The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-11
DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
tho Two Hemlspheres Presented In =
Condensed Form-Culled from the Tel
sIgrnph RepOrts.

A severe snow storm prevailed in Mis-
souri, last week.
There was snowstorm general through
out Kansas last week.
Monsignor Amino, chief chaplain to
King Humbert, is dead.
Mrs. Sarah Stevenson, mother of former
Vice President Stevenson, is dead.
The cabinet council of Spain decided to
suppress the pensions Of all former min
listers.
Queen Marie Henriette, who has been
suffering from bronchitis pneumonia is
very low.
The water in the James river at Rich
mond, Va, is up 20 feet at Columbia and
is still rising.
The police board Of St. Louis has adopt
ed a resolution enforcing the saloons to
be closed on Sunday.
According toethe reports of his physic-
ians Rudyard Kipling is now far advanc-
ed ON the way to recovery.
The wages Of 5000 employees of the Riv.
erside iron works in Ohio, will be increas-
ed 10 per cent commencing March 9th.
Thomas Hobart, formerly well known
iron manufacturer Of Cleveland, and for
five years a. resident of Pittsburg, is dead.
John Lawson of Chicago, known as the
terrible Swede, won the lOO-mile open
race at the meeting held in San Jose, CAL,
last week.
Among the projects to which the short
session OF Congress was unable to give fa-
vorable consideration was that to have
battleship named ''The American Boy"
In the course Of recent conversation
Dreyfus declared that his return to
France was imminent, but for the past
month he had received no news.
The transport Valencia, which sailed
soldiers, stores and supplies, 81 100000 to
pay the troops now in the Philippines.
The Wellman steel works at Chester,
Pa, have ben sold to syndicate Of capi-
talists represented by Frank Samuel, q
Philadelphia broker.
It developed at the meeting of the Cen.
tral Federated Union at New York that a
paper hangers strike, if it comes, will be
due to troubles among the workingmen.
A determined attempt at suicide was
made last week when Edward White de-
liberately took OIL his coat and walked off
the end Of the city wharf at Nelson, B. G.
lie was rescued.
Lady William Beresford of London,
formerly Mrs. Louis Hammersley of New
York, and later the dowager duchess of
Marlborough, has sailed for the United
States.
The circuit court of the state of Mary
land, composed of Judges Boyd, Stake
and Sloan, decided the church case in
Smoketon, Md, in favor of the liberal
church.
The bubonic plague is raging at Bom-
bay with unparalleled severity. Accord
ing to official returns there were 9l2
deaths last week, but these are quite un-
der the mortality.
Fitzsimmons and Jeffries may decide
the ring championship at Bergen Beach,
near New York City. Martin Julian says
that the owners of the resort have offered
$4,000 for the fight.
A dispatch from Manila announces that
the American authorities there have un-
dertaken the protection of German inter
ests and that the cruiser Kaiserin Angus.
tn has left Manila Bay.
Another blizzard struck Nebraska at
Nebraska City, three inches Of snow fell
and the mercury reached zero. Syracuse
reports a sixty mile an hour gale with
the mercury below zero.
An order of the board of police com
missioners at st. Louis, Mo-, that all
saloons be closed until midnight Sunday
under the provisions Of the law was car
yied out to the letter.
The French steamer Cheribon, Captain
Aillard, chartered by the Spanish govern
ment, has arrived at Valencia from Glen
fuegos, by way Of St. Michaels, with re
patriated Spanish troops.
Commencing March 10 10 per cent
increase in wages in every department o
the Riverside Iron and Steel plants al
Wheeling, w. Va, will go into effect
About 5000 men are affected.
1t seems to be generally anticipated il
wool circles in Philadelphia that thu
amalgamation Of number Of large wool
en- manufacturers of this city into larg'
company is matter of the near future.
The body Of d. p. Ewing, member o
the firm of the Tyler Banking Company
Of Tyler, Texas, was found in the Taylo
bottling works. Near him was found al
empty morphine bottle indicating suicide
The Shanghai correspondent of tn
Daily Mail says that the leader Of thu
rebels in the province Of An Houi, tn
notorious desperate, Nui, has been cap
tured, fifty of his body guard being killed
It is said at the war department tina
there is no cause for apprehension on &C
count of the detention of the transpor
Sheridan in quarantine at Gibraltar
There is nothing more serious than milt
type of measles aboard.
A case of smallpox was discovered in
big downtown apartment house in Cleve
land, Ohio, in which nearly 400 peopl
were living. The victim is an attorney
and he was the roommate Of Frederic L
Taft, assistant county solicitor.