The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-18
DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
IIws OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented in =
Condensed Form-Culled from the Tel
elgrAPh Reports.
The Bank Of Paso Robles, Cal, has

The Bank Of Paso Robles, CAL, has
failed.
The heaviest snow storm Of the Mich
igan snow belt prevailed last week.
An effort has been made to consolidate
builders Of pipe organs into combine.
Khalifa Abdullah, the Dervish ruler
in the Soudan, is suffering from lepfosy.
Rollin NJ. Squire, formerly commission
er Of public works Of New York, is dead.
Frank Guilfort, one Of the Guilfort
Bros, we'll known circus gymnasts, is
dead.
Rev. W. G. Dickinson, d. D., we'll
known Presbyterian minister Of Chicago,
is dead.
Fire at Chenoa, ILL.,, resulted in the
death Of an unknown printer and the loss
of seven brick business blocks with their
contents.
Captain Morton Levy Phillips, comman-
der of the United States revenue cutter
lsoutwell, is dead.
Throughout the Wisconsin valley dis
trict the snow is from one to four feet
deep on the level.
IA uOtcIlcut 10 Ou AOOl W lOIuu q COiIi-
bination Of plain and decorated lamp
chimney manufacturers.
NJ. Secretan, founder of the Society des
Mctaux, and chief agent in the great cop
per ring of 1888 is dead.
Thomas Officer, Council Bluffs bank
er, lost roll of bills containing 5000 in
the streets OF Omaha, recently.
Iohrrr N,.;f0u Tho p,.o ;u< lod Il,
his day one OF the cleverest feather
weight fighters in the world, is dead.
John Kelly and J. Burns have been ar
rested on the suspicion Of being implicat
ed in the Amherst bank robber in Wis
ronsin.
Five persons were killed and forty in
jured in a collision between two excur-
sion trains last week near Rakata, on
Rakata river.
The Rev. DR.. Byron Sunderland has
been appointed pastor of the First Pres
byterian church in Washington, to sue
ceed Rev. r. De Witt Talmage.
Almost the entire plant OF the Cum
mer Lumber Company, situated on the
St. Johns river, four miles north of Jack
sonville, Fla, was destroyed by fire.
Advices have just been received that
on February l3 half block of the busi-
ness portion of Dawson, Alaska, was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss aggregating $50.
600.
The will of Herbert Stewart, wealthy
New York engineer and contractor, be-
queaths $4,000 to establish the Herbert
Stewart scientific fund at Yale univeri-
sity.
Marquis Villamejor, who in the latter
part of 1887 offered Senior Sagasta, then
PREMIER 10000 10 start national sub
scription for the increase of the fleet, is
dead
The Union Club of Malta, gave lunch
con to the officers commanding the Amer
lean troops on board the United States
transport, Sheridan, on their arrival en-
route to Manila.
The American Missionary Association
has voted OF establish in Puerto Rico at
once Christian schools like those it has
established in this country for the ne
groes in the South.
William Abb, the Italian murderer Of
James Lacey is under arrest in Spokane
The blizzard that swept over the coun-
try east of Omaha, Nebraska, last week
was the worst ever experianced.
The committee of the Granite Manu-.
facturer's Association and the Cutters
Union, reached an agreement and the
strike which has been in progress for two
weeks, has been declared off.
The demand OF the foreign government
for concession of San Nun bay init
mates that stronger measures than the
ultimatum Of Signor Martino, the Italian
minister at Pekin, will be necessary.
VIM. A. Douchette, % years Of age
was arrested in st. Cecilia church, Boston
on the charge OF embezzling $4,000 from
the collection box. Marked bills placed
in the collection box were found in hi.
possession.
The following statement has been is
sued showing the total number Of death.
reported to the adjutant generals offict
between May lst, 1899, and February %
1899: Killed in action 329; died o
wounds, 1875; died Of disease, 5277; total
573l.
Mrs. Cornelia Poirier and Samuel Par
slow were hanged at st. Scholastique
Que, last week Life was declared ex
tinct in eight minutes. The necks o
both were broken.
While searching in Alaska the mean
OF becoming rich, fortune of $20O,00'
awaits Reginald Dawson, Of Chicago, il
India.
An explosion of several hundred pound
OF powder occurred last week in the Com
modore mine, at Creede, Colo, creating
great havoc and killing three men.
According to dispatch from Bombay
severe fighting has taken place betweel
the Turkish troops and the Arab tribes
men near Shall, in the province of Yemel
Arabia.
The Rome correspondent says, TIL
Pope continues to improve, but his physi
clans say he shows great weakness, whicl
Is rather alarming to his encourage