The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1901-12-06

!, months ago. Outwitted and outpoin
| ed with ighter just the same a
himself. McGoveln had TO lower hi
colors recently at Hartford. Conn. {
Young Corbett within six minute
: from the start of the fight.
Two men suspected OF having he'll
up a saloon at Standpoint were caugh
a, Milan. Wash. One OF them res stel
: arrest and was fatally shot by Sol Ed
monson.
1t IS reported al Mullan, Idaho. tina
Thomas Ashcroft, a cook at the Hunte
mine. and Peter Dole, were killed 10
night in a shooting scrape at the com
pany's boarding house.
During a recent fire at Omaha uh'
supply house of the Creamery Package
Manufacturing company at Eleventh
and Jones streets. three hremen were
injured and loss of SIS. 900 sustained
The report OF the manager OF ath-
letics at Harvard university for The
! past year shows that the receipts from
all branches OF athletics amounted 70
sl17.s17. and the expense TO s7S.23S.
The receipts from football were s55.Sls.
and expenses $l9.699.
Four thousand Boer sympathi ger at
tended meeting held at Detroit. Mich,
Sunday. under rhe auspices of the
Transvaal league. and applauded the
antl-British sentiment OF Commandant
Jan Krlge. who served under Gen.
Botha. and ex-Congressman j. j. Lentz,
OF Ohio.
William Alexander SelkIrk, a Cali
fornsa 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 II
years. He had been an invalid for many
months
A bill Will be introduced in congress
az the next session reducing the posraga
ON letters 10 l cent. IL is doubtful IL
the bill becomes a law. One cent post I
age has been demanded for number OF
years, but so long as the receipts Of the /
postofice department are not equal 10
the expenses, the officials are not likely 4
TO call strongly for cutting the present
letter rate in two.
The Denver Post says Senator VIII
liam A. Clark, OF Montana, and Thomas
E. Walsh. of Colorado have, 1t Is ru-
mored. Joined issues in railroad con-
sruction. 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, mother and her four
children. were burned to dearh at Gwyn
'tation. three miles north OF Altoona.
Pa The husband escaped with severe
INJURIES. The dead are. Mrs Mary C.
Burke, AZ years old. Adam G. Burke.
g. lark E. Burke, 10; Joanna Burke.
i; Joseph Victor Burke, years; Carl
v. Burke, the husband. is seriously |
'urned about the back.
Mystery attends the shooting at Cas-
ade. Montana OF Fred Dawkins. who i
) fatally wounded. Dawkins claims /
hat he was shot from ambush by J. b. !
LcBride. The officials have a theory
hat Dawkins Is monomaniac on the $
1bjecs OF the capture Of Pat Grove,
nd that while performing the self !
imposed duty OF effecLing the capture !.
man whom he suspected OF being
rowe, he accidentally shot himself y
The military departments of North L
n and Southern Luzon have ceased to e
cist- Major General James F. Wade, c
'rmeriy in command OF the southern ,
vision, viii leave Manila tomorrow 7
assume command of the American
rces on Cebu island, and Major Gen
al Lloyd Wheaton, formerly com
ander OF the northern division, will :.
Ike command Of the department of the :
1rthern Philippines. n