The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-12-18
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES o.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings In 5o-h
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

sealing schooner Selkotu Maru nas
peen lost with all hands.
Colombian troops suner some severe
narosnlps on the Atrato river. -Four
thousand more warriors started out,
Lnen returned to Bogota.
Lord Abinger died IN the Lariboisie
hospital at Paris recently from heart
failure brought ON by the shock or
adj uown the stairs of a restaurant.
The state department has been in
formed that nnal steps have been TAX
en- for the formation OF a permanent
republican form OF government in Pan
ANA.
Sunday, for the first time this win
ter, the transportation tacinties on
the Chicago railroad systems were
more or less crippled by heavy fall
of snow.
Serious charges against Consul Cen
eral Oliver j. hughes at Coburg, Ger
many, have been brought TO the at
tention of the state department AZ
Washington.
President Roosevelt recently enter
tanned at luncheon the omcers OF the
National League of Republican clubs
and prominent league workers from
various parts of the country.
United States Minister Squiers, of
Havana, sailed for New York, whence
he will go Immediately to Washing
ton. 1t is said the CUBAN government
has granted all his requests.
A drowning accident occurred re-
Gently of CrawforD bay, near Nelson,
b. c., when ]. Brown of Fernie lost
his life. Deceased was employed as a
deckhand on the steamer Valhalla.
Beginning with the new year the
railroads of the west will adopt very
stringent rules about issuing passes.
, 1t will be a pretty hard matter for
people to get favors of that sort after
January 1.
The last statement of the treasury
balances in the general fnund, exclu-
sive of the $15O,OOO,OO0 gold reserve
? in the division Of redemption, shows:
e Available cash balance $220,559,591;
q gold, $11S, 03O,122.
Senator Hanna has decided to re-
= quest the senate committee on mill
8 tary affairs to subpoena General Wood
t to answer some of the charges made
against him by opponents of his con-
8 firmatiOn as major general.
f The president has sent the following
4 nominations to the senate: Assistant
treasurer, Inomas j. Adkins, of st.
s Louis, Mo. Envoy extraordinary and
b minister plenipotentiary to Panama,
}, William 1. Buchanan of New York.
D. Norman Wolf, Jack McGovern, Jas.
o Burns and Jas. Smith were killed and
several other men injured by boiler
Y, explosion recently at Montgomery &
j. Palmers sawmill, IL miles from So
T. Iona, Colo, at the head of Onion creek
Or Ben c. Aylor, the Webb City, Mo.
If mineOwner, who shot Gordon Allen, 9
le wealthy Joplin man, two months ago
was acquitted by a jury in the circuit
re court. The jury was out only eight
1r minutes. Aylor's plea was self de
g. tense.
q. Altoona, Pa.-Orders have been is
ly sued for the employees in the Pennsyl
TX vania shops to work 10 hours a day
rs with overtime when necessary, to ge
re out the work. Between 1000 and 800,
VI additional men will be given employ
as ment.
IT. According to computations made b.
State Insurance Commissioner Host
Wisconsin may recover from $4,000
to $780, 900 in back taxes from ISL fir
=. insurance companies operating at pres
y" ent and from forty that have operate
here for 80 years.
81 1t is reported that the Northern So
'n curities company mas disposed of $35
ieA 000 900 of the total Of S96,000,000 c
'n' Great Northern preferred stock TO
on merly held in it's treasury in order
on defeat the government suit in tn
M United States supreme court.
sn- The Westminster abbey authorize
en- have declined to permit the ashes {
NJ Herbert Spencer to be sepulchered
re- the British Valhalla, according to
'rt- n. Y World dispatch from Londo
They were informally approached, bl
expressed regret that it was imposs
BILE.
linn No change will be made in the nan
of the Protestant Episcopal churC
me in the immediate future and the ne
inc triennial council of the church W
an take no action on the movement whi'
ais has been on foot for a change of nan
GOO of the church to the Catholic Chur'
and of America.
an Word has been received from Low
the lock, New, to the effect that P.
vor Cook, travelling freight agent for t
re Union Pacific, while showing an au