The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-04-01

COnO0neoO FOrm-VuAl0O from the Tel
slgraph Reports.
| At McKeesport, Pa, last week Fred.
s., erick T. Clark shot and fatally wound.
ed his wife at the home of his mother.
in-law. Mrs. Richard Moyle, and then
killed himself.
The influenza Is raging In Berlin and
the death rate is heavy.
The actual work of taking subscrip-
lions for stock in the worlds fair cor.
poration has begun.
A petition to Queen Victoria signed
by $1,000 British subjects in the Trans.
vaal has been handed to the British
agent at Pretoria praying her majesty
to secure reform Of the abuses from
which the Uitlanders are suffering and
claiming their position Is intolerable
With superiority in cleverness
quickness and ring generalship which
was apparent from the frst round, Kid
Mccoy was very properly awarded the
decision over 10, Choynski at the end
of 20-round contest before the Ma.
tional Athletic Club in Mechanics pa
vilion in San Francisco last week.
Paris is suffering from the scourge
of Influenza. The deaths during the
last seven days have been 238 above
the average.
General Greeley has received cable
dispatches from Cuba announcing that
the military telegraph lines have chen
completed between Sancti Spiritus and
Ciege D'Avila in the centre of the is
land and between Holguin and Vic.
toria de Las Tunas, department Of San
tiago.
Jules Cambon, French ambassador
to the United States, will soon be ap
pointed ambassador to Italy. to sue
coed M. Niscard. who Is about to re.
sign.
Chris Bosser, a carpenter. shot and
killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Brehm
and then fatally wounded his wife last
week, at Appleton, Wisconsin.
Montezuma University, at Besse-
mer. Alabama, was destroyed by fire
last week.
The organization of the American
School Furniture Company, capital
stock $1,500,000, has been completed
The little town of Liberty, in De
Kalb county, Tenn, is almost wiped
of the map. A furious tornado swept
over 1t.
Tom Broderick, of Yonkers, knock
ed out Mike Farrager. of Youngstown
Ohio, last week.
The newspapers Of st. Petersburg
publish pitiable accounts Of the condi
ton of the so-called famine districts
Of Russia, especially Samaria, in the
eastern part Of European Russia.
Michael Munkascy, the famous Hun
| garian painter who has been secluded
In hospital for the insane at Bonn
for more than two years. is dying.
Colonel M. J. Payne, ex-mayor OF
Kansas City, has filed petition in vol
untary bankruptcy in the federal court
there.
John Butter, said to have been the
oldest bachelor in the United States, is
dead at Huntington, l.. l., in his 101st
year.
Archbishop Hennessey Is seriously
Ill at the archepiscopate residence al
Dubuque, Iowa.
Joe Goddard. the famous Australian
pugilist, better known in fistic circles
as the Barrier champion" has decid
ed to retire from the ring.
When the will of Rev. Edmund Dru
ry Copper, rector Of the church of the
Redeemer at Astona. L. L.. was filed
for probate, it was found that 1t be
queathed the bulk OF the estate of 1928,
900 to his wife who died several years
ago. The will would have been mop
erative but that it bequeathed his Ii
brary to the University of the South
at Suwanee, Tenn.
Marquis Salvage Raggi, who sue
ceeds Signor MARITIME as Italian minis
ter to China. Is expected to reach Pekir
about the end Of next month. He will
open negotiations with the Tsung l.
Yamen concerning Italy's request fol
a concession at San Nun bay.
John Gilbert, who slew his wife ant
four children with a Ratchet on Feb
ruary 2Sth last on his farm near Indus
try, Kan, pleaded guilty when put up
on trial at Clay Centre, Kan, and wal
sentenced to death.
1t is reported that a MohammedaI
rebellion has broken out in the prov
lnce of Kan-Su, the most northwestern
province of China.
The Danish government will, asl
parliament to vote credit to send tn
cruiser Fyon to China in connection
with Denmark's movements there.
John Webb and Will Toney. two ne
gro boys Is years old. were killed an.
two Of the comrades seriously wounde,
last week at Edgefield, s. c., by fou
white employees of the Edgefield cottol
factory,