Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-04-12

I Ao"e 10Yo''ie" Win Ill hung Chang,
who satisfied him that there Is not
likely to be any further important
hitch IN the negotiations for settle
ment etween China and the powers.
At Ne W York fire which broke out
at different times did damage to the
extent Of $175,O0 to the stock of the
Sudhaus Paper Box Company and the
machine ry belonging to the company
as well as to the stock of Swetzer,
/ PEMBROKE 4 Co.. both firms occupying
the bull ding at SO and 50 White street.
The horse abatoir at Linnton, Ore,
which was shut down last fall has
started up again. AS conditions are
more ia vorahle now for its successful
operatio on it is likely to be kept run
ming in definitely. About 500 cayuse
ponies have been sent in from the
ranges and it is probable that 10000
will be slaughtered this year.
By the derailing of the engine and a
number Of empty freight cars being
brought into Kansas City on the Kan
sas City suburban belt line railroad,
| four members of the crew were injured
| William Prime, brakeman, had his
skull broken and eyes scalded. He
! will die. The engine was demolished
and 10 cars were reduced to kindlng
wood
Fifteen hundred pounds in dynamite
were used recently in blowing up the
forward superstructure of the sunken
United States collier Merrimac, which
hoc 81 no - ~
harbor at Santiago de Cuba. The ex-
plosion was heard plainly in the city,
five miles away. Divers Immediately
descend ed and found 40 feet Of clear
water over the forward portion OF the
wreck
At Montreal Archbishop Bruchesi is
sued pastoral letter dealing with the
Judgment in the Delpit case. which de-
clared marriage of Catholics by non
Catholics legal. "All unions" says the
archbishop, contracted with invali-
dating tmpediment for which compe-
tent authority has not been granted
dispensation, even though civil power
looks upon such unions as valid and
legal, must be considered as null and
invalid. This is a point of doctrine
that cannot be denied. Without that
faith would be shipwrecked." The
archbishop concludes by pronouncing
sentence Of accommodation on all
those who disobey the laws of the
church concerning marriage, reserving
the right to himself and the vicar gen.
eral to absolve those who become gull.
ty of such fault.
General Botha has reopened negotiations
with the British for peace.
The condition of winter wheat April II
is Oh, against S2.l last year.
The excitement over the discovery OF
rich plaeers on Santa creek, u tributary of
st. Maries river, continues.
The state department has received a
cabegram from Consul Long at Cairo,
Egypt, a nnouncing that plague has broken
out at Alexandria.
At Richmond, Va, the large retail store
of Julius Meyers Sons was destroyed by
fire recently. The stock and fixtures are
insured for about Slsu0OO.
Reports of an outbreak of fresh rebel
lion in China are not confirmed and are at.
tributed to Earl Lis disconsolate reflection
that everything will go wrong since his ad-
vice ha 5 not been needed.
The family of James Smith, consisting of
the father and mother and four children,
We're instantly killed in their home re-
Gently By the sliding OF the huge dump Of
the Granite mine, i'll Cripple Creek dis
trict.
The r yer Rhine has risen considerably
above the normal stage. II is announced
that at Cologne the river rose to Is feet
in one day, and that on the Swiss border
villages are flooded and the people have
fled from their houses.
At Santa Cruz an explosion occurred at
the pow der works whereby Chester Shep-
ard, aged about 20 years, was killed ana
Phil Curtis severely burned. The building
caught fire and vas destroyed The cause
of the aa.cident is unknown.
Deputy United States Marshal Hans,
who is also special agent for the Fremont,
Elkhorn 4 Missous; Valley railroad, recent
ly shot and killed David o. Luse near
Ainsworth. Neb, while the latter was re
si-ting arrest The railroad officials au-
thorized the statement that the mission Of
Detective Hans TO Ainsworth was to pre-
vent a ell planned train holdup The man
killed il said TO have been the terror OF
Brown county.
The ID rgest sale yet consnmmated in the
Beaumont Texas. oil district was made
recently. when 81 -910,so was paid for the
property Of the Texas Western OIL CON
pany. f,rmerly the Southwestern Oil com
pany Of Corsicana The buyers got the
Beatty eusher, which has producing ca
pacity 81 700 barrels per day. The sale
was effe ected by Charles D. Pullen OF NJ"
York city for capitalists headed by X. L.
Henry bf Chicago.
The Denver manager OF the smeiter
trust h.is announced tnat the selling price
for lead has been reduced from - To $3.50,
and mine operators look for still FUR
ther reduction. The price l. liked afbi-