The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-07-01
the Roman Catholic clergyman of the
Occur d'Alenes.

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a narrow valley by the Tagals. a friend
ly body of tribesmen. The latter state
that they have killed 500 of the Khali.
fa's followers during the recent battle.
The large six-story building on the
corner Of Pearl and Purchase streets,
Boston, was swept almost clean by fire,
the owners and numerous occupants,
mostly small publishing concerns. sus-
tanning loss Of nearly $180.000.
When the body of Miss Belle Slavin
was found recently in the National
Bank Of Commerce in Wichita, Kansas.
death having resulted from bullet
wound in the head, it was supposed she
had committed suicide. Later devel.
, opments seem to indicate that the
young woman was murdered.
President-elect Arthur Twining Had.
ley delivered his first speech since he
was made the official head Of Yale be-
fore the graduating class Of the Hill
House high school of New Haven,
Conn. and made profound impression.
Professor Hadley attacked the trusts,
praised the navy and criticised the
army.
The first trial trip of the new Ameri.
can cup defender Columbia which took
place in Narragansett bay, was more
successful than either her builders or
| her owners had reason to hope. Not
only did the new boat show herself to
be seaworthy in every particular, but
she met the old racer Defender in q
friendly brush of mile to windward
and vanquished her with the greatest
ease.
Fitzsimmons has agreed to fight Mccoy
in September.
Sir Thomas Lipton's cup challenger
Shamrock has been launched at Millwall
w. H. Mcdonald, business manager of
the Evening Telegram, Portland, Or, is
dead.
Charlie McKeever defeated Owen Zieg-
Ter in the seventh round in New York
Monday.
A. X. Hill, an old resident of Vancotl-
yer, B. c., was run over and killed by
street car.
One troop of the Sixth cavalry at Fort
Riley, Kan, is ordered to Boise Barracks
Idaho, and another troop of the same regi-
ment from Fort Riley to Fort Walla
Walla, Wash.
In Toledo, o., the freight house Of the
Michigan Central was destroyed by fire
by Monday.
The owners of the new cup defender.
Columbia, have accepted it without fur
: ther builders trial.
President Mckinley laid the corner
stone of the new mill of the Berkshire Cot
, ton Company, in Adams, Mass.
John Daughters, bricklayer at Walla
: Walla, WASH, was mortally wounded
Monday by brick falling on his head.
The four-oared race over the two-mile
course today was won by Pennsylvania.
Time, ll:l2 Cornell was second. Time.
ll:l4 3-5.
Edith, the 5year-old daughter of Mr..
. and Mrs. F. F. Loehr of Walla Walla,
r Wash, was run over by a wagon and
+ killed Monday.
Two cases of yellow fever and fonr
8 deaths from the disease were officially re-
r ported Monday, making total of 35 cases
:, and II deaths.
: The freshmen eight-oared race between
Pennsylvania, Columbia and Cornell owe,
}, the two-mile course was won by Cornell
p Time, 9:55. Columbia was second, one
d and one-quarter boat lengths behind Cor
4 nell. Time, 1000. Pennsylvania finished
third, three and quarter lengths behint
It Columbia. Time 1910.
l. A peculiarly ld-blooded, bold, and al
n ..,oo +;,,o ,,,vc&o,.;ouo vnurdor
b Cured in Seattle Monday. The victim wa'
Thomas Murray, commonly called "Red'
70 Murray. While. He was sitting in {
d chair in saloon, an unknown man quiet
l. ly walked up to him and, bending his heat
If backward, cut his head off with razor
An earthquake of severity was felt Wed
A. nesday at Pisa and Florence, Italy.
'e The Japanese battleship Hatsuse ha
Is been launched at New Castle, England.
n- William Goebel has been nominated TO
governor of Kentucky by the democrats.
'r Tuesday duel occurred in Galveston
30 Tex. James johnson and William Boy
III were the duelists.
le In a recent storm along the Japanes
coast so vessels were wrecked and mum
y ber of lives were lost.
kt Captain A. d. Ingraham and crew Of tn
le steamer Pawnee, which was burned, hav
& landed in North Carolina.
According to the Portland weather b.
y reau, all danger of flood in the Columbi
~ and Willamette rivers is passed.
~ w. p. Herman, supervisor Of the Gran
10 Canyon forest reserve in Arizona, was II
tally burned by the explosion of lamp.
u -Four negroes are dead in Birmingham
W. Ala. as a result of riot between IL
y. =. white and negro miners at the ore min'
:. near Cardiff.
:. - The Washington State Board OF Contr
- ~ has removed Superintendent Lockhart
-. Medical Lake asylum. DIR. j. d. MacLea
was elected his successor.
m na Amidst the pomp of military and civ
~ attendance, and the reverent homage
4,o thousands of people in whose cause he ga
w up his life, the funeral of Ensign Jof
:. Robert Monaghan, late of the Unit
~ States flagship Philadelphia, was held
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