Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-07-12
SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review Of the Events Of
the Past Week-In This and For
eiKn Handkerchief FroM the
Latest Dispatches.

No arrests have been made In con-
nectiOn with the shortage Of $40, 900 In
the mint at San Francisco and specula-
ton as to the real culprit Is of varied
sort.
To the disappointment Of all the
Americans at Henley the Leander Row
ing club defeated the crew Of the Uni
versity OF Pennsylvania ID the hnal
heat OF the grand challenge cup.
In a fair trial recently In smart
breeze Shamrock |. beat Shamrock II.
by over 200 yards in a three mile turn
most decisive victory over the cup chal-
1enger.
Comptroller Of the Currency Dawes
has rendered his resignation to the
president. to take effect October l. Mr..
Dawes resigns his ONCE In order to
enter the senatorial contest this fall.
The Western Union Telegraph COM
pany Is advised that the Argentine con-
gross has declared Buenos Ayres In q
state Of seige for six months, and has
established censorship on all messages
thereto.
The disciples OF John Alexander
Dowie visited Evanston. Chicago su.
burb. the other night and. despite the
efforts OF the police force OF the place
q mob Of 1000 people drove them out
OF the town.
Mayor Phelan Of San Francisco is In
receipt OF q letter from Andrew Carne-
gle Offering TO give $76O. 900 for a libra
ry building. provided the city furnishes
a suitable site and appropriates $4,000
Q year for maintenance.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art In
New York Is made the residuary lega-
tee OF the late Jacob 8. Rogers. the loco
motive manufacturer, whose will has
been fled for probate ut Paterson. II
will probably receive $8,00O.00O.
The Chicago Tribune prints reports
from all over the country showing the
number OF persons killed and injured
~ a result Of celebrating the Fourth OF
July. The number actually killed Is
less than last year. being 10, against
80 then. but the number injured Is con-
siderably larger. the figures being 1911,
against 1895.
Albert G. Postwick OF Boston. the
automobilist. broke the worlds record
for one mile ON a 40 horse power ma
chine recently at Elkwood Park, Long
Branch. The record was broken In the
second mile OF an exhibition squirt OF
three miles. which he covered In
$685.. He had made the first mile In
1:18A. tho second In 1:l63a and the
third In lit
A forest fire southwest of Buena
Vista. COL. has destroyed many thou
sands OF dollars worth Of valuable tim
Der.
The steamship Braemar has arrived
In Tacoma from Yokohama with 5000
tons OF silk and new tea and ~ steerage
passengers.
The total attendance to date at the
Pan-American exposition In l.778,S11.
The average daily attendance for June.
including i've Sundays. was over 81
600.
Elmer Burkhead. aged 10. adopted
son OF NJ. II. Burkhead. section foreman
OF the Washington Central railway.
was drowned while bathing In Medical
lake Sunday afternoon.
James T.. Yeatman. . we'll known
philanthroptst. Is dead In st. Louis.
aged 81 years. When tho civil war
UIVho OuI MAJ. 0AtIuuu cuucnSokcN w
maintain peace and labOred earnestly
to that end.
A . result Of the explosion of gaso-
Sine tank In the cellar Of the country
house of w. r. Fitzgerald at Lake
Nagawicka. near Milwauxee. Mr. Fitz-
gerald was 50 badly burned that he
died. His coachman. William Grun-
wald. Is In a dying condition.
Special dispatches from stan cor
respondent OF the Anaconda paper on
the ground are to the effect that there
- now but little hope OF the sheriff's
posse overtaking the men VINO held up
the Great Northern express train at
Wagner. Mont. last Wednesday. The
correspondent has just returned from
the section OF country where the posses
were expected to overtake the robbers.
His account Is that the pursuers have
been outwitted and that the robbers
have eluded them.
Superintendent Conley OF the North.
port, WASH. smelter. came in on the
train from Spokane. bringing with him
10 men To take positions In the smelter.
When the train slowed UP at the depot
Conductor ST. Clair gave signal for
increased speed and the train was run
TO the smelter grounds, where the new
men alighted. The train was followed
by large number OF union men. who
were at the depot TO dissuade non-union
men from going to tho smelter for
work. The strikers not being prepared
for the new move were left behind by