The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-07-05
SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
KEWs OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events OF
the Past week-In This and For
efgn Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

Everett was chosen by the Washington
Grand Army, Women's Relief Corps and
Sons of Veterans for the annual encamp-
ment of 1902.
The bodies of Frank G. Forrest and
Iouise E. Strothoff were found in the road
five miles from Quincy, ILL.,, recently. Each
had been shot.
At Rochester, n. Y, one thousand
striking laborers had brisk encounter
with the police, in which IL policemen and
20 rioters were injured. The rioters set
out, as before, to drive off the la
borers working on street improvements.
At Mill and Commercial streets they en-
countered so laborers employed by the
Rochester Gas g. Electric company in dig
ging trench, and drove them from the
trench
At Williamson, Va, there is no
longer any doubt that the list of dead
the result of the recent food, will ex
coed 100.
At Vinita, l. T., George Williams.
lying on his deathbed, confessed to
be an accomplice in the murder last
Smith and Green Smith of Sweden,
|. I.
Senator Hanna has given $4,000 to
Kenyon college in Ohio for a new
dormitory, which, at his request, will
be called the Politicians Barracks"
During the past year a 100000 en-
dowmen for the college has been
raised.
]. P. Jones, a leading builder and
contractor of Walla Walla, was al
most instantly killed recently by fall
ing from a high scaffold. His fellow
workman, Robert Zeidler, went
through the scaffold also, but caught
a plank just in time to save himself.
At The Yale alumni dinner recently
It was announced that the $4,000 900
fixed as the amount of the big cen
tennial fund has all been provided,
the principal new pledgers being
Frederick Vanderbilt and James j.
Hill of New York and Matthew Bor-
den of Fall River.
Schrinkengost, the federal prisoner
charged with postoffice robbery in
Idaho, who with two other prisoners,
one of them Peter Dempsey, the con-
demned murderer, escaped from the
county Jail at Butte on Sunday, was
Healey are still at large.
Jessie Morrison was found guilty of
manslaughter in the second degree.
The attention of the navy depart
ment has been formally called to what
appears to be an unsatisfactory condi-
ton of affairs in Guam.
Comptroller Dawes ordered the clos
ing of the Seventh National Bank of
New York, and appointed Forest Ray
nor, bank examiner, temporary re
ceiver.
Heavy storms are reported all over
Minnesota and Wisconsin, and the
property loss will run into the thou
sands, while a number of persons have
been injured and many head of live
stock killed.
In race never excelled on the
Thames, Yale's varsity crew won from
Harvard the great inter-universitl
rowing event of the year in the las
half mile of the four-mile course, by ;
scant two lengths.
After making a careful canvass o
the northwest territory and preparing
conservative estimates upon condition
found throughout the grain belt, trafh
officials of several railroads are agrees
that the grain yield for 1901 will be tn
largest ever harvested.
The forthcoming statement of tn
coinage executed at the minis of tn
United States for the fiscal year endin
June 20, 1901, will show the total coiI
age to have been $136, 340,7S1, as 70
lows: Gold $99.O65,715; silver. $S5
265, 49S; minor coins. $2,009, 56S.
AS the result of the breaking of tn
temporary platform built On scaffol
ing and bridging the top of a mo
strous tank in the eastern elevator ;
Buffalo, N. Y, six men fell distanC
of so feet and four were killed. tt
dead: John Keefe, jr., w. Kraus
John Cortsett, jr., Petro Krotinger.
Samuel Gompers, president of IL
American Federation of Labor, is su
fering from possible fracture Of Il
skull. While his condition is critica
his physician says he will probably T
cover. He was injured as he was align
ing from a car on which he had bee
taking his two children for an outing
Final arrangements have been MAJ
for the fifth annual convention of Il