The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-07-01
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY.
cULLED FROM DISPATCHER OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
4 Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, POLITICAL and Personal
Events TerseIy Told

en- chairman OF the republican national
committee.
1t is announced that the republican
campaign would be formally opened
on August l.
Glass day, the greatest festival of
the year at Harvard university, was
observed Friday.
A congress of Indian educators was
held at the st. Louis exposition from
June 27 to July 1.
A strike of the New York carriage
and wagon workers union, for a new
wage scale, has been declared off.
H. e. Huntington has rendered his
resignation as vice president of the
Southern Pacific railroad company.
The Canadian transcontinental rail
road bill has been read a third time
in the senate and passed by vote of
26 to IS.
congressman from Kentucky, is dead.
He was known everywhere as "Qui-
nine Jim"
Lord Brilliant, the famous show
horse owned by w. T. White of Cleve-
land, Ohio, has been purchased by
John Gerken of New York.
Commander A. G. Kellogg fell from
fourth story window in the Monroe
hotel in Portsmouth to the sidewalk,
sustaining injuries from which he died.
Marcus Graham of Providence, R. l.,
has plead gully to printing and pass
ing counterfei4bills,a and was sentenc-
ed to 10 years hard labor at Atlanta,
Ga.
Secretary Francis of the transmits
sissippi commercial congress has is
sued the call for the annual conven-
ton to be held in st. Louis September
1917
The American Federation of Labor
has taken up the fight of the Western
Federation of Miners in Colorado and
will give it financial and moral sup
port.
The striking Indian salmon fisher
men remain firm in their refusal to
fish in the Skeena this season unless
the Gamers grant them 10 cents per
fish on lays instead of cents.
Seth Elds, at one time the union
reform candidate for president, and
master of the national and Ohio gran
ges, fell from a cherry tree on his
farm at Waynesville, Ohio, and died.
A fearful disaster marked the con-
test among sailing cutters from the
German warships in the regatta. A
sudden gale sprung up and capsized
over 100 of the cOntesting craft. 1t is
believed that five of the crews were
drowned.
Judge Winchester, of Ottawa, Ont,
under the provision of the alien act
has recommended the deportation OF
certain employees engaged on the sur
veys of the Grand Trunk Pacific. These
persons are now returning to the Unit
ed States.
Secretary Taft has issued an order
making the terms of the Dingley act
as to tariff rates applicable to the
canal strip on the Isthmus of Panama
He also issued an order providing fOi
the establishment of postal Offices or
the canal strip.
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and a dozen more or less seriously in
jured in a collision between a Lima
city streetcar and a Western Ohio
special The dead: Lorena NichOl:
, Kipling, or Kippens, of Spokane
Wash, aged eight years.
Fearful of the results of an opera
, ton for appendicitis, Rev. Charles
. Montgomery Hodge, aged II years, ;
native of Arkansas and the Episcopa
, minister in charge of King City ant
J Jolon districts, Cal, committed sui
eide by blowing out his brains.
The swift. sure current of public
opinion for the second time in the his
tory of republican conventions resulte'
in the selection of a national tickle
without a dissenting vote. Theodor
Roosevelt for president and Charlie
r w. Fairbanks for vice president receiV
d ed every vote in the convention.
t William Miles, who confessed tina
l. he killed John Edwards in Montan
: nearly 20 years ago, has been releas
l. ed by the Kansas City police and ha
l. disappeared. He said that the HON
+ eide was justifable and that he woul
o be acquitted on trial. He will make n
further effort to be tried, however.
Charles Swayze, employed by lif
d insurance company and formerly a
q sistant superintendent of the Detro
IL house of correction, recently shot Mis-
- Efie Alvord twice while the coupl
were In a private office in the con
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