The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-07-26
SUMMARY TELEGRAPH NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events OF
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Tnken From the
Latest Dispatches.

General Butterfeld is dead. HI passed
away at his home near Poughkeepsie,
n. y.
The pension roll is rapidly growing. 1t
amounts to nearly $l40,OOO,OOO lor the ifs
cal year.
Shamrock II. sails for New York July
25 Mr.. Thomas Upton thinks she IS the
fastest racing yacht afloat.
Marshall, Mo, town of 5000 people, ON
the Chicago & Alton road, 80 miles east
of Kansas City, is reported burned.
There is an almost complete cessation OF
mining operations III the Lackawanna val
lev because of the strike OF stationary fire
men.
The strike in the National Steel com
panv's furnace at Niles, Ohio, has been
settled. and $50 men have returned to
work.
With threatening curses and at the point
of guns two masked men held up Z. b.
Clemmer and Con Reagan on the east
bridoe across the Umatilla at Pendleton.
An explosion occurred recently at the
Gyttorp Powder works at Nora, province
of Olebro, wrecking seven buildings -Four
persons were killed and number injured
Leigh S. j. Hunt, the Korean million
aire, is very i'll at Nagasali, and has been
compelled to give up his project of starting
an opposition paper to the Post-lntelhgen-
Ger OF Seattle.
The steel strike in America is attracting
much attention in England generally, and
while long articles are being printed IN
the newspapers on the subject, no com
ment is made in the editorial columns
The contract for the construction of an
electric railroad between Seattle and la
coma, distance of % miles, has been let
to Hale & Smith of Portland. The con-
tract price is not given out.
The mobilization of two fleets at Ports
mouth and Davenport, England, for naval
maneuvers of exceptional interest serves
to divert public attention from the inglor-
ious and protracted war in South Africa.
During operations with a military bal
loon near Schlusselburg, on an island in
the Neva, 81 miles east of st. Petersburg
the balloon exploded. One person was
killed and 20 were injured, several fatally
Billy Madden, manager of Gus Rubin,
the heavyweight pugilist, who was IN
Butte, states that he had been offered a
purse of $4,000 for a meeting between
Rubin and Jeffries by the Olympic club
of Butte.
Official announcement has been made
bv j. Pierpont Morgan that he had select
ed James j. Hill, f. IL. Hartman, William
Rockefeller, II. Nick. Twombley and Sam
uel Rea to fill vacancies to be created in
the directorate of the Northern Pacific rail
road
At Rochester, n Y, after nearly nine
weeks idleness, the striking laborers en-
gagged in the municipal contract work have
resumed work. The men are granted ~
cents an hour for an eight hour day and
time and half for overtime and double
time on holidays.
At Vienna Deputy Bakman has been
commissioned by the representatives of the
boot and shoe trade to question the staath-
alter in the lower Austrian house as to
what that body intends to do with regard
to the threatened invasion of the Vienna
market by an American syndicate. Local
boot and shoe men consider that American
competition menaces the very existence Of
the local industry.
Twelve miles south of Glenwood, Iowa
the charred bodies found in the ruins of the
residence of Fred Fourhelm with a shot
gun and razor by their side mutely tell the
tale of a tragedy. Appearances indicated
that Fourhelm had cut the threats of hi
wife and child with the razor, set fire Il
the house and then shot himself
The ministry won in the recent cleo
lions for the councils general in prov
inces of France.
Brigadier General Samuel T. Cush
ing u. S. A., retired, formerly com
missary general of subsistence, is dead
Captain Charles Botha, son of Phil
Botha, and Field Comets Human an
Oliver have been killed in the Orang
River Colony.
J. d. Groy, a switchman for tn
Northern Pacific. was killed recent
in Tacoma by falling from the gravit
bunkers to the deck of collier.
Earl Russell, arraigned at the bar 9
the house of lords for trial on tn
charge of bigamy. pleaded guilty afte
lengthy arguments against the juri
diction of the court.
Major James O'Neil, one of the ole
est pioneers of the Pacific northwes
and for many years deputy clerk @
the United States circuit and distriC
courts, died at Spokane Sunday.
at is officially reported in ShanS
hal" says the Shanghai correspondent
of the London Standard, that seriou