The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-10-24

Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Expounded.
The Boer generals have gone to Ber-
lin.
The Kansas Equal Suffrage association
president.
Fire recently destroyed five stores at
Shediac, N. B. Loss is estimated at
100000.
Forty horses We're burned to death
and three men had narrow escapes from
like fate in fire in New York re-
Gently.
Great damage was done to various
ports ON the Mexican and Central AM
erican coast by an earthquake and tidal
wave recently.
The arbitration court in the Plus
fund case has condemned Mexico to
pay the United States $780, 200 in
Mexican currency.
The Chicago box makers are still ON
a strike. They refuse to accept the
proposition of the manufacturers to pay
by piece work.
Henry L. Wilson, of Spokane, Wash
ington, now minister to Chill, is to be
made minister to Greece in place of
Charles Francis, resigned.
President Palma of Cuba has denied
in emphatic terms reports that the Gu
bans are displaying ingratitude toward
the United States, or that they are in
different to the outcome of the reciprO-
city question.
Orders will soon be issued by the war
department ordering that the regular
army be reduced to the minimum auth
orized by law+59, 900 men. With the
practical cessation of outbreaks in the
Philippines it is believed that this can
be done safely. The present size of the
army is about 81 900. The cavalry and
artillery regiments will be reduced to
the minimum basis, except around Fort
Leavenworth, where the commands
will be kept to full size for educational
reasons.
Colonel John G. Moore, a newspaper
writer of San Diago, Cal, is dead.
New York is to have magnificent
new race track to surpass anything of
its kind in the world.
The Tillamook, Ore, stage was held
recently by three masked men. The
robbers secured 5000 from the passen-
gers and then escaped.
Yellow fever and smallpox have
broken out among the forces of the
Columians at Colon, and there are ten
deaths daily from these diseases among
the soldiers there.
The sudden and unexpected death OF
Jhon Lathrum, republican nominee fol
states senator in the ninth district
caused general sorrow throughout Whit
man county, Wn. where he has beer
a resident for nearly 20 years.
1t is stated in Liverpool that the
steamship service between Boston anC
Manchester under the international
Mercantile Marine company will be
started in a few weeks by the LeylanC
line.
The finding in the inquest following
the accident in which President Roose
velt's body guard, William Craig, wal
killed last September, has finished, sayi
that the unlawful acts of James T
Kelly, conductor, and Euclid Madden
motorman, - of the electric car which
ran into the presidents carriage, ICON
tributed" to the death of Mr.. Craig.
The Chicago Federation of LabO
has gone on record as a strike breake
when by almost an unanimous vote o
the delegateds the strikg gin members o
the wholesale grocer employees uniOl
were ordered to return to work pendin.
he settlement of their troubles by ar
bitration. Five large stores has beef
tied up and two more had been threat
ened.
A committee, headed by B H. War
ner, chairman of the citizens executiv
committee of the recent national en-
campment of the q. A. R. and Hon
j. H. Brigham, assistant secretary o
agriculture, called at the White Hous
recently and presented to Presiden
Roosevelt a G. A. R. badge commero1
alive of the national encampment. TIL
badge is of solid gold, handsomely EN-
bossed and engraved.