The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-07-12
SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
KEWs OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-TaIxen From the
Latest Dispatches.

ond trial race.
For week the New York stock ex-
change will take a vacation.
Dan Mcleod. the Scotch wrestler,
won the matcn with Tom Sharkey,
the sailor pugilist at the Broadway
arsenal in Buffalo.
Cornell won two out of three events in
the intercollegiate regatta and lost but
one Pennsylvania carried off the honors
in the freshmen race.
At 1890 Thursday morning it was
estimated that the total number of
deaths from heat in the last six days
in Greater New York was 600.
Shamrock ii. was again defeated by
her predecessor by a minute and a half.
Injunction is dissolved against Denver
saloonkeepers and they may sell liquor to
women in boxes now.
The freight handlers are on a strike at
East st. Louis. Seventeen hundred men
are out and not wheel is moving in the
city.
In Globe, Ariz., recently Ia buildings
were destroyed by fire of an unknown
origin and 10 families of miners are home
less. Loss, $4,000.
The Homestead hotel at Virginia Hot
Springs, in Bath county, Virginia, was
totally destroyed by fire recently. All the
occupants escaped, but many of the guests
lost their valuables. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
In San Francisco an early morning fire
in the Italian quarters destroyed three
ramshackle lodging houses. A young
lady is missing and an aged woman is
dying from burns received while trying
to escape from one of the destroyed build
ings.
Sumner Surrat, a lineman in the
employ of the Seattle Electric com
pany, while working on pole came
in contact with a live wire and was
killed before help could reach him.
1t is estimated that 1000 volts passed
through his body.
E. Y. Judd, the wealthy milling man Of
Pendeton, Ore, accompanied by few
friends has attempted the ascent of
Mount Hood, IL ,225 feet, as far up in the
snow line as an automobile can be driven
Mountain climbing with an automobile is
a novel idea, that has never been tried in
this or any other country.
Sixteen harvest hands returning home
from the wheat fields of western Kansas
were robbed by a gang of men near juno
ton City recently while riding on a
freight train. They were compelled at the
point Of revolvers to surrender their
money One refused and was shot in the
leg. The robbers escaped after securing
from $40 to $50 from each man.
No arrests havet been made in con-
nection with the shortage of 100000 in
the mint at San Francisco and specula-
ton as to the real culprit is of varied
sort.
To the disappointment of all the
Americans at Henley the Leander Row
ing club defeated the crew of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania IL the final
heat of the grand challenge cup.
In fair trial recently in smart
breeze Shamrock |. beat Shamrock Ii.
by over 200 yards in a three mile turn
TO windward. This is the older yachts
most decisive victory over the cup chal-
lenger.
Comptroller of the Currency Dawes
has rendered his resignation to the
president, 20 take effect October /. Mr..
Dawes resigns his Office in order to
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany is advised that the Argentine con-
gress has declared Buenos Ayres in a
state of seige for six months, and has
established censorship on all messages
thereto.
The disciples of Joha Alexander
Dowie visited Evanston, Chicago SUI
burb the other night and, despite the
efforts of the police force of the place
a mob of 1000 people drove them out
of the town.
Mayor Phelan of San Francisco is in
receipt of a letter from Andrew Carne
gle Offering to give $75O.OOO for libra
ry building, provided the city furnishes
a suitable site and appropriates $4,000
a year for maintenance.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in
New York is made the residuary lega
tee of the late Jacob S. Rogers, the loco
motive manufacturer, whose will has
been filed for probate at Paterson. II
will probably receive $S,000,000.
The Chicago Tribune prints reports
from all over the country showing the
number of persons killed and injured
as a result of celebrating the Fourth OF
July. The number actually killed is
less than last year, being 10, against
80 then, but the number injured is con
siderably larger, the figures being 1911
against 1926.
Albert G. POstwick of Boston, the
automobiles, broke the worlds record