The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-12-06

months ago. Outwitted and outpoint-
ed with a fighter just the same as
himself. McGovern had to lower his
colors recently at Hartford, Conn, to
Young Corbett within six minutes
from the start of the fight.
Two men suspected of having held
up a saloon at Standpoint were caught
at Milan, Wash. One Of them res sted
arrest and was fatally shot by Sol Ed
monson.
1t is reported at Mullan, Idaho, that
Thomas Ashcroft, a cook at the Hunter
mine, and Peter Dole, were killed to-
night in a shooting scrape at the com
pany's boarding house.
During a recent fire at Omaha the
supply house of the Creamery Package
Manufacturing company at Eleventh
and Jones streets, three firemen were
injured and a loss of $50, 900 sustained
The report of the manager of ath-
letics at Harvard university for the
past year shows that the receipts from
all branches of athletics amounted to
$117317, and the expense to $7S,23S.
The receipts from football were $55,SlS,
and expenses $1,000
-Four Thousand Boer sympathizer at
tended a meeting held at Detroit, Mich,
Sunday, under the auspices of the
Transvaal league, and applauded the
anti-Brltish sentiment of Commandant
Jan Krlge, who served under Gen.
Botha, and eX-COngressman j. j. Lent,
of Ohio.
William Alexander Selkirk, a Cali
fornia pioneer of 1850, and for nearly
half a century a prominent figure in
the newspaper and political world of
the Pacific coast, died in Seattle re-
Gently after a lingering illness, aged 70
years. He had been an invalid for many
months.
A bill will be introduced in congress
at the next session reducing the postage
on letters to / cent. 1t is doubtful If
the bill becomes a law. One cent post
age has been demanded for a number of
years, but so long as the receipts of the
postoffice department are not equal to
the expenses, the officials are not likely
to call strongly for cutting the present
letter rate in two.
The Denver Post says Senator Will
liam A. Clark, of Montana, and Thomas
F. Walsh, of Colorado have it is ru-
mored, joined issues in railroad con-
struction, and will build practically d
new transcontinental railroad. The
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific is said
TO belong to Senator Clark and Mr..
Walsh.
Five persons, a mother and her four
children, were burned to death at Gwyn
station, three miles north of Altoona,
Pa The husband escaped with severe
injuries. The dead are: Mrs. Mary c.
Burke, AZ years Old; Adam G. Burke,
16; lark E. Burke, 10; Joanna Burke
Il; Joseph Victor Burke, years; Carl
W. Burke, the husband, IS seriously
burned about the back.
Mystery attends the shooting at Cas-
cade, Montana, of Fred Dawkins. who
is fatally wounded. Dawkins claim,
that he was shot from ambush by J. B
Mcbride. The officials have a theory
that Dawkins is a monomaniac on the
subject of the capture of Pat Grove
and that while performing the sell
imposed duty of effecting the capture
of man whom he suspected of being
Grove, he accidentally shot himself.
The military departments of North
ern and Southern Luzon have ceased tt
exist. Major General James F. Wade
formerly in command of the southern
division, will leave Manila tomorrow
to assume command of the American
forces on Cebu island, and Major Gen
eral Lloyd Wheaton, formerly com
mander of the northern division, vii
take command of the department of tn,
Northern Philippines
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