The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-04-08
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
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TIE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the past Week-National,
Historical. Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.
Inhabitants in the vicinity of Dew
IFS Hole, near Danville, Livingstone
county, N. Y, have been terrified over
big landslide occasioned by some
subterranean phenomena as yet uneX-
planned. The slide was accompanied
by the sound of a muffled explosion
which appeared to come from the
earth. No material damage is report
ed.
The Russian soldiers, who are nat
urally superstitious, nave been deeply
influenced by widespread report that
the Japanese possess magnetic stones
capable Of rendering their adversarles
powerless. Officers are endeavoring
to restore confidence among the men,
who are convinced that they are fight
ing against sorcerers.
At Wichita, Kan, some women at a
party discussed the Reed Smoot affair
and varied the function by hanging
the Utah senator in effigy.
Guy Wetmore Caryll, the author, is
dead in New York.
Senator Morgan, the democratic
boss of Alabama, Is believed TO
have paved the way for long and bit
ter fight against the bill providing for
, the civil government of the Panama
canal zone, which is declared by the
, republican leaders, must be passed at
this session. If the venerable leader,
, who has fought for the Nicaraguan
! route for over 20 years, is in earnest in
his opposition, it is thought that the
summer will be well under way before
adjournment cab reached.
Lieutenant Commander Edgar Town
send Warburton, chief engineer of the
/ battleship Maine, committed suicide
: in his.cabin on board the vessel.
a Sidney johnson, of New York city
: jumped to the street from the top floor
d of the 21st story of the sky scraper at
= Broadway. Nearly every bone in his
e body was broken.
l. A quarry blast explosion three miles
J from Charlotte, Va, resulted in the
s. death of three men and the wOundine
II of two others.
> On account of not being able to adjus
u wage scales, over 1000 men are out o.
IL work in New England.
= An air tank in the Erie railroad ma
- chine shops exploded recently, killin
70 John Frederick a gang foreman, an
as injuring six others, some of whor
~ will die The building was wrecked.
!. f. w. Wilsey, for several years as
a. sistant land commissioner of the MOI
thern Pacific. is retired.
At Cincinnati, Mrs. E. B. Hunte
~ wife of a prominent business man {
Memphis, committed suicide in he
apartments at the Grand hotel Will
- returning from an eastern sanitariul
in charge of a nurse.
Owing to an alleged technical erro1
the car barn bandits of Chicago wei
resentenced in the criminal court b
Judge Kersten. The bandits are to
OF hanged on April %, the date named
Oh the original sentence.
President Roosevelt but recent
%, sent to congress a long report c
the progress of the beet sugar industl
10, of the United States during 1908. III
report says the industry can no long
20, be called an experiment.
The Union Trust company of Bo
4, ton has closed it's doors.
General Jiminez, Dominican lead'
l, is at Porto Rico, whence he will pl
coed to New York on a secret missile
z, Young Corbett was given the de
sion over Tommy MOwatt, the Zig
II, ing streetcar conductor" after
rounds of fast fighting at Chicago S
1e. urday night.
James Johnson, a nephew of j.
or Marcum. who was assassinated yt
ago, was shot and killed by Bumn
Spicer at the mouth of George ere
o. 10 miles south of Jackson, Ky.
A number of girls employed in
- Dickson Squib Manufacturing co
panys works at Priceburg, Pa, w
killed by an explosion recently.
we'd Three masked men held up the o
mer gon express at Copley, Callforn
cas- They killed Express Messenger ON
Post and carried off the Express the c.
r of tents of the express box.
2 to Officers of the American Can CO
sury pany announce that all differences
i'm tween the company and its emplo
have been amicably adjusted.
edu- Miss Anita Kellev of New York