The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-09-04
LATE TELEGRAPH BREVETIES
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Senator Hanna is still sick in bed.
The New York glass workers are on
a strike They refuse to sign slips
telling of their previous employment.
General Robert Shaw Oliver of New
York, the new assistant secretary OF
war, has entered upon the duties of his
Office.
A Wabash train carrying the st.
Louis and Cleveland base ball teams
was wrecked recently at Napoleon, o.
Several of the players were hurt.
The navy department has received
cablegram from Rear Admiral Cot
ton, saying that the Brooklyn and San
Francisco have sailed from Genoa for
Beirut.
Cleveland, O.-Mrs. Alexander Win
ton, wife of the president of the Win
ton Automobile company, committed
suicide recently by throwing herself
into the lake.
Facing his divorced wife, Herbert
r. Shaffer of Chicago lifted a vial of
carbolic acid to his lips and said:
1T is your fault. Minnie. Goodby, "
then swallowed the acid.
Joseph Haworth, aged AS, the well
known actor, was found dead recently
in a room in the Kingsley hotel at
Willoughby, O., a small village a few
miles east of Cleveland
Bids for the delivery of feed at Port
land, San Francisco, Tacoma and Sc
attic have been asked by the gorvern
ment for the army in the Philippines
The quantity asked is 300 tons of oats
and 5000 tons of hay.
The third section of the Barnum &
Bailey circus train. composed almost
entirely 0f sleeping cars for the per
formers, was wrecked at Wildwood
Pa, recently, and a serious accident
was narrowly averted.
An envelope said to contain govern
ment bonds and copper mining stool
valued at $1,5OO,OOO, which Joseph Pi
card says he placed in vault at the
Minnesota state capitol 16 years age
for safe keeping, cannot be found.
The transport Texas has sailed from
Oakland, Cal. with 500 miles of tn,
submarine cable which is to be laid il
Alaskan waters The cable now on thu
Texas will be transferred at Seattle
to the United States cableship Burn
side.
Rev DR.. c. Farris, aged n years
former pastor of the North Presbyte
rian church and well known through
out the southern Presbyterian church
is dead at his home in st. Louis. FO
many years he was editor of the 81
Louis Presbyterian church.
President Roosevelt has announce
T. that Henry c. Ide, at present a mem
Der of the Philippine commission
. would be designated as vice gOvernO
of the Philippines in succession
Z General Luke Wright when the latte
assumes the Office Of governor genera
Word has been received from Moore
. croft, WyO., that the most disastrou
clOudburst in the history of that sec
+ ton occurred there recently. Tw
large bridges on the Burlington raj
road, with a considerable amount c
= trackage, was washed out and dc
y stroyed.
Sir Thomas Upton, aboard the EriI
J declared after losing the second rae
j. in an interview, that he would neve
7 challenge again for the Americas cul
e until man had been found in Ems
90 land who equaled Nat Herreshoff j
e yacht building. The baronet admitte
e his disappointment at his failure, an
frankly said that he had no hope {
r winning even a single race.
OF the lumber export in the last fl
e cal year the Pacific coast shipped
I per cent. The increase in eastboun
: lumber shipments from Washington b
L the Great Northern. Northern Pacif
J. and Canadian Pacific is an interestin
e feature. The first six months of TIL
/ year shows about 100000 900 feet
L lumber, an increase of 20 per cent owe
the same time last year. Shingles il
r creased % per cent.
/ General Frederick Funston, acco1
Il panied by his aide de camp, Lieute
II ant Mitchell. has arrived in Seatt
d on his return from an inspection
l. the forts of Alaska. General Funsto
g as commander of the department
2 the Columbia, has Alaska under h
jurisdiction, and the trip which
e has just completed was for the pu
e pose of making the regular inspectiC
a which the government requires to
made of all its property.
IS Los Angeles.-An electric car {
W the San Pedro-Los Angeles line of Il
n California Pacific railway was held l