Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-03-08
TIE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
4 Complete Review OF the Events Of
the Past WeeI<-In Thi. and For-
eiEn Lands-TakeM From the
Latest Dispatches.

stop prize fights.
Lieutenant Colonel Smith of Port
land, Ore. is dead.
Thomas w. Lawson has announced
that the Boston cup yacht will be nam
ed independence.
The senate committee on postoffices
and post roads presented the retiring
chairman. Senator Walcott, a loving
cup.
Russia and other powers have ad.
dressed remOnstrances to the sultan
Of Turkey against the Macedonian dis
orders.
Confirmation has been received from
Cape Nudge, Alaska, of the reported
drowning Of Harry Morgan and Riley
Fields.
At Washington city the warehouse
Of the Knox Express company. four
story structure, was destroyed by fire.
Loss. 100000.
fire consumed the business portion
Of the town of Park River N. Dakota,
recently, causing loss OF over $780,
900, with only partial insurance.
1t is reported that the price of win
dow glass will be advanced Is per cent
for March and April delivery and that
another advance will probably be made
in May.
Sir Alfred Miner has started north
ward from Capetown with a view Of
| taking up his new duties as governor
Of the Transyaal and the Orange river
country.
The Texas senate has passed the bill
making kidnapping a capital offense.
The bill will go Immediately to the
house, where it will probably be passed
without opposition.
movement has been inaugurated
having the view of having under one
management all telephone lines in
Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and
West Virginia.
Twenty-one fishermen were carried
out on floating ice in Lake Erie. All
but four were rescued. These we're:
John Brade, John McBradtie, Thomas
Long and John Silverman.
San Francisco, March 1.-The trans
port Warren is to be repaired at an ex-
pense of $150.000 before she goes to
sea again. The work will be complet-
ed in about three months.
Bank Examiner Slack had G. II. Sic
die, individual book president for the
Third National Bank of Pittsbnrg. ar
rested recently for an alleged shortage
in his accounts of $4,000.
Rear Admiral Bartlett Cromwell,
comnandant of the Portsmouth navy
ri hoe 70
Admiral Schley as commandant of the
South Atlantic station. Rear Admiral
John J. Read, at present unattached,
will succeed to the command of the
Portsmouth navy yard.
At Baltimore the establishment of
Hirschberg, Hollander & Co., paints
and oils, was destroyed by fire entail
ing loss of 100000 OF which $4,000
is on stock and the remainder on the
building. The loss is fully insured.
The dispute between the inaugural
committee and the war veterans over
the matter of precedence in the parade
resulted in compromise under which
the veterans took part, to certain ex-
! tent, in the ceremonies. At a confer
ence between Secretary Root, General
Francis Greene, grand marshal of the
parade, and General Daniel E. Sickefs
1t was decided that the Washington, D.
c.. and visiting Grand Army veterans
would form the honorary escort to the
capitol on the 4th Of March.
Mr.. Broderick, the war secretary of
England, has issued statement of the
army estimates for 1901-1902. The to-
tai is f97,915, 900, Of which 8,250.000
comes under the heading OF war serv-
ices and is based on the assumption
that for the first four months Of the
new fiscal year the field force in South
Africa will be maintained at its full
strength and thereafter at diminu.
tion. The sum provides for transport
of the troops home, gratuities, etc.
At Denver, w. A. Clark, secretary of
state of Colorado in 1876 met with ac-
cidental death in the Wade block. He
tripped while coming aown the stairs
and fell to the bottom breaking his
neck. He was 81 years OF age.
The ST. Petersburg correspondent OF
the Daily Express says that Karpovich,
the student who recently shot the Rus
sian minister of public instruction. NJ.
Bogolepoff. belongs to nihilist society
and was chosen by ballot to kill the
minister.
At Cape Town the bubonic plague is
spreading. Five corpses. all of colored
persons. have been found in eight
hours. Ten colored persons and one
European believed to be afflicted have
been sent to hospital. Numerous per-
sons who have come in contact with
them have been isolated.
At Baltimore William G.. Taylor OF
Washington shot and killed his STEP
mother. Mrs Marion Taylor. in a lodg-
Ing house in North Calvert street to-
Gay. The husband Of the woman is
Charles Taylor of Washington. Dur
Ing the civil war Taylor was member
ol the Fifth rep,ilar artillery,