The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-05-06

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LATE TELEGRAPHIO NOTES.
Martial law has been declared in Ward
ner, Idaho.
There were several labor strikes in
Cleveland, O., Monday.
South Dakota prairie fires have done
much damage in that state. Losses are
heavy.
AFTER nine weeks Of enforced idleness,
the plate glass factory resumed operations
in Alexandria, Ind.
Great Britain has already taken steps
to counteract the efforts Of the Russian
expedition in Asiatic Turkey.
Howell T. Morgan, returning from Port
valdes, Alaska, to Bayonne, N. j., killed
himself on the train in Indiana.
Charles Mccullough, farm laborer, was
shot and killed Monday by Mrs. Eunice
Brown, at her farm south Of Canton,
s. d.
The rebels have retired from their forti-
fcations at Vailele, Samoa, which they
demolished together with other forts along
the coast.
The following customs and taxes were
collected at the ports mentioned during
April: Manila, $457 OO2; Iloilo, $45,534 !;
Cebu, $3O,757; total, $633,293.
Ten of the IA republican members Of
congress of Illinois have decided unani-
mously to support Congressman Albert
Hopkins, of Aurora, for speaker of the
bo,,oa of TO f;yoo
There We're fifteen members Of
the Yorktown party captured by the FIJI
pinos at Baler, and Admiral Dewey ac-
counts for five that have been killed.
They probably were killed or fatally
wounded in the original assault upon tue
landing party at Baler.
The monthly statement of the public
debt today shows, at the close Of business
April 30, 1899, the debt less cash in The
treasury amounted to $l,l72,587 1854, an
increase during the month Of ga. .0sl ,70l
This is accounted for by the payment o.
20,OO0,O0O to Spain in settlement o1
treaty obligations.
The latest estimates of the Klondike
gold yield this season range from twelve
to twenty millions.
j Formal announcement of the organiza
pany is made.
} Henry B. Hyde president Of the Equi
table Life Assurance Society of the United
States is dead.
Peter Maher and Gus Rubin, th'
; "Akron giant" fought to 20-round draw
| before the Lenox Athletic Club Tuesda,
, night.
signed to the command of the depart
/ ment of the lakes with headquarters a
Chicago.
Paymaster General Stewart, U. s. N
; has been informed Of the intention of tn
navy department to retire him on Ma.
5 for age.
The police board denied license to tn
, Coney Island Sporting Club, under who's
auspices the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries figh
was scheduled to take place.
! Great Britain has officially demanded
of the Chinese government satisfaction TO
, the recent attacks made by the rebel
, upon the British authorities in the Ka,
Lang extension of Hong Kong.
The dead bodies of 252 United State
dead, brought from the battlefelds o
Cuba and Puerto Rico by the steame
> Crook were inferred at Arlington ceme
) terry Tuesday with military honors.
. Tuesday, Eugene Bette, Of Joplin, Mo
, shot and mortally wounded Sanford Dor
. tys mistaking him for a brother, Fieldol
Dortys, whom he had sworn to kill TO
, marrying his daughter.
! AS result of General Torres oppres
sive conduct toward American merchant
4 trading at Blueields, Nicaragua, this gov
ernment has determined to require tn
: Nicaraguan government to relieve hin
e from duty at that point.
D A peculiar tragedy occurred in Stock
ton, CAL, Tuesday night. The bodies q
Mrs. William Hickman and Mrs. H.
Hassal, clasped in loving embrace, bu
e both dead, were found room of
). lodging house, bullet having ended tn
e life of each.
e The heaviest rain of the season visite
e Illinois Wednesday.
Edward N. Welton formerly a wei
h known publisher of New York, is dead.
e Mrs. George Dehaven, of Walla WALL
J, committed suicide by drowning Wedne
t day.
0 Rev. Bishop Christie, of Vancouv'
i island, has been appointed archbishop I
It Oregon.
|. Julius Clay, now consul at Windso
Ont, has been appointed consul at Bare
Iona, Spain.
!. The Chapman Slate Company, in Penn
have announced Is to 20 per cent az
. vance in wages.
The American Sugar Refining Compan
. has advanced the price of all refine
sugars one-eighth cent per pound.
w. A. Brandes, of Oakland, Cal, ha
IS been sentenced to life imprisonment 8
r San Quentin for the murder of his daugl
u ter.
The corpse Of Adolph Miller, boy
weave old 1ros found houOiuU NV a rOr