The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-01-22
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Review of Happenings In Eoth
Eastern and Western Hemisphsres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

The San Francisco Examiner an
nounces the failure of Seymour r.
Church, the California pig iron mer-
chant, the liabilities being placed at
$4,000.
c. e. Bacon and A. II. Butler, pres
ident and cashier of the Lockport. ILL.,,
bank, which recently failed, have been
indicted on a charge of embezzlement.
General John c. Black, recently ap-
pointed a member of the civil service
commission, has taken the oath of Of
fee and will at once enter upon his
duties.
The supreme court has issued the
mandate committing Blanche Boise to
jail for 80 days and to pay fine of
800. This is the affirmation of the
district court sentence wherein Miss
Boies was sentenced for smashing sa-
loon fixtures ana windows.
The Dime Savings bank of Ports
mouth, Va, closed its doors. The al
legged defalcation of Cashier John
Downing several weeks ago is said to
be the cause of the failure.
Elias f. Perry, treasurer of the In
ternational Association of Machinists,
has been arrested on a charge of steal
ing $3.50 of the unions money.
John j. Brennan, the Chicago alder
man sentenced to one year in the
house of correction for completely in
election frauds, was put to work ty-
ing bundles of brooms in the broom
factory department. He was attired
in the regulation prison suit and his
hair and mustache had been trimmed.
With Brennan are 1877 other men,
white and colored. He was convicted
of buying votes.
The commercial committee of the
house of commons of England has ca
bled to the American parliamentarian
arbitration group at Washington the
heartiest congratulations on it's forma-
ton and promising gladly to cooperate
with it.
A recent fire among the wholesale
establishments and warehouses in the
triangular block formed by the juno
ton of Pearl and Erie streets at Buff
falo, N. Y, caused a loss estimated at
$3.50, 900.
A special from Eustis, Fla, says
James l.. Blair of st. Louis formerly
general counsel of the Louisiana Pur
chase exposition, is dying. He was
taken with a cOngestive chill and is
slowly sinking. His physicians give
but little hope of recovery. Mrs. Blail
and their son are with him.
Archbishop Harry has landed at Ma
Mia and met with a most enthusiastic
reception. A water pageant added bril-
liancy to the affair, the bay in the vi
cinity of the landing stage being pack
ed by boats gaily decked with varicol
ored bunting. Fully 10000 people tool
part in the shore parade, in addition t
5000 school children representing al
the Catholic societies within the arch
iepiscopate jurisdiction.
A report of a headon collision nea
Woolsey, New, of a freight train which
ran into the eastbound Atlantic ex
press, moving at the rate of 20 mile
an hour, is confirmed. No one wa
killed, but several injured.
The statement of Uncle Sans treas
ury balances shows: Available casl
balance, $226,254,OO1; gold, $95,112
GA.
Young Corbett is reported broke
The rich stake he received for beat
ing Eddie Hanlon he took to the rae
tracks at Emeryville and Ingleside
Cal, and played it away $1,000 at
crack on the ponies.
1t is reported on good authority tina
F. l. Whitney, general passenger agen
of the Great Northern. has tendere'
his resignation and will retire from
the railroad business.
Because Franklin Union, No. 4, o
Press Feeders, Chicago, had failed t
satisfy a judgment of $4,000, due tn
state as q fine, which Judge Holdrur
entered against the organization, afte
finding it guilty of contempt of cour
as a corporation, Judge Brentano ha
entered an order naming Allen No
Lean as receiver for the union.
Workmen engaged in digging gray
ell at Winnemucca, New, have discoN
cred at a depth of about IL feet a nun
Der of bones that once were parts c
the skeleton of a gigantic human b'
ing. DR.. Samuels pronounced theI
the bones of a man who must hav
been nearly II feet in height.
Three thousand i've hundred actors
stranded in strange lands by the di
banding of 1856 companies on the roaC
have, for two months, been wanderin
their devious ways back to New Yorl
Many of these are able to tell offhan
how many crossties there are to
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