The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-06-19
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Howard T. Kressly, the Spokane
confessed forger, is believed to have
fed to escape arrest.
While wrestling with Joe Beaumont,
a friend, Frank Davy, both living in
Deer Lodge, Mont. broke his neck and
died instantly. The two were wrest-
ling for fun.
With President T. J. Cornwall in
parts unknown and short nearly $780,
600, the Bessmer Savings bank of Bir-
miugham has closed it's doors and ask
for a receiver. The shortage will not
affect the Birmingham bank.
AT San Francisco Mark Cohn, a
school boy, was smothered t. death
recently III company with other lads
he dug a cave i'll the side of sandhill
nsar his home, aud, while alone in it,
the overhanging bank fell AID buried
him.
Governor Bailey of Kansas says he
will call an extra session of the Kan
sas legislature. The call is to be is
sued as soon as the governor receives
assurances from quorum of the mem
mers that they will be here. The spe-
cial session will! provide for relieving
the food situation.
Robert Fair, All employee of the Kent
Lumber company, of Seattle, fell I'M
der the wheels Of a moving train re-
Gently aid died in about 10 minutes.
Fair was f::cnlan on a donkey engine
belonging to the company at Barnes
ten He jumped eff The car and
stumbled.
The Italian cabinet has resigned be-
cause the chamber of deputies decided
upon parliamentary inquiry.
Ulysses S. Grant, Jr., was graduated
from West Point last week, and stands
with the first seven in his class.
A receiver was named for the Vim
cent Valve company of Sandusky, Ohio.
Assets, $4,000; liabilities, 100000.
The big we'll at Cornell furnishes six
thousand gallons of water an hour. A
reservoir holding one hundred thou
sand gallons is in readiness to receive
the supply.
Kansas City, Kan, is still sorely in
need of aid for it's flood sufferers. A
second urgent appeal to the country
has been issued by the relief commit
tee of that city.
The statement of the treasury fund
exclusive of the $150,000,000 gold re
serve in the division of redemption
shows: Available cash balance, $225-
536.923; gold, $10S029, 662.
That she has no equal in American
waters in a smooth sea and light wind
the Reliance has again demonstrated
by another recent victory over both
the Constitution and Columbia.
William c. Hook of Leavenworth
Kan. has been elected to succeed
Judge Caldwell, who recently resigned
the judgeship of the circuit court for
the Eighth district. Judge Hook is at
present a district judge.
Moses Fowler Chase, the young mil
lionaire, who was declared to be un
sound mentally at Fowler, Ind, and
for whom Frederick Chase, his father
was appointed guardian, has been TAX
en- to a private sanitarium fol treat
ment
have fired the first shot of the civil
war upon Fort Sumpter died recently
at Columbia, s. C. Major Gibbes was
gunner in Captain Crimes com
pany. to whom General Beauregard
sent the order to open fire upon Major
Anderson. He served as postmaster
of Columbia under President Cleve
land.
Five persons were burned to death
in New York recently in a fiat build
ing at S47 East One Hundred and Fiji
teenth street. 1t is believed the fire
was of incendiary origin.
Alvord Cooley of Westchester. n. Y.
has been appointed civil service com
missioner by President Roosevelt tC
succeed James r. Garfield, appointed
commissioner of corporations.
A .typhoon of extraordinary violence
swept over Hanoi, Namdinh and Thai
binh. China. recently, causing much
damage Many natives persisted anC
several Europeans were injured. Three
trains were overturned between Hano
and Namdinh.
Plans have been adopted for the for
nation in Pittsburg of one Of the
greatest combinations of banking in
terests ever taken in the country B!
Budapest, June 16-The official re
port of the ministry of Hungary esti
mates the yield of wheat at 1873 MILL