The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-09-16
DO|NGS THROUGH THE week
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lnnds-Sum married. From the Lat
est Dispatches.

The Dreyfus verdict caused feeling
of almost stupefaction in Berlin.
Spokane people raised $1,500.00 by
Sept. 1, to bring home her volunteers.
A patent for barrel tons has been is
sued to Daniel b. LIE Van of Caldwell,
Idaho.
Twenty-three new cases and three
deaths from yellow fever nave been re-
ported at Key West, Fla.
The United States cruiser Olympia,
with Admiral Dewey on board, has
sailed from Gibraltar for New York.
A strong gale took place Sunday at
kits and Antigua, and it is feared the
storm is coming in the direction of st.
Thomas. ID. w. l.
II. Y. Halves of Johnstown, Pa, has
sold the famous racer, Joe Patchen, to
Senator Mccarthy, of Goshen. N. Y.
Hawes sold for more than $4,000.
The two-year-old child of Louie
Deiles, living near Pennington. Wash,
while playing at we'll with other chill
dren, accidentally fell in and was
drowned.
Fewer pensions were granted to SOL
diers in the Spanish war than was ex-
pcCted, the number being 295. There
are now 991, $40 names of pensioners on
the rolls.
The surplus reserve Of the New York
clearing house banks to ali intents and
purposes was practically wiped out by
the operations of the week ending Sep
tember 8.
The foundation has been laid for a
long contest over the four million dol
lar estate left by the late Wilson Wad-
bingham, who died in New York about
three months ago.
Express train No. 10 on the Southern
Pacific was robbed near Cochise, Ariz.,
by four masked men, who blew the safe
open and took everything in sight. The
amount of their booty is said to be
small.
The First Colorado regiment of vol
unteers have been mustered out, paid
and discharged. The rolls carried 9S9
men, all told, and the amount disbursed
was about 100000. The regiment has
left for home.
movement is on foot against send
ing exhibits to the Paris exposition in
1900. Many intending exhibitors have
withdrawn their notices of participa-
tion, on the ground that the present
state of things in France renders it un-
safe to send exhibits.
1t is understood that General Sir
William Redvers Butler of London will
start for Cape Town Saturday. The
Indian authorities are charterlng
steamers to transport troops to South
Africa as rapidly as possible.
Patrolman Jack Martin of Tacoma
was shot and wounded by two men
whom he was attempting to arrest. He
wounded and captured Tom Moore Of
Butte, Mont, one of his asailants, but
the other made his escape.
In a single week one-half of the pecan
crop in Texas was killed by the pest
known as the web worm, and commonly
called the caterpillar. Reports are still
coming in to the effect that the worms
nave invaded the remaining counties.
The governor of Idaho says he has
every reason to believe that the Idaho
regiment would be brought from San
Francisco to Boise in body. The plan
IS to bring them over the Shasta route
of the Southern Pacific to Portland, and
from there over the o. X. & N. and Ore
gon Short Line.
The navy department expects to be-
gin the manufacture of smokeless pow
der at its powder mill few miles back
from the Potomac river near Indian
Head, within the next two or three
months. Work on the mills has been
pushed energetically, and at present
about 1900 men are employed.
Two hundred feet of trestle on the
Columbia, Newberry & Laurens road,
over Broad river, near Columbia, S. c.,
gave way under trainload Of granite.
Several cars and an engine fell so feet
into the water. The following were
killed: Engineer Dick Weatherby,
Fireman Silas Rennick, Stewart Mar
tin, a negro, Unidentified man, with
head severed from body. William
Bates, an extra fireman, went down
with the wreck, but was dug out from
tons of granite without scratch.
Deputy Marshal Joseph Pinkham re-
turned to Boise, Idaho, from Owyhee
county with John Jensen in custody.
The prisoner is one of two desperate
men who attacked Blackaby & Parks
store at Jordan Valley, on the evening
or August %, his partner, Joseph Law
son, being killed at the time.
The government steamer Ramona
struck a skiff containing six belated
merrymakers in Quincy bay, ILL.,, all
We're thrown in the water and three
drowned. The dead: John e. Wen
kamp, Lulu Broye, Mary Mccarthy.
The other three were saved by clinging
TO beer keg from the overturned boat.
An order for the organization OF two
colored regiments to be known as the
forty-eighth and Forthy-ninth voiun-
Ger infantry has been issued from the
war department. All the field officers