The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-06-10
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHER OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told

Mrs. Bertha Calhoun is supposed to
have persisted in fire which destroy
ed her home in Berkeley, Cal.
t. B. Hall, provincial assessor at
Victoria, B.. c., has been arrested for
alleged shortage of $4,000 in depart
mental accounts.
Albert Johnson, year old child of
Mr.. and Mrs. Samuel Johnson has
been accidentally hanged in his grand
fathers barn near Tooele. Utah.
Joe Cans, lightweight champion,
was given the decision over Harry
Cohen (Kid Griffo) of Brooklyn in the
seventh round of scheduled Is round
bout.
Although the damage by floods in
Kansas and western Missouri may not
be as large as it was last year. the
indications are that the devastation
will be serious.
Travis is now champion of amateur
golfers. He easily won the finals at
the British golf tournament. He is
admittedly the finest exponent in the
world of the short game.
Nine persons are reported to have
been killed and many injured in a col
lision of passenger trains on the Mis-
souri, Pacific, near Mastin City, Is
miles south of Kansas City.
The commissions of the supreme
justices of Hawaii have expired and
their successors have not been ap-
pointed. Judges Frear and Perry are
candidates for reappointment.
The jury in the Portland district
court has awarded Birdie Mccarthy
SIC, 900 damages against James D.
Heryford, a wealthy southern Oregon
stockman, for breach of promise.
Stanley Waterloo, widely known as
newspaper writer, was knocked
down by a mail wagon in Chicago
He is believed to have sustained a
fracture of the skull and his recovery
is said to be doubtful.
The University of Michigan won the
Intercollegiate Athletic association
meet held on Marshall field, Chicago,
securing 80 points. Chicago was sec
ond with 20 points and Wisconsin
third with a total of 2
Contempt proceedings of Federal
Judge Purnell against Editor Josephus
Daniels of the News and Observer, at
Raleigh, N. c., who has been in Gus
tody since Monday for refusing to pay
$4,000 fine, have been dismissed.
Cincinnati and New York broke even
in the series with a tie ball game
Saturday, which was witnessed by
probably the largest number Of spec
tators in the history of baseball. The
official count of the attendance was
1929.
The purchase by the United States
government of the Kahauika military
site, near Honolulu, has been COM
pleted, the federal government paying
the leaseholders $4,000. The tract
includes 1900 acres. Forts, barracks
and camps will be erected upon it.
C. p. Elliott, formerly a theatrical
manager in Chicago, killed himself at
st. Cloud, Mimi, in the dressing room
of theatre. Elliott's business part
ner declares that the reason for the
suicide was that Elliott had an unfor-
tunate love affair, over which he
brooded until he became respondent.
Frank T. Young, known on the turf
as Caesar Young, bookmaker, horse
> owner and stakeholder in Pacific coast
race tracks, was shot and killed in a
hanson cab recently at New York. He
was on his way to the White Star
line pier to join his wife, with whom
he was to have sailed for Europe.
/, Complying with a request of the
:, house committee on civil service re-
form, the civil service commission has
q prepared a statement showing that the
total number of former soldiers and
; former sailors of the civil war en-
+ ployed in the executive departments
t at Washington, is 2175, and the wild
r ows of the veterans so employed 1888
2 The official count of the vote of the
|. International Typographical union for
e, officers has been completed at head
; quarters. For trustees of the union
printers home Thomas McCaffery OF
Colorado Springs, receiving 1881
votes and Thomas F. Crowley of Gin
it cfnnati, with 1887 votes, were elect
it ed. James F. Lynch was reelected
It president by large majority.
S John Slmms, a prominent white
y planter of Trail Lake, Miss, and Will
2 liam Cato, his manager. were killed
p by two negroes, Samuel Clark and
c. Van Horn, in a dispute over trivia
matter. The negroes escaped, but
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