The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1904-09-09
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES
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.

passed to the ownership to the Union
Pacific.
The Johnson-Dunar Mills company
of North Adams, Mass, has made an
assignment
A tornado recently struck Coving-
ton, Tex, injuring several persons Sc
verely. No one was killed.
Fire has destroyed the cement plant
of the Struthers Furnace company, five
miles east of Youngstown, Ohio.
Six persons were burned to death
and four terribly injured during fire
and oil explosion at Elyria, Ohio.
About 900 men are on strike in the
Coal Creek district, Tennessee, aug
menting the number Of strikers to
1850.
King Edward has approved the APP
pointment of Earl Grey as governor
general of Canada to succeed the earl
of Mimic.
Eight persons were injured and sew
eral residences badly damaged by a
tornado in the southern part of La
Crosse, Wis.
At least 30 900 Sir Knights Temp
lars, from all parts of the earth, are
attending the conclave in San Fran
cisco this week.
The archbishop of Canterbury, who
recently arrived in the United States,
comes to attend the convention of the
Episcopal church, which is to be held
in Boston in October.
President Roosevelt manifests the
deepest interest and concern in the
situation in the far east, and follows
carefully the press reports of the OPP
erations of the contending armies.
The maritime supremacy of Marseil-
les as the second city in France is
threatened with extinction. owing to
the continuance of the strike and the
tieup of the entire marine industry.
In saving a newsboy who had run in
front of his automobile, Robert E..
Fouse of Chicago, drove his machine
into a telegraph pole. His left arm
is broken and his vehicle wrecked
Memphis, Tenn.-Fire in the heart
of the wholesale district has destroyed
property valued at 100000. The fire
originated in the Oliver-Finne Gro
Gerry company from an unknown cause.
Although Napoleon never hesitated
to sacrifice his soldiers, he never. ex-
cept on one occasion, entered an en-
gagement with as many men as have
been fighting under Kuropatkin and
Oyama.
The United States South Atlantic
squadron, consisting of the cruisers
Brooklyn (fiagship) and Atlanta and
the gunboats Marietta and Castine. has
left Cape Town for the island of St
Helena
Minister ]. Barrett warns Americans
of lack of employment in Panama. He
says the boom will not be sudden and
that force of $4,000 men will even
tually be engaged. but will arrive
gradually.
M. Leroy, a Partisan clockmaker
has just achieved a triumph in watch
es He has been at work since 1897
upon a chronometer which he has jus
completed. 1t contains 975 pieces, anC
cost $4,000.
Carroll d. Wright, commissioner o
labor. says he would resign from of
fee at the end of the present year
He will devote his attention to hi
duties in connection with the pres
dency of Clark college.
A Lethbridge, N. w. T., special re
ports the killing of three painters, res
idents of Chicago who were engage
in the painting of the standpipe erect
ed in connection with the municipa
system of water works.
Arrangements have been complete
for teaching the Igorrotes, Moros an
Negritos the English language, and
school will be regularly conducted g
the Philippine reservation until tn
close of the worlds fair.
A note left by Princess Louise {
Saxe-Coburg, who escaped from he
hotel, for her maid Elga. requestin
the latter to keep her belongings car
fully, closed with the words:
81 am gone. God has heard N
prayer. Farewell"
Bobby" Walthour of Atlanta, CT
won the 100 kilometer motor pace
professional championship of Il
world from Simar of France at 10
don recently, by 4 "a lengths. TT
time was one hour SS minutes al
81 3-5 seconds.
The Indian war records have bee
transferred from the interior depal
ment to the war department. MAJ
of the veterans who served in the
wars and who have heretofore foui
IL irnnosSible to obtain q pension a