Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1901-06-28
Summary Of WORLDS NEWS
rrws OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
Ahe Past Week-1n This and For.
eiGu Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

attempt to kill Rev. John Keller.
A violent storm burst over a large
area Of southern Russia recently, flood
ing several towns and greatly damag-
ing the crops.
Since the present serious condition
Of affairs In southwest Texas between
bandits and the authorities began, six
men have been killed-three American
officers and three Mexicans-six wound
ed, all Mexicans. one being a woman,
and nine captured.
Bob Fitzsimmons and Gus Rubin
are matched to meet in wrestling
match at Madison Square Garden on
the night Of July @. Graeco-Roman
style, the winner OF two falls out Of
three to he declared the victor. Char
ley White will be referee.
Thousands Of people camped on the
border Of the Kiowa, COmanche-Apache
reservations in Oklahoma, awaiting the
opening of that land to settlement, are
In destitute circumstances according to
DR.. j. McKenna. who recently returned
from the scene.
Seventeen persons are believed to
have been killed and number injured
as the result Of a fire following an ex-
plosion among a quantity of fireworks
Is not known. The property loss will
in the store Of A. Rittenburg at Pater-
son, N. J. The cause Of the explosion
not exceed $4,000.
Civil government will be established
in the Philippines on July 4. Judge
II ToPS bn $ol
civil governor. He will remain at the
head OF the Philippine commission,
which is to be continued. The order
creating him civil governor was issued
by the president through the secretary
of war.
Hoshi Toru. who was minister of
communications in the last Ito cabi-
net. was stabbed at Yokohama at a
meeting Of the city assembly and died
shortly afterward. Hoshi Toru was
Japanese minister at Washington, and
was formerly president Of the house.
The assassination is supposed to have
been due TO politics.
1t is reported that a syndicate of
capitalists is planning a combination
with $100,000,000 capital to control the
entire production and sale within the
United States of the various products
and by products Of cotton seed. There
are 490 cotton oil plants in the United
State. Of which the American Cotton
Oil Company with capital Of $S0. 0.000,
900 owns 80 and the American Oil Com
pany owns 10. The others are operated
largely by cotton planters.
Secretary Root has received a letter
from Governor General Wood contain
ing the official announcement of the
adoption Of the Platt amendment by
the Cuban constitutional convention.
Like the constitutions of most Of the
South American republics. the Cuban
constitution has been framed with the
constitution Of the United States as a
model. The adoption o: the Platt
amendment makes it sufficient for all
the purposes of this government in its
relations with Cuba,
DR.. d. X. Pearsons of Chicago has
made public the following college
pledges, due by January l, 1902: Whit
man college, Walla Walla, Wash, $780,
900; Illinois college, Jacksonville, $780,
600; Fargo college, Fargo, N. D., $780,
700; Mckendrie college. Lebanon, H.,
100000; Bethany college. Linnsburg.
Kan. $25.0O0; Fairmont college, Wichi-
Ia. Kan. $4,000; Drury, Springfield,
Mo-, $4,000. Total. $275,GOO. This is
an official list Of gifts "to struggling
colleges" which DR.. Pearsons proposes
to make before the end Of the year. In
addition there are one or two other
promises which will make the total
*3oo,00O in round numbers.
Each nation is to help in the de-
struction of the forts in China.
Inc Amalgamated Copper company has
MED papers increasing its capital stock
from s75,0OO.OOO to Sl55 100000.
The grain warehouse Of the Taco
ma Grain company at Reardan. Wash.
Is now mass of burnt ruins, together
with about 10000 bushels of wheat.
lhe fire is supposed to have been
started by drunken tramp. and he is
no. 10 be found. his remains are now
supposed to be in the ruins.
>. r. Stevens, county Judge and a
wealthy farmer, and John A. Webb. a
nc'ghbor also prominent in county af-
Ialrs, met on the road three miles
from Miakka, Manatee county. Flori-
ia, and renewed an old feud that ex
listed between them. Stevens was
stabbed to death. and Webb seriously
DIT probably not fatally cut.
recent events in Cape Colony seem
10 prove the Boer invasion of tha,
rouh'ry TO be serious. letter to the
sally Mail dated Cape Town. June 5.
confirms the pro-Boer report, and saws
the invaders number anywhere from
900 to 10000: that they are swarming
all over the eastern and midland dis
tricts and getting recruits and horses.
The death of H. S. Church OF Louis
Vile was the second act of a bloody
tragedy that began In Louisville with