O on the 265,OOO bushels of
grain. $175.OOO
John Morley. NJ. p, speaking recent
ly at Forfar Scotland, asserted that the
ordinary annual expenditures of the
British government had increased e26,-
$4,000 during the last ten years. or in
Guiding the supervision of ehe sinking
fund. t32. 900 GOO. He declared that
there was real danger ahead of the
country
News of a new Klondike strike was
brought to Vancouver, B. c.. by the
steamer Amur. The strike is on Con-
glomerate creek, a tributary of Mon
tana creek. The prizes of claims jumped
from 500 70 $4,000 in a few days, and,
undaunted by the nearness of winter,
on October 20 a party of eleven set out
for Conglomerate on prospecting
tour.
President Roosevelt has decided not
to make any more appointments of i'm
portance until congress meets.
A violent dispute with Paul Lessar,
Russian minister to China, over the
Manchurian treaty, appears to have
been the immediate cause of the death
of Iii Hung Chang.
At Baltimore, Md. Peter Maher put
sudden stop to the championship as
piratlons of Jim Jeffords of California
recently in the second round of what
was to have been a ten-round contest.
At Omaha Neb., the jury in the case
of James Callahan, after being out
thirty-six hours, brought in verdict
finding the defendant not guilty This
is the last echo in the Cudahy kidnap-
ing case. and Callahan is acquitted of
the kidnapping charge.
Minister COnger at Pekin has in
formed the state department that Yuan
Shi Kai has been appointed to sue
coed Iii Hung Chang as viceroy of Chi
Ii. and that Wang Wen Shao has been
appointed deputy viceroy of the same
province. Yuen is the present viceroy
of Shan Tung province
At New York Mrs. Archibald S.
White. 40 years old, wife of the presi-
dent of the National Salt company was
found dead in the bathroom of the resi-
idence on Eighty-sixth street recently.
A slip on the floor of the bathroom
caused her to fall backward, her head
striking the edge of a marble basin
fracturing her skull.
President James ]. Hill will he the
dominating influence in new corpor
alton which is to take in the Great
Northern and Northern Pacific. A
large number OF the reOrganized board
of directors Of the Burlington, probably
half, will. it is understood, represent
the Union Pacific directly. and thai
company will in any event have a hal
voting interest in Burlington affairs
There will. of course, be no extension
to Salt Lake to meet Senator Clark.
road, or to any other point not fully
countenanced by the Union Pacific rep
resentatives in the Burlington's board
The democratic party has adopted
General Bartholomew Masso as it,
candidate for the presidency of Cuba
1t is asserted that the brigands hav,
recently been treating Miss Stone witt
more severity in order to exercis,
pressure and to compel more read,
nccpDtancQ of their conditions