The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-03-15

was served with a writ for an alleged
breach of promise at the instance OF POr-
tia Knight OF London Miss Portia Knight
is the daughter OF Colonel n. b. Knight
OF Salem, Ore, who is a prominent attor
ney of that city. She was educated in the
public school there She showed marked
ability as an elocuuonist ana gave a num-
Der OF recitals in her home town. About
1895 she went east and subsequently has
appeared ON the stage as a reader and
actress. She was with James ONeil enc
season and also with one of the Froh-
man companies. Her mother is dead. She
is remarkably pretty girl.
At Colfax recently four persons were
seriously burned and ii Others narrowly
escaped serious injury by the explosion of
of a large gasoline lamp in the dining room
of the Hotel Colfax while dinner was be-
ing served. Donald Ryrie, Mrs. Ryrie, NJ.
j. Grady and w. c. Fudge, who were sit
ting at a table directly under the lamp
were terribly burned, the skin being
burned off the face and hands of each
Fifteen people were in the dining room at
the time of the explosion. A panic en-
sued. William Burch, travelling for John
W. Graham Co., Spokane, leaped
through window and hurt his back He
was followed by Mrs. Ryrie, who was en-
veloped in flames. She fell down stair
way leading to the basement. Several
others besides those mentioned, including
hotel help, were slightly scorched. Prop
erty loss fully insured.
There was riot at San Juan recent
ly over a school episode.
Two highwaymen, one of them
masked, entered the village of Olpe,
Kan, and held up a dozen people, the
occupants of the two stores.
Ex-President Harrison is a quite
sick man and his closest friends are
alarmed. His condition is more seri-
GUS than is generally believed.
Representative Rosenhaupts freight
rate bill was defeated in the house.
Thirty-seven members voted in favor
of it and SO voted against the meas
ure.
The president has issued an execu-
tive order abolishing the Cuban export
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action was taken on the earnest rec
ommendation of the Cuban economic
commission which recently visited
Washington.
Andrew Carnegie has offered to give
$4,000 for public library building at
Vancouver, B. c., the only condition
being that the city furnish it with a
suitable site and agree to contribute
$4,000 annually for the maintenance
of the library.
A highly sensational attempt to rot
the home of William Mclaughlin, the
millionaire coffee merchant, 81 Rush
street, Chicago, was made recently
Scores of shots were fired, McLaugh
Inns son narrowly escaping death
The residence is in the fashionable dis
trict on the north side.
Ernest ]. Wolter, a prominent mer
chant of Schuyler, Neb., who was ar
rested in that city by a United States
marshal on the charge of attemptin.
to blackmail United States Senator
Kearns of Utah, was arraigned befor'
Commissioner Anderson recently. H
waived preliminary hearing and wa
held to the federal grand jury unde
1 5000 bonds.
J, An application will be made thi
e week at Trenton, N. j., for a charte
!, for the American Can company, tn
L combination of the tin can manufaC
}. turing companies of the United States
+ 1t will have an authorized capital o
$7S,000,000, equally divided into CON
n mon and preferred stock. The concern
d will also have a working capital o
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a Additional inducements have bee
l. made to the insurgents to surrende
d their guns. General Macarthur ha
IL directed all department commander
/ to release one prisoner for every riff
surrendered. An insurgent who SUI
/ renders his gun will be permitted t
p name the prisoner to be released, pre-
1t viding no exceptional circumstance
y require this mans detention, in whic
e case another selection will be allowed
It A crisis has arisen in far easter
r affairs which, in the opinion of tn
II British government, is almost grave
than the troubles which original
$ turned the eyes of the world towar
II the orient. In this crisis secret neg,
II tiations are going on between the Uni
)f ed States and Great Britain with
ot view to thwarting what both govern
4 ments appear to consider a determil
N ed attempt on the part of Russia
lie plant herself permanently one one {
1t the richest tracts of the Chinese en-
20 pire.
y General Kitchener has granted Gel