The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-08-19

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dered by natives while prospecting on
the Silawik river. A man known az
diamond Dick and o. Austenberg. a
whaler. were killed by natives of Cane
Prince OF Wales. Kennedy also brings
news of the drowning of an English.
man named Morris and suicide of
Charles Becker Of San Francisco.
Another very satisfactory trial of the
gunboat Newport has been made.
Admiral Dewey was ill with fever at
Leghorn. He remains on board the
Olympia.
The transport Senator has sailed for
Manila with about 700 officers and re.
cruits and signal corps.
Fire at Westchester, N. Y, DESTROYED
st. Peters, Episcopal church and most Of
its contents. Loss, 100000.
The medal of the Order of St. Michael
and st. George has been conferred upon
+. B. S. Maxse, British consul at Samoa,
M. L. Hayward was stricken with apop-
iexy at Brownville, Neb., where be had
gone to deliver an address at the Modern
Woodmen picnic. He will recover.
Fred Patterson of San Francisco at.
tempted suicide in Tacoma recently on
receipt of news telling of his wife's death.
He took sulfonal, but was saved by the
doctors.
General Otis has reported the death Of
Second Lieutenant Joseph B. Morse
Ninth infantry, Of typhoid fever. Lieu.
tenant Morse was chosen from the Firs.
California heavy artillery.
1t is announced that Lily Langtry, the
actress, was recently married at the Isl
and of Jersey, to Hugo Gerald de Battle
% years of age, the eldest son Of Sir Hen
ry Percival de Battle, Bart, the retired
general and Crimean veteran.
The gross receipts Of the San Francisco
postoffice for the fiscal yea. enoed june
3v, were $l,OO2,47O, as against $92O,337
for the year 1913. 1t is the first time in
the history of the office that the million
dollar mark has been reached.
Twenty-Five wealthy farmers from the
middle states left st. Paul to buy homes
in the vicinity of Seattle and Tacoma
and party numbering 100 Hollanders
from South Dakota will 60 to these points
soon to see where they can locate.
Eight hundred cloakmakers of New
York, employed in Is shops, Joined the
ranks of the strikers, increasing the mum
ber on strike to total Of about 5000
The strikers demand better wages and .
reduction in the working hours.
The British ship Westlothian, Captain
Curtis, which arrived at Cardiff from Ia
coma via Falmouth, reported that during
a gale encountered east Of Cape Horn OF
June she lost her top gear and sails, ant
the second mate jumped overheard.
A crowd stoned Big Consolidated cal
in Cleveland. The conductor of the Cal
lay down on his seat and fired severa
shots at the crowd with a revolver. No
body was hit, but the shooting had thu
effect Of dispensing the mob in short order
Young Griffo, the once famous Aus
tralian pugilist, is dying in the Dunnins
insane asylum, where he was sent few
months ago. Physicians say he can moi
live more than two weeks, as ne has re
Gently become violently insane and suf
fered breakdown.
After one Of the most vexing pursuits
in the history Of Montana, Clinton Dot
son and Oliver Benson were captured nea
Central Park, Gallatin county. They arr
believed to be the men who robbed ant
murdered Eugene Cullinam, pioneer ant
placer miner, near his cabin in American
gulch recently.
The Milwaukee bridge has been wreck
ed by dynamite. Men hunting for th'
bodies Of M. Swanson and Carl Rylander
who were drowned recently, decided t.
use dynamite to bring them to the sur
face. One charge Of 20 sticks Of the ex
plosive was exploded in the water directl!
under the bridge, which is Of iron and 81
feet high.
Reports from Okotsk sea gives tn
catch of the whaler Charles w. Morgan
as 1860 barrels of sperm oil and 65 pound
of ambergris, and the California 900 bar
rels of sperm oil, 1850 barrels Of whale OF
and 5000 pounds of whalebone. Captain
Smith reports that on May 8 boat Wa
capsized by whale and Martin Cosgrove
native of Hartford, Conn.,, was drowned
In East Middleburg, VT, a man name'
Eastwood went to the home of his moth
er-in-law and shot his wife and her moth
er, killing both. He then drove to Mid
dleburg, went to the residence OF Franl
Fem, shot him through the heart, killing
him instantly, then shot at Fen's wifi
and lust missed her. He then went to tn
residence of his wife's brother, E. d
Brown, evidently intending to kill him
but could not find him. Eastwood es
caped.