The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-01-04
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
L Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lapds-Tal<en From the
Latest Dispatches.

I'll next mOnln.
Congress is to be asked to do something
for the Merrimac hero, Lieutenant Hobson.
Pat Grove, wanted for the abduction of
young Cudahy is thought to be in Boston.
AT Galveston, A. Ii. Pierce, the rich
cattleman, is dead. He was many times
millionaire, with a large variety of in
terests in Texas.
At st. Joseph Mo-, as the result of a
fire caused by the explosion of an alright
stove the Providence Methodist church (col-
ored) was partially burned and the pastor
Rev j. l.. Leonard, was fatally burned.
Details are not obtainabie of Turkey of
the placing of an order by the sultan with
the Cramps for warship, but it is under
stood that the statement to that effect from
Constantinople is correct.
The president of Liberia, Africa, w. d.
Coleman, resigned recently owing to the
disapproval of the legislature of his interior
policy. G. w. Gibson, the secretary of
state, was elected president by the legis
lature.
Samuel Mcdonald, who killed Auditor
Morris in Washington Saturday, is stead
lily improving, and although his condition
is precarious the physicians says he has fair
chances of recovery. The gauze filling has
been removed from the liver wound. The
operation was successful.
From the character and size of the ship
ordered it is believed that the contract
will involve the payment by the Turkish
government to the Cramps 81 800 00,whic
should afford ample margin for the set
Element of any proper claims against the
Turkish government.
At Bryan, Ohio, while Wayne Crowell,
aged "a, and Charles Canaan, aged 2l, were
crossing the Wabash railroad tracks near
dance they were struck by passenger
train and instantly killed. Mrs. Canaan was
notified of the accident and the shock
caused he. death.
THE French troops encountered Deem
Der %, east of Chochan, between Pekin
and Pao-ting-fu, Chinese force number
ing $500 men, with artillery. The Chinese
fled in the direction of Kuan-hsien. They
suffered losses and left behind them five
standards and four cannon. The Chinese
probably consisted of the reunited rem
nants of body already dispersed"
Rafael Del Pan Fontela, refugee from
the Philippine islands and first president of
the Madrid junta, has just arrived in New
York from Canada. 81 came here to be
free" he said. "lt was impossible for me
TO be other than slave to America when
| lived with my wife and five children in
Manila, so | have come where | won't have
to be subservient. Americans are not sub
servient to Americans, and while don't
approve of the American methods employed
in the Philippines, I'd rather be free
American than an enslaved Filipino"
Senior Fontela was lawyer and editor
in Manila. When the war began he was
Aguinaldo's chief adviser. Driven out of
the Philippines by the American soldiers,
he fled with his wife and five small chill
dren to Madrid. There he established the
first Filipino junta and was made its
president. With an idea that such a
lunta would flourish in Canals he left
Madrid and went to Montreal He has
been there for the past several weeks
He says, 1.-THE impression has got abroad
that Aguinaldo is dead This is nonsense
He has large following, and every man
under him is there to do or die. The wal
has Just begun unless America accedes to
the demands of the Filipinos."
Lieutenant Slack is dead He was in
service with the volunteers in the Philip
pines.
AT lndianapoliA William ii. Smythe
grand secretary the Masonic order Of
Indiana, was and probably fatally
wounded in Ne in the Masonic tenn
Pile The shooting is a mystery.
The wheat crop of 1900 is 522, 229, 5O'
bushels, area of winter wheat is 30,2S2,5G4
acres; condition of growing crop December
was Oil. The production Of CORN in 1905
is estimated at 2,lO5, l02,5l6 bushels.
At Bloemfontein, Orange River Colony
there are renewed but unconhrmed rumor;
that General Dewet, President Steyn and
General Haasbroek have had conference
and decided to offer to surrender, provid
the leaders, including themselves, are moi
deported.
One of the most serious fires which have
occurred in the east end of london during
the last 10 years broke out at the East In
dia dock. Five immense sheds filled will
goods, including 1000 bales of hemp anC
quantities of jute, were consumed. TIT
shipping in the neighborhood and othe
warehouses were only saved by the grea
eXertions of the fremen.
Abraham johnson and wife, both owe