Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-07-19
SUMMARY TELEGRAPH NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
4 Complete Review Of the Events Of
the Past Weel<-In This and For-
elgn Lands-Takeu From the
Latest Dispatches.

ea8n Lands-Takeu From the
Latest Dispatches.
Fire destroyed the O'Brien boiler
works at st. Joseph. Mo. LOSS esti-
mated at 100000.
Kansas grain Is burning up In the
worst heated spell since the Summer Of
1860. Corn also IL failure.
Sunday was the hottest day Of the
season In southern Kansas. tho Their
mometer registering as high as llS in
the sun.
q. H. Congcr, United States minister
to China. will sail Wednesday from
on the steamer Nippon Maru. en- route
to Pekin.
Six persons were drowned while surf
bathing at picnic OF tho Hebrew Ca
mahl Hazad, at Daufskie beach, near
Savannah. Ga.
Nine. Melba Is suffering from an at
tack of laryngitis and her physicians
have advised her not to sing at Covent
Garden for week.
Coleman and James Younger, who
were granted conditional parole by
the board OF pardons on Wednesday,
last, have been released from the Still
water penitentiary.
At Springfield, O., Paul Hague,
known rs Prof. Zeno. an aeronaut, was
fatally injured Sunday afternoon at
Island Park. falling 200 feet. His para
chute failed to open.
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100000 and 100000. IL OF the chief
vaudeville theaters between Chicago
and the Pacific coast are about to be
merged into a single property.
At DenniSon, Texas, the worst drouth
ever experienced was broken Sunday
afternoon by terrific rainfall Of over
two hours duration. the volume OF rain
ieing almost equal to cloudburst.
At Niagara Falls. N. Y. Carlisle Ora
ham Sunday afternoon made his NTH
successful voyage through the Whirl-
pool rapids In q BARREL The start was
made from the Maid Of the Mist land
Ing. below tho falls.
Secretary OF Agriculture Wilson
hopes that the corn crop Of the western
states has not yet been ruined by the
drought. He Ia disposed to believe the
reports as to the damage have been ex-
aggerated.
The steamer John 8. Kimball. July
from Nome. has arrived in Seattle
with 20 passengers and $4,000 In gold
from the district. consigned principally
TO local bank. She reports that St.
Michael. as regards the discharge of
freight from steamers. was still Ice
blocked July 3.
NJ. Santos Dumoit's cigar shaped bal
loon. driven by motor. had a trial re-
Gently from st. Cloud, across Paris.
around the Elfiel tower and back to st.
Cloud. The papers say the trip was
quite successful and that the balloon
assembled and descended apparently at
the will OF the aeronaut.
In all parts OF France Sunday. the
national fete day. the anniversary OF
the fall OF the Bastile. was celebrated
with much enthusiasm and without
disorder. There were reviews at all
naval and military stations. followed
by Examinations. fireworks and balls
In the evening. The Parisians partici-
pated with their usual xest.
Up to within a week the outlook for
the harvest In tho middle west was IA
vorable. Wheat was doing well In Min
nesota and the Dakatas, but It Is now
believed that drouth In some sections
and floods In others will reduce the flg-
ures below the estimates made earlier
In the year. What effect tho present
torrid wave will have ON the crop can
not now be foretold.
Major Putnam b. Strons quarter
masters department. u. 8. A.. has an
nounced that he had resigned from the
army for personal and financial reas-
ons and that his resignation had been
accepted by Secretary Root. The res.
ignation followed the publication OF an
escapade In San Francisco In which
Strong and Lady Francis Hope. former
~ May Yohe. are the principals.
The departure from Pekin OF Prince
Chun. younger brother Of Emperor
Kwang Su. who has been selected form
ally to apologize at Berlin for tho muir
der of Baron Won Ketteler. was spec
tacular event. A special train took
Prince Chun and his suite from Pekix
to Taku. from which port hs will pro.
coed by steamer to Shanghai. He will
sail from Shanghai July 20 for Genoa
and will proceed directly from there to
Berlin BY rail-
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