The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-03-10
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review Of the Events for
the Past Week-In This and Foreign
Lsnds-Taken From the Latest Dis-
patches.

L0nds-Token From the Latest Ola-
patches.
Soldiers in the Philippines find frozen
meats good food.
The revolution in Colombia is growing,
and the rebels are said to be gaining
ground.
Congressman Sydney Epes Of Virginia,
who was operated upon for appendicitis,
died at GARFIELD hospital, Washington.
In the football game between Oxford
and Cambridge the former won by two
goals. Cambridge did not score a goal.
There was a moderate attendance.
Ambassador Choate will be instructed to
call the attention of the British foreign
office to the determinations against Amer
ican dentists in England with a view to
having them removed.
The Montreal express on the Canadian
Pacific jumped the track between Ponty
Pool and Burketon and bounded down a
steep embankment, the coaches toppling
over one another as they neared the bot
tom of the incline.
General Joseph Lacret Molet and Felipe
Prise, Cuban leaders, called at the war
department and had an interview with
Acting Secretary Meikeljohn relative to
the appearance in Cuba Of Bishop Sbar-
retti. They objected very strongly to his
presence there.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has started for
a trip to Cuba. Mrs. Roosevelt intends
to make personal inspection of the
homes, the home life, the opportunities
and conditions of the people and to spend
a month in the prosecution of her studies.
The figures on the product of tobacco
for January show an increase for Cincin-
natl and vicinity over last January. The
increase in the tobacco output, according
to the Western Tobacco Journal for JAN
uary was 6,642,959 pounds, or 81 per cent
over December, 1899, and 2,949, ,995 pounds,
or IA per cent over January, 1899.
Tube workers get an increase of 10 per
cent at McKeesport, Penn.
Secretary of War Root has arrived and
was warmly welcomed at Havana.
A civil war is threatened as the result
of dethroning the Chinese emperor.
The Seattle election resulted in a sweep
ing victory for the republican ticket.
A case that looks like the plague has
appeared in San Francisco's Chinatown
Ex-President Harrison is with the Bosrs,
as he is said to have no sympathy with
the English.
Carnegie has not yet filed answer to
charges of Frick and the suits may be
compromised.
Omaha went republican in the recent
election. Mayor Moores and majority
of the council were reelected.
The president has nominated Corporal
F. M. Polk of Company G, Thirty-ninth
infantry, to be second lieutenant United
States volunteers.
The rush of subscription orders for the
Sheldon edition of the Topeka Capital has
broken all the records Of the Topeka post
office, the number of subscriptions receiv-
ed in two days being upward of 10000.
Acting Secretary Meikeljohn sent to
the house of representatives statement
of expenditures by the war department
covering the military operations in the
Philippines, including outstanding liabili-
ties from May /, 1898, to Nov. !, ls99
The total is given at $4s, 1903 900, the prin-
cipal items being: Quartermaster's de-
partment, $27,7l5,0Ol, of which 1885,
S64 is for army transportation; subsist-
ence department, $95O,0OO; medical de-
partment, $l,2O6,l37; pay department.
$l0,833, ,l34; ordnance department, 81 $780,
239.
Staying of American officers brings big
money in the Philippines. The man who
shot General Lawton was given purse
of $25, 900, it is said, and an incentive is
offered others to kill colonels and gener.
ais.
Debs will be nominated as the choice of
the socialist democrats for president.
One hundred deaths occurred during the
past week with smallpox in, Mississippi.
The death rate increases. Grip and pneu-
monia are proving fatal in New York.
On the queens visit to ireland newspa-
pers predict she will be given a chilly re-
ception.
During big fire at Paris the famous
Theatre Francais was completely de-
stroyed.
Forty buildings were destroyed in the
town of Lead, S. D., during big fire. Loss
$5OO,OOO.
Students of Bordeaux INDUCED in
pro-Boer riot recently, and attacked the
consulate.
Tax on bills of lading is upheld, as
federal jury declared against the Northern
Pacific's exemption in Minnesota.
General Wheeler, the renowned fighter,
also has sound ideas on trade. He says
the possibilities opened up in the Orient
by American control are great, and we
must not give them up now. He believes
the islands are now ready for territorial
form of government.
Our soldiers are to come home after
two years of continuous service in the
Philippines. They are no longer needed,
as there is no further resistance from an