The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1901-06-28
SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Tal<en From the
Latest Dispatches.

On May 25 Nome was subjected to
most disastrous fire.
Dial Hawkins lightweight champion Of
The Pacific coast, defeated Billy Arm
strong, champion of British Columbia, in
six rounds. The contest was fast and sci.
entifc and the best man won.
Colonies Infant and Guivara. repre-
sentatives of General Cables, have
signed the name of their general to the
agreement to surrender. Under the
terms of this agreement Cables is to
assemble his men at Santa Cruz. La
guna province, as quickly as possible,
and there surrender himself and COM
mand to the American authorities.
Attorney General James Donovan had
scarcely crossed the state line on the way
east until the Helena gambling house pro-
prietors began to brush off the dust from
their paraphernalia. The attorney general
left for a six weeks vacation at his old
home in Maine. One gambling house in
Helena opened, another followed suit, and
the gamblers in Butte, Anaconda, Great
Falls and Kalspell are doing the same.
Donovan had closed gambling tighter than
it had ever been since Montana was set
tied.
A contract has been signed in New York
city for a complete outfit OF rolling stock,
including pressed steel cars, locomotive and
passenger coaches, for the Republic and
Grand Forks road in Washington. The
road will be As miles long and of standard
gauge At Grand Forks it will connect
with Canadian Pacific railroad. The first
trains will be run early in November if
nothing occurs to block the construction
work now under way. The road will be
used mainly to carry gold and silver ores
from mines in the Republic district, ON the
eastern slope of the Cascades, to Canadian
smelters at Grand Forks.
Ex-Governor Hazen S. Pingree of Mich
igan died in London last Wednesday, His
son was the only one present at the time.
Hazen Senior Pingree was born in Den
mark, Me, in 1910. I'm 1862 ne enlisted in
the First Massachusetts heavy artillery
and served until the end of the war. when
he located in Detroit, embarlling in the
manufacture of shoes. In 1889 the repub-
lican party nominated Mr.. Pingree for
mayor of Detroit and he was elected by
over 1000 majority. He was reelected in
1891, 1893 and 1898 by increased ma jori-
ties each time. In 1896 Mr.. Pingree was
elected governor of Michigan by $1,000
plurality, running ahead OF the national
ticket by 10000 votes. He was reelected
governor of the state in 1898 by about
100000 plurality and served OUT his term,
which expired in 1900. Last March he
started on a trip to South Africa, which
resulted in his death in London.
The jury in the Barker case at Jersey
City has returned verdict of guilty Of
attempt to kill Rev. John Keller.
A violent storm burst over 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 woman.
and nine captured.
Bob FitZsimmOns and Gus Rubin
are matched to meet in a wrestling
match at Madison Square Garden on
the night of July 2. Graeco-Roman
style, the winner of two falls out Of
three to be 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
William II. Taft will be designated
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