The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-01-24
WORLDS NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES
4 6evieVv of happenings in Both
Eastern and western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatiOnal,
sristoricaI, Political and Personal
Events Tersely ExpOunded.
The pope is again said to be dying.


The house has passed the house APP
preparation pension bill. No amendments
were adopted.
Hope for the safety of the British war
ship Condor is all but abandoned. Naval
men are convinced she went to the bot
tom of the sea
Two men we're killed and three injured
In an explosion three miles west of
Mackay, Idaho. The killed are Benz
HinterhoDer and James Person.
Frank McDonough died at Spokane
from injuries received while switching
cars about at Wilson Creek McDonough
was brakeman on the Great Northern.
Joseph III. Choate, ambassador of the
United States to Great Britain, who has
been home on a 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
faction in official and unofficial circles in
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
tained as to his whereabouts.
The Sound steamer Fairhaven, operat-
ing between Seattle, Iaconner and way
ports, struck rock or reef short dis
sance from Utsaady early this morning
during a fog and soon after sank in 10
feet of wafer 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 Tumors are in the air. 1t is
believed some movement is afoot be-
tween British and the Transvaal eXiles.
A Spanish village near Manresa was
the scene of a disastrous explosion.
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, a Syrian, living at KeO.
lIuk. Iowa. was held up and robbed OF
a money belt containing $500. Solo
mon had sold out his business in KeO-
lIuk and was looking for a location.
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 Josephsville, Mo-,
committed suicide Sunday by hanging
himself with a bedspread. Rev. Krain.
hardt was 62 years of age and had Of
ticiated in a clerical capacity at 10
sephsville for 80 years.
Mother Joseph of the order of the
Sisters of Charity of the House of
Providence and founder of the mother
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
MORALLY wounded recently by Lillian
Williams at dance at Morris Greek
w. Va. in the mining regions. She de
manded ragtime and didn't get it, sc
she shot them.
At Ducktown, Tenn, another injunc
fiOn 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
tion is served on him the manager is
20 close down the entire works anC
mines and pay off and discharge every
man.
At Cincinnati, Ohio William Whit
taker prominent attorney, and wife
went visiting Sunday and left thei
only child, a year old boy, with Ami,
Lage, who has been with the famil,
only a short time. When they returnel
the child was found dead, hanging t,
a gaspipe in the cellar, and the servan
unconscious from asphyxiation. Sh
will die
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