The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-04-22
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
A Complete Review OF tn ID Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-Summari1ed From tho Latest
Dispatches.

Robert Blizzert, aged 5S years, well
known labor leader. died in New York
last week Of pneumonia.
Vice President Hobart Is holding the
gain shown last week. He Is able to
partake of more hearty food and sits
up about half an hour daily.
Reese Hutchinson, a young electric
ian graduate of Auburn college, Ala
bama, is exhibiting at Mobile, Ala, an
apparatus for making the deaf hear.
He augments vibration and enables
deaf mutes to hear words spoken in Or
binary tones. The apparatus is the
size of pocket book and is connected
by wires with the audiphone, which is
held to the ear. Two totally deaf men
were experimen,e with. They stood
so feet from the piano and marked the
time of the music, laughing with de-
light over the novel experience.
Lady Frances Ann Emily, duchess of
Marlborough, daughter Of the third
marquis of Londonderry and widow Of
the seventh duke of Marlborough, is
dead.
Oscar Gardner and Tommy Hogan of
New York have been signed by the
Nonpareil Athletic Association Of LOU
isville, KY, for a 2O-round bout, to be
pulled off May 4th.
The l.. A. w. racing board announces
the appointment of Hosmer K. Arnold,
of Portland, Oregon, as Handicapped
for Oregon.
The 3-year-old daughter of George
Tempero, a farmer living near the foot
of Kamiac butte, Wash, was burned to
death last week.
The Petit Bleu alleges that Lieuten-
ant Mijen, who died at Zanzibar on
March 23rd, while on the way to as
sumo the governorship of Ra Jubitil,
the French port and colony on the west
coast of the gulf of Alden, committed
suicide.
The first great bicycle match of the
season came off in Paris last week. In
the 50-mile race Walters of England
won in 1874 :43, lowering the record
made in 1896 by A. d. Frost of London,
whose time was L IA As. 3-5. j. Frank
Starbuck of Philadelphia abandoned
the contest midway.
s. w. Grinstead, aged 81, cashier of
the bank in Humboldt, Nebr, commit
ted suicide by blowing off the top of his
head with a revolver. He admitted
that he was $4,000 short in his ac-
counts.
In the California derby, which was
won last week by Corsine, there were
seven starters. The event took place
on the track at Oakland.
Thomas F. Kelly, aged So, part own
er of the National theatre in Philadel-
phia, is dead.
Joseph Eichbaum, aged ~ years, the
head of lithographing and stationery
firm of Pittsburg, Pa, is dead.
Secretary Alger has put an effective
quietus on the persistent reports that
he contemplated retiring from the cab
met by a positive and unequivocal
statement that the reports were abso-
lutely without foundation, and that un-
less some unforeseen and unlocked for
contingency arises, he proposes to re-
main secretary of war throughout the
administration.
Spanish silver is now quoted at SO,
the highest figure reached in this de-
cade in Havana.
Under instructions from the presi-
dent, lis staff officers were honorably
discharged from the volunteer army of
the United States last week by the act
ing secretary of war, to take effect
April 7th.
The promotion of the following
named officers to the grade of rear ad-
miral Is announced at the navy de-
partment: J. w. Philip, B. ]. Crom-
well, H. +. Picking, S. Casey, F. Rog-
ers j. G. Watson, G. w. Sumner, F. j.
Higginson and l.. Kempff.
Representative Baird, of Louisiana,
Is very sick in Washington d. c.
Joe Cans, the veteran Baltimore
lightweight, went down before George
McFadden of New York, in the 2Srd
round of their fight at the New Broad
way Athletic Club recently. Cans was
not completely knocked out, but fell
from exhaustion and was unable to re-
gain his feet in time
The ex-queen dowager Kahioiani of
hawaii, is seriously i'll. Size had an
other stroke Of apoplexy about week
since and in place of becoming better
she failed from day to day. Not even
her most intimate friends are not al
lowed to see her.
Major General Lawton, at Pate, in
the Philippine islands, announces an
authorized statement, to the effect that
loO,OOO troops will be required to put
down the insurrection in the islands.
Word has reached Cheyenne from
wyoming City that Goose creek has
s"elled to an alarming condition, the
nrldges are all washed away and half
the town is under four feet of water.
hx-united States Senator Tabor was
nonoreo with military funeral in
Denver last week.
orders have been published in three
american camps in Cuba to muster out
nen VINO enlisted as regulars for the