The Nezperce herald. (Nezperce, Idaho) 1900-1957, 1902-01-24
WORLDS NEWS BR|EFlY1OLD|
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
\ Aevtew of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Nationsi.
vtistorical. Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.


Joseph Gleason, formerly of Spokan
was recently drowned at Cocolalla, Idah'
The house has passed the house al
preparation pension bill. No amendment
were adopted.
Hope for the safety of the British wal
nip Condor is all but abandoned. Nava
en- are convinced she went to the bot
tom of the sea.
Two men were killed and three injure,
an an explosion three miles west o
AIaekay. Idaho. The killed are Ben;
Hinterholar and james Person.
Frank MeDonough died at Spokan.
from injuries received while switching
cars about at Wilson Creek. MeDonoush
was a brakeman on the Great Northern
Joseph Fl. Choate, ambassador of the
United States to Great Britain. who has
been home on vacation, mas sailed for
the British capital to resume his official
duties. He has been here since October
The appointment of Whitelaw Reid as
special ambassador to represent the UNI
ted States at the coronation of King Ed
ward has been received with much salts
4atL4on III anu uifplliIldl ClItltS III
London.
At South Bend, Ind, Lem Yu, the
Chinaman who was convicted of the muir
der OF Oscar Bloom. and who was to have
been hanged ON January 81. escaped from
the jail, and no clue has yet been OBJ
tanned as TO his whereabouts.
The Sound steamer Fairhaven, operat-
-. r
ports, struck rock or reef short dis
sanee from Utsalady early this morning
during a fog and soon after sank in 10
feet of water. The passengers and crew
all succeeded in reaching the lifeboats in
safety.
Lord Kitchener has confirmed the
death sentence passed upon the Boer
commandant Sheepers, who was cap
tured last October. He will be shot
next Saturday.
Boer delegates recently met in Brus-
sells at some mysterious rendezvous,
and peace rumors are in the air. II is
believed some movement is afoot be-
tween British and the Transvaal exiles
A Spanish village near Manresa was
Mill hands and families were crushed
to death under flying timbers and de-
bris- Sixty dead and 100 injured
Work of extracting victims was diff
cult
l. Solomon, Syrian, living at Keo-
kuk, Iowa. was held up and robbed OF
money belt containing $500. Solo |
mon had sold out his business in Keo-
kuk and was looking for a location. 1
Two fellow countrymen have been ar
rested charged with the robbery. Solo !,
mon says one of them held him while
the other cut the belt from his waist
The money has not been recovered.
An attempt on the part of the Terre
Haute, Ind, Electric company to run
its cars on the city lines after a boy
colt was declared by the Central La
Dor Union resulted Sunday in several
small riots in the business center.
Frederick Krainnardt, a Catholic
priest, residing at JosephsvilIe, Mo-,
suicide Sunday by hanging
himself with bedspread. Rev. Krain-
hardt was So years of age and had Of
fciated in clerical capacity at Jo-
sephsviIle for 30 years.
Mother Joseph of the order Of the
Sisters OF Charity of the House OK
and founder of the mother
house of that order in the northwest,
located In Vancouver, wn., died Sun
day at the convent which she erected,
aged 80 years.
William Slaughter and Ralph John
son, colored musicians, were shot and
killed, and Powell Galloway, white, was
wounded recently by Lillian
Williams at dance at Morris Creek,
W. Va, in the mining regions. She de- .
manded ragtime and didn't get it, so 7
she shot them.
At Ducktown, Tenn, another injunc- !.
lion has been granted against the sui :
phur and copper companies on account :
Of sulphur smoke and fumes emitted :
from their plants. The president of
the Tennessee Copper company has ]
issued a notice that when the injunc-
ion is served on him the manager is
% close down the entire works and
mines and pay off and discharge every
man. =,
At Cincinnati, Ohio, William Whit r
.aker, prominent attorney, and wife, 4
vent visiting Sunday and left their q
,nly child, 5 year old boy, with Annie !,
age, who has been with the family X
,nly a short time. When they returned o
he child was found dead, hanging to e
gaspipe in the cellar, and the servant II
unconscious from asphyxiation. She II
viii die.
The census office has divided the
country into the west. the north and
he south. The west comurises that In