The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-07-15
ITEMS FROM AL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE
A Complete Review of the Events for
che Past Week I'm This and Foreign
Lsnds-summsrissd From the Latest
Dispatches.


Lsnds-summsri.sd From the Latest
Dispatches.
The town of Montello. In Marquette
county, Wis.,, has been nearly destroyed
by fire.
The Volta electrical exhibition at Co.
mo, Italy, was entirely destroyed by
fire, due to defective insulation.
The sixth national convention of
deaf mutes will meet this week in st.
Paul, Minn.. for a four days session.
Sam T. Hall. Jim Jeffries' advance
agent, announces that Jeffries will sail
from New York for Europe on July 27.
The navy is taking steps to establish
a reserve supply OF ammunition and to
purchase reserve guns for auxiliary
cruisers.
The large steam bakery Of Henry
Wauklin, located at Roxborough. Penn.
was destroyed by fire recently, entail
ing loss of $4,000.
Miss Ydis Storke, of Santa Barbara,
CAL, must answer charge Of attempt
ing to murder Attorney Grant jackson
in q sensational manner.
The British survey steamer Egeria,
which mas been engaged in surveying
the cable route to Australia, has reach
ed San Francisco from Eskuimalt.
London, Ont, has been placed under
martial law and additional militiamen
ordered in fran the adjacent towns as
the result of recent street car strikes.
Mrs. Marguerite Dickinson, wife of
Captain Dickinson of the navy, lost her
life by an explosion Of gasoline at her
home recently at Washington, D. G.
Three cases of prostration from heat
are reported in Missoula, Mont Yer
die Spurgin, a rancher living near
town, had a genuine case of sunstroke.
At the Greenwood Athletic Club re-
Gently, in New York, Tommy Sullivan,
OF Brooklyn, and Johnnie Richie, Of
Chicago, fought twenty fast rounds to
q draw.
William Edwards was taken to Ross
land, B. c., and placed in the hospital.
He had passed through a remarkable
experience, having been lost in the
mountains for IL days.
All but one of the seven members OF
the family of William Reinhard of Col
umbus. Ohio, were killed and the re-
naming member was badly injured by
Big Four passenger train Saturday.
G.. r. Martin, formerly a restaurant
keeper of Chico, CAL, lies at Spokane,
perhaps fatally wounded. He Is the
victim of one Of the most cold-blooded
and dastardly hold-ups that has been
perpetrated in Washington.
A new rapid-ire gun designed chiefly
for the protection of mine fields, and q
novel, semi-automatic six-pOunder for
the navy were successfully tested on
the proving grounds of the Driggs-Sea'
bury Company at Derby. Conn.
Lewis McElroy, exporter in the Ho
tel Richelieu, San Francisco, who was
arrested in Chicago for stealing $4,000
worth Of diamonds from the trunk o1
Mrs. William G. Weld, a guest at the
hotel in May last, has been freed.
Dr.. Kinyoun, of the marine hosplta
service, says that the report that tht
two drowned sailors from the Nippor
Maru were afflicted with the bubonlt
plague is untrue, and the scare was
manufactured by the San francisco
board Of health.
"Kid" Mccoy has been signed by th'
Westchester Athletic Club to meet an!
two men during the month OF Septem
ber. His first fight will be with Jo
Choynski, who wired his acceptance o
the $500 purse offered by the West
chester IN. " club.
Relief work in the Brazos flooded dis
trict, Texas, has been systematic, thre
relief trains leaving Houston, Calves
ton and San Antonio daily. Probabl
10000 negroes are now being fed an
will need to be sustained for some tim
by the relief committees.
The Fairbanks-F Foster Alaska bount
ary party have returned from the mort
and interviews with members OF tn
party indicate that the watershed o
White pass, back of Skagway and Dye
will be accepted as the internations
boundary line at that point.
Mike Sheridan, section boss on tn
Central Pacific railroad near Elk
Nebr., was riding along the track on
railroad velocipede when he was struc
and instantly killed by special tral
conveying teachers to the national ed
cational convention at Los Angeles.
George Hinchcliffe, Chicago prlc
manufacturer, has brought SUIT Il
100000 damages against the Chlcae
Masons and Builders Association an
number of the large brick manu1a
turers. His business was ruined, l
says, becaues he refused to Join u
trust.
It is stated that arrangements haN
about been completed to bring Il
Washington volunteers to Seattle TO
mustered out. Upon their arrival
San Francisco they will be put aDoal
special train. The train will nave
pay car attached and the troops Will
paid off en- route.
Friendly Filipinos in Manila ma
been the medium OF communication
tween the American authorities al