The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-12-11
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Persona
Events Tersely Told.


Backed financially by the United |
States government, salmon fisheries
congress will be convened in Seattle
February 70. 1904.
Jack OBrlen knocked out Jack Will |
liams in the third round OF what was
scheduled as a SIX round bout recent
ly in Philadelphia.
Kalman Foldessy, who was arrested
in New York during President Roose
velt's recent visit for writing threat
ening letters, has been committed to
the state hospital for the insane.
The Rappel, of Paris. publishes a
dispatch from st. Petersburg annOunc-
ing the massacre by Boxers of a num-
Der of Christians in the Szechuan
province of China.
A cablegram from Tegucigalpa, Hon
duras, announces the death of Sonora
Guardiola, mother of the wife of Pres
ident Palma of Cuba. and wife of for
mer President Guardiola of Honduras.
Henry Billings Brown, associate
justice of the United States supreme
court, will be totally blind within a
week or two, according to information
impaired to him by his physician.
The rise in the Tiber has flooded
the country so near Rome that it is
impossible to get to st. Pauls, two
miles out of the city, as the district
surrounding Rome is now covered by
four feet of water.
LIxro of tho mon cha rppd nv liant
Salisbury with accepting brides for
supporting the project to supply Grand
Rapids with water from Lake Michi-
gan, appeared in the superior court
and pleaded guilty.
The report of Health officer Snow,
in regard to the diphtheria epidemic at
Stanford university, shows a total of
~ cases of diphtheria, eight of which
have been removed to the newly pur-
chased detention hospital
The declaration of martial law has
paralyzed all business in Cripple
Creek, Heavily armed pickets of the
National Guard are stationed on all
street corners and many residents OF
the city do not venture upon the
streets.
Handcuffed to a man he is alleged
to have defrauded out of $500, Gabrie
HOSEA, the young foreign banker Of
Sharon, Pa, wanted for the embezzle
ment of nearly $4,000, made his es
cape from an Erie train at Bingham
ton, N. Y.
Paris, Mo.-Enraged because Miss
Anna Hartman, for whom he had sc
cured license to wed. would not mar
ry him, Frank Dawson shot and fatal
ously wounded his successful rival
ODE Hughes.
William Clarke & Sons. bankers o
Now York, have assigned for the bene
fit of creditors to the Van Nordel
Trust company. The firm is cOmpos
ed of James and Hudson Clarke an
had a mercantile rating of from SIS
OOO to S125O00.
M. Raume the French astronomer
noted for his studies of volcanic pht
nomena, although very old man, ha
taken up his residence on Mount VI
suvius in the hope that the researche
he is about to undertake will resul
in important discovery.
1t is reported that Edward L. Went;
the young Philadelphia millionair
who has been missing since Octobe
IA, has been found and that he is prol
ably demented. 1t is said Wentz ha
been hiding in the mountains not ia
from Finney, a station on the Norfol
& Western railroad.
The banks at Colfax, Ira, Baxte
and Mingo, Iowa. owned by George
Woods, who committed suicide at Co
fax, have closed their doors tempor
rily, the crisis being precipitated b
the filing of a mechanics lien on tn
fixtures in one of the banks.
Governor Peabody OF Colorado hs
issued a proclamation declaring Cri
pie Creek under martial law and su
pending the writ of habeas corpu
He declares that the gold camp is
a state of instruction and rebellic
and that the civil authorities are POI
erless.
Frederick H. Rindge Of Los Angels
has received word of a fire on b
Malabu ranch, one of the largest
Ventura county, Cal. The ranch hous
recently constructed, together with
number of smaller outbuildings, we
destroyed. 1t is rumored that mai
cattle were destroyed by the flame
Estimates of loss run from 100000
$150.000