Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-12-13
WORLD NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES
Complete Review of Happenings In
Both Eastern and Western IIemix-
pheres for the Past Week-NatiOn-
NJ, Historical, Political and Per-
sOnaI Events TerseIy ExpOundcd.

The tests OF the new dynamite gun
a. Hiltonhead, s. c., under the auspices
OF a board of army officers. Is believed
TO have been satisfactory.
Rev. J. w. Bradford. Methodist min
lister at Brookside. Ala, was shot by Il
d. Coffman, justice OF the peace. Sun
day afternoon, and died two hours
later. The minister had said Coffman
lied aout him.
Thirty-nine prisoners. serving sen
fences for minor crimes escaped from
Sunday afternoon by digging through a
16-inch brick wall with pocket knives.
Five Of them were captured.
At Denver the jury In the case OF
John X. Barr, formerly a prominent
merchant and manufacturer of Denver.
on trial charged with robbing Mrs.
Mary Belts OF $1,000 worth of dia-
monds returned verdict of guilty af-
ter being out twenty-five hours. The
penalty for the crime lis from one to
fourteen years in the penitentary.
Native scouts from Bangabon, pro-
vince of Nueva Ecija, have killed the
American negro. David Fagin, a desert
er from the Twenty-fourth infantry
(colored) who for moro than two
years has been leading Filipinos
against the American troops. The ma
tive scouts decapitated their prisoner.
The mans head, however. was recog-
nized as that of Fagin. They also Sc
iccin in hn Nm,
army.
James Jeffries, champion pugllist OF
the world, will box four three-minute
rounds with Jack Jeffries on Thursday
next at Elks' hail. Spokane. There will
be five round boxing bouts between To-
cal amateurs, a wrestling bout and a
hypnOtism exhibit The Spokane ANA
teur Athletic club will conduct the af-
fair.
The most remarkable smallpox re.
cord ever seen in Eastern Oregon came
to light recently when 1t was discovered
that In the family Of James Powers,
who lives eleven miles from Pendleton,
there had been eleven cases since No
vomber /. Powers himself now has the
disease and has 1T badly. He is the
last, the epidemic having run all
through the house, taking each child
and the mother. This has been going
on for nearly six weeks, several having
the disease at once sometimes.
Bud Wilson, the convict who killed
II. II. Naylor, a guard Of the Yell coun-
ty convict camp, last September, was
hanged recently at Danyille, Arkan-
sas. The trap was sprung at 945
o'clock and at 10: As the body was low
cred into coffin. Before the lid was
placed upon the coffin the body began
moving about. Wilson opened his eyes
and his whole frame shook with ire
mors. He was taken from the coffin
by deputies and carried up the stairs to
the scaffold for the purpose Of hanging
him over again. When the platform
was reached the body became rigid and
became limp Wilson was examined
carefully by the physicians who finally
pronounced him dead, death having
been caused by strangulation.
The president has appointed Cornelius
Van Colt to be postmaster at New York.
According to information received from
Saloniea, Miss Ellen NJ. Stone and Nine.
Isilka. her companion, are concealed in
the vicinity of Rilo, about five miles south
of Dubnitza, in Bulgarian territory
\ work train with 80 laborers, engaged
in laying track on the new Cincinnati,
Richmond 4 Muncie railway, went down
10 foot embankment, undermined by
heavy rains, two miles east OF Peru, Ind.
Fifteen are reported injured
Chief of Detectives Seymour is in re.
ceipt Of II telegram from the chief of po-
lice of Los Angeles announcing that Henry
X. Fleischman, cashier Of the Farmers X
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 a whole bottle of strychnine,
dying in terrible agony twenty minutes
later. Her sweetheart was Rumsey
Chance.
The William Mckinley Memorial
Arch association has determined tC
change it's plan of operat. IN and to ap
peal to congress instead OF To the pub
lie for the erection OF the proposed me
mortal arch at Washington.
President Roosevelt has received =
letter from Andrew Carnegie in which
the latter offers to make a donation oil
$10,000.0 900 to the United States TIL,
letter will be referred to congress b,
the president in a special message. Mr.
fr. th., oct al i,.l n,