The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-08-14
LATE TELEGRAPH BREVET|ES
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings in Both,
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

ENSHlS iSTSSlJ lOlos
Vancouver won the lacrosse match
against Victoria by II goals to 1.
The American squadron has sailed
for Vile Franche, southern France.
The Colima (Mexico) volcano re-
mains in a violent state of activity
No casualties are reported.
King Peter of Servia is being open
ly terrorized by his encourage, accord
ing to the Belgrade advices.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the city
of Dublin the sum of $4,000 toward
the erection of free public library.
Saturdays statement of the treasury
balance sheet shows: Available cash
balance, 1921, 2479S6; gold, $1O2,25O,-
9S3.
Postmaster Wise of Fairdealing, Mo,
is in Jail on the charge of being short
in his accounts to the extent of over
81, 900.
Policeman Charles Vodeman of
Brooklyn has been shot and probably
fatally wounded by Vincent Thomas,
safe expert, in a quarrel at Coney
Island.
The textile strike which was inaug-
urated in Philadelphia has been prac-
tically declared off, when 10000 of
the 10000 strikers decided to return
to work Monday.
Mrs. Van Cercke of Shawnee, Kan,
reported to the depot authorities in
st. Paul that she had lost a hustle,
containing $3.50, while enroute to St.
Pau1 on a Rock Island train
Rear Admiral George w. Melville,
who was retired for age last January.
has relinquished his duties as chief of
the bureau of steam engineering and
was succeeded by Rear Admiral
Charles w Rae.
Charles A. Gould, son of the million
aire car coupling manufacturer, and
his wife. were violently thrown from
their automobile in front of their coun--
try home at Bayside, L. I. They were
finally restored to consciousness, and
their condition is said to be improved
The volcano Kilauea near Honolulu
is virtually lifeless for the first time
in many years. There was an enor-
nous lava slide from the rim of the
pit and since then neither stream nor
smoke has come up from the crater
Kilauea is the largest active volcano.
in the world.
The general lockout of the New
York jewelry workers decided on by
the manufacturers has gone into eff
feet. Fourteen hundred men are af-
fected The cause of the lockout is
the demand of the union that one of
the firms discharge an employee be-
cause he was not a member of the.
union.
Frank Reese, II years old, who has
been one of the attractions at a fire
works display at Chicago recently, fell
so feet in the sight of 1000 people, as.
a result of an accident to the slack
wire on which he was performing. The.
force of his fall was broken by small
: scaffolding that held fireworks under
the wire and the boy is said to be not
seriously hurt.
One thousand Bulgarian insurgents,
half of whom are armed with Mann
: licher rifles, and the remainder with
hatchets, are threatening the town of
] Vodena, 46 miles north of Salonica. It
, is rumored that 10000 insurgents, di2
vided into four corps, are operating
. against the troops in the village of
Monastir and that 10000 more are op-
2 Grating at Castoria.
Y Kate Walsh, 25 years old, has tried
2 to end her life by jumping from the
0 sixth floor of an apartment house in
r New York City. There is a cistern
at the bottom of the air shaft, and the
: woman jumped through the boards
l. which covered it and into the water.
The police carried her to the hospital,
l. and there it was found that the in
d. juries were not serious, despite the
t great distance she had dropped.
Advices from Baku. south Russia,
II show that $4,000 men were involved
l. in the strike which commenced there
a July Is for an eight hour day and in
n crease in wages. For week the strik
1t ers were masters of the situation, both
10 in the town and in the naphtha fields
Only 600 troops were available. Fol-
c. 10 days Baku was without trains and
n, for several nights the town was with
1T out lights, while no newspapers ap
o. peared.
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It. The MinetOnka, built at Cleveland
for seacoast trade, being longer thar
q tho IoaIyc in NNa1Iapd canal