The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-11-20

vorable light numerically with any
trades union in the city. The organ
ization will be known as the Inter-
borough Council of Teachers.
The Daughters of the Confederacy
recently elected Mrs. A. 7. Smythe,
Charleston, president. st. Louis was
selected as the next meeting place.
Charles d. Bevington of Winterset,
millionaire farmer and politician,
dropped dead at Butler, Mo-, recently.
The defendants in the postal cases
who requested and were refused au-
thority to inspect the official records
of the postoffice department for data
for their defense, have won their
point and are now going over the rec
ords.
The threatened lockout by the build
ers exchange league of Pittsburg
against all crafts affiliated with the
building trades council has become
effective, throwing 5000 men out OF
employment With the 1000 men on
sympathetic strikes. 10000 are now
idle
The French steamer st. Simon, with
General Jiminez. head of the Domin-
lean revolution, on board, has left Port
au Prince, Hayti, with the intention,
according to report, of forcing the
blockade of Puerto Plata, on the nor
thern coast of Santo Domingo.
The will of the late William L. Ell
kins, the multi-millionaire traction
magnate and financier, was filed with
the register Of New York recently.
The estate is valued at 100000 and
upwards, but is believed to be worth
s3O,OOO,O0O. A codicil provides for
the establishment of an orphanage in
this city for the female orphans of
Free Masons, to be managed by the
Masonic home of Pennsylvania. The
sum of $4,000 is to be expended on
the buildings.
There was a large attendance at the
recent session Oh the national conven
zion of the Womens Christian TEN
perance union at Cincinnati.
According to an official statement
the Bulgarians killed during the dis
turbances in European Turkey from
April Is to the present time, tota
of $4,000.
1t can be said that the senate com
mittee has decided that Senator Han
ma shall succeed Senator Morgan O.
Alabama as chairman of the commit
tee on interOceanic canals. The deci
sion of the committee has not yet beef
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week.
j. N. Evans, president of the boart
of regents of the state university ant
one OF the wealthiest and most prom
inent citizens of Nevada, is dead.
Coroner Tuewiler has rendered hi
verdict on the Big Four wreck whic
. occurred at Indianapolis October g.
The coroner's jury blames B. c. Byer'
> the chief train dispatcher at Kankf
. Kee, who, he says, failed to notify tn
, indianapolis yardmaster that the spt
= cial train was coming. Sixteen peopl
), were killed in the wreck, Is of whor
were Purdee students.
=, Camille Pissarro, the Impressions
!, painter, is dead.
. Architect Walker has returned froI
st. Louis, where he went with Exp'
. sition Commissioner HURT to let tn
= contract for the Idaho building. H
" reports they secured a fine site in
= grove of pines on a knoll overlookin
. the agricultural and horticultural bull
ings. Some of these trees are to /
left standing in a court inclOsed /
4 trees. The cost Of the building wi
- pc about $500 Everything was four
- to be very high. The plumbing wi
cost twice as much as the estimates
d. Roise plumbers showed, All rates al
=. from rs to so per cent higher on IL
- grounds than in the city. The expo:
- ton people, Mr.. Walker says, we
~ we'll pleased with the plans for Il
Idaho building.