The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-05-29
LATE NEWS ITEMS.

prosecuted with renewed vigor.
Prince Henry Of Prussia has arrived
at Madrid on a visit to the Spanish
court.
The employees of the Montreal Strait
way are out on strike and the road is
completely tied up.
The annual conventions of the
American Labor union and the West
ern Federation of Miners are in ses-
sion this week at Denver.
w. p. Brown is the new cotton king.
He has the market in a swing and de-
clares he will make New Orleans the
cotton center of the world.
At Plaquemine, La, boiler in VIII
son & Cochran's sawmill at Wilcox
exploded recently, killing six persons
and seriously injuring nine others.
In the boat races between the
Georgetown and naval academy crews,
the former carried off all the honors,
winning first and second places in fine
style.(
The Pacific squadron, under COM
mand of Admiral Henry Glass, has
been ordered to the navy yard at
Bremerton, Wash, for docking and
general overhauling.
Judge Hines, winner of the Ken
lucky derby and a prominent candi-
date for the American derby, was an
easy winner of the $4,000 Hawthorne
handicap at Chicago.
Boyd Irwin, a youth of 81 years, is
under arrest at police headquarters at
Denver, charged with threatening to
dynamite the Cheesman hotel unless
he was paid the sum of $4,000.
Antoine Calcagno of San Francisco
shot and killed his former paramour,
Madeleine Picconi recently, and then
committed suicide. The couple had
been children together in Italy.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, head
of The great banking house, is much
wrought up over the Russian mas
sacres, and his powerful influence will
be exerted to secure protection for his
unfortunate coreligionists.
Paul Blouet MAX O'RelD died in
Paris recently. He had been ailing
for several months and never recover
cd entirely from the effects of an
OOlut llllt dSO III
New York.
The strike which for several days
/ has practically paralyzed the business
) of Denver, involving nearly 10000 men
= and women and threatening to force
into idleness twice that number Of
union members, has been settled.
The reclamation service of the
; TTn;to1 Cfotac cyouorproapt hoe rIopo
t on foot at the present time whereby
ever 100000 acres Of arid land in NAL
S heur county will be reclaimed from
: the desert and irrigated at an expense
+ of $4,000 900.
The offices of George T. Sullivan,
i. 259 La Sale street, Chicago were raid
+ ed by the police recently and so men
. who were specializing were placed I'M
, der arrest. Sullivan is charged with
g operating a bucket shop and swindling
e his patrons.
f The body of Miss Risa Kaiser of
/. Manchester, Ind, was found in Tan
e ners creek recently. Her skull had
t been crushed and her face bruised and
y gashed. 1t is supposed she was at
= lacked, when her father, who was close
y behind her, returning home, was
v knocked down and left unconscious
l. he is still in a critical condition. The
d negro suspected of the crime has not
e been found.
S The recent Yale-Harvard dual track
n meet proved full of interest in point
:. of performance, and because the re
r suit was not a certain Yale victory
until the last two events, the hammer
t, throw and running broad jump, were
+ decided in Yales favor. The final score
n was: Yale, So Harvard, 46.
d The national convention of the Fed
y Grafton of Musicians has adjourned
n The federation adopted a rule forbid
ding its members to play at any func
l. tion public or private, where govern
e ment musicians appear The color line
l. was abolished and unions of coloreC
musicians will not be designated a!
s ''colored" any longer.
/, The Woodmen of the World, in soy
S ereign camp at Milwaukee, has prac
l. tically ratified the recommendation Of
1 the committee Of the whole. 1t was
; decided to invest $25O,OOO of the re
r, serve fund in government bonds anC
6 a large amount in municipal securi
ties. The changes in the constitution
5, were more of a remedial than of {
e radical character.
n
# Jumped From Brooklyn Bridge.