The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-09-15
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
Complete Review Of the Events Of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the Lat
est Dispatches.

l..
est Dispatches.
The Pittsburg Fifth Avenue Savings ,
& Loan Association OF McKeesport, Pa,
is insolvent.
The English salt market is excited
over the report that an American syn
dictate cOvets control of the British salt
market.
The business portion Of the town of
Mantow, 72 miles south on the Peoria
& st. Louis railroad. was destroyed by
fire.
Lulu Turbening, an insane woman
confined in the Wayne county, Mich,
asylum, garroted another female in
sane inmate named Rebecca Tiernan,
causing her instant death.
Deciduous fruit shipments from Cali
fornia to eastern points SO far this sea-
son show falling off OF 225 carloads,
as compared with the same period last
year.
Thomas Potten and his niece, Annie
Potten, aged 13, drowned in White
river, near Waverly, Ind. The girl had
gone in bathing and got beyond her
depth, and her uncle went to her res
cue.
John Reider, veteran of the civil
| war, killed his wife and himself at
their home in Brooklyn recently. He
= was So years Of age and his wife 20
years younger. Jealousy was the
I cause.
General Nelson A. Miles and F.
Michener, aide de camp; Major J. D.
Black of Valley City; J. v. Foster, of
Evanston, ILL.,; Thurman Miles and
Mrs. Miles, are on their way to the
coast, inspecting posts On the way.
The American manufacturers PROM
ise to be rewarded by securing orders
for 300 large coal trucks, involving
f15O,OO0, about to be placed by gold
mining companies on the Rand, of
which quick delivery is vitality import
ant
| The Athens, o., officers, accompanied
by posse, had pitched battle with
alleged safeblowers at Canaanville to-
day. James Watkins and Henry Viii.
liams were captured after rs shots had
been exchanged. Watkins was serious
ly wounded.
The much discussed plan of Prince
7 Andre Poniatowski to control end con
| duct racing at Tanforan and Ingleside
| has taken definite form. The Sar
| Francisco Jockey Club has been organ
lied, with 100000 of preferred stock
and similar amount of common stock
| Reports from northern Labrador re
veal the existence Of great distres:
among the shore men, owing to the ict
remaining on the coast SO long. Man!
vessels have been crushed in the foes
losing their supplies and fishing out
fits. The others are meeting with bu
poor success. The Labrador cod fish
cry is virtual failure.
II The census bureau up to last Satur
day, had tabulated the returns of s.
cities. These show population of IA
644,711. This is an average increase II
population per city of 27.90 per cent
The same cities in 1890 had popula
ton of II, ,15O,045, making total gail
= of 3,494,666. The percentage of In
crease in 1890 was calculated on tn
aggregate gain and not on the averag
n increase per city. The result was tina
the percentage of gain, according t
the census bureau officials, while al
pearing to be larger, namely, 31.33, wa
not so in fact, owing TO the differen
method followed in making the calc,
lations.
Drunken negroes have started severa
bloody fights at Huron, Indiana.
Will fight as guerrillas is the decision al
rived at by council of Boer leaders.
The ballot for democratic candidate fc
governor of New York resulted Stancl
field 294 Coler l54, Mackey l.
The plague is again increasing at Siml
Over $4,000 deaths are reported TO hay
occurred in India during the last week.
The hard coal syndicate in Silesia an
the Rhine provinces have driven up IL
~ prices of hard coal 25 per cent and Sc
coal in Berlin is so per cent higher.
= 1t is now said that the otherwise inc
plicable suicide of Arma Senkrah, tt
American violinist, formerly Miss Har
ness, who married Herr Hoffman,
Weimar attorney, was due to anonymo
letter-writers whom the Weimar police a
now endeavoring to trace.
The state department has received fro
Senor Aspiroz, the Mexican ambassador,
communication conveying the invitation
Mexico to the United States to participa
in the international congress to be held
. the City of Mexico, beginning October
1901.
Battered and damaged by the territ
gale that swept over Lake Michigan
Gently the steamer Flint of the Pere Ma
quette Line arrived in port September
after the narrowest escape from disast
ever experienced by passenger steamer
the lake. Thirty passengers were more
less injured by the trip.
The fight of President Kruger to Lorer
. Marques may enable General Botha
:. open negotiations with General Butler a
. bring the war to close
Lord Roberts reports from Machadodt
that General French was heavily engae
with the Beers in the hills west of Barb
T. ton and that General Hutton had gone
~ Go,ar,l Erauchs Sunport