The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-10-21
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
A Complete Review Of the Events for
the Past Week in This and For
.Iwn La nds-Sum married. From the
Latest Dispat tches.

1t is stated that John d. Rockefeller
the Standard Oil magnate, is about to in.
crease his mining business to a large ex-
tent on Texada island.
A big fire did considerable damage in
KnightstOwn, Ind. One fireman was killed
by falling walls. Several Others are miss
ing. The loss will be 100000.
The newspaper Patria at Manila has
been suppressed, and its editor, Senor
Utor, Spaniard, placed under arrest Oh
the charge OF printing and publishing Sc
ditious documents.
Major Frank X. Upham, treasurer, act
ing quartermaster and commissary OF the
soldiers home at Santa Monica, Cal, in
slantly killed himself by accident.
Ten pounds of giant powder exploded 1t
the 3OO-foOt level of the Rabbits Foot
mine near Eureka, Utah, where the men
were at work, killing James Redford and
Oscar Slett. The other men were brought
to the surface alive, but almost suffocated
by gas. Paul Berk, miner at the Grand
Central, was killed by shot going oif
While he was still in the Wine.
Dan Creedon of Australia knocked out
Pat Ready of Washington in New York
in the eighth round of what was to have
been 25-round bout at l5S pounds.
Admiral Sampson, in the speech made
at AIorgantown during the reception to
Captain Chadwick, created a sensation and
contributed a most interesting chapter to
the unwritten history Of the Santiago
campaign.
State President j. NJ. Hunter arrived at
Spring Valley, Ills, on the call OF the ex-
ecutive committee OF that district, and
called strike of 1000 miners employed
by the Spring Valley Coal Company. The
men all struck, and the supply of Goa!
from this point will drop 5000 tons. The
difficulty which brought on the strike is
alleged to have been the refusal of General
Manager Dalzell to stop union dues at the
company's office.
The sale of the Sutro street electric road
in San Francisco was formally ~consum-
mated, after some spirited bidding in
Judge Coffey's court, the purchaser being
the Sutro Street Railway Company, and
the price to be paid $2l5,OOO.
DIR. Klapper, editor of the Deutsch
Agrar Correspondent of Berlin, has been
sentenced to Imprisonment in fortress
for six months on account of lese ma
jeste for criticising Emperor William.
Governor Frank Steunenberg OF Idaho
has protested against the proposed re-
moval OF federal troops from the Occur
d'Alene district.
A large number Of men have handed in
their names to Captain p. Mel. Form oi
the Rossland, B. G., rifle company, as vol
unteers for the Canadian regiment nov
being formed for service in South Africa
The American bark wilma, Captain
John Slater, caught fire at Tacoma dock
and will be total loss. She was loadin!
at the St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Com
pany's mill for Australia, and had 4OO,OO'
feet of lumber below her decks at the TIM
of the fire. This, with the vessel, whic
was uninsured, will make the total los
$4,000.
Joseph Henitzi, the alleged mine salte,
is lodged in the coanty Jail at Olympus
WASH, awaiting his friends to put u
$1,000 bail before he can be set at liberty