The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-11-08
WORLDS NE MS BRIEFLY TOLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Complete Review of Happenings in
Both Eastern and Western Hemis-
al, Historical, Political and Per-
sOnnI Events Terse1y ExpOunded.
General Grant's WIDOW is HI.


raittee.
John Segrist, center rush of the Ohio
state university football team, died re-
Gently from injuries received last Satur-
day afternoon in the game with the
Western Reserves.
At Clarinda Iowa, Judge Wheeler in
the district court declared unconstitu-
tional the law passed by the twenty
eighth assembly prohibiting the sale of
liquor shipped into Iowa from other
states in original packages
The non-unon furniture for the new
Montana capitol has been rejected. The
supreme court holds the advertisement
for bids was illegal but that had it been
legal the furnishing board could have
accepted furniture made by union
labor
The battleship Oregon is now on the
drydook at the Puget Sound navy yard.
Australian Jimmy Ryan was
knocked out by Jack Root of Chicago in
the second round of a twenty-round
contest at Louisville, KY, recently.
Idaho fax is superior to any other
grown in this country, and deserves a
grade of it's own, above No. 1 North
western Such is the official informa-
ton from the Chicago board of trade.
Seventy-five families lost their homes
and $15. 900 worth of property was de-
stroyed by the fire that started in Pc
terson & Co.'s picture frame factory at
Union street and Austin avenue, Chica-
go.
OF San A ntnniO
that at Purandi, Mexico, October %,
bread riot occurred in which twenty
persons were wounded, many of them
fatally. The cause of the riot is said
10 have been the action of spectators
in cornering the supply of corn.
In New York recently, as Henri Four
nier. the French chauffeur, was cross
ing the tracks in an automobile in
which other men we're seated, the ma
chine came into collision with loco
motive and disastrous results followed.
All six men were hur. and the ma
chine smashed.
AS the result of domestic difficulty
with her husband Mrs. John A. En-
mitt, IT years old, of Halsey, Linn
county, committed suicide recently by
swallowing carbolic acid at the st.
Charles hotel. Portland. She had been
married two days, and was spending
her honeymoon in This city
President Roosevelt has granted full
and unconditional pardon 70 Gunner
Charles Morgan, United States navy,
who some years ago was found guilty
by court martial of being absent from
station and duty on the cruiser New
York without leave and sentenced to
be reduced several numbers in his
grade
Justice White has ordered the com
pulsory liquidation of the London and
Globe Finance corporation, which fos
tered a group of mining companies at
Rossland. In view of the serious allie
cations of fraud made from time to
time, counsel for the directors, Lord
Duffern. Lord Edward Pelham Gin
ton. Whitaker Wright and Lemon, de
clared that they courted the fulleSs in
vestigation.
Miss Becera. the daughter of ROderC
Becera, who was Columbia minister tt
Washington several years ago. has a.
last succeeded in escaping from Vene
zuela. whore she was kept by order o.
President Castro. says the Port o
Spain correspondent of the Herald
where her father. who is now blind
has resided since his expulsion from
Venezuela. She has reached New YOrl
city. Miss Becera who was educated
in the United States. has been trying Il
escape for several months.
Little Ethel Plumb. aged 2 years, i
dead at the home of her grandmother
Mrs H. Parke. at Virginia City. Mont
as the result of a duel fought with re
volvers by Mr.. and Mrs. Plumb. Mrs
Plumb has a bullet wound in the hiI
Mrs Parke was shot through the RICH
shoulder and Mr.. Plumb is in Jail wit
powder burned face. At the first sho
fired by the husband the child fell dea
with a bullet through its head Man
shots were exchanged before help came
and the Infatuated man was carried o.
10 jail. The women viii recover.
Frank H. Smiley, of Chicago, VIII
turned states evidence in the Defer
bach insurance case. has been given hi
liberty He relinQuished all right {
the $4,000 insurance on Marie Defer
bach's life. This ends he criminal prC
ceedings in the case. as Mr.. August
Unger is in the penitentiary and Wa,
land Brown was previously let off wit
n fine. The insurance money, it
said. will probably go to the unfortuI