The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-02-19
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
4 Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-Natlonsl.
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIS Told.

treal, two men and a woman were
burned to death. Six others were res
cued in a serious condition and remov-
ed to a hospital.
The American National bank of
Syracuse, N. Y. has been closed by
National Bank Examiner Joseph Van
Rankin No statement of the bank s
condition has been given out.
The adjutant generals Office in Dem
yer, has received word from the war
department that an allotment of
nearly $4,000 has been made for the
reconstruction of the Whipple bar
racks. in Arizona.
Automobiles will soon be taking the
place of wagons on many farms in the
United States and Canada" declared
Isaac B. Potter. president OF the Am
erican Motor league, before a banquet
Of the league at a Chicago hotel re-
Gently.
Friday, Lincoln's birthday, was OBJ
served for the first time in Colorado.
In Denver, banks were closed and
schools dismissed after commemorate
i've exercises.
A westbound Great Northern passen-
ger train backed into the rear of a
freigth train at Pennok, MINI. Ed
ward Heffner and Mr.. Hansome of
Minneapolis, were killed. Two other
passengers were seriously bruised. ALI
were passengers in the caboose.
Burglars blew open the safe of the
Nelson's bank at Aylemer, Ont, and
stole $15, 900. They also blew open the
safe of the private bank of James Nun
70, at Embro, securing large sum of
money.
A street car at Paduch, Kansas,
filled with passengers was struck by
a passenger train and 10 passengers
were injured. one fatally. The motor
man, it is said, tried to beat the train
to the crossing, despite the protests
and shouts of the passengers.
While experimenting with gasoline
and volatile chemicals in an endeavol
to perfect an invention, A ]. Brunson
president Of the First National banl
of Plainfield, N. J., has lost the sigh
of both eyes.
William Miller, known all over the
west as DAD Miller, and probably
the oldest engineer in service in the
United States, has been crushed Il
death under his engine while making
repairs. He was employed by the RiC
Grande road at Leadville, Col. Thu
switch crew ran some cars against tn,
engine and the wheels passed owe,
Miller's body, killing him instantly
Miller began railroading 80 yeras ag,
on the Reading.
The United States navy collier Ner
was rammed by the gunboat Concord
in the harbcr at Panama recently
The injuries sustained by the collie
were so serious that she had to b
beached. The Concord was not IN
/ jured.
United States Minister Powell re
ports to the state department from Sal
Domingo, that it was reported in tn
= capital that fierce battle had bee,
fought in Sanchez and great man
people killed.
Speyer g. Co., of New York, hav
contracted to take the $35, 900, 90
Cuban loan. The price to be paid 70
the bonds is 901S, which is y pc
cent. above the minimum.
, Frank Loomis, for many years spec
ial counsel for the New York Centrs
& Hudson River railroad, is dead.
l.. The State Bank of Pittsburg, cap
: talized at $4,000, has been closed
order of the state bank department
G The state bank examiner is tempor
G rily in charge.
The United States transport Loga
a has arrived in San Francisco wit
d three batallions, headquarters, sta
and band of the Twenty-seventh il
fantry. Colonel S. d. Vital is
command. Among her passengers wei
t Brigadier General Jesse M. Lee, Brigi
r der General Whit and Colonel GiraI
J. of the medical corps.
y James Britt and Young Corbett hay
l. signed articles to fight March 81, III
d der the same conditions as their pre-
ious arrangement.
s A composite estimate of the 10
from the fire by the % experts Of Il
e leading insurance companies outsi'
e of Baltimore places the figures at $85
8 900, 900.
1t is feared that if opportunity offe
8 there will be a national uprising
e China to overthrow the Mancl
y dynasty.