The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-02-15

large block of Burlington stock and
is buying large quantities for the con
troll of the road. 1t is the intention
to turn over the control to the Union
Pacific or some eastern trunk line.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to do
nate 100000 for the founding of city
library. providing the city of Decatur,
ILL.,, will provide a site and agree to
spend not less than $4,000 a year for
its maintenance. The city will accept.
At Pueblo, Col, the Guggenheim
block, two-story building at the cor
pied by the Croms-Beggs Dry Goods
company's big department store, was
Quilted by fire. The loss is estimated
at $130,000; insurance, 100000.
Representative Albert d. Shaw of
WATERFOWL, N. Y, formerly commander
in chief of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, was found dead Monday in his
room at the Riggs house. Washington
d. c. A physician pronounced death
due to apoplexy.
The Count of Caserta, father of
Prince Charles of Bourbon, who is to
marry the princess of Asturis, Febru-
airy IA, met with a hostile reception on
his arrival at Madrid. He was hooted
by the crowd and there were cries of
Spit upon him"
Mrs. Joe Burns, a sister of Frank M.
King, a cattle broker of Tucson, Ariz.,
was shot twice in the breast at her
ranch near Yuma by Constable Alex
ander, who went to serve papers in
ejectment. Lynching is feared.
A dispatch from Portsmouth says the
royal yacht Victoria and Albert has
been ordered to be gotten ready to take
King Edward to Flushing soon after
the opening of parliament, when his
majesty will return Emperor Williams
recent visit to England.
Typographical union. No. 10, of Bos-
ton, has called a strike in every book
and job printing plant. They demand
that women typesetters shall be treated
as "journeymen compositors" and re-
ceive the same wages as men for doing
the same work.
Senator Mackenzie Bowell leading
the senate opposition, has given notice
that he will move for a committee on
inquiry into the charges of H. H. Cook,
formerly a member of the commons,
who said during the last general cleo
ton that he was offered a senatorship
for $4,000.
A railway project is now reported I'M
der way by which the Northern Pacific
I'm orb oh hou n
trackage arrangement covering several
hundred miles of territory, may be con-
solidated and it is said the Great North
ern will be in this transcontinental
combine.
Friday, February IS, the dry season
begins at Topeka, and all the joints
are to go at once. Three thousand citi-
zens Sunday afternoon passed deter
mined resolutions and sent an ultima
tum to police, and also a warning to
property owners on whose premises
liquors have been sold.
Near Mackay, in Ashland county,
Ohio, six masked robbers bound and
gagged John Duncan, wealthy farm
er, and four members of his family,
and compelled them to surrender $3.50
in money and considerable jewelry by
applying matches to their feet. The
robbers escaped with a stolen team.
Duncan did not believe in banks.
General Mayberry Prentiss, one of
the oldest surviving generals of volun-
teers of the civil war, is dead at his
home at Bethany, Mo-, aged 81 years.
He was known as THE Hero of Shi-
loh." He defeated Generals Holmes
and Price at Helena, Ark, on July 4,
1862. He was the last survivor of the
Fitzjohn Porter court martial. He was
in the volunteer service in Illinois dur
ing the Mormon settlement in the early
days.
Count Won Waldersee is dissatisfied
with the conduct of the French troops
near Pao-ting-fu and also with their
avowed intention, in spite of his pro-
tests against it, to organize an expedi-
ton to take possession of the province
of Shan-si. He takes the ground that
expeditions. except for police purposes
or against bands of robbers, should not
be undertaken during peace negotia-
tions. General Bailoud, the French
commander at Pao-ting-fu says that he
is acting in entire independence of
Count Won Waldersee and believes the
wises course to be pursued is to nip the
incipient rebellion in the bud immedi-
ately. He asserts that he was attacked
on three sides by a number of Chinese
while out with few men near Pao-