The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-05-05
The TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events OF
the Past Week-In This and F0r-
eiwn Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

Latest Dispatches.
The death of Lehman Blum, a rich
merchant of Portland. Ore. has oc-
Cured in San Francisco.
John Addison Porter, former private
secretary to President Mckinley, Is re-
ported to be seriously i'll in New York
City.
The vault of the Massanulten bank
at Strasberg, Va., was blown open by
burglars and $4,000 taken. The bur-
glars escaped on hand-car.
Vaudeville theatres are to be CON-
PEELED to abandon their so-called con-
tinuous performance at the instigation
of Chief Sanitary Inspector Young OF
the Chicago health department.
1t is reported at Hong Kong that
Consul General Wildman is leaving Tor
the United States to run for vice presi-
dent. He has been requested by re-
publican leaders in the west, 1t Is SAID,
to stand for nomination. a--....
Admiral Hichborn, chief constructor
of the navy, will leave Washington ON
May 10 on an extended trip to the Pa
cific coast with the purpose of inspect
ing the Mare Island navy yard and the
naval station at Bremerton, on Puget
Sound.
Commissioner Hermann of the gen.
eral land Office has made an adverse
report on a bill submitted for his con-
sideration providing for the appoint
ment Of commission to classify min
eral lands within railroad land grant
limits in California.
Warren Miller, fireman in William
Andersons logging camp near Bay Gen.
ter, Wn., had the top OF his head blown
off in boiler explosion. It is supposed
that the water was low in the boiler
and an explosion followed. The en-
gineer escaped with slight scalding.
The first detachment of regular
troops that have served two years in
active service in the Philippines to be
returned to this country, have arrived
in San Francisco on the transport
Sherman from Manila via Nagasaki.
They are the home battalion of the
Fourteenth regiment. -
In case of defeat the Beers will not stay
in Transvaal, but will seek new homes.
General Merritt is relieved at his own
request from command of the department
of the east.
Allen has been formally inaugumted as
governor of Puerto Rico, the American
colony. The entire populace turned out.
Boilermakers to the number of 25O have
gone out on strike at Chicago, thus CON-
pletely tying up the % shops in which
they had been employed.
General Otis will not return from lie
Philippines untn the autumn, as has been
reported. He will probably be assigned
to the department of California.
Judge Cantrill Wednesday ordered
change of venue to Scott county for the
trial of Powers, Davis and others charged
with completely in the Goebel murder at
Frankfort, Ky.
Katherine Lotus, the l4-year-old daugh-
ter of Patrick Lotus, of Seattle, was 80
seriously burned at her home while light
ing fire, that she died few hours later
from the effects.
Bankers estimate that the American
visitors to the Paris exposition will spend
abroad this year $4O,OOO,O0O more than
Is usually spent by Americans in Europe
during the vacation season.
1t is feared that Eric Ericsson and Pete
Foss have found their tombs in the Great
Lardo glacier. Their bodies will remain
in their sepulchre of ice till snow melts
IN June and they can be given earth to
earth burial. The two Swedes were
miners
AndrQw flrnonia -hO L.
tribute to the Dewey arch, has given
$1,000 to the fund for the widow of Ser
geant Douglas, who was killed at Croton
Dam during the recent strike. In sending
the check MIR. Carnegie wrote: Sergeant
douglas fought not for foreign conquest,
put Tor peace and order at home."
Robert Wilson, private in the Sixth.
onlted States artillery, was fatally shot
IN san francisco while walking win Mrs.
"hlam Denner, wife of private in Conf
pahy IL, Eighth infantry. The shooting
Is generally thought to have been an at
tempt at murder, though there are some
suggestions at suicide.
Two hundred Klondike miners are
s'ampeding up White river, Alaska, to the
scene OF tne latest gold discovery. The
hna was made last winter on a na1neless
tributary OF the river which empties into
.he Yukon, IL miles above the mouth of
stewart river. According to reports re-
'eived recently ait Dawson, the diggings
yield from $40 to $50 per man. but little
~ known as to their extent. The gold is
coarse and pans give from 10 to SO cents
AL: Inc Standard Oil company, the biggest
alvlaend payer among American indus
'flai corporations, gladdened the hearts
vi its stockholders Tuesday by declaring
quarterly dividend of $40 per share. nav,
aoie on June 10. This makes an arpre.
gaze OF $50 per share which the great
.'as1 mas placed to the credit of stock
noiaers since January l, last. John ID.
.,oeNeieiier owns individually 10000
snafes OF stock of the Standard Oil Com
pahy' his fortune will therefore be aug.
"eiited by ss.l0O,O0O as a result of the