The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-01-21
.DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK.
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented in q
Condensed FOrm-Culled from the Tel
elgraph Reports.


Ashland, Wis, reports the grip is disas-
astrously prevalent in north Wisconsin
lumber camps.
The executive committee of the Interna-
tional League of Press Clubs has decided
to hold the annual convention in baltimore
early in April.
Mary and Thomas Miller, Albert Wilson
and Walter Brown were run down and
killed by train on the Pennsylvania rail
road near Larimer, Pa.
Henry Jones, negro, who assaulted and
murdered Mrs. Nancy Welch, white wild
ow, near Richmond, N. c., confessed his
guilt and was lynched.
The Sturgis, Mich, board of public
works decided to award the contract for
the city's new electric light plant to the
Chase Construction Company OF Detroit
for $4,000.
President 1glesias of Costa Rica had in
terviews in London with Mr.. White, the
American charge d'affaires, and with the
Prince Of Wales and the Marquis of Sal
isbury.
John w. Jones, a miller OF Prospect, O.,
has filed petition in bankruptcy in the
United States court at Toledo. He says
he has debts amounting to goo, with
no assets.
The Bricklayers' and Masons' Interna-
tional Union, in session at Hartford, Conn,
indorsed the cigarmakers' blue label. The
delegates were rendered q banquet and
ball.
The American liner New York, formerly
the auxiliary cruiser Harvard, left New
York Wednesday on her first passage since
the Spanish war as a merchantnlan, going
to England.
At their own request, Brigadier Gener-
ais William w. Gordon and w. G. Oates
of the volunteer army have been honor
ably discharged from the military service
of the United States.
| W. S. Forman of East st. Louis, ILL.,,
| former commissioner of internal revenue,
is in Washington on his way to Annapolis
to visit his son, who will graduate for the
United States naval academy in February.
The budget committee of the reichstag
was informed by the secretary of the navy,
Admiral Tirpitz, that new naval pro-
gram " do uOt " NC AAlAoduSS0.
The Oxford, England, trades council
passed resolution heartily approving the
scheme for establishing a college for labor
leaders at Oxford, to be known as Ruskin
Hall, and pledging every assistance posi-
ble
Count Klaus Won Egloffstein, who was
recently obliged to leave the German army
on account of his debts, has been arrested
at Berlin on a charge of forgery. Egloff-
stein was the director of the notorious
gambling club, Der Froelichen.
Justice Brewer. Of the United States
supreme court, has sailed on the White
Star Line steamship Majestic for Liver
pool. His visit abroad is in connection
with the meeting of the Venezuelan boun-
dairy commission, of which he is member
Mrs. Henry Haskell Powling, manager
of the Star Hosiery mills at Ha2ama, N
Y, filed petition in bankruptcy in New
York City. Her assets are given at about
$500 and the liabilities at about $l40,.
600, of which $4,000 is secured by mort
cages.
w. A. Rodenberg of East st. Louis, ILL.,
congressman elect from the Twenty-first
district, is in Washington, looking the
ground over and becoming acquainted with
the ways of statesmen. He will succeed
Jehu Baker in congress, his term begin
ming March 4.
Rev. Gregory Doyle, on trial at Mum
,fordville, KY, for completely in the MUIR
der of Lydia Bracher, has confessed he was
the author of her shame. Professor Nc
Clure, well-known educator in that sec
tion, is serving life term for his part in
the fatal operation.
Isaac S. Plant and Ralph Plant, former
ly in business with Samuel Kahn as the
Mercantile Cloak Company, filed volun
tary petition in bankruptcy in New York
City. Liabilities, $l55,34l, incurred in
1890. Isaac G. Plant has individual LA
bilities Of $l2,9S9. Petitioners have no as
sets.