The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-02-07
NEWS OF The WHOLE KORLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-Nationa1,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerscIy ENpounded.

Mrs. Mary Taylor, an aged lady, was
burned to death at her home in Span
ish Fork, Utah, recently.
The United States gunboat Machias,
Lieutenant Commander Henry Nc
Crea, has sailed for Colon.
The fleet of Rear Admiral Higgin- !
son, commander in chief of the North
Atlantic squadron, has left Culebra
island.
After lying nearly four months in
the waters of the Sound, the body of
Robert Lewis, who was drowned last
fall, was recovered at Seattle Sunday.
The body of Stephen Striebel was
found lying beside the road two miles
west of Bossburg, Wash, Sunday. A
cut in the forehead indicated foul play.
Albert Griffith, the Australian prize
fighter, best known as Young Critic,
was found recently nearly frozen to
death in Chicago. He may lose his
hands.
w. G. Whitney, financier and ex-
secretary of the navy, after about 20
years of far-reaching activity in the
world of affairs, has decided to retire
from business life.
Judge Tuley of Chicago, has ordered
a receivership for the Zion lace indus
tries and entered a decree appointing
Elmer Washburn to The position of re-
ceiver under bond of 100000.
Spokane's beet seed is to be tested
by government plant experts, as it is
claimed it is the only sugar beet seed
grown in the United States to equal
the product imported from Germany.
R. B. Blankenship, a wealthy mer
chant of Dolorme, a small lumber sta
ton near Mattewan, w. Va, shot and
instantly killed Robert Browning, a
timber dealer Blankenship's plea is
seif-defense.
Tommy Ryan of Kansas City, Mo-,
who claims the middle-weight cham
pionship of the world, knocked out
George Green, of San Francisco, in the
seventh round of what was scheduled
as a ten-round contest.
Four officers and seven men of the
detachment of 210 Japanese infantry,
previously reported to have been fro
Hondo island, have been found in vari-
GUS stages of exhaustion.
At Tampa, Fla, at a conference be-
tween a committee of the striking
cigarmakers and the officers of the
American Cigar company here an
agreement was reached by all the men,
and they will return to work.
HacfinoG nf TnrnntO
Ohio, the man to whom Abraham Lin
coin presented a jacknife because his
face was homlier than his own, is dead.
Mr.. Hastings was a powerful and dis
tinguished preacher.
In the seventh round of what was
to have been a 20-rOund encounter be-
tween George Gardner Of Lowell, Mass
and Jack Root of Chicago, at San Fran
cisco last week, the latter was awarded
a decision upon the claim of foul.
The Hague correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says that Holland
intends to remodel her offer concern.
ing peace in South Africa and renew
diplomatic representations to Great
Britain DR.. Kuyper, the Dutch pre-
mier says the correspondent, has
strong continental backing and the
negotiations are likely to be prolonged
The only evidence against McCarty
when he was arrested by Sheriff Ken
nedy and Deputy George Twible was
his suspicious actions. When the de-
tectives arrived on the scene they fol
lowed the same clue and the confes
sion of the robbery was due TO the
pressure brought to bear on McCarty
who was confined in the county -ai
on a 80 days sentence for vagrancy.
Manila is intensely interested as tc
what action congress will take con
corning the Philippine islands. Ordt
nary local politics have been forgotten
and two parties have been formed, the
optimists aid the pessimists. Some
think that life and property are I'M
safe outside of the towns of the
islands, while others rldicule such
ideas and consider the safety of life
and property to be assured.
The war secretary of England Mr.
Frederick, in introducing a supple
mental army estimate of 6,OOO,O0C
pounds in the house of commons, saiC
this brought the total of the cost of the
war for the fiscal year up to 65,0OO,OO(
pounds. On January LIST, Mr. Broder
ick, said there were still PIT 800 Brit
ish troops in South Africa. The ex
penses of the war have now been re
duced to about 100000 pounds pei
month.