The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-08-19
DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
uEWs OF THE WORLD In BRIEF,
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented in .
Oond ensed Eorm-Oullsd from the Tel
slgrakh Reports.

A recent storm caused great destruc.
ton of property in Hicksville, Ohio.
Secretary Root is beginning to get a
firm grasp on the administration of
the war department.
John Engle, "a years old. was killed
two miles west of Rochelle, ILL.,, by a
Northwestern train.
The Rev. J. Fl. Bomberger of Colum.
biana declines to accept the presidency
of Heidelburg university.
Patterson McClurg of Bloomington
ILL.,, aged 81, committed suicide by cut
ting his throat with razor.
The strike of the employees of the
American Smelling & Refining Com.
pany of Denver is declared off.
Miss Oliver Roy, of Fond du Lac, Wis.
aged %, was run down by Northwest
ern switch engine and instantly killed
Ethel Burnham of Charlottesville,
Ind, was dragged to death by a cow
she having attached the halter to her
wrist.
James Murphy, 247 Shaw street,
Montreal, Que, was killed upon the
tracks of the st. Joseph, South Bend
& Southern railroad.
Patrick Drury, of Springfield, ILL.,.
while experimenting some repairs on
his house, took hold of trolley wire
and was instantly killed.
Two men ambushed Maitre Laborie,
far orl cl,o
fired, hitting Laborie in the back. M.
Laborie fell in the roadway.
By a wreck on the Lake Shore &
Michigan Southern railroad at Ashta-
bula, Ohio, Is cars of provisions were
overturned and two cars of cattle were
telescoped.
A consolidation Of the leading cigar
manufacturing interests OF Tampa,
Key West, New Orleans and Havana
is in progress.
The French schooner Pauoboto was
sunk in collision off Lowestoff by the
steamer Hercules and five persons were
drowned. The steamer rescued the re-
mainder Of the crew.
The Protestant celebration of the an.
niversary of the relief of Derry, be-
sieged by James lis army in 1869, led
to riotOus scenes in Londonderry.
H. B. Smith, of Hartford City, Ind,
one of the principal promoters of the
American Window Glass Company, an
nounced that the project had been
abandoned.
The statement of the clearing house
banks of New York city for the week
ending August IL, was Unexpectedly ia
vorable, the chief feature having been
the heavy increase of $6,3S8,800 in spe,
Gle.
In saving the life of a friends child
Paul Montgomery, of Ft. Pragg, CAL,
was drowned in the waters of Lake
Ceur d'Alene recently.
It Is stated that one Of the com.
panies of Royal Artillery at present at
tached to the Halifax garrison will
shortly be transferred to Victoria, B.
c., being replaced by company now
in the West Indies.
The monthly statement of the ex-
ports in the United States of domestic
products shows that the exports for
July were as follows: Breadstuffs,
$21 ,084,475; increase as compared with
July, 1898, nearly $4,50O,000. Cattle
and hogs, $2,941,192; decrease, $4,000.
Provisions, $14,S20.334; increase, $5..
100000. Cotton, $5,442.995; increase.
$2.614.000. Mineral oils, $5,245,519;
increase, $5OO,0OO. These show larg.
er total for July for these five articles
than for any preceding July in many
years.
Mortimer Cunningham and man
named big Jim," both stable hands at
the Harlem race track, Chicago, were
asphyxiated by gas in the New Era ho
tel.
The state department has finally
learned that John Keller, the American
who was confined in a consular jail at
Yokohama, Japan, has been released
under operation of the treaty which
recently went into operation between
Japan and the United States, and has
left that country.
Government commissioners have ef
fected an agreement with the Crow In
dians which will become treaty when
ratified by congress. About million
acres of land will be purchased on the
northern end of the Grow reservation
from Fort Custer to Yellowstone river
and from Pryor creek to the eastern
boundary of the reservation, embrac
ing the Little Big Horn and Other
streams. This leaves the Crows 2,50O,
900 acres and will make them inde
pendent in time, and furnish homes FOL
thousands of civilized people.
Hugh Kennedy of San Francisco
who has just returned from Kotsebut
sound, Alaska, brings report OF tne
probable murder of several prospectors
last winter. L. w. Martes OF Santa
Rosa, Cal, disappeared on the Noatol
river. He was known to have nae
about $500 ON his person, and 1t II
thought he was murdered. The PICK
inny brothers of Kentucky were muir