The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-03-03
|TEMS FROM ALL AROUND
'rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
4 Complete Review of the EvenNs for
the Past Week In This and For.
eign Lands-Summarise From the
Latest Dispatches.

Schurman says a happy day for the
Philippines is coming.
The transport Hancock Is at San
Francisco with cargo OF dead soldiers
ON board.
Fifty passengers on Chicago elec-
trio car were shocked by electricity. A
panic followed, but nobody was serious
iy hurt
Low Sing. Chinese. recently convict
ed Of murder at Bingham City and SEN
fenced to be shot, committed suicide by
hanging himself in his cell at Salt
Lake.
Several cases of the plague and one
death have occurred at Alden. Drastic
measures have been taken to prevent
the spread of the disease.
The senate at Paris, sitting as high
court, has sentenced Deputy Marcoll-
Habert to five years Imprisonment for
melting soldiers to characterization.
Senator Gallinger has favorably re-
ported from the committee on COM
merce the bill for the appointment Of
committee to visit Asia in the interest
Of trade.
BY direction Of the president, the new
military post at Magnolia Bluff. near
Seattle, will be hereafter known and
designated as Fort Lawton, in honor Of
the late Major General Lawton.
Discussing the pending Nicaragua
canal treaty. l.. G. Cooley. the we'll
known engineer, says that perhaps the
easiet way out OF the confusion would
be for the United States to annex Mic
aragua.
Emilio Cashua, who was rough rid
er, has been released from Jail at Ha-
vana by Gov. Wood. He was serving a
three years. sentence for having killed
Lieut., Martinez of the Cuban army last
March.
The explosion of gasoline stove in
the basement of the Metropolitan hotel
at Birmingham, Ala, was followed by
a fire which burned that building and
the adjoining block, causing loss of
about $16O.0O0.
The final stamping out of the plague
at Yokohama has been officially an
nounced, and all quarantine measures
are suspended. OF the 20 cases of
plague reported from all quarters, only
one person survived.
The Masonic temple, the finest struc-
ture in London, Ont, was destroyed by
fire. The loss is estimated at 100000.
The Great Northwestern telegraph Of
f1ce and the Grand Opera house, which
occupied part Of the building, are
among the places ruined.
There will be q conference between
the Chinese Laundrymen's Association
and the Laundrymen's Protective Asso-
citation at New York, with the idea Of
getting the Cinnamon to advance their
present low rates to the schedule fixed
by the white mems association.
A dispatch from Brussels says: Pri-
vate letters from Pretoria announce
that Mrs. Kruger, the wife of the presi-
dent, is very i'll. The war has grievous-
ly impressed her, and her health is also
impaired by anxiety for her numerous
sons and grandsons fighting for their
country, one of whom was killed at
Derdepoort.
The 5000 Yaqui prisoners recently
taken from the Yaqui country to Man
zanillo have left Colima for Guadala-
jara. They are guarded by three COM
panies of government troops. The trip
will be long and fatiguing, as the Sierra
Madre mountains have to be crossed.
That the demand for American iron
work and machinery is rapidly increas-
ing in all quarters of the globe Is Illus
trated by the fact that half q dozen
steamships are now loading at New
York with cargoes to be used in the
construction of bridges and edifices in
as many different parts ot the world.
One woman was killed, several others
severely injured, and property valued
at half q million dollars was destroyed
by fire in the heart of the wholesale
millinery district at Philadelphia. The
burned area covers nearly two acres.
The woman killed was Clara Cohen,
aged 26, seamstress in the employ of
Harris & Bernard Cohen. She met her
death by jumping from the fifth floor
of the building in which the fire start.
ed.
Joe Walcott, the Barbados negro, re-
ceived the decision over Joe Choynski
of California in the seventh round of
what was to be 25-round bout before
the Broadway Athletic Club at New
York. Choynski was practically out.
classed and received very severe pun
ishment. All through the fight Walcott
was on the aggressive. He rushed
Choynski, sending his right to the
stomach and left to the head at will.
In the first round Choynski was floored
FIVE times.
Secretary Root is said to be gong on a
visit to Cuba.
1t is reported that Russia has come to
New York to borrow $25,OOO,OOO.
Complainants have backing of eight
million dollars to fight the tobacco trust
The anti-free pass bill failed to pass in
the Iowa legislature. It was killed by one
vote.