The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-01-03
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY.
cULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Expounded.

Hadda Mullah, who caused so many
outbreaks on the northwest frontier
of India, died recently.
Rev. n. b. Naylor of Armstrong.
Mo-, performed a marriage ceremony
recently by which five couples were
united.
General Leonard Wood has accept
ed an invitation of the Kansas Day
club to respond to toast at their ban
quet, January %. General Funston will
probably be present.
The total number of students in
attendance at Cornell University to
date is 1868, a gain of 176 over last
year.
Count TOlstol has sent a personal
appeal to the press asking the papers
in view of his advanced age and ill
ness, not to publish any further re-
ports of his condition, as they cause
him pain.
1t is reported on good authority
that Archduke Ferdinand and the
crown princess of SaXony and their
companions propose going to the
United States, there being little prob
ability of their finding congenial
homes in Europe.
AT Los Angeles, Cal, Mrs. Jessie
Benton Fremont, widow of General
Fremont, died recently, aged rs years.
According to the Railroad Gazette,
railroad building in the United States
during 1902, aggregated COPS miles, a
total not exceeded in any year since
| 1888. Second track, sidings and cleo
trio lines are not included. Oklahoma
leads with 5O7 miles of new line; Texas
comes next with 1876 miles; Arkansas
is third with 81 miles and Indian Ter
ritory fourth with 1868 miles.
Signor Mascagni, the Italian com
poser, who abandoned his American
trip while playing in Chicago has been
placed under arrest on a charge of en-
bezzlement, made by his former mana
ger, Richard Heard.
Max Hayes, a prominent socialist
and labor leader, has sent long let
ter to David M. Perry, president OF
the National Manufacturers associa
ton at indianapolis, challenging hin
to debate the relative rights of labor
and capital The place of meeting
and date is the privilege of Mr.. Parry
Papers found among the effects o
George Pleydell who was frozen Il
death at Duluth, Mimi, recently, al
most within reach of his own doorway
indicate that he was the son of MajO
Thomas Pleydell of Acton, MiddleseX
England, formerly of the royal army
and a man of wealth.
President Dryden of the Prudential
Life Insurance company of Americ;
has issued a statement announcing
that the plan proposed for the merge
of the Prudential company and thu
Fidelity Trust company of Newarl
has been abandoned.
Mrs. Mary Hartweel Catherwood
the well known authoress, died at he
residence in Chicago recently of can
GER.
Fire in the center of the bushes
district of San Pedro, Cal, destroye
about $4,000 worth of property re
Gently. One half of the most promi
nent business blocks of the city wa
burned out. Two lives were sacrificed
R. W. Smith, a laborer, and Findezer
a retired sea captain.
Dan Mcleod won the CHAMPIONSHIP
of catch as catch can wrestling an
the $500 end of a $4,000 purse in Me
chanics' hall at Worcester, Mass, be
fore 100 people recently by gettin
: the better of Tom Jenkins.