The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-08-16
SUMMARY TELEGRAPH 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.

Andrew Carnegie has been invited to
become lord rector of Aberdeen university
I'm succession to Professor Stuart.
The navy department has ordered the
gunboat Machias, now at Boston, to pro-
coed to Colon to look after American in
terests there.
A heavy rain recently caused serious
floods in Newark and Jersey City, some
of the streets in those cities being covered
with water.
President Mckinley sent a message of
coincidence to King Edward upon the
death of his sister, Dowager Empress
Frederick of Germany.
Fire destroyed $4,000 worth of prop
erty recently at Kellogg Idaho Kellogg
is the station for Wardner, the mining
camp in the Occur d'Alenes. The fire is
supposed to have been of incendiary
origin.
The daring and skiIlfully executed rob-
berry of the Selby smelling works at
Crockett, or Vallejo junction, still puzzles
the police, and no clue has Deen obtained
as to the whereabouts of the $3.50, 900 in
gold bullion which was taken from the
vault.
At Portland fire broke out at the Ore
gon livery and feed stable run by John
Kerr, at the northwest corner of Sixth
and Couch streets, and the flames rapidly
spread to adjacent buildings. About 50
horses are supposed to have been burned
to death. The total loss is about 100000.
A rich vein of copper ore has been dis
covered 25 miles from Dawson. Word has
been received at Dawson that the Indians
from the headwaters have brought down
a large bag of copper ore of extraordinary
richness TO barter at Forty Mile. A new
strike of gold is reported on Glenn gulch,
on the American side, near Rampant.
A freight wreck occurred recently on
the Great Northern railroad one and
half miles west of Sultan. Freight No.
I6 ran into tree that had fallen across
the track. killing Engineer Charles War
ner and injuring Fireman William Gun
.derman. The engine is a total wreck.
Several cars of shingles and lumber were
burned
Peter Jackson, ex-pugihst, died re-
Gently at a private sanitarium at Roma.
near Sydney. N. S. W., of consumption.
The census returns will show the
population of Canada to be, in round
figures. about 100000 over figures of
1891, which were sos, 900 over those of
1891 The returns of 1881 gave an in
crease of 635,000 over the figures for
1871.
The official program for the seventy
eighth triennial conclave of Knights
Templar, to be held in Louisville the
last week of this month, has been an
nounced by the executive committee,
which has had over 100000 to draw
on to make the features of entertain
ment attractive.
United States Court Commissioner
Heacock has, upon the request of Secret
Service Agent George w. Hazen, issued
a warrant for the arrest of Walter n.
Dimmick, former chief clerk of the
United States mint at San Francisco,
charging him with embezzling $1,000
in gold coin. the loss of which was dis
covered early last month.
There are gravely important develop
ments in the strike situation. The
United States Steel corporation moved
decisively in the direction of the De-
wees-WOod plant at McKeesport, order
ing it removed TO the Kiskiminetas val
ley. President Gompers or the Amer
lean Federation of Labor. after a two
days conference with President Shat
fer and his associates. has issued a for
NAL statement specifically pledglng the
federation TO the moral and financial
support of the Amalgamated.
General Macarthur has submitted
statistics bearing upon Philippine mat
tiers for the last year which show that
conditions there are improving on the
whole and which indicate that it is
only a question of time when complete
peace will prevail throughout the isl
ands. There has been fighting durinl
the year. but the instruction as a for
midable waging of war by anything
like a central organization has practi
cally come TO an end There remain
only a few small scattered bands en-
gagged in separate guerrilla campaign
and these are becoming gradually sup
pressed.
Naval officers are deeply intereste,
in the visit of Captain Chadwick t.
Secretary Long at bingham, as it i
believed that the secretary was toll
the true state of Admiral Sampson
mind. When Chadwick visited the Bos
ton hayward his talk with Sampson
disclosed the fact that the latter wa
completely unstrung, in a highly mel
vous state and his recollection o
names, dates and places seriously in