The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-06-17

Cd and 4 number Of houses burned and
several lives lost.
The man who murderously assaulted L.
q. Belden in San Fnncisco l. stiu at large.
Oliver Lee and James Gilliland were &C.
quilted Of the murder Of Henry Fountain.
the son Of Colonel A. ]. Fountain, at Hills
boro, N. NJ.
Thomas Sadler, a miner, was convicted
Of assault in the first degree on Patrick
O'Conner and the punishment fixed at Ave
years imprisonment.
Harry Fisher Of Brooklyn stood II
rounds before Joe Walcott the weller
weight champion, in Baltimore recently
and then threw up the sponge.
T. G. Shaughnessy has been elected pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific, vice VIM.
Van Horne, resigned. Van Horne becomes
adviser to the board Of directors.
Admiral Ivashintsof Of the Russian
navy has reached New York. He is on
private business and will return to Russia
via San Francisco and the Pacific.
The six-day walk in New York appears
to have suddenly collapsed. The walkers
have all left the track. 1t is understood
the affair has proved financial failure.
The factory Of the Marietta Torpedo
Company blew up, and Gal Harte, aged 40.
married, and Clyde Porter, single, aged Il,
were killed. Two horses and wagon
were blown to atoms.
The members of the Buffalo and Kan
sas City baseball teams, who were arrested
at the close Of Sundays game in Buffalo,
for violating the Sunday law, were ac-
quilted.
Tom Messor, one Of the Lee faction, was
shot down near his home in Middeboro,
KY, by unknown parties. This is the
second murder within two weeks In con-
nection with the feud between the Taylors
and Lees.
Two negroes were lynched at Dunnellon,
Fla, recently by mob of their own color.
The municipality of Havana has pre-
sented to General Maxine Gomez q GER
tificate naming him as an adopted son Of
the city.
Admiral Dewey landed at Singapore
from his flagship to pay visit to the
governor of the Straits Settlement, Sir G.
H. b. Mitchell, at the government house
He was received with military honors. On
his return to the Olympia he was visited
by the governor.
The arbitration treaty between the Ar
gentine Republic and Uruguay has been
signed.
The copper miners at Iron Mountain,
to the number Of 800 are on strike at
Redding, Gal.
Gustave Frey, gambler Of San Fran
cisco, dragged his wife into the street and
shot her dead. He then killed himself.
Pinkerton detectives, armed and in uni
form, have been ordered by the chief Of
police to keep off the streets of Portland
Admiral Dewey is DESTROYS that the
money collected for him be used for the
esta blishment Of a soldiers and sailors
home.
The Old Dominion steamship Hamilton
ran into the German steamship Macedo
mia of Long Branch and it is supposed
that the Macedonia subsequently sank.
The responsibility for the riots Of April
20 in the Occur d'Alenes and the murder
Of Smith and Cheyne has been placed by
the coroner's jury upon the miners
unions as organizations.
j. Frank Davis, chief deputy collector
Of internal revenue for the district Of Or
egon, Washington and Alaska, has beer
suspended pending the decision of the de
partment at Washington, d. G.
] Senator G. w. Fairbanks OF Indiana
Captain Terry Of the battleship Iowa ant
james j. Hill, president OF the Grea
Northern, were guests of honor at ban
quet at the Rainier Club in Seattle. Pres
ident Hill acted as toastmaster.
The turnout in Butte, Mont, on Min
ers' Union day was the largest in the his
tory Of the organization. Fully 6OO'
miners and smeltermen and other work
ingmen were in line. Edward Boyce
president of the Western Federation o
Miners, was the orator Of the day.
Samuel Simpson Of Portland, poet ant
journalist, is dead.
Douglas Martin, the l0year-old son
Louis l. Martin Of Spokane, was drowned
w euIesudy.
Talks with cabinet officers bring tn
belief almost to certainty that the pres
ident will upon his return from his east
ern trip issue call for volunteers of a
least $1,000 men.
The Masonic grand lodge at Washing
ton has passed resolutions modifying thei
action of last year in extending recogni
ton to negro lodges. The effect of tn
resolutions is to leave recognition OF ne
gro Masons with each subordinate lodgt
Wilbur Boyce Of Butte, Mont, commit
ted suicide by taking an overdose of MOI
phine. He was a sergeant Of Rough Rid
ers in Captain Stivers' troop, Grigsby
command, and a son Of James r. Boyc'
formerly prominent merchant OF tina
city.
A cloudburst occurred in the mountain
north Of Spofford junction, Texas TIL
immens volume of water rushed down tn
mountain, side sweeping everything b.
fore it and converting dry arroyas an
small creeks and rivers into raging tol
rents and completely flooding the vale
and level country below. At the shee
ranch Of NJ. L. Butler every living thin
was swept away, and the entire Butte
family were drowned.