The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-08-21
LATE TELEGRAPH bREVET|ES.
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

ton mills in Massachusetts IA mills
are idle and 5000 operatives affected.
Recently a Denver & Rio Grande
passenger train went through bridge
near Nathrop, Col, causing the injury
of IA passengers.
the Armour Packing company at Kan
sas City threatened the entire plant
for time recently.
At the United States fishery at
Baird, Cal, on the McCloud river, 20
100000 salmon eggs have been taken
from the early run of fish.
Two freight trains on the Pennsyl-
vania crashed together recently be-
tween st. Davids and Ragnor, killing
two brakemen and injuring the en-
gineer of the second train.
There are unconfrmed reports that
King Peter of Servia has threatened
to abdicate. as he is virtually prison
er in the hands of the military party.
Traffic between the two Kansas Cit
les is practically suspended, all the
temporary pile bridges erected after
the great flood in June having been
endangered.
At the worlds bicycle congress re-
Gently it was decided to hold cham
pionship meeting at the st. Louis ex-
position. America was represented by
Victor Breyen.
A special from Sheridan, Wyo., says
Boone Potter, who escaped from the
Sheridan county Jail and who is want
ed in North Carolina for murder, has
been captured.
Reports received at Albany, Ca,
state that a white man named Thomp-
son and King Wrightman, a negro,
were lynched at Hartsfeld for assault
ing a white woman near Hartsfeld.
The annual infantry competition of
the department of the Missouri has
closed with Corporal w. A. Vickery,
Twenty infantry, the winner.
Corporal Vickery will receive the gold
medal
The jury in the case of Curtis Jet
and Thomas White, charged with the
assassination of James B. Marcum, at
Jackson, Ky, returned verdict of
guilty and fixed the punishment of
each at life Imprisonment.
Cardinal Gibbons has left Rome for
Switzerland, where he will remain
some time to recover from the heat
and his labors in Rome. The cardinal
however, is suffering from slight lassi
tude, otherwise being perfectly well
A special from Valdez, Alaska, an
nounces the safe arrival there, eight
days behind its schedule, of the United
States senatorial party. The delay is
attributed to the failure of the boat
from the lower Yukon to arrive al
Dawson.
The alleged embezzlement Of $45,
900 of the funds of the Commercial
Banking company of Duluth. MINI.
for which f. e. Johnson, a trusted
clerk of the bank, is under arrest
has brought about the failure of the
Merchants Bank of Duluth.
DOLLAR wheat" was seen on Mime
apolis exchange last Saturday for the
first time since the Letter corner in
1890. 1t was cash wheat, and there
were sales at that figure. Later $1.0l
was asked and $1.O1 bid, with no sales
September option touched IS cents.
Frank B. Greer of the East Boston
Athletic Association Boat club wresteC
the sculling championship from G. S
Titus of the Atlantic Boat club of New
York on Lake Quinsagamond recently
at the annual regatta of the Nationa
Association of Amateur Oarsmen
Greer was eight lengths ahead.
The steamer Princess May from
Skagway has brought word of a triba
war among the Chilkat Indians of the
Klukwan tribe. For several days ;
reign of terror was in progress in the
valley of the Chilcat from PyramiC
Harbor to Klukwan.
AS the result of the attempt o
= Jim Dollard to "shoot up the town" a
Lander, Wyo., Frank Bryant and Ross
Springer, the latter printer, are dead
and Dollard is in Jail. Dollard raj
out of cartridges in killing Bryant
, and used a heavy board to kill Spring
er, crushing the latter's skull.
The Monmouth, n. J., county cOur
! of common pleas has decided the cas-
{ brought by Alan & Lord against
tenant for rent which was unpaid be
cause the tenant had to move owini
: to bedbugs. The court favors the ten
? ant. Few cases of the kind are on thu
: court records.
| Shock at Alton.