The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1901-12-07
LATE NEWS IrEMs.

Two men suspected Of having held
up a saloon at Standpoint were caught
AZ Milan, Wash. One OF them resisted
arrest and was fatally shot by Sol Id
monson.
IL Is reported at Mullan, Idaho, that
Thomas Ashcroft, a cook at the Hunter
mine, and Peter Dole. were killed To-
night in a shooting Scrape at the com
pany's boarding house.
During a recent fire at Omaha the
supply house Of the Creamery Package
Manufacturing company at Eleventh
and Jones streets, three fremen were
injured and loss Of sS5. 900 sustained.
The report OF the manager Of aLh-
letics at Harvard university for the
past year shows that The recetpts from
AL branches Of aLhietacs amounted 20
3II7 ,317, and the expense 20 S7s.23s.
The receipts from football were SIS, SlS,
and expenses $l9,699.
-Four thousand Boer sympathIzer st.
tended meeting held at Detroit, Mich,
sunday. under the auspices OF the
T'ransvaal league, and applanded the
antI-Butish sentiment Of Commandment
Jan Kr4ge, VINO served under Gen.
Botha, and ex congressman J. J. Lentz.
OF Ohio.
William Alexander SelIdrk, Cali
fornia pioneer Of 1850. and for nearly
half a century a prominent figure IN
the newspaper and political world OF
the Pacific coast, died in Seattle re-
Gently after lingering illness. aged az
years. He had been an invalid for many
months.
A bill will be introduced in congress
al the next session reducing the postage
on letters TO / cent Ii Is doubtful II
the bill becomes a law. One cent post
age has been demanded for a number Of
years, but so long as the receipts Of the
pos1of1ce department are not equal to
the expenses, the officials are not likely
70 call strongly for cutting the present
letter rate in two.
> The Denver Post says Senator VIII
liam A. Clark, OF Montana. and Thomas
r. Walsh. OF Colorado have, il - Fu-
mOred, Joined issues in railroad con-
structicn, and will build practically a
= new transcontinental railroad The
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific is said
to belong to Senator Clark and Mr.
Walsh.
Five persons, a mother and her -four
children, were burned 10 death at Gwyn
station, three miles north Of Altoona
Pa The husband escaped with severe
| injuries. The dead are: Mrs Mary c
! Burke. ~ years old; Adam c. Burke
. l6; --4rk E. Burke. ID; Joanna Burke
! IL; Joseph Victor Burke, years; Car
W. Burke, the husband. Is seriously
= burned about the back.
? Mysoery attends the shooting at Cas-
cade. Montana, Of Fred DAwkins. WIKI
b is fatally wounded. Dawkins claims
s that he was shot from ambush by J. b
s Mcbride. The officials have a Sheorl
that Dswkins is a monomaniAc on tn.
J. subject OF the capture Of Pat Grove
D and that while performing the sell
e imposed duty OF effecting the captur
b Of man whom he suspected Of beinl
% Grove, he accidentally shot himself.
If The military departments Of North
ern and Southern LuBon have ceased o
n exist. Major General James F. Wade
II formerly in command OF the southern
n division, will leave Manila tomorrow
Is 10 assume command OF the America
Is forces on Cebu island. and Major Ger
eral Lloyd Wheaton. formerly con
mander Of The northern division, vii
q take command of the department OF IN
- Northern Philippines