The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1903-03-07
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLEo FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Revie" Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemlsphsres
During the Past Week-National.
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TsrseIy Told.

gale OF almost unprecedented VIC
ience swept Great Britain recently.
; AL Wade OF Toledo, o., has confess
ed to the murder two years ago 81
Kate Sullivan.
Frank z. Ward Is now general man
ager OF the Great Northern road, sue
ceeding John F. Stevens. resigned.
i Harvard beat Yale in the FIRST game
Of the finals for the intercollegiate
hockey championship by a score Of 6
TO 2.
Colonists and homeseekers to the
Pacific northwest will be given until
June is to come under the special
rates.
President Palma has signed the sol.
diers' pay loan bill, which authorizes
the issuance Of bonds TO the amount
Of s35.oOO.O 900.
Miss Darice Justice. who has been
found asphyxiated in a San Francisco
boarding house. lived in Salt Lake fOi
nearly three years.
The Santa Fe has reached an agree
ment with the conductors and train.
men regarding a scale OF wages. Il is
understood that the advance will be
is per cent.
At the Duquesne garden, Morris
Woods OF Verona Lake, N. ", became
champion Of the United States and
Canada by defeating the best skaters
Of the two countries.
&. T. Burdick. president Of the Buff
falO Envelope works. was found dead
in his room recently. with his skull
crushed. The indications are that il
was the work Of burglars.
A dispatch received from eros
Morne announces the complete de
struction OF Port de Paix, Hayti, By
are. Only the vessels belonging TO the
Haytien company were saved.
The Chinese commission to the Jap
anese Industrial exposition at Asaka.
Japan. headed By Prince Tsai Chen,
has been ordered TO inquire into the
gold standard sentiment. in Japan.
The large shortage In the hog sup
ply throughout the entire country Is
causing the packed meat market to
increase its present hrmness and ad.
vances all along the line are expected
within q short time.
After making the astounding confes
sion that he has murdered no less than
Eve human beings, Albert Knapp is
covering in his cell at Hamilton, O.,
and begging the officers Of the law to
protect him from lynching.
An Vancouver. B. C.. the clerks en-
ployed in the freight. passenger and
telegraph departments OF the Cana
dian Pacific railway went on strike
recently to enforce recognition OF the
United Brotherhood OF Railway En-
ployes.
The fast passenger train. Chattanoo-
ga to Salisbury. leaving Chattanooga
over the Southern track, was wrecked
by spreading rails about three miles
west OF Lenoir City. Tenn. recently.
Three persons were killed outright
and "a injured.
II is announced at the law once Of |
Henderson, Lincoln. Hurd & Kiesel |
that Speaker Henderson has retired |
from the firm. Although not officially |
announced. 1t was stated that Hender.
son will enter a New York law firm as |
successor to ex-Speaker Reed.
A peculiar postal robbery has just
come to light at Vancouver. B. G. A |
registered mail sack, containing at
least $1,000 in bank bills. besides doc
uments Of value. was opened, the con-
tents distracted. the sack locked up
again. and the thief escaped, leaving
no clue. The robbery took place be-
tween the postofice on Van Anda isl
and. British Columbia, and the Van
couver ONCE. and the sack was rined
OF its contents on the night Of Febru-
airy IL or the morning of the day fol.
lowing.
was instantly killed by a falling tree
recently near Blue & Deschamp's saw.
James ], Hill, president OF the
Northern Securities company. has sail
ed on the Celtic. His trip to England
and the continent is for a rest and
Angus b. Macdonald, aged rs years,
mill, seven miles north OF Rossland.
b. c. He was q prospector and is said
to possess valuable mineral land in
East kootenay.
A strange case OF infatuation. fol
lowed by q suicide. is reported at
small farming town near
Fort Benton. Mrs. Ames, a widow,
OF the love of William Gray.
a wealthy farmer, took her life with
At Pocatello. Idaho. James A. Will
son. a telegraph operator. recently at
to commit suicide In the
dining room of the Pacific hotel by
shooting himself. The wound will
probably prove fatal. Wilson's home
Is in Boise. His brother Is general
agent OF the New York Life Insur.