The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-12-08
IHE telegraph SUMMARY
rrws OF THE WORLD I'm BRIEF

.,ate Review Of the Events OF
~. p..t Week-In This and For-
.,~n Lands-TakeA From the
Latest Dispatches.
The Rogers Locomotive Work. at
paterson, N. j., have closed down nm
ally.
A. Allentown, Pa, Frank Wellen-
hacher silk manufactures, has e.
signed.
phillips made third Of q million
h,s profits in the corn corner at Chica-
60 last week. !,
r,ehteen are dead and i've more will
d,e as a result OF their injuries In the
-acent San Francisco horror.
At Winnemucka, New, westbound
freigt train No. 205 was wrecked ana
Fireman F. J. Jones Instantly killed.
]. Thomas Baldwin, the famous land
master. ia dead from blood poisoning.
the result Of a simple injury. He was
born In Lowell, Mass.
The American Sheet Steel company
has announced an advance OF u per
ton on black sheets. with correspond
ing advance on galvanized sheets.
The municipal council Of Speyer
has adopted resolution to place q
commemorative tablet In the house
where the late Henry Willard was
born.
Oscar Wilde is dead. He expired in
an obscure house in the Latin Quarter
Of Paris from meningitis and was re-
ceived into the Catholic church on his
deathbed.
The Canadian railroad employees
have complained to the government
against the importation of United
States labor while they are debarred
from entering the United States.
The attempt of Turkey to pay on In
demnity by giving q contract to Amer
leans is a trick. The Cramps are amaz-
ed. They do not understand that the
government shall participate in profits
they earn.
A boiler exploded recently eight
miles west of Bellefontaine. Ohio, kill
ing Upton Moore and Heiley Heaton.
Charles Mohr was fatally hurt. They
were farmers and were engaged In
shredding fodder.
Mrs. Emma Van Mewah, convicted
Of murder in the first degree for having
caused the death Of Mrs. Alice Hammel
by throwing vitriol in her face Septem-
Der %, pleaded guilty to manslaughter
and was sentenced to the Ohio peniten-
tiary for 10 years.
The Northern Pacific railroad has
decided to substitute the telephone for
the present telegraph system Of the
road and will build and equiD long dis.
lance and divisional telephone lines to
take the place OF the telegraph where.
ever 1t Is deemed practicable.
Z The officials of the United States en-
bassy say they have not received any
Instructions in regard to taking furth
er steps for the release from Working
prison In London Of Mrs. Florence
Maybrick, who is under sentence of i'm
prisonment for life on conviction ol
poisoning her husband.
The death of Admiral McNair will
bring about number of promotions
IN the navy, the more important being
Captain John J. Read to the rank ol
rear admiral, Commander w. T. Bur
we'll to the rank Of Captain, and Lieu
tenant Commander ]. A. H. Nichols K
the rank Of commander, with other ad
vances all along the line.
The largest stock of gold and bullior
ever held In the United States is nov
accumulated in the treasury and itl
branches. The total has been risinf
steadily during the whole Of the pres
ent year, and is now $474,108, 1886, o.
about $76,000,000 create than at tn,
close Of 1899. This gold is not all th'
direct property Of the United States
Dut Is held against outstanding golt
certificates. The amount OF these les
the amount in the treasury and 1t
branches. was $240,755.809 Wednesday
All the remaining gold, amounting Il
ABOUT $243,000.000, belongs to the treas
ury as part of the reserve fund Q
slSO,OO0.O00. The influx OF gold int
tne treasury comes partly from tn
new gold from the Klondike and othe
mines, but it's retention is due to tn
pressure for currency. which leads t
tne acceptance of gold certificates an
otner paper money In preference to tn
COIN. The treasury recently has bee
sMpping small notes in large quaint
ues to New Orleans and other point
upon deposits of gold In the New Yor
suotreasury by the New York reserv
agents OF the southern banks.
Ihe Arbuckles have advanced the pric
" refined sugar FIVE points.
AT Sofia. Bulgaria, the cabinet has n
signed, owing to ministerial differences.
george Won l. Meyer of Boston ha
oeen named by the president as ambasss
dor to Italy.
Inc queens recent speech was the shor1
est on record. 1t consisted of single Sci
.ehee announcing that parliament ha
peen summoned to provide supplies fc
ohe life was lost and several person
were injured in a fire that early today d
s,royed the large structural iron works I
ueorge L. Mesker Co. and Lowenthal
commlssiOn houae in Cvauav;lla Ind III