The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1899-12-02
DO|NGS THROUGH THE MEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
4 Complete Review Of the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-summarised From the Lat
est Dispatches.
l ord sallsbury's health is improv.

est O1sDateheo.
Lord Sahsbury's health is improv-
Ing.
Admiral Dewey will visit Chicago or
Manila Bay day.
The cruiser Charleston is deep in the
water and no one can board her.
President will ask the favor Of con.
xress to promote General Shafter.
Kid Mccoy. the pugilist, is not In a
serious condition, but needs rest.
Fifteen tons were landed in forty-one
minutes recently in coaling q big ship
At sea.
Financial circles are asking Secre-
larry Gage to extend his bond proposi.
ton.
The banking and brokerage firm Of
ctahl & Straub Of Philadelphia have
failed.
Resolutions of sympathy with the
Boels were adopted by a mass meeting
held In San Francisco recently.
Uncle Sam insists that Consul Ma
,rum be respected in South Africa and
has told Paul Kruger his duties.
Fitzsimmons was caught in q door
,ccertly ana had his hand seriously
hurt. It may prevent further fighting.
Brave Bill Anthony is deal. It was
lie who reported tO Sigsbee that the
Maine was sinking. He committed sui
eide by taking cocaine.
In the middleweight contest at San
Francisco between AL Neil and George
Green. Neil got the decision at the
end of the goth round.
Claims have been filed up to date on
account Of damages sustained by Amer
ican citizens through the Spanish war
to the amount of $25,000,000.
The origin of Roentgen rays and
Becquerel rays has not Deen ascertain
ed, though a hundred scientists aav.
been tormenting nature to let the Sc
cret 60.
William L. Brooks. colored, was
hsnged fol the murder of his wife in
November. 1898. at Billings. Mont.
Tommy West was given the dicision
over Flank Craig, known as the "Har-
lem Cotfee Cooler" at the end OF the
!Ath round of what was to have been
a 25.rOund bout at catch weights at
New York.
The department of the interior at
Ottawa, Ont, has received information
tha: at the smallest computation $4,000
Finanders will arrive in Canada next
spl ling. The majority of the immi-
giants will be from South Finland.
The horribly mutilated bodies OF
woman and her three children were
found ut their home on small farm
about = mile from the town of Mont
somerJ, Pa. A peddler named Hum
mel, who married the woman shor
lime ago, Is missing.
Harry Hall, alias Ferguson, has beer
IN jail at Seattle two weeks, and tn
sheriff and q representative of Pinker
toms detective agency say that the!
believe him to be one Of the six mel
who held up Union Pacific train II
Albany county, Wyoming, last June
end who murdered a sheriff during
their fight.
Tho upper stories Of A. Krolick
CO.'S Wholesale dry goods store at "
troit, burned the lower four storie
flooded by water. and the ad1otnin
wholesale dry goods house OF stront
Lee & Co. was also badly flooded, maj
ing a total loss of approximately SOU
900, rhe fire is supposed to have bee
caused by crossed electric hgnt wire
A rapid rise in Trinity river, Tex''
causing serious damage.
Nearly half of the business portion
Weston, O., was burned recently. :,
Kansas City offers nearly $6O,OOO for t
next democratic national convention.
Gen. Otis will come home soon, as
needs a rest, and the war is nearly ende
Cubans are vexed at the idea OF an al
erican civil governor, and protests q
coming fast.
Existing differences between the Detr
street railway employees and employers "
be settled by arbitration. :,
Baron Paul Vietinghoff, representa-
of the Russian government, is IN Cnica
buying horses for the czar's army.
The first train through from Talien w
on the new Chwang & Munkden railw
has left with engineers for Port Arthur
William F. Miller and his secretary q
chief boomer, Cecil Leslie, Of the Frank
syndicate, the l0-per-cent-a-week conc
of Brooklyn. have not yet been arrested
Farmburg, Ind, was the scene OF
riffs explosion. Some unknown person
persons placed dynamite beneath the
dertaking establishment Of W. ). w
Of that place, and the explosion wrec
the building and broke window g
throughout the town.
Sir Francis Wingate, in battle v
the khalifa's force, near Gedid, captu
5000 men, women and children. OsI
Digna. the principal general of the kha
is still at large.
Ii Hung Chang's appointment as mi
ter of commerce is regarded as distin
a step in the right direction, and as lii
to improve greatly foreign commercial
lations with China.
"A passenger train on the o. R. h N.
wrecked one mile from Rooster Rock
miles east Of Portland by landslide.