The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-04-25
NEWS Of THE ENTIRE WORLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphe'res
During the Past Week-NatiOnaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Expounded.

from hemorrhage of the brain.
Saltese, the aged chief of the Occur
d'Alene Indians, is dying at De Smet
mission.
Sunday laws were neither enforced
nor observed to the letter in New
York City Sunday
At Kansas City, Mo-. the highest
temperature was 81 degrees Sunday.
A furious wind blew
Sunday was the hottest April day in
Is years at Omaha, Neb. The Their
mometer at 5 p. m. reached 95, the
highest previous record being 81.
A post on the outskirts of New
Chwang, garrisoned by 40 Russians,
has been attacked by Chinese bandits.
One Russian officer and four privates
were killed.
At Dallas, Tex, two persons were
fatally injured and property loss of
$350,000 caused by several fires which
occurred shortly after 8 o'clock Sun
day morning.
Mereli, the pedler whose remains
were discovered in Lake Washington,
near Seattle, was shot through the
back Several Afghans, East Indians
and Hindoos are under arrest.
A dry, hot wind has swept over Kan
sas since Sunday morning, doing much
damage to vegetation of all kinds.
Those interested say the wind has
done incalculable harm to crops.
General Chaffee has forwarded to
General Bell the congratulations sent
the latter by President Roosevelt upon
the recent campaign in Batangas and
Laguna provinces conducted by Gen
eral Bell
At st. Joseph, Mo-, the mercury be-
gan to climb about o'clock this morn
ing and at noon registered as high as
80 degrees, a change of more than 40
degrees in six hours. A high south
wind blew all day.
Passengers on the royal mail steam
er Trent, which arrived at Kingston.
Jamaica, from Colon, Colombia, say
heavy fighting was proceeding in the
neighborhood of Panama and Bocas
del Toro last Friday. The officers of
the Trent declare the situation on the
isthmus shows no improvement.
The United States Philippine COM
mission has passed a law authorizing
municipalities to appropriate funds
for combating epidemic diseases. The
cholera situation shows no improve
ment. There has been a total of 1888
cases and 300 deaths in Manila, and
S65 cases and 65l deaths in the prov
inces. rs
At Managua, Nicaragua, a severe
explosion occurred on the night of
April 16. A large two story barrack
near the lake front and in the center
of the city was blown to fragments.
Between 100 and 200 officers and sol
diers are reported to have been killed,
and many soldiers and other persons
are reported injured
A destructive fire visited the south
western part of Kansas City Sunday,
laying to waste section of dwelling
houses almost a quarter of mile long
and a block wide, and doing damage
to the amount of $4,000. John Slime
of Quincy, ILL.,, a spectator, was seri-
ously injured by falling piece Of iron
and Edward Bennett, fireman. was
overcome by heat.
Colonel Charles Marshall, military
secretary to General Robert E. Lee
during the civil war. and for many
years one of the leaders Of the Balti-
more bar, died of apoplexy at his home
in Baltimore, aged 70. He was the
only member of Lees staff who &C
companied him at the surrender at
Appomattox and the terms of the sur
render were drafted by him.
The earthquake last week covered
a large extent of territory and reached
down into Central America. The low
er section of the Pacific coast of this
country felt the shock severely and at
Tapachula. An important town in the
state of Chiahias, near the Guatema-
Ian frontier, the damage done to prop
erty is estimated at fully a million
, dollars. One wealthy man estimates
his loss at 100000
, At a general council of the labor
party held in Brussels it was resolved
that work by the strikers in all sec
tions should be resumed. The council
issued a manifesto to the workingmen
to this effect this afternoon. The an
ticipated announcement by the crown
) of the dissolution of parliament has
not yet been made. The papers con
tain vivid descriptions of the riots
which occurred at Louvain, near Brus
sells, last Friday.