The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-06-24
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
CuLLED FROM DISPATCHER OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Nationai,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told

President and Mrs. Roosevelt were
the guests Saturday night of Attorney
General and Mrs. Knox at their Valley
Forge farm.
The dropping of a match into a can
of oil in a hardware store at Altura,
Inn, has resulted in practically wip-
ing out that village.
Oregon, Washington and Idaho will
produce 100000 bushels of wheat this
year, according to r. M. Hall of the
o. r. e N. company.
The American battleship squadron,
commanded by Rear Admiral Barker,
has sailed from Lisbon on a visit to
the ports of Greece and Austria.
Honolulu.-Levi p. Kauhee, post
master at Kappa, KAUAI, has been re-
moved from the Office by Inspector
Hare. The shortage in the office is al
legged to be 81 800.
Edmund Morewood Ferguson, for
many years prominent in the financial
and business affairs of Pittsburg, and
who was reputed to be worth $25000,-
O0O died recently, aged 20 years.
The steamer hatsuno was sunk off
MOji as a result of colliding with the
steamer Yamatokan Both vessels
were on their way to rescue the sur
vivors of the transports Hitachi and
Sado
William e. Harmon, city marshal
of Pitllin, Col. and deputy sheriff of
Gunnison county, has been shot and
he was called to arrest for threatening
mis- wife. Sullivan escaped.
BY unanimous vote the republican
national committee decided to seat
the delegates at large from Wisconsin
who are members of the "stalwart" fac
ton, headed by Senator John G. spoon
er and Joseph V. Quarles, and opposed
to the republicans led by Governor La
Toilette.
Chicago. - Justice E. c. Ham
burger, for many years magis-
trate on the North Side, is dead of
heart disease. Justice Hamburger was
a naval officer in the civil war. He
served on the sloop Constellation from
1856 to the close of the war, being re-
tired as lieutenant.
News has reached Ashland, Ore, of
a tragedy at Picard, in Butte Greek
valley, California, east of Ashland, in
which George Potter was shot and in
stantly killed, and his companion, a
man named Mckay, was seriously in
jured by a man named Snyder, at a
cabin near the Picard postoffice.
Two men, whom the authorities be
lieve to be the notorious Gates broth
ers, George and Edwin, of Alameda
who on March 81 blew up and robbed
an express car and killed Messenger
William O'Neil at Copley, Cal, are in
Jail at Elko, New, having been arrest
ed on the charge of horse stealing.
Santiago de Cuba.-The recent fall
of IA inches of rain in five hours. &C
companying a hurricane, has resulted
in the death of more than 100 persons
The most severe loss was at the vii
lage of Ell Cobre, where some 60 per
sons were drowned. The river rose
rapidly, destroying the lower part o
the village.
Rear Admiral Terry has received
letter from Secretary of the Nav.
Moody, stating thot work is unde
way in the preparation of the estar
lishment of a naval station of consio
cradle proportions at Pearl Harbor |
is believed that the station at Homo
lulu will eventually be removed t
Pearl Harbor.
Ellen Beach Yaw, the singer. VIII
came to Mason City, Iowa, to sing il
a concert. discovered on her arriva
that her jewel case was gone, wit
diamonds. necklaces, rings and gift
worth $4,000 missing. She came di
rect from California There was
wreck at Cathay, n. D.. and it is be
lieved her trunk was broken ope
there.
Notwithstanding Of SmanWeed,