The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-05-24
SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.


Paris and will not return to America
before next June.
Adjutant General Hoffman of the
New York national guard dropped
dead recently while in consultation
with Major General Roe.
OF 120 cases of bubonic plague in
Hong Kong since January /, 112 have
died, including one victim bitten by
a rat, who expired in IL hours.
The steamer greensboro, a towboat
owned by the Green River Coal Trans
portation company of Evansville, Ind,
was burned to the waters edge at
Calhoun, KY, recently and four lives
were lost.
1t is now definitely known that not
more than five lives were lost in the
wreck of the steamer City Of Paducah
at Brunkhorst Landing, ILL.,, Sunday
night, and even this number may be
reduced to four.
Edward Rice, the Shoshone county,
Idaho, murderer who was sentenced
to death for the killing of Matt Malley
at Wallace, and who now has an ap-
peal pending in the supreme court,
has developed symptoms of insanity.
After lying unconscious for 70 hours
from the effect of a blow received
during an alteration with Charles
Anderson, Charles G. Elms, proprietor
of the Chicago saloon died in Seattle
Tuesday. Anderson is under arrest
and will be tried for murder.
A combination of outside steel con-
Germs with a capital of 100000, 900,
is said to be in progress of promotion
by John w. Gates, John Lambert and
Isaac L. Ellwood, the promoters and
organizers of the American Steel &
Wire company.
There is a report from Tientsin
that 10000 insurgents have assembled
at Lang-liu-tsang and that they are
indulging in all kinds of excuses, vio-
lating women, robbing houses and
plundering tax collectors and declar-
ing their intention of setting up a
new emperor.
The works at East Helena of the
American Smelling & Refining COM
pany. which were closed down re-
Gently owing to the differences be-
tween the employees and management
growing out of a new wage scale, in
cident to the eight hour law, will be
reopened at once. The men have
agreed to go to work at the new
schedule, which is a little lower than
the old.
Philip Schumacher, paying teller of
the Teutonia bank, a state institution
of New Orleans, was shot in the calf
of the leg while at work in the bank
counting cash previous to a meeting
of the finance committee. An exam
ination of the banks books seems to
point to a shortage of $4,000. AL
though the wound of Schumacher is
not dangerous, he is delirious tonight
and his doctor said he spoke of being
attacked.
Every gambling house in Montana
was closed last Tuesday, Attorney
General Donovan having instructed
every county attorney to see that they
were closed. 1t is the most radical
reform step ever taken in Montana
and the first time since the discovery
of gold that faro has not been dealt
in the state. The attorney genera
threatened to proceed against county
attorneys who failed to enforce the
law.
double suicide occurred at La
conner, Skagit county, recently. JohI
Fay was employed by the Seattle
Bridge company, and his Is year ole
son assisted him in his duties. TIL,
boy committed some trivial offense
for which his father corrected him
This wounded the boys feelings 81
deeply that he stole out of the room
secured a gun and shot himself il
the head. Hearing the report tn
father FASTENED to the scene and say
his son writhing in the agonies o
death He grabbed the gun and bleV
out his own brains.
The Anaconda Mining company an
the Great Northern railroad announc
that the mining company machin
shops at Anaconda and the railroa
machine shops at Great Falls, whic
have been closed for some time o
account of labor troubles, will renal
closed permanently and the machir
cry transported elsewhere. The Gres
Northern hereafter will have all il
work done at Spokane or St Pau
According to the officials, frequent e
forts to treat with the strikers at bot
places have proved unavailing, and a
the trouble is constantly occurring
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