The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-01-11

ion of Filipinos come to the United
States to plead in person.
United States Ambassador Chote has
presented the Hay-Pauncefort treaty
amendments to the Secretary of state
for foreign affairs, the marquise of
Lansdowne.
The Union Pacific railroad announ-
ces that it will spend a million dollars
in Kansas in making improvements to
its road. Grades will be made straight
and many new bridges built.
Hacked with razor by Walter Vein
stock. just back from the reformatory.
fearfully slashed his neighbours dau-
ghter. Citizens of Hackney. hold the
young rufiian and lynching is feared
Advices from Maseru, Basutoland,
say that three separate columns are
still pursuing General Dewet, but with
no success beyond taking 20 prisoners.
Cannon firing is continuously heard
Dan Stuart, the prize fight promoter,
has authorized a statement that he will
pull off big fight in Carson City be-
tween May 25th and June 10, the fight
to be for the heavy weight champion
ship.
The report of an outbreak of the
plague at Vladivostock are confirmed
There have been nineteen cases. of
which 10 were fatal. Four plague pa
clients are still in the hospital and num-
bers are isolateu
AT Constantinoule recently the course
of a serious ARRAY near Ishtbi, origi-
mating in an attempt to arrest a num-
Der of Bulgarians suspected of being
emissaries of the Macedonian commit
tee, eight soldiers were killed.
President Albert j. Earring of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & Saint Paul rail
road has sold his $4,000 shares of stock
in the road. The line has passed into
the control of j. j. Hill, j. Pierpont
Morgan and John d. Rockefeller.
The senate of r. I. has passed an act
entitled can Act to cede Jurisdiction
of tracts of lands at Portsmouth Grove,
Narragansett bay, in this state, to the
United States of America for use as a
coaling station and for other purpos-
es."
An attack on the moring of the Ord
by the Fourth infantry, marines and
navy, at Cavite Viejo, resulted in the
capture OF one lieutenant colonel, two
majors, five captains, one lieutenant,
As private insurgents and four la
drones.
A frightful explosion of powder oc-
Cured in the powder machine house of
the Repauno Chemical company, whose
works are located at Thompson's Point
N. j. The building was demolished
and three workmen in it at the time
were blown to atoms.
The naval board of construction
have decided to almost completely re-
habilitate the cruiser Baltimore. now
lying at the New York naval yard. Her
improvements will involve an expendi-
ture of about 100000 and will take at
least year and a half.
John w. Shotwell, Jr., cashier of the
Ray county bank, at Richmond, is mis-
sing, and the state bank examiner is
going over the books. Whether there
is shortage in Shotwell's accounts
can not be known until the examiner
has finished his work.
Earl Roberts of Kandahar and Pre-
toria is already immersed in his ardu-
GUS new duties at the war Office in Lon
don. He will take no holiday. Lord
Kitchper, according to a Cape Town
dispatch is calling for 5000 men to
guard the Rand mines.
The coroner's jury which has been
investigating the deaths of the vic
tins of the Alpha wreck, has returned
verdict censuring the captain of that
steamer for not having a reliable chart
and for attempting to enter the channel
near Union without pilot.
The schooner which was reported
ashore bottom up six miles south of
Alsea bay. Ore, is the Joseph and Hen
ry, from San Francisco. There is moth
ing in the hold. Parties from the scene
report another three-masted schooner
ashore waterlogged a few yards below
the Joseph and Henry.
With reference to the report that
Count Won Waldersee had been killed
by an officer of the allied troops, it is
semiofficially declared that a rumor to
that effect has been current for week
past, but the government has no zorro
boration of it. Count Won Waldersee
reviewed the British soldiers January
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