The Coeur d'Alene press. (Coeur d'Alene, Idaho) 1892-1907, 1904-11-26
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES
cuLLgD FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS,
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemlsphsres
During the Past Week-Natlonal
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerssIy Told.

II. Of Riverton, N. j., was killed Sat
urday in a football game.
II is officially announced that Italy
has agreed to take part in the new
peace conference at The Hague
Carl Buenz. the German consul gen.
eral at New York port, is dangerously
III from relapse Of pneumonia.
A great storm ragged Saturday night
along the Pacific coast from British
Columbia to the California line.
San Diego, Cal.-Rev. r. B. Taylor,
pastor Of First Presbyterian church,
was drowned in the bay Saturday.
The naval estimates for the fiscal
year ending June 80. 1906. aggregate
$114.53O,67S, an increase OF S1T,3T2.-
44S over the last appropriation.
Six thousand garment workers be-
longing to the special order of the gar
ment workers union struck in 20 fac
tories of Chicago, following q walkout
of 450 cutters.
1t is asserted in officlal circles that
the reports which have reached the
United States OF great distress in
Macedonia from cold and hunger are
without foundation.
While sorting mail in the pOstoffice
at New York city, clerk came across
a new 81 bill, stamped and addressed
to Miss Althea Briggs of Kingston,
N. Y. Miss Briggs now has the bill
At least ~ lives were lost in a fire
in a Brooklyn tenement house Satur-
day 1t is believed that the death list
will equal Is. Twelve persons were
injured. none, it is believed. fatally.
Twenty-Five gas tanks in the big rail
road gas charging station at Seventy
third street and South Chicago explod-
ed recently. Five employees were kill
ed and a score injured, two seriously.
Victoria, B. C.-The barkentine Max
aweh, Captain Nelson. lumber laden
from Tacoma to Mazatlan, Mexico. mas
foundered on the west coast Of Van
cOuver island, at Clayoquot. all hands
perishing.
Through the arrest of George Mack,
Anna Held's chauffeur, the mystery
surrounding the finding of Jacob Glenn
ons, an aged farmer, in ditch on the
Pelham Parkway, in New York city.
was cleared.
The fourth annual meeting Of the
executive committee of the National
Civic Federation, at which a president
to succeed the late President Hanna
will be elected, will be held in New
York city on December Is.
At Lafayette, Ind, the Foster Furni-
ture store was completely destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, 500 900. Ben
jamin OConnor a fireman. was fatally
injured by fall, and IL other iremen
were overcome by smoke.
A beam mill with a monthly capac-
ity OF 10000 to $4,000 tons Of finished
structural shapes is to be added to the
Chicago plant Of the Illinois Steel com
pany, at a cost of 1900 900. II is
said 500 persons will be employed.
pumpkin pie FIVE feet long and
three feet wide was presented 70 Sen
ator Plat by republican friends in
Waverly, N Y. The pie weighs 200
pounds and is to be at the buckwheat
breakfast which Senator Plat Is to
give
Rio Janeiro.--A battalion of infantry
stationed at Bahia mutinied recently,
at the instigation OF a sub-lieutenant
according to a telegram received here
The commander tried to address the
men. but was shot dead by the ring
leader with a revolver.
President Roosevelt has ordered the
department of commerce and labor to
thoroughly investigate the petroleum
industry of the United States. The OBJ
ject Is to ascertain whether the Stan
daFd Oil company is an Illegal combi
nation in restraint Of trade.
All the pupils in "a" grade Of the
Norwood high school in Cincinnati, o.
consisting Of Is sons and daughters oI
the most prominent families In tht
suburb, were indefinitely suspended be
cause they took down the American
flag from the school Flagstaff and sub
stituted the class colors.
Toronto, Ont.-A street car, with q
trailer attached, got beyond contro
recently and crashed through thC
guard gates at the Queen street cross
ing Of the Grand Trunk railway.
freight train struck the forward car
grinding 1t to splinters. Every pas
senger on the street cars was injured
two dying soon after being taken from
the werckage and two at the hospital
It appears that the japanese war eX
penditures for the year beginning las
April and ending next March viii
amount to $4,000, 600; and as tn,
governments estimate Of the war ez
penditure for the fiscal year Is $3.50.
100000, we shall have-my own est
mate being correct-a surplus OF 81
00,O0O.-BarOn Kentaro Kaneko, Il
the Review Of Reviews.
Columbus Private Papers.