The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-01-23
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

The st. Paul passenger train on the
Burlington road, running so miles an
hour to make up for lost time, was
wrecked by spreading rails five miles
northwest of Alton, ILL.,, killing the en-
gineer and injuring four trainmen.
II. Peabody, republican, has succeed
ed James B. Orman, democrat, as gov
ernor of Colorado. The Inauguration
was made the occasion of the greatest
military parade ever seen in Denver.
Young Corbett, the featherweight
champion. was given the decision over
Austin Rice of New London, Conn,
in the 18th round of what was to have
been a 20 round contest.
Luther Ernest, alleged to be the most
notorious cattle thief in the southwest.
was captured recently in Comacne
county, Oklahoma.
General David Vickers of Boise,
Idaho, has been appointed adjutant
general of the state of Idaho by Gov
ernor Morrison to succeed J. l..
Weaver.
publican members of the legislature
Reed Smoot of Provo, an apostle in the
Mormon churcn, was chosen as the re-
publican nominee for United States
senator to succeed Senator Joseph l..
Rawlins, whose term Of office expires
March next.
AS a result of shooting ARRAY at
the Iroquois club (colored), Spokane,
yellow Charley Wallace, ex-Klondik-
er and bartender at the club. has died
with a ball through his heart. while
Cornelius A. Hughes, the proprietor, is
at the police station charged with MUIR
der. Hughes claims that he shot Wal
lace in self defense.
A collision occurred on the Great
Northern between the flyer and a
through freight near Evansville, Mimi,
recently. w. c. Hudson, freight en-
gineer, George Weippler, freight fire.
man and John Nelson. engineer of the
passenger, were seriously injured. The
mail car, two baggage cars and both
engines were demolished. None of the
passengers were hurt.
The 14th annual convention of the
United Mineworkers of America open
ed in Indianapolis, Ind, Monday.
Charles NJ. Schwab has arrived at
Palermo on board the steam yacht
Marguerite and refuses to see visitors.
He has left the yacht, but he is re-
ported to be well. The party accomp-
anying Mr.. Schwab has been ashore.
Henri Georges Stephene Adolphe
Opper de Blowitz, for many years cor
respondent of the London Times in
Paris, died recently in Paris. M. de
Blowitz experienced an attack of apo
plezy. He was born in 1882.
Through the alleged interference OF
a messenger boy a wreck was caused
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad east
Of Cumberland, Md, recently, in which
four employees of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad were killed and three injured.
Narciso Gener Gonzales. editor Of
the State is at the hospital in Column
bia, S. c., in a critical condition from
pistol wound inflicted by James H.
Iillman, lieutenant governor of South
Carolina, and nephew of United
JNcbCo DOhdIOl OCnJcllllA 1 AAAhActn-
Fraud and violence were resorted
TO Sunday night by the two factions
that sought to gain control of the Chi.
cagO Federation of Labor and elect its
officers. Eleven assaults were COM
mitted while the voting was in pro-
gress, and every device known in the
days of corruption primaries was ON
ployed. Not until a squad of police
was sent to the hall was order re-
stored.
Among the curious exhibits that the
Prussia ministry of public instruc-
! ton will include in it's educational dis
play at the st. Louis exposition rs
an apparatus for measuring mental
fatigue, which is widely employed. 1t
/ is called an aethesiOmeter and meas
/ ures the constituencies Of the skin
which corresponds directly to brain
: fatigue, the sensitiveness diminishing
as the mind wearies.
e Washington.-The secretary of state
has supplied Senator Morgan, chair
man of the senate committee on inter
oceanic canals, a statement of expen-
ditures made on account of the 18th.
milan canal commission. 1t showed
that each member of the commission
has been allowed compensation at the
rate of $1,000 month, with travelling
= expenses added. The salaries were
fixed in 1899, when the commission
{ was created, at the suggestion of the
4 president. In the cases of Col Peter