The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-02-15
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past weeI<-In This and For
eign Lands-Tal<en From the
Latest Dispatches.

and others and is now in jail at Con
conully on the charge of stealing $97 900
from the Westside bank of New York in
1884, of which bank he had been the
teller.
capital of the Netherlands Indies, says the
expedition sent against Samalanga, Island
of Sumatra, has captured the Achinese
fortress of Batorilk. The Dutch loss was
6 killed and 40 wounded. The Anchinese
lost 20.
A Northern Pacific freight train ran
away Tuesday while coming down grade
at Weston, at the summit of the Cascades.
One man, a brakeman, named Macdonald,
was instantly killed and the engineer,
Boyce, was badly injured. The AIR
brakes refused to work.
Burglars bound and gagged the post
mistress at Rossford, a suburb of Toledo,
and robbed the office of $3.50 in stamps
and So in coin. The postmistress at first
refused to divulge the hiding place of the
valuables and lighted matches were APP
piled to her feet and she was struck over
the head and brutally kicked in the side
She may die.
Negotiations for the sale of Andrew
Carnegies controlling interest in the stock
of the Carnegie company have been
brought to a successful conclusion. j..
Pierpont Morgan and his associates being
the purchasers. Mr.. Carnegie held nearly
"a per cent of the $3.50, 900 900 stock of the
Carnegie company. This stock has not
been listed on any stock exchange, but
$500 a share was recently paid for 1000
shares in the company. Assuming that
Mr.. Carnegie has disposed of his holdings
at par, he will receive fully $S5OOO,OOO
for his interest, while at the same time
he will retain his 53 or "a per cent interest
in the $l6O,OO0,OOO bond issue of tine Car
negie company. The object aimed at by
Mr. Morgan and the interests allied with
him when treating with Mr.. Carnegie was
the assurance of an enduring peace in the
steel industry of the United States, and
this condition is now believed to have
been obtained.
According to the statements made by
a banker, Mexico may turn on silver.
Captain Joseph T. Johnson, a we'll
known Ohio river captain, is dead,
aged 81.
1t is asse1te that the dowager car
ina is coming to London to visit Queen
Alexandra, her sister.
Ten cases of what is supposed to be
the bubonic plague have been isolated
at Cape Town. One of the victims is
a white person.
1t is rumored that Crown Prince
Frederick William of Prussia will mar
ry Princess Edna of Battenburg, daugh-
ter of Princess Beatrice.
The Sportsman understands that for
the coming season most of King Ed
wards horses in training will be leased
TO the Duke of Devonshire.
Near Santiago de Cuba the United
State transport Rawlins went aground
on a coral reef near the wreck of the
United States collier Merrimac.
At Omaha fire which started in the
power house of the Omaha Street Rail-
road company at Twentieth and Har-
ney streets caused a loss of $S5O,0O0.
Robert w. Steele. first territorial
governor of Colorado, recently died at
his home in Colorado Springs, of an
attack of grip. His wife died two days
previous. A double funeral will be
held.
Official advices from the governor of
Paku, the scene of the recent naphtha
fires, says that the total loss of life
was IL ana tndL the loss OF property
will exceed 1900, 900 roubles.
The seventh annual Carnot medal de-
bate between Stanford university and
the University of California was won
by w. A. Morris of Stanford, who is a
senior in history, and registers from
Salem, Ore.
A company of the FOrty-seventh
United States volunteer infantry, oper-
ating in the island of Catanduanes, off
the southeast coast of Luzon, captured
Bustosas. the insurgent governor
of the island.
The English government has requi
sitioned three Castle liners to trans
port reinforcements to South Africa
The remount department is uncom
monty active, its agents buying largely
in several parts of the world.
The strike in the Paris dressmaking
trade has assumed formidable proper
lions. About 16 firms are involved, in
Guiding such we'll known houses as
Worth, Redfern, Paquin, Doucet, La
Ferriere, D'Oeullit and Raudnitz.
1t is rumored in London that Mrs
Maybrick will soon be released. Am
bassador Choate declined to either de
ny or confirm the rumor. If she gets
her liberty it will be due to the kings