The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-25
The American Ship Building Company
has been incorporated with a capital
stock of &3O 600 600

The American Ship Building Company
has been incorporated with a. capital
stock Of $3O,O00,O00.
Judge Clark in the United States cir.
cult court has filed decision diminishing
a bill of Secretary of War r. A. Alger
against the heirs Of John +. Anderson.
Parliament opened last week with the
customary ceremony. The attendance at
the opening ceremonies was larger than
for many years.
The Canadian government officials have
seized the Beaver Line steamer Lake On
tario, now under charter by the Atlantic
Steamship Company, upon the claim that
the steamer was landing dry goods be-
longing to Denver, Col, woman on
| which the duty had not been paid.
General Russell A. Alger was in Mon
William Van Horne, president Of the
! Canadian Pacific railroad.
Prince Henry Of Prussia has started for
Kio Chou bay, where all the war vessels
comprising the two German squadrons in
far eastern waters will assemble for the
formal transfer OF the commandership
from Admiral Won Diedrichs to Prince
Henry.
Admiral Sampson reported by cable
from Puerto Cortez, Honduras, that he
has sailed with the flagship New York
.and the Brooklyn for Caimanera.
deputy sheriff of Columbia, Texas,
engaged in an alteration with man
named Scott when Scott remarked that
if he had a gun he would fight. Ex-
Sheriff Reese offered him revolver and
the shooting began. Reese was killed at
the first fire. Charles Boehme, bystand-
er, was also killed, and a small boy nam
ed Williams is badly injured. The trou-
BILE has been expected for some time.
Extensive changes in the relations be-
tween the United States and japan will
be brought about on July 18th, when the
new treaty between the two nations goes
into effect.
George Green and Mysterious Billy"
Smith have been matched to box 20
rounds in San Francisco some time next
month.
News has been received that scurvy is
raging among the prospectors on Copper
river, Alaska.
The decision Of Department Command
er Harris of Vermont to hold the next
state encampment of the G. A. R. in
Montreal in June will mark an epoch in
the history OF the order.
News has been received that the trou.
BILE at Lake City, Colo, is at an end. The
Italians surrendered as soon as the troops
appeared.
Governor Rogers Of Washington has
/, received word from the war department
d that the bodies of soldiers who died al
Manila will be brought home, but those
, recently inferred may have to be left un
!, til next winter.
Captain Norman, reputed to be several
. times millionaire, has given $4,000 tt
! the Seventh Day Adventist conference
now in session at Battle Creek, Mich.
, Notice has been issued to the 5000 EN-
ployees of the Pencoyd Iron Works thai
an advance in wages will be made or
March 18th.
After a careful investigation, Majol
. General Leonard Wood, military govern
n or of Santiago, is convinced that th'
h skeleton found few days ago in an arm
chair on the shore, four miles west of K
Morro, is the remains Of the Spanish ad
0 miral, Villamil.
/. The battleship Iowa has been ordered
n to the Union Iron Works to have nev
O tubes put in her boilers and condensers
Peace and quiet prevails in Hot Spring
1 Ark, although the details Of the blood,
!. street riot, in which five we'll known cit
n liens were killed, are eagerly discusses
on the streets.
!. The president has appointed Hugh r
/. Belknap of Chicago, Brandon d. Slaugh
il ter of Nebraska, and Captain Charlie
d Newbold of the District of Columbia t
be additional paymasters in the army.
'. A floating island between one and tw
!. acres in extent and from four to five fee
II thick, has gone down the Illinois river.
70 The legislature Of California adjoune
sine die without United States senate
h to succeed Stephen M. White havin
It been elected.
Over SO vessels are now fitting out a
"a San Francisco for the salmon cannin
v trade and the shipping of crews and er
!. gineers, officers and men will soon
begun.
a. Admiral Kautoz has cabled the seer
At tary of the navy that he has arranged fc
n. meeting Of the three consuls, those {
the United States, Great Britain and Ge
ID many, at an early day to discuss Samoa
III affairs. The cable dispatch is dated
t. week ago.
i. DIR. NJ. E. Streiby, for 81 years secretar
of the American Home Missionary ASS
4 citation, is dead. He was for long tin
a editor of the American Missionary Mag
k. zine.
ia The formation of biscuit and cracl
If er combine to control the industry we
it of the Rocky mountains. is announced.
ic Jacob NJ. Woodring, blacksmith I
Mount Vernon, is in jail at Seattle char
v. ed with running an illicit distillery.
81.
no Cleveland Hotel Fire.
Cleveland, O., March 20.-The Brool
on iawn hotel WAS partially DESTROYED b