The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-12
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

Dissatisfied with the wage scale, 300
men belonging to a loading gang of
Armour & CO.'S plant at the stockyards
in Chicago have gone on strike.
McChesney, the vests greatest thor
oughbred, won the Harlem National
handicap at Chicago recently. At
every turn in the race he was a winner.
Both the illinois and Michigan Cen
trail railroads have granted their
freight handlers at Chicago the same
increase in wages as conceded by other
roads.
President Wilson says Grand Trunk
negotiations for the purchase of the
Canadian Northern and Grand Trunk
Pacific have temporarily stopped, but
he hopes they will be renewed later on.
The bronze statue of Carrot A. Ho
bart, erected at Paterson, N. j., in his
honor, was unveiled recently. The ora
tor of the day was John w. Griggs, at
torney general in McKinley's cabinet.
The Middlesex lawn tennis tourna-
ment at London for the championship
is finished. In the final of the gentle
lnCh OpOn QOQDlCo I1OUdll hd-
honey beat Glenny and Morley, 81,
6-1, rs.
Joseph H. Choate, United States am
bassador to Great Britain; Robert S.
Mccormick, ambassador to Russia, and
Charles Tower, ambassador to Ger
many, have returned to the United
States for a short visit.
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pionship of America was concluded re-
Gently at Providence, r. l., with the
team of Frank Kramer and Charles
Hadfeld in the lead. The distance Gov
cred in the six days was 512 miles.
The federal grand jury returned a
true bill against A. w. Machen, former
superintendent of the free delivery
service of the postofice department,
charging him with having accepted
brides in connection with department
contracts.
There was a sensation at Lincoln,
ILL.,, recently, over the discovery of a
satchel full of dynamite hidden near
the Chicago & Alton tracks in Lincoln.
This was located within a few feet
llOul Tic POluJ WnGlc IICbluGul IbOOSG-
welt left the train.
After one of the most eventful ses-
sions in the history of the province of
British Columbia the legislature has
been prorogued by Lieutenant Cover
nor Jolly. This ends the life Of the
ninth parliament, although the formal
proclamation of dissolution will not be
issued for a time yet.
Mrs. Kate Taylor has been sentenced
by Judge Wesley D. Howard to die
in the electric chair, at Dannemora
prison, N. Y, during the week begin
ming July 5. Mrs. Taylor, on the night
of Jan. &c last, shot and killed her
husband and burned his body in the
kitchen stove during the three days
following.
1t is thought John Bell is the man
whom the fisherman saw shoot himself
on the Powell street wharf in San
Francisco recently and then disappear
4 beneath the waters of the bay. Bell is
secretary of the Pacific Coast Marine
Fishermens union, whose headquar-
tiers is in San Francisco and with a
branch agency in Seattle
Coming close on the heels of a long
report from Rear Admiral Evans, com
mander in chief Of the Asiatic squad
ron, concerning the grave internal sit
uation in China, the assembling of his
squadron in Chinese waters is regard
ed as significant. The battleships Ken
lucky and Oregon and the cruiser New
Orleans have arrived at Chefoo, the
monitor Monterey and the collier Pom
peii at Shanghai.
{ J. B. Lee, a sheep herder, discover
ed the body of man in Wilsoncreek
: canyon, about II miles from Ellens
burg, Wash The man was probably
! 80 years old, had smooth face and
light brown hair. A buckskin purse
was found in his pocket containing 90
{ cents, also tin tobacco box contain
ing slip Of paper on which was writ
ten Henry Thompson, Canterbury
, England. No relatives. Bury me here
and forget it. Sorry to trouble you.
A 3S calibre revolver lay nearby and {
bullet hole in the temple showed the
manner of death.