Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-07-26
|aINNARY TELEGRAPH news
|.rws OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
! cemplete Review Of the Events OF
-. PAST Week-In This and For
s~n Landn-Taken From the
latest Dispatcher.


rhe ministry won in the recent cleo
aons for the councils general in prov
inces Of France.
prigadier General Samuel T. Cush-
,ne i. s. A.. retired, formerly CON-
missary general Of subsistence. is dead.
captain Charles Botha, son OF Philip
notha, and Field Comets Human and
oliver have been killed in the Orange
River Colony.
T. D. Groy, switchman for the
Northern Pacific, was killed recently
| IN Tacoma by falling from the gravity
bunkers to the deck Of collier.
Earl Russell. arraigned at the bar Of
the house of lords for trial on the
charge of bigamy. pleaded guilty after
lengthy arguments against the juris-
diction of the court.
Major James O'Neil, one Of the old
est pioneers of the Pacific northwest
and for many years deputy clerk Of
the United States circuit and district
courts, died at Spokane Sunday.
ut is officially reported in Shang-
hal" says the Shanghai correspondent
Of the London Standard, that serious
disturbances have broken out in the
Hsing-hwa district of the province of
Fokien."
The war in Cape Colony Is hurting
the United States trade. according to
a report received at the state depart
ment from Consul General Stowe. dat
ed shortly before he submitted his res
ignation to the department.
The religious enthusiasm aroused by
i the International convention Of the Ep-
at the meeting held Sunday afternoon
at Mechanics pavilion. About 10000
persons were present and not seat
was vacated.
A bulletin recently issued by the CEN
sus Office shows there mas been de-
crease of the Chinese population in the
United States since 1900 of 1855. the
number now being $4,000. The japan.
ese increased during the past 10 years
from 2,039 to 24,300.
Seven women, headed by Mrs. H. H.
Grover, president of the Eldorado. Kas..
w. c. T. u, entered joint run by a
man named Bush in a tent in the cen
ter of town and demolished tubful
of bottled beer. They took samples of
the liquor to the sheriff, who later or
dered the joints to quit business.
The total number of casualties to per
sons on account of railway accidents
during the year ending June 80, 1900
was 58,185. The aggregate number OF
persons killed in consequence of rail
way accidents during the year was
1866, and the number injured was So.
800. OF railway employees 1850 were
killed and 39,643 were injured.
Adolph Strecker, a barber Of San
Francisco, at a recent shooting of the
third National Bunderfest completed
score which has never been eQualed
in the United States on the King target
and which will doubtless give Streckel
the King prize" Out of a possible 20(
he has made the record score Of 39s
points, breaking the highest score Of
King" Hayes, made three years ago
by % points. F. C. Ross, the frs
bundles king, made 81 six years ago.
Donald j. Beaton, editor of the Nelson
Daily Miner, was thrown from a streetcal
Sunday and died the same e> ening at thu
residence Of John Horton ON Stanley street
where he was removed at the time of tn,
accident.
Because he went bathing in the Touches
alone when he could not swim, Henry Hig
bee of Tekoa met an untimely death. Hig
bee had but recently gone to Waits
burg, WASH, from Tekoa to labor in tn
harvest fields.
Twenty-Five machinists in the employ 0
the Pacific Coast company in Seattle. whit
left their positions when the machinsts
union ordered strike last May, hay
returned to work. An agreement wa
reached between the men and Presiden
Farrell.
At Topeka, Kan, Mrs. Carrie Nation wa
fined 500 and given a 80 days jail sen
tence by Judge Hazen in the district cour
for disturbing the peace and dignity of tn
city by Sunday joint raid last March
There is no appeal and the noted womal
must serve her time in prison.
The third national Bundesfest shootin
festival will crown Aldoph Strecker OF Sa
Francisco king shooter of America. Hi
score of 1914 for 200 shots on the point tai
get will stand as the mark OF nationa
kingship for at least three years, and ther
Is no telling how many festivals after thai
The government has determined to max
vast improvements in the fortified tior
around the harbor of San Francisco.
The announcement is authoratively mad
IN theatrical circles that Sir Henry Irwin