The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-03-11

As a result Of an encounter with two
burglars, whom he surprised while they
were attempting to crack safe in the
office of Scanned & Wholey, at Lowell,
Mass, Officer John F. Healy is probably
dying from three bullet wounds and a
terribly battered head.
The construction crews of the Nevada,
California & Oregon railroad have reach
ed point IL miles north Of Amadee, Mas
sena county, CAL, and are rapidly ex-
tending the roadbed across the Madeline
plains toward Alturas and southeastern
Oregon.
Two armed highwaymen lay in ambush
on bicycle path two miles from Ia
coma last night and captured and rob-
beed seven men between and II o'clock,
securing several watches but less than
$40 in cash. After robbing them they tied
their hands and feet and laid them in Q
row in the brush.
The Daily Graphic announces that the
British minister to China, Sir Claude Nc
Donald, acting upon Lord Salisbury's in
structions, had notified the Chinese for
eign office that Great Britain will hold
China to the terms of the contract in the
recent railway loan and will also support
her in resisting any aggression intended
to force her to repudiate her obligations
under the contract.
The first section Of the fast paper train
at Huntington, Pa, was wrecked one mile
east of this place this noon by land
slide which resulted from heavy fall
Of rain. Engineer Robert McCutcheon
and Fireman G. Troce, both of Harris
burg, were instantly killed.
Last week gale in Niagara, N. Y,
caused much damage. The wind came in
gusts, tearing signs from their fastenings
and stripping sections Of roofing from
some buildings. Electric light wires were
torn down. The oldselevator at the Bat
terry Whirlpool station was blown over.
A conspiracy among the convicts in the
state prison at San Quentin to murder
their guards and effect wholesale de.
livery of prisoners has been revealed to
Warden Hale through the faint-hearted-
ness of one Of the conspirators.
The lower house of the Texas legisla-
ture has adopted resolution thanking
the Indiana legislature for returning to
the Texas Terry Rangers the company
flag, captured by an Indiana regiment
from the Rangers during the civil war.
The mystery surrounding $4,000 worth
Of deeds, bonds, and negotiable paper that
were found in an alley recently in Chica.
go, was solved when it was discoevred
that the papers had been stolen from the
waiting room in the Dearborn street sta.
tion.
Thomas Nolan, aged l8 years, son of a
well known oil producer, was shot and
probably fatally wounded while trying tc
effect an entrance into the house of for.
mer Senator Lewis Emery at Bradford
PA. The shooting was done by j. NJ
Houghton, who was guarding the house
fremont, the thoroughbred stallion
the property Of General w. H. jackson
was found in thes table at Nashville
Tenn, with his stiAe joint broken. Moth
ing could be done and the stallion was
killed. He cost General Jackson $l7 ,OO(
some years ago at Swigert's sales.
The wages of all day laborers in the tir
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been advanced from s to 10 per cent.
During the week the Carpenter Stee
Company of Reading, Pa, shipped foul
car loads of projectiles of various calibre,
to the Norfolk navy yard.
The lives of nearly 100 persons were
jeopardized by fire which broke out il
the Lackawanna Valley House block
g., ~ Do ~ - Al l..
second, third and fourth floors. The oc
cupants were taken out safely, but claf
only in their night clothes.
Senator Turner has secured one Of tn,
best of the committee places made vacant
by retiring senators. In the closing hour
of the session Senator German announced
that Senator Whites place on the com
merce committee would soon be vacant
and in order to have the same representa-
tion for the Pacific coast on that commit
tee that it now enjoyed he asked the ap
pointment Of Senator Turner to the va
| cancy. No one in the senate offered tn
slightest objection.
The official statement of Representative
j. G. Cannon of Illinois, the chairman o
, the house appropriations committee, sum
: ming up the appropriations Of the Fifty
: fifth Congress, shows an aggregate fo
the entire congress of 81 500, $780, 200, an,
for the session just closed total of 1913
| 65S 200, with authority for contracts sub
+ ject to future appropriations amounting
/ to $50 OOOOO 900.
An imperial cabinet order has been is
sued in Berlin, in which Emperor William
l after referring to Certain regrettabIe al
2 fairs in which officers have recently bee
involved" and to the Frequency wit
e which officers receive loans from profes
sional money lenders at usurious interest
f directs that hereafter every officer sha
;, Immediately communicate any and all o.
r fers to his superiors.
Army Beef InvestigatiOn.
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