The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-07-08
DOINGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
An Interesting Collection OF Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented In =
Condensed Form-Culled from the Tel
slgrAph Reports.


the Two Helnispheres Presented In . |
Condensed Form-Culled from the Tel |
slgraph Reports.
Captain Dreyfus has landed at Qui-
boron, France.
The government deficit for the fiscal
year is $88,875,989.
The Dominion Day celebration at
Nelson, B. c.. was great success.
The American Edible Nut Company,
to control the peanut trade. is incor-
porated in New Jersey.
General Delaware Kemper, consul to
Annoy, China, under the first Cleveland
administration, Is dead.
The Tod Sloan assault case in Lon
don has been finally settled by the pay
ment of $1,000 to the waiter.
Mysterious Billy" Smith and Chas.
McKeever, of Philadelphia, fought 20
round bout to draw last week.
The pope Is suffering great prostra-
ton, together with light attack of
fever, caused by recent exertion.
Robbers entered the home Of Col.
Ridpath Of Spokane and stole $4,000
in checks and valuables last week.
Charles M. Murphy Of New York
rode mile on bicycle, paced by To-
comotive, in 81 As seconds recently.
Dominion Day was celebrated on an
unusually elaborate scale by the thous-
ands of Canadians resident in Chicago.
The United States consul at Salvador
informs the state department that vel
low fever has made its appearance
there.
Paul Reuther, formerly of San Diego,
Cal, committed suicide in Spokane by
jumping off the Post street bridge into
the river.
A postofice Is established at Moran,
five miles southeast of Spokane, and a
special mail service from that city es-
tablished.
The navy department has awarded
the contract for the Mare Island dry
dock to the Atlantic, Gulf & Pacific Co.
at $729,0O0.
The comptroller Of the currency has
issued a call for the statement Of the
condition of national banks at the close
of business, June 30.
The annual mobilization of the
troops of the garrison and the land and
sea attacks on Halifax has commenced.
The city is in a state of siege.
The large cotton warehouse in Brook
lyn owned by the Bush company Is bad
ly damaged by fire. The loss is esti.
mated at quarter of a million.
Mary Ann Ansell Of London was
found guilty of numbering her sister
an inmate of an asylum for the insane
by sending her poisoned cake by post
In the chamber of deputies recently
in Rome, the socialists and extreme
leftists recommended their obstructive
tactics and created an immense uproar
Union City, ILL.,, named from the fact
that it is occupied by union miners
was the scene Of battle recently about
midnight and as a result the town is In
ruins.
The new scale year Of the Amalga
mated Association of Iron and Stee
Workers in Pittsburg, has begun with
better record for the union than has
been made for half dozen years.
A ministerial crisis is reported i'm
minent in Norway owing to disagree
ment between King Oscar and the cab
met regarding the appointment of {
commander in chief.
A train on the johnson City branc1
of the Illinois Central bearing Al Negro
miners from Pana was shot into by ,
crowd of miners at Lawder. One negr,
woman was killed by bullet through
her heart.
The remarkably heavy rains recentl,
in Texas have done damage which will
amount to hundreds of thousands O
> dollars. Railroad traffic was suspend
ed in south Texas because of the nun
Q erous washouts.
. A reciprocity treaty with Jamaic
. has been concluded at the state depar
, ment at conference between Commii
!. sioner Kasson in behalf of the Unite
o States and Mr. Tower. the BIRTHS
charge d'affaires.
John Moore of Roanoke was shot an
killed and Henry Stewart fatal
wounded during quarrel between NJ
gro workmen at the Black Diamon
. !, Steel Works in Pittsburg, Pa. Moor
y was an innocent spectator.
George Barrow of Dawson was foun
e dead in his cabin. His throat was GU
g and $4,000 in gold stolen. The miner
! organized a party to search for th
:. thief and murderer. They arrested
n German on his way to Nome City. H
s confessed the crime. and the miner
a hanged him without ceremony.
The Missouri supreme court en- bar
has awarded a writ of custer on info
nation of Attorney General Gro
/, against seventy-three foreign fire insu
e ance companies doing business in s
b Joseph, Mo-, for violation of the sta
:, antitrust act of 1895. Under this
:. cision, the seventy-three companies ca
= not continue business in the state.
n Bishop John P. Newman of the Met
odist Episcopal church is dead.
Fire has damaged the Wilmer seminal
q at Irvington, CAL, to the extent Of $3O, ,0O
10 The large plant of the Beacon Lig
le Company at Brunswick, N. j., is total
n destroyed by fire. The loss is about $l0'
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