The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-02-27

2 are doctors, are journalists and the
others are bankers, miners, farmers
business men and politicians.
Secretary Cortelyou has attended his
first cabinet meeting as the head of the
new department of commerce and la.
] Dor. He was given a cordial welcome
by both the president and the other
members of the cabinet and he was as
signed the seat at the foot of the cab
met that had been reserved for him.
At Virginia, ILL.,, Mrs. Kate Walsh,
county charge, was found in criti
cal condition recently in the shanty in
which she lives. After she had been
removed to the hospital the sum OF
$1400 in paper money was found sew
ed in her skirt. A search of the shanty
revealed more than $12LJ in silver
money hidden away in an old coffee
pot.
Mrs. p. T. Dickinson of Alameda,
Cal, has received a letter from Paris,
which stated that before the effects of
Mrs. Ellen Gore, her niece, who was
shot and killed in the apartments of
the Russian singer, Rydzewski, on the
night of November 10, left the Ameri-
can consulate for New York, it was
discovered that jewels to the value of
over $4,000 had been stolen.
Peter Farrell, one of the leading New
Orleans democratic politicians, was
shot and knled by his eldest son, Ed
ward, recently. The family claim that
in rage of ungovernable temper Far
rell endeavored to kill Edward and
George, the eldest boys, for miscon-
duct, and Edward took the pistol from
him and fired Lnree shots into his
fathers heart. The boys surrendered
A fast express on the Lackawanna
cut down trolley car crowded with
school children at the Clifton avenue
crossing at Newark, N. j., recently.
Eight of the children were killed and
a score or more of others injured. The
mOtorman, who stuck to his post I'M
til his car collided with the express,
was so badly hurt that there is little
hope of his recovery.
Emperor Williams faith in God and
Christ and the authority of the Old
Testament, as declared in his letter
to Admiral Holman, councillor of the
German Oriental society, is accepted
by the leading Authorities of the state
and church as satisfactory evidence of
his orthodoxy, which for months had
been the cause of deep concern to theo-
logians and pastors.
A comprehensive bill regulating the
liquor question and repeating the ex-
listing laws on the subject was intro
duced in the Utah house recently by
Representative Spry. The most unique
feature in the bill is that it prohibits
all persons from treating or giving
away intoxicating beverages in any sa-
loon or other public place where such
liquors are kept for sale. Heavy pen
alties are prescribed for violations.
negro footpad held up Miss Lillian
Wilson in Omaha recently and empha-
sized his demand for her money by dis
playing a large knife and declaring
that if she refused he would cut her
throat. Miss Wilson coolly but po-
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her chatelaine bag, she took out a re-
volver, fired and put a single bullet
where it would do the most good for
herself and the world at large, namely,
in the carcass of the brute who was
bent on robbing her.
1T seems impossible that it is 25
years since l have been here" was
Pope LeO's exclamation as he looked
from a window of his apartments into
the sunlit plaza of st. Peters. This
was the pontiff's only reference to his
long term of self imposed imprison-
ment in the vatican, during which he
has never gone beyond the palace
grounds and st. Peters, which is con-
sidered to be part of the vatican.
What a glorious morning for the jul
bilee of my pontificate," he added, as
he proceeded with evident pleasure to
peruse the almost innumerable tele-
grams, letters and addresses of con-
graduation which have reached the
vatican from all parts of the world.
Cure for ST. Vitus' Dance.