The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-08-11
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
Complete Review Of the Events for
the Past Week In This and For
eign Lands-SummariseA TFon the
Latest Dispatches.

There have been four cases of plague
and two deaths from plague in London.
William J. Bryan in large measure
will be his own campaign manager this
year.
The new Japanese minister, Kogoro |
Takahira, has laid his credentials be-
fore the president.
Captain John Macintosh, senior
commander of the Ward line fleet, is
dead at his home in Jersey City, aged
63.
The war loan has been issued in Lon
don in the form Of f10,000,000 3 per
cent exchequer bonds at SO, repayable
at par in 1908.
1t is reported that straight cut of
Is per cent has been ordered IN wages
of every employe by the American Steel
& Wire Company.
The population of Milwaukee, Wis,
according to the count just completed
at the census Office, is 2S5,315. In 1890
the population was 204,468.
John w. Trowbridge. widely known
newspaper illustrator, formerly chief of
the art department Of the Anaconda
Standard, died at his home in Engle-
wood, N. j., of cancer of the liver.
Alexander Jester, the octogenarian,
who has been on trial at New London,
Mo-, for the past two weeks for the MUIR
der 20 years ago Of Gilbert Gates, was
acquitted. The jury took three ballots.
President Kruger and Commandant
General Botha have issued proclama-
tion promising to pay all damage done
to farms by the British providing the
burghers remain with the commandos.
One of three leather mail pouches in
transit from the general postofice to
the sub-station 20" at Fifth avenue and
Thirteenth station, N. Y, was robbed
of more than $4,000 in drafts and
checks.
Martha Hendricks, aged II, and Paul
Warner, an clipping couple, lost their
lives near Poplar Bluff, Mo-, by drown
ing in the Currant river while attempt
ing to escape from the angry father Of
the girl.
Information from Rome is printed to
the effect that Antonio Lanas arrested
as an accomplice of Bresci, has con-
fessed, affirming that plot existed in
volving the simultaneous assassination
of King Humbert and Queen Marghe-
rita.
On the Canadian Pacific railway the
machinists, blacksmiths, boiler makers,
filters, laborers and locomotive paint
ers struck from Lake Superior to the
Pacific coast at Moose Jaw, Medicine
Hat, Revelstoke, Kamloopos, Vancou-
yer, Winnipeg, La Grande, Field and
Cranbrook.
Great forest fires continue to burn In
the Sierra Madre mountains. Unless
the flames are soon checked, a large
portion of the San Gabriel forest re-
serve in addition to the $4,000 or 10000
square miles already devastated will be
laid waste.
After one of the most bitterly con-
tested campaigns ever known in North
Carolina, the democrats and white
supremacy triumphed by majority of
about 10000. Today's election dis
franchises the negro and changes the
state legislature from it's common ma
jority of republicans and populists to
straight democratic, insuring the de-
feat of Marion Butler for reelection as
United States senator.
At the recent meeting of the French
cabinet it was announced that the
would-be assassin of the shah of Persia
had given his name as Salson. A man
of this name, who had been regarded
and watched as an anarchist, disap
peared from Paris in 1895 and had not
since been located.
| A special from Evanston, Wyo., says
that the Union Pacific will soon begin
work on a big cutoff. The plan is tc
construct new road between Evan
ston and Salt Lake, avoiding Echo can
yon and several other points, with Og
den on a branch line. It Is said the
surveys have been made and part of thu
contracts already let.
Lieutenant Bresci, brother Of Kins
Humbert's assassin, has informed tn,
colonel Of his regiment of his intention
to leave the army and change his name
He will be provided with an appoint
ment in the civil administration.
duel with sabers has been fought be
tween Captain Tani and Captain Bac
cilli on the subject of Lieutenant Bres
CTS course. Baccilli was wounded OF
the sixth onslaught.
President Steyn OF the Orange Free STATE
is seriously i'll.
There is much lawlessness at Cape Nome
The camp is overrun by thieves and
otner desperate characters.
Count Lamsdorff, who was recently
placed at the head of foreign affairs, has
been appointed permanent foreign minis
ter.
A cable dispatch received from Blue.
fields, Nicaragua, gives details of fire last
night which did $4,000 damage in the
heart of the town.
A Bellefontaine car of the st. Louis
Transit company was recently blown uI
at North st. Louis. 1t is the first case oi
daylight dynamiting since the strike oc.
Cured.