The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-02-26
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.

Dom Paul Kruger is dying, says
dispatch from The Hague.
Malcolm Forbes, widely known as
patron of light harness racing and as a
yachtsman, died recently at Milton,
Mass.
The sale of the British tramp steamer
Lytton to the Jap lnese government is
announced. She will likely be used as
transport.
Jonathan Tryon Hughes Edwards,
sixth in line of direct descendants of
Jonathan Edwards, is dead at his home
in New York.
w. S Sallers, fireman at the Iro-
quoise theatre at Chicago at the time
of the big fire, held by the coroner's
jury has been eXonorated.
Martial law has come to an end in
San Miguel county, Colorado.
Lieutenant MacRae and six privates
of the coustabulary, have been killed
by bolo rush of 500 fanatics, while
patroling the east coast of the Island
of Samar, also Private Salamon of the
Fourteenth cavalry, stationed at Iolo.
Attended by excitement not often
edualed wheat advanced Friday, at
Chicago nearly four cents a bushel
May delivery sold as high as $1.03 a
bushel.
A short time ago the senate voted
against the passage of the bill to pay
ex-Queen Liliuok alani $3.50, 900, vote
being tie, but a motion to reconsider
has been made and it is quite probable
that the ex-sovereign of Hawaii will
get the relief for which she has been
petitiCniug for several years.
The United States cruisers Newark
and Columbia have. says New York
Herald dispatch from St. Thomas, d
W., been forced to fire on the Domini-
can rebels outside the city of Domingo
because the insurgents fired on an
American mail steamship.
The cnroner's jury at Victoria in
curing into the cause of the loss of the
steamer Clallam and 81 lives on JAN
uary s, have delivered their verdict,
finding Captain Roberts guilty 70 man
slaughter, and Chief Engineer DeLau-
nay Criminally culpable. DeLaunay
is severely censured for negligence and
incompetency. Captain Roberts is now
in southern California.
Glence Bays, a negro, was burned at
the stake near Crosset, Ark, on the
charge of numbering J. D. Stevens of
Ashley.
Tom Reynolds, a nephew of Post
master j. E. Reynolds of Redding, Cali
fornia, opened over 800 letters and ex-
tracted what coin and paper money he
found in them during the past three
months while employed as utility clerk
in the postoffiec. He made a comics.
sion.
Billy Melody OF Boston knocked out
Otto Sieloff Of Chicago in the fourth
round of six round contest at Chic.
ago.
President Roosevelt has signed the
urgent deficiency bill.
Recently George Gardner of Lowell
Mass, defeated Kid Carter of Brook.
Ign in a six round bout before the Mil.
waukee Boxing club.
M. Kurino, until recently japanese
Minister at st. Petersburg. and who is
now minister of Japan to Sweden and
Norway, has arrived at Stockholm
Sweden.
Fire has destroyed the paint works
of f. w. DeVoe and c. .Reyonlds CON
pany in Brooklyn. Loss, 5000, 900.
Mrs. Hartwell, 80 years old, law
yer of Cincinnati, Ohio, shot herself tC
death because of the apprehension that
her suffering from the grip would de-
velope into consumption.
Fire has destroyed the building Of
the Greensboro female college. Ninety
pupils and the faculty escaped with
most of thier personal effects. Loss
$125,OOO; insurance $40, 900.
The interstate commerce commission
announces that as a result of its inves
LEGATIONS of the feasibility of requiring
railroads to publish tariffs for the move
ment of export and import traffic, il
has been decided to leave the matter il
allegiance for the time.
The last rites over the body of Sena
tor Marcus A. Hanna were held Friday
afternoon at st. Paul's Episcopa
church at Cleveland, Ohio. During thii
solemn occasion Cleveland was silent
Nearly all business was suspended
Street railways and steam road traffic
on every line in the city was stopped
for five minutes, from to :05 o'clock
People generally in all parts of the
city bowed their heads in reverence fol
e Of of hot