The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-02-05
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-Nstional,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

The Omaha Mckinley club cele-
brated the birth of William Mckinley
with banquet.
Mrs. Roosevelt gave another music
ale at the White House recently, to
which very large company was in
vited.
Otto Seiloff of Chicago, was given
the decision over Jerry Mccarthy of
Salt Lake recently at the end of 90
slow rounds.
Charles J. Ellis, Of San Francisco,
a real e. tate agent committed suicide
recently by shooting himself through
the head at his residence The only
reason assigned is insanity
Exhausted at the end of the 18th
round recently kid" Broad of Cleve-
land, abandoned his contest with Ed
die Hanlon of San Francisco, and the
referee awarded the fight to the Cali
fornian.
Ex-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis has
been released from the state peniten-
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cision of the supreme court which
quashed the indictment under which
he was tried, convicted and sentenced.
Kansas is the storm center for q
freight rate on grain and in the next
fortnight it is likely that the state
will be pretty thoroughly drained of
the $1,000, 900 bushels of wheat which
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The report of the commissioner of
patents for the calendar year 1908
showed that the business transacted
exceeded all previous records. The
total cash receipts of the Office were
$1,616, 697, leaving a surplus of $685.
900. There were 30, 213 patents applied
for and 81, 699 issued.
Fire at Progreso, the chief port
of Yucatan, recently destroyed an
entire square of business houses and
public buildings, including the market
The loss is 100000. The rail
way offices were consumed. The
public buildings were not insured anc
the loss on them is $500, 900.
Negotiations for the fotation Of
the proposed $35, 900, 900 Cuban LOAF
have come to temporary halt. Th'
banking interests declare that tn,
Russo-J Japanese" situation makes sucl
transaction inadvisable at this time
because it would tie up a large sun
of money which might be useC
elsewhere to better advantage.
News has reached Panama from
Bogota that, as Generals Reyes ant
. Cavallero have assured Columbi
: that the United States will only oh
ject to her landing forces in the cana
zone, the Columbian government il
tends to organize and send an expedi
ton against Panama.
{ Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy Kramer
on trial a second time for the murde
= in January, 1901, of her husband
S Phillip II. Kennedy, was found no
= guilty by jury at Kansas City. A
/ her first trail she was convicted an
S sentenced to 10 years in the peniter
tiary. The conviction was reveres
!. ON a technicality.
By his will, Captain Daniel @. Par
? who died recently, aged ~ years
leaves Immediately $500, 900 in person
al property and after the death of h
( last grand child, $3.50, 900 in realty
or his entire estate, toward tn
. establishment and maintenance {
j PARIS Rest" refuge for old an
Il infirm woman at Louisville, KY.
Canton, Ohio, observed Mckinley
> birthday in an appropriate name
Lieutenant General Chaffee, as Chi
of staff, has made report to the seer
tary of war, which will be transmittC
In to congress-, urging an appropriate
of 50 ,OOO, 900 for the purchase of fol
l. tracts of ground, one each in the fol
~ quarters of the United States, Fl
m military maneuvers.
t. The Chefoo correspondent Of Il
IL London Daily Mail says a foreign
so who has arrived there reports tn
t. the Russian steamship Arugun, up'
III which he was a passenger from Nag
" saki to Port Danley, was fired at
r. a japanese warship outside of Cher
Il. ulpo harbor. Three shots were fir
Il across the Arugun's bows, but
a further attempt was made to stop h'
CT was made.