The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18

According to dispatch from Sydney,
N. s. W., no less than one hundred per-
sons perished in hurricane that swept
Queensland.
A six-story tenement at 4 Bayard st..
was destroyed last week in New York.
The Marysvile woolen mill, in CAL,
was almost destroyed by fire, the loss
being placed at sl5o,O0O.
A Denver l. Rio Grande engine blew
up at the crossing OF the Rio Grande and
Santa Fee tracks south of Denver last
week, injuring one fatally and two seri-
ously.
A dispatch from Allahabad, India,
says it is reported from Yarkan, Chinese
Turkestan, that large force Of Russian
troops has arrived at the Russian post
Fort Murghabi, on the Murhabi river.
| The report that the Italians have seiz-
ed San Nun, province Of Che Kiapg,
which the Italian minister, Signor Mar
tino has demanded as naval base and
coaling station, is officially declared un-
founded.
! The North German Lloyd steamer
Frederick der Crosse, Captain Diehl,
+, which arrived at Bremen on March 9th,
is aground off Schulau in the river Elbe.
Hon. j. +. Tillman, register of the
treasury, is dead.
Ex-C Congressman Edmonds is dead.
Ex-State Senator j. G. Hoar, OF WASH,
is dead.
The Chicago has been detached from
the squadron of Rear Admiral Sampson
and has sailed from Havana to Hampton
Roads, under Admiral Howison.
Thomas p. Donaldson, the diver, who
was injured in diving into tank at Mad.
ison Square Wednesday, is dead.
Mime. Schumann Heink, the famous
contralto singer is critically i'll with cry
sipelas in New York.
Mr.. Kipling is still improving. Una
bic to keep Mr.. Kipling in ignorance of
his favorite daughter Josephine's death,
the news was broken to him tonight by
DIR. Dunham. The blow was heavy
one, but the father bore up bravely.
The Daily Telegraph of London, ex.
presses its ''intense satisfaction at the un-
wonted scene of review of American
troops" at La Valetta, island of Malta,
on Thursday, by Lieutenant General Sir
Francis Grenfell, governor of Malta.
Sherman +. Day as special master has
sold under foreclosure at auction all the
lands granted the Union Pacific Railroad
Company in Wyoming.
General Manager Parker of the Chica.
go, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, has
announced that the three thousand sec.
tion hands and other employees of the
company's roadway in his department
were to be given an immediate advance
of from five to ten per cent in wages.
Lon. Edwards, of Los Angles, who shot
and killed his mining partner, Charles l.
Evans, at their cabin west of Ashland
last week, will have to answer to a charge
of murder which has been filed against
him by District Attorney Watson.
The U. S. transport, Conemaugh, has
sailed for Manila with 800 mules.
Detective Steele has arrived with vii.
liam O'Keefe who over five years age
shot two men here in saloon and after
being arrested, jumped his bond. He was
captured in Seattle. Wash.
North of England coal merchants arc
alarmed at the steady growth of the
American coal trade to European ports
that formerly took English coal
Secretary Long has directed circular
letter to the commanding officers of all
navy yards and stations, reciting the
passage by Congress of resolution pro
viding for the payment OF so per cent ad
ditional for all work in those yards and
stations in excess of eight hours per day
performed by laborers
In a conflict recently between the Span
ish soldiery and number of mutineou,
convicts at Santonia, sixteen miles east
OF Santander, the site of an important
arsenal, and of several military maga
zines, one convict was killed and severa
wounded.
Orders have been received by Captain
Robinson, of the United States Quarter
masters department, to purchase 1901
tons OF hay, oats and bran and 400,O0t
feet Of assorted lumber for direct ship
ment to Manila. The supplies will b.
carried on the ship Marion Chilcott, nov
at Seattle.
DR.. Chas. +. Muny, son of DR.. R. j
:, Murry, one OF the best known and high
, ly respected residents of Sewickley, Pa.
shot and instantly killed John Jenning
lcolored), his fathers butl er, withou
cause.
Captain Thomas w. Shields, wei
known river man and lieutenant unde
General Price, in the Confederate army
2 is dead.
+, Four men have been arrested in Chi
cago charged with demanding 5000 black
, mail from Frank H. Cooper, of Siegel
Cooper & Co.
In head-on collision between tw
}, freight trains near Bradley's Station, o.
: the Highland division of the New York
T New Haven & Hartford railroad, Eng
neer George Dean, of Hartford, was in
8 stantly killed and his fireman, Dan Ken
D nedy, Of Danbnry, died few hours later
For the Murder of Her Son.