The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-04-26


break Jail.
Frederick Berstecher was beaten to
death with a rifle last night by Adolph
Won Grueningin at Bethany, village
II miles from Portland, Ore.
The glove contest between Jimmy
Burns and Ed Cuff, heavyweights,
which took place at Rossland, was won
by the former in the second round with
a left hand blow on the jaw which put
Cuff out of business.
United States Consular Agent George
L. Schetlzy, who recently returned from
San Francisco, gives a most pessimis-
tic account of the condition of the coal
trade there. He says oil is putting
coal out of business everywhere except
for domestic use. The slightest fiuctu-
alton in the present prices would be
fatal to the coal industry.
Four men confined in the Carbon
county (Wyo) Jail cawed the bars of
their cells, waylaid the jailer on his
evening round and locked him in a cell.
The prisoners secured the jailer's pis-
tolls and coatless and hatless escaped
to the hills. A large possee is search
ing the country. Two of the escaped
prisoners, Orno McSwain and James
Mcmahon, were awaiting trial on the
charge of murder.
Final arrangements have been made
at the Russell house for the building
of a steel and iron plant at Sault Ste.
Marie canadian side), which will en-
ploy 10000 men and be capitalized at
$50,000,000.
Recently four innocent white men
were shot, one perhaps fatally, negro
was shot and another badly cut, the
result of drunken fight started by a
crowd of negroes in Rosedale, Kan, a
/ suburb of Kansas City.
Joseph Hume, the pioneer salmon
packer of the Pacific coast, is dead.
Death was due to heart disease. Mr..
Hume established the first salmon can
merry on the Columbia river in 1874.
In 1896 his business interests were
transferred to Alaska.
The horribly mangled body of John
A. Smith was found on the tracks OF
the Seattle G. International railway be-
tween Fremont, a suburb of Seattle
and Ballard. There is a belief that
Smith was sandbagged, robbed and
then thrown on the track to cover uI
the crime.
The London war Office has received
dispatch from Lord Kitchener report
ing that since April IS various British
commanders have taken 81 prisoners
together with 100000 rounds of small
ammunition and many horses, cattle
and wagons. Lord Kitchener report!
also the surrender of 20 Beers since
that date
Henry H. Morrick, 7year-olC
grandson of Henry Harris, wei
known rancher, was instantly killed
at the Roup farm, on the Yellowston,
railroad Sunday night. The youngste
entered the granary to drive out SOM
chickens and while he was doing so
chicken flew against loaded gun il
the building, knocking it down, tn
force of the fall causing the weapon t.
be discharged. The contents strucl
the little fellow, killing him instantly.
A high wind that struck Chicago re
Gently loosened huge iron water tan
from its fastenings on the roof of tn
Galbraith building, Madison an
Franklin streets, causing it to cras
-, through the six floors to the ground
injuring five persons and resultin
in damage to the building estimate
at $4,000.
> The Flood Hollow dam in Middle
field, Mass, gave way recently, lettin
i loose the water in the big reservoir
which rushed with terrific force int
the west branch of the Westfeld rive
sweeping everything before it and sui
merging the greater part of the town
No lives were lost, but great damag
has been done, the extent of which
: is impossible now to estimate.
The hotel and lighthouses at histori
Steamboat Springs, Nevada, which i
the balmy days of the Comstock mine
= was a watering place where nor
! money has been squandered in nigh
than at almost any other resort on tn
-. coast, are no more. A fire, which star
: ed in the hotel crossed the road to tn
- two-story bathhouse where the mai
baths were situated, and entirely d
stroyed both buildings. There was n
- insurance on the property.
q The steamship Indravelli has arrive
o in Portland from Yokohama. The Il
dravelli is the first Of a feet of 900
/ ton vessels comprising the Portlan
. and Asiatic steamship line establishe
by the o. r. & N. to operate betwee
= Portland and the countries of Ash
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