The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1902-04-18
NEWS Of THE ENTIRE WORLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES
a Review OF happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NntiOnai.
Historical. Political and Personal
Events TerseIy ENpOunded.

drowned Monday.
At Hartford Conn, organized labor
won victory. Following the example
of Bridgeport and Ansonia they have
elected a mavOr Of the city.
William Ward. a shoemaker, was
electrocuted at Seattle by a fallen
electric wire after warning several
others Of the danger. He was instant
~ killed.
In the Butte. Mont, city election
the democrats carried six out of the
eight wards. The republicans and
labor party each carried one ward.
In Anaconda the democrats carried
FIVE out Of the six wards.
In the Helena, Mont, election the
republicans elected their entire ticket
with the exception Of two aldermen.
j. ]. Edwards was reelected mayor
f. S Walker police judge and T. b.
Kirkendall CITY treasurer.
George +. HOrner. the Viola, Idaho,
farmer who was recently convicted of
perjury for swearing that Miss Mary
Spray, daughter of a neighbOr, was
cover Is" after he had cut the figure
as" in the sole of her shoe in order
shat she might be granted a marriage
license to wed Horner's brotherin-law'
was sentenced by Judge Chadwick at
Colfax to serve 30 months in the pen
itentiary at Walla Walla.
A special from Kalispell SAYS that
Nettie Russell who is Familiarity
known as Sensation Nett" has been
placed under arrest for the alleged
murder Of William Hawkes. prOmi
nent young farmer of Kalispell The
two were in row at a dance hall and
during the fracas the woman hit
Hawkes. over the head with a cuspi
dor and fractured his skull Hawkes.
dead body was found in a livery sta
BILE near the dance hall.
A miner was found dead in the Sill
yer Seal nine Cedar canyon. 1t is
supposed a premature blast was the
cause Of death
It is reported that federal officers
have started a movement to dissolve
the beef trust
Alfred Jones, a wealthy farmer and
uncle OF District Attorney Jones, was
murdered Sunday at his home near
Uniontown. Pa, by three burglars.
The Atlanta, Ga, papers say that
plans are on foot for the formation OF
a gigantic trust of all the cotton yarn
mills of the southern states.
The Bavarian government has for
bidden the prince of Thurn and Taxis
to offer an asylum to the sisters of st.
Clare, just driven from France.
Nicholas De Temple of Denver
jumped in front of Burlington pas
senger train near Franklin. Mob. Sun
day, and was instantly killed. 1t is
believed he was temporarily insane
Major Iyttleton w. Y. Waller of the
marine corps, tried by a cOurtmartial
on the charge OF killing natives of the
island OF Samar without trial. has
been acquitted The court stood II to
2 for acuuttal
Eugene f. Ware has been selected
by the president to succeed Henry
Clay Evans as commissioner of pen
siOns. Mr. Ware is from Topeka
Kan. and is a member of the law firm
OF Gleed. Ware & Gleed.
Fire in brooklyn recently destroyed
the furniture factory of Masel e Hueb
ner, and the pipe foundry Of David
Binns. Several frame tenements near
by were also burned. The loss is esti
mated at 100000, with ample insur
ance on the factory and foundry
The police Of the City of Mexico
have broken up a gang of kidnapper.
who have been enticiDg young boys
to a house in that city where the lad!
were kept prior to being shipped t.
Yucatan to work on the HenequiI
plantation.
Rites Of the Ancient Jewish faith
dead for 1000 years. were revived il
Chicago Sunday. when many members
paid sums ranging from $40 to S10Oi
for the privilege Of performing certain
rites connected with the laying of thu
corner stone of the new home for age,
orthodox Jews at Olden and Albany
avenues.
The cholera situation in Manila con
tinues much the same, but the condi
lions in the provinces are becOmin'
alarming. The total OF cholera case
in Manila up to date is 245. while thert
have been 1872 deaths from the disease
In the provinces there have been al
cases and 318 deaths.
At Columbia. S. c., General Wad
Hampton died recently. His dealt
resulted from no disease. but was tn
result of a general breakdown. Gen
eral Hampton celebrated his eighty
fourth birthday last week A mont
ago he had a severe attack and hi
children were called to his bedside
He rallied. however, and was out driV
ing n week ago.
A battle at Juarez, Mexico. betwee'
a Numidian lion and a wild bull wa
witnessed by thousands Of peonle On