The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-02-26
NEWS ITEMS.


$3.50 in cash have been stolen from
the hotel apartments of Postmaster
General Payne at Washington.
The federal assembly, by vote of
60 to Is. demanded that Porto Rico
be admitted to statehood or that the
island be granted independence.
An explosion at the Latin & Rand
podwer mills at Wayne, seven miles
from Paterson, N. j., caused the death
Of three men. The mills were wreck
ed.
The investigation of the right of
Senator Smoot to sit in the United
States senate promises to be the in
teresting sideshow of congress this
session.
A Pennsylvania passenger train
was wrecked at Hobart, Ind, in a
headend collision with freight train.
Charles Strayer, baggageman, was
killed.
General Jesse M. Lee is to succeed
General Fred Grant in Texas. Cen
eral Lee was under General Chaffee
with the allied troops on their march
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1t was thought not a life was lost
in the fire at Baltimore, but a charred
body has been found in the water at
Bowlers wharf. The body is so bad
ly burned as to be unacceptable.
Samuel c. Hazard, alias Hargreave,
the West Pointer and former army Of
hcer, convicted of bigamy at Mime
! hoc cnnfnnpnd
two years in the state penitentiary.
The French ambassador, M. Cam
bon, has left London for a week end
visit to Paris, as he frequently does.
The German ambassador, Count Won
Metternich, is also absent on week
end visit.
Corporal Aylara, ringleader among
the constabulary, who recently revolt
ed at Luzon, has been captured. He
has since been tried, convicted and
sentenced by the court at Vigan to be
hanged
Another battle has occurred between
the insurgent Albanfans in north AL
bania and the Turkish troops. The AL
banians were beaten, losing 500 men
killed or wounded. The Turks also
lost heavily.
Fourteen employees of a celluloid
comb factory at the Boulevard Sebas-
; topol and the Rue Etienne Mariel,
Paris. lost their lives recently in a
fire, which started by an explosion of
, gas Twenty others were injured.
Wheat for May delivery at Chicago
sold at $1.O7 bushel last Saturday.
The market was extremely active, and
? the volume Of trading was of enor-
2 nous proportions. The phenomenal
l rise in wheat is regarded as showing
D that international complications may
D be pending.
+ The house committee on postoffices
and poastroads today completed the
u postofice appropriation bill, which car
= ries S169,997.5SS. The total appro
I priation for rural free delivery service
l. is S21, 100000. The salaries of rura
{ free delivery carriers are increased
, from 5000 to $72O.
Racine, Wis.-AI that remains o.
the Racine county insane asylum i:
smoldering ruins, the loss aggregat
y ing $4,000. All of the 1873 patients
- escaped, though rescue in many case.
was accomplished with difficulty, al
some of the inmates fought their res
cuers and tried to plunge back int
lie the burning building.
u blazing Larimer avenue electric
n car, with all brakes off and with Q
C. passengers aboard raced down Fiftl
'e avenue from Grant almost to Marke
D. street, Pittsburg. For Is minutes al
Fl ter the car came to a stop it blaze'
like a furnace. Four OF the passe1
gers were seriously hurt and Doroth
s. Greenup, who was internally injured
n may die.
IN A Brooklyn milk dealer has secure
It a verdict Of $4,000 against the cit
ne after undergoing a remarkable test be-
lg fore the jury. Hot irons were apple
RI to one arm and a leg and the flesh wa
IT, pierced with surgical instruments t
he prove that the plaintiff had suffere
ve injury as claimed The milkman,
Id driving through the street. fell into a
ST excavation which had been open SCI
IN eral WEEKS.
IN Postmaster General Payne has r
X ceiyed the resignation of Perry
IN Heath as secretary Of the repubica
he national committee, and announce
as that he would accept it, The dutie
n Of secretary will devolve on Elm6
he Dover, the assistant secretary of tn
he committee, until the full committe
on meets few days before the nations