The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-22
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.


cerned over the packing house strike.
Joseph Travish Walsh, formerly
supreme court judge of South Caro-
lima. is dead.
The Chicago Daily News dispatch
boat Fawan has been seized by the
Russians and towed into Port Arthur.
Fire has partially destroyed the
plant of the Forest City Bedstead COM
pany at Cleveland, Ohio. Loss, $780,
600.
The first payment of $500, 900 on the
government loan of $4,6OO,0OO to the
Louisiana Purchase Exposition COM
pany has been paid.
At Buffalo, N. T., Edgar T. Wash
burne shot and killed his wife and Is
year old daughter and then committed
suicide. He was insane.
1t is reported from Cronstadt that a
French ship has left there for Port
Arthur with submarine boat and four
siege guns on board.
James Ward, a negro fisherman, and
his partner, name unknown, were lost
in the gale in the gulf of Georgia, off
the mouth of the Fraser river, B. c.
At Chicago the Baltimore & Ohio
grain elevator, South Chicago, was
burned. A quantity of grain was in
the building and the loss is put at
100000.
Orders have been issued for the
Asiatic fleet to conduct it's target prac-
tice in September in Manila bay in
stead of Chefoo, as hitherto has been
the custom.
Edward d. Bangs, superintendent Of
the Chicago lines for the Western
Union Telegraph company, who is sup
posed to have been beaten by thugs,
is dead
M. Pichard, commissioner general
of the late Paris exposition, has been
appointed to replace M. LeGrave, as
commissioner of France at the st.
Louis exposition
John A. Rossiter, who since he came
to this country in 1876 as an Irish
politician refugee, has been prominent
in Irish and Catholic society, is dead
at his home in Newark, n. ].
A large freight shed and it's con-
tents. 10 freight cars and three tugs,
were burned in the Duluth, Mimi, har-
Dor, causing a loss of 100000. Geo.
Smith, a. cook, was drowned.
Carlos Americe Loa, minister of
Mexico in Japan, has been appointed
minister to Pekin, but will continue &C
credited to Japan. and Maurice Will
helm will be charge d'affaires in China
An American student named Nor
ward Shapleigh of West Lebanan, Me-,
a nephew of American Ambassador
Porter. committed suicide at Paris. lie
was respondent because of i'll health.
Glenwood Springs, Col, July 16.-
The body of the Rio Grande train rob-
Der, who committed suicide after be-
ing wounded by one of the posse
which was pursuing him, was Harvey
Logan.
The academy of Science at Paris
has awarded a prize of 81 900 to Pro
fessor Alfred Norinex of the Univer-
sity of Louvain for the best critical
review of the judicial system of the
United States.
d. c. Boyd and Robert O'Neill were
drowned recently in a slough in the
railroad yards in st. Louis. The men
were night telegraph operators and
were taking a midnight swim when
they lost their lives.
Although Chairman George B. Cor
telyou of the national republican com
mittee will spend the greater part OF
his time at the headquarters in New
York, the campaign will be conducted
largely from Chicago.
So many thefts of boats and nets OF
the Fraser river are reported that the
provincial police have established {
patrol on the river and gulf during the
salmon season. A fast steam tug will
patrol the fishing waters.
Three soldiers imprisoned on Cover
nors Island, N. Y, for desertion, hav
tried to escape in a rowboat. One o
them, Private Bostwick, was shot b.
a sentry. The bullet passed through
his jaw, and he will probably die.
General Funston, in an interview
says the troops of the national guar
of Oregon. Idaho and Washington
have acquitted themselves creditabl
in the maneuvers, and in theft eff
cheney have surprised every officer O
the army, including General MacAI
thur.
At a recent meeting of the priv
council in London, at which King Ed
ward presided, the request of the rels
tives of the late Mr. Kruger, forme