The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-04-28

city Of Elizabeth. N. J., a public library
building, fully equipped, the whole to cost
100000.
c. A. Pitcher, q mining man, poisoned
himsslf with cyanide Of potassium at q
Seattle lodging house recently. Dsspond-
eney over financial troubles 10 supposed to
have been the cause.
The viceroy Of Canton has taken active
measures to capture Au San and Fo Tsan-
hoi, leaders Of the Saichiu brigands. A
reward OF $1,000 and official rank are Of
fersd for the capture Of each.
Three persona were killed and three Sc
verely injured in q fire recently at New
York, in the six-story tenement house at
"a Forsyth street. The dead are: Hanna
Liebowitz, Alelie Eebowitz, Joseph Lie
bowitz, all children.
One man was blown almost to atoms,
two men received injuries probably fatal,
and eight men and one girl received seri-
GUS injuries by an explosion Of several
kegs Of blasting powder and dynamite at
Larimer, Pa.
The plague seems to have entirely dis
appeared at Honolulu, and the United
States consul has issued the first clean
bill of health to a vessel departing from
here since December IL to the schooner
Bertha Miner, which sailed for Puget
sound on the l4th.
Seven thousand troops have been dis
patched to Shan Tung to suppress the in
surrection there, while the threatened ris-
ing in Canton seems to have ended in
smoke There comes statement that
around Wei Hai-Wei the people are band.
ed to oppose the British and serious dis
turbances are apprehended there.
The money market Of Toxic is in
state Of stringency. The banks have
raised the rate of interest and are taking
precautions in advancing money. Share
quotations are rapidly declining. Baron
Hayashi, the newly appointed Japanese
minister to England. leaves Japan for Lon
don, May s.
Elmer L. Sheetz was arrested in San
Francisco as he was boarding vessel for
Cape Nome. Sheetz was a st. Louis
broker, and on October "a last he was ar
rested for fraud and gave bonds. He
jumped the bond and came west and has
been in this city since March. He organ
lied company to exploit Cape Nome.
Twenty-six years ago the prince of
Wales succeeded the marquis Of Ripon as
grand master Of English Freemasons and
Wednesday the anniversary was observed
by his reinstallation in the office with
elaborate ceremonies. The prince appeared
in his robes of office and with full regalia
and the ceremonies were participated in by
prominent members of the order from
many parts of the United Kingdom. Chief
among those invited to the ceremonies was
King Oscar Of Norway and Sweden, who
is grand master Of the order in the Scan
imavian peninsula, having held the office
before his ascension to the throne. Con-
gratulatory messages were received by the
prince OF Wales from the crown prince of
Denmark and Prince Frederick Leopold of
Prussia, who hold the office of grand mas
ter among the Freemasons of their re-
spective countries.
A strong company has been organized
to operate railroads in Cuba.
Massachusetts republicans have en-.
dorsed Secretary of the Navy Long for
vice president.
Mrs. Jeanette Adams, who recently
shot and killed her husband, the Cincin.
natl agent of the Union Pacific railway,
was acquitted of the charge of murder.
Senator Mason has introduced a joint
resolution to withdraw the United States
troops from Cuba, so as to turn the gov.
eminent of that island over to the Gu.
bans by July 4.
The attacks of the strikers in the
building trades labor war upon the non.
union workmen were continued, mob
assailing two teamsters, and an aged car
penter being badly beaten by trio of
strike sympathizers.
Twenty-Five hundred employees of the
New York Central railroad shops and
yards have gone out on strike in Buffa.
10. An increase in wages and the rein
statement of men alleged to have been
unjustly discharged are demanded by the
men.
Burglars blew open the vaults Of the
Bank Of Coultsrvills, ILL.,, with dynamite
recently and secured $1,000, nearly all in
currency, and escaped. The burglars muf-
fled the sound OF the explosion SO we'll
that nothing was known of the robbery
until the cashier opened the doors of his