The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1901-03-16
the TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete ReSte" Of the Events OF
the fast Week-Ia This and FoT-
eIgn Laads-Taken FFona the
Latest Dispatches.

~ Over y cNuooA epAeouos
The Spanish gunbOat Ponce de Leon
Is ashore near Huelya. about 80 miles
southwest OF Seville.
The otieial report regarding the pro
gress Of the bubonie plague In Cape
Town since the outbreak shows total
OF lO2 cases.
AT Iowa City nre destroyed the col
lege OF medicine and literary buildings
at the University OF Iowa. The loss Is
not less than s25O.0OO.
Two highwaymen. one OF them
masked entered the village OF Oipe.
Kan. and held up dozen people. the
occupants OF the two stores.
Al Berlin Prince Albert Zolmei'
Braunfels committed suicide. having
learned that the disease from which he
Was suffering was ineuTable.
EI.President Harrison Is quite
sick man and his closest friends are
alarmed His condition IL more seri-
Gus than Is generally believed.
Al Terre HAute. Ind. Charles Rog
ers. in u Jealous quarrel. shot and IA
tally injured his wife and EtepfatheF
in.law. William Bates. lie later gave
himself up and was taken 10 IndianAp
oils 10 escape mob violence.
The war department has received
word Of the death OF Captain Richard
D. Paddock OF the sixth cavalry Al
Ttentstn. China. from pneumonia Cap
tain Paddock vas appointed to the
army from Illinois In October.
The condition Of former President
Harrison is serious. Dr. Jameson
states tsai the upper part OF General
HArrisnn's left lung WAS intamed
There Is soms danger Of congestion Of
tho frs, Of the lunE and the right lung
The president has issued an eIecu
tive order Ahoiishiug the Cuban export
duty un tobacco from April !, This
action MAS taken on the earnest Tee
omm~hdatlon OF the Cuban economic
commission which recently visited
Washington.
Andrew Carnegie has offered 20 give
$4,000 for public library building a,
Vancouver. ~ G.. the only condition
L~tnE that the city furnish Il with a
suitAbir site and skrre 10 contribute
5000 annually for the maintenance
% tho library.
highly sensational attempt 10 rot
tho home ot William Mclaughlin the
millionaire coffee merchant. - Rush
street. Chicago. vas made reorhily
Scores 81 shots WcFc arcd. Mci.auEh
Inns son narrowly escaping death
Tbs residence 10 In tho fashionable dis
trio, on the north side
Al ournaboru. Ky. a cioudburvt dd
great damage. The sever vol and a
big water main on Main and Davies
streets burs, and hole Is feet deep
and about 80 feet vide vas torn Ia the
s,rcuta for uomo distance, Tho streets
Wuro undermined 10 badly that today
part Of them cAved in.
A. San Francisco three mon and &c
head Of horses zero burned TO death
In a hru which destroyed Morion's iiv'
cry stable al I,eavenworth and 0Cary
streets. Tho three mon were asleep In
tho hay loft They we're Charles white.
Charles Young and u, Jameson. and
we're employed at tho stable.
I, IL reported In court circles that
Earl Roberts thankfully returned" To
Emperor william the insignia Of the
order Of the BLACK Eagle. conferred at
the time Of the kaiHrr's visit 60 Eng
land. after noticing tho unfavorahls
comment In tho German press upon the
b"atowai Of tho honor
Al ArKonia. Kan. the private bank
ot ] ~ Springer waa hurElAriRcd by
three men aud $4,000 IN cash and $4,000
in registered government J per cent
bonds secured. About $40 In gold and
$4,000 in bonds was loft untouched. The
vault Was entered through tho brick
vail and tho safe was blown open with
notruglycerins.
An application will he made this
week at Trenton. n. J. for a charter
for the American Can company, the
combination Of the tin can manufac
turing companies Of tho United States
Il will have an authorised capital Of
l7s. 600, 900. equally divided into com
mon and preferred stock. The concern
will alao have q working capital OF
$1,000. 900.
Ernest ]. wolter. a prominent mer
chant Of Schuyler. Neb. who was ar
rested in that city by United States
TO blackmail United States Senator
Kearna Of Utah. was arraiEned before
Commissioner Anderson recently. He
waived preliminary hearing and was
held 10 tho federal grand jury under
5000 bonds.
Additional inducements have been
made to the insurgents 20 surrender
their guns. General Macarthur has
directed all department commanders
TO release one prisoner for every rifle
surrendered. An insurgent who sur
renders his gun will be permitted to
name the prisoner to be released, pro
vidlng no exceptional circumstances
require this mans detention, in which
case another selection will be allowed.
At Palermo. Sicily. heavy cloud has
hung over the city. the sky being deep
red. The rain now falling resembles
drops OF blood. This phenomena, call
ed blood rain" Ia attributed TO dust
from the African deserts, transported
by the heavy south wind now blowing,
The phenomena now TO be seen In Sic.
fly extends over southern italy. Al
Rome the sky Ia yellow and at Naples
4 rain Of sand has fallen, the heavens
being darkened.
A crisis has arisen In far eastern
Affairs which, In the opinion Of the