The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-02-03
Gen. Day is dead at Cedar Rapids.

Gen. Day is dead at Cedar Rapids
la.
Plague Is In New Caledonia and the
natives believe 1t is q visitation OF
Providence.
The officials will disinfect mail at
Spokane If there Is any danger that il
may spread contagion.
Chapelles position in the Philippines
is an ecclesiastical one and he will an.
swer only to the pope.
On Feb. the Canadian law makers
meet at Ottawa. Two ideas are FREEDOM.
mating. One Is to pay the volunteers
the other to correct abuses of the rail.
roads.
Okver Pike has turned up. He dis
appeared from an asylum for the In.
sane In Ohio four years ago, being EN-.
ployed at that time as an attendant
and has been missing ever since.
James Z. Muse, charged with having
emblezzled $500 from the Title Guaran.
tee & Trust Company of Portland, Ore,
nearly year ago. has been arrested in
Kansas City.
Mrs. Matte D. Rich, who Is alleged
to have shot and killed her husband,
John d. Rich, at Ciudad Juarez, Mex,
has been sentenced to IA years in a
Mexican prison as her punishment.
The steamship Lisbones, which has
arrived at New York from Brazilian
ports. rescued at sea Capt. Somerville
and five seamen. the crew Of the British
schooner Allan D. Mcintyre, which was
abandoned In a waterlogged condition
Jan. 20. The Mcintyre was bound
from Pensacola for st. Croix, w. 1.
A great strike of carpenters employ.
ed on the exposition buildings at Paris,
involving 5000 men, has been inaugu-
rated. The strikers demand an increase
Of wages from IL sous to l franc per
hour.
The plant OF the Angora Manufacture
ing Company at Philadelphia was de-
stroyed by fire and one of the employees,
Lizzie Blackburn, aged II, is missing.
Her body is believed to be in the ruins.
The loss is about $780, 900. partly COW
cred by insurance.
Billy Smith landed on Frank McCon.
nell with right hook on the jaw and
forced the pace from the opening, but
was denied his chance to win the mon
ey until the twenty-second round, at
New York recently.
1t Is reported that six Americans
died near Guaymas at the hands of
Mexicans. The story goes that they
were prOspectors and found in friendly
Intercourse with the Yaquis, whom the
troops surrounded In The range.
Five men were killed and eight badly
injured as result Of a runaway train
and an explosion Of dynamite that fol.
lowed on the Central Railroad of New
Jersey at Ashley, Pa. The complete list
of the dead Is: Frank Mclaughlin.
brakeman; Michael Bird. brakeman;
Peter Frey, engine wiper, Charles Ha-
ney and an unknown tramp
Word has reached Chicago that Count
Ernst Wilhelm. Baron Won Biedenfel, is
the British with the soldiers
of Dom Paul. This nobleman, who left
Chicago last April. following his &C.
Quittal Of the murder of Constable A.
Is said to be in the thick of
the South African war as a commits.
stoned officer in Boer regiment.
The death of j. A. Pryor by suicide oc.
CURED recently in his cabin near Pine CITY.
Bnbonic plague is abating and the fear
full epidemic at Honolulu is apparently
under control.
The speech Of Queen Victoria at the
opening Of the seventh session of l4th par
Lament breathes OF war.
Colonel w. j. Bryan was the central
figure of an unusual demonstration in
Mechanics hall recently at Boston.
The steamer Goodwin sailing from Ia
coma recently for China, went on the