The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-04-29
DO|NGS THROUGH THE week
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
the Two Hemlspherss Presented in .
Condensed Form-Culled from the Tel
elgrsph Rsports.


elgruph Reports.
Rt, Hon. Sir John Robert Mowbray
of London is dead.
The condition of Vice President Ho-
bart continues to improve.
War is on between the ship owners
association and the seamen's union in
San Francisco.
The navy department has authorized
the first payment to be made on the
battleship Maine.
President Rafael Iglesia, Of Costa
Rica, has arrived at New York on his
return from Europe.
A new first class theater to cost,
with the land, 100000, Is to be erected
in San Francisco.
w, B. Storts, wanted in Saline coun-
ty. Missouri. for embezzlement. has
been arrested in Los Angeles, Cal.
Coast survey steamer Patterson Is
being fitted out for survey work at the
mouth Of the Yukon and in Bering
sea.
D. G. Corbin has withdrawn his ap-
plication pending before the Canadian
dominion parliament for the Kettle
Valley railway charter.
The steamship Glenogle Of the North
American Mail Steamship Company's
Tacoma Oriental line crashed into the
big steamer City Of Kingston about 4
o'clock Sunday at Tacoma of Browns
Point, cutting the City of Kingston in
two Just abaft of the boilers. The IL
passengers and the Kingston's crew Of
10 were saved through the prompt &C
ton of officers of the Glenogle and
Kingston and ships lying in the harbor
which lowered boats and assisted the
people on the Kingston to reach the
Glenogle. The Kingston Is total loss
and the Glenogle is damaged.
Internal revenue officers have seized
in Denver 100000 cigars bearing coun-
terfeit revenue stamps.
The large tannery and yards of the
United States Leather Company at Lin.
coin, Maine, have been destroyed by
fire. The loss was $150,000.
The Army and Navy League Of Chi
cago will close its affairs and disband
on May /. This action was decided on
at a meeting of the executive commit.
tee yesterday.
Katie Dibble Baker, aged IA; Mamie
Braddick, aged 15, and Della Taylor
aged z, inmates of an orphan home at
Berne, Adams county, Ind, were burn
ed to death.
Four spurious S. gold pieces were
passed on q San Francisco barkeepel
last week. John Keogh, recent arrival
from Puget Sound, an associate OF the
man who passed the money, is under
arrest.
Simon Hotonia, a Cherokee Indian
confessed to the murder of a man and
two women at Cold Springs, I. T., las
week. Sickness among the Indians
was ascribed to these supposed witches
So he killed them.
Mrs. Catherine A. Gilbert, police ma
tron at Four Courts, st. Louis, Is deat
from an overdose of morphine, taker
to relieve pain from recently vaccin
ated arm.
Sergeant Major Albrecht Of the On
Hundred and Twenty-ninth regiment
who was arrested at Bromberg, Prus
sia, and was being taken In chains t.
Spandau, nine miles from Berlin
where the state prison is situated, ha
escaped from his guards and has no
yet been recaptured.
kid" Lavelle, Of Chester, Penn, !
believed to be dying at his home fron
the effects Of knockout blow deliver
ed by John Cavanaugh during q priz
fight last week.
The Third Georgia regiment ha
been mustered out at Camp Mckenzie
The First North Carolina regimen
was mustered out Of the. service las
week.
Mrs. R. H. Martins, of Colfax chos
horrible but certain method OF endin
her existence. Seating herself In
chair beside the kitchen stove she pla'
ed the muzzle of a single barrel, breec
loading shotgun against the bridge
her nose and pushing back the han
mer with her foot blew her brains int
the ceiling.
Rear Admiral Melville will shortl
submit to the board of construction
proposition for fitting the proposed q
mored cruisers with triple screws, an
it is believed that the suggestion wi
be adopted promptly.
Unusual interest Is attached to tn
return of competition Of Arthur
Zimmerman. in the bicycle races, VIII
more than any other rider. possesse
the right to sign himself worlds char
pion.
The North Atlantic squadron, tt
flagship New York, the Brooklyn, tt
Indiana, the Massachusetts, and II
Texas have sailed from st. Lucia Il
st. Pierre, Martinique. The squadro
Is now working slowly northward.
Unusually elaborate preparation WI
made for the reception and entertai
ment Of the duke and duchess OF Vol
by the different Welsh towns where Il
royal pair visited this week.
Four young people were run dow
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