The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07

lean athletes ct the summer meeting
of the London Athletic Club at Siam
ford Bridge. Saturday, tho Princeton
men alone competed, but the Pennsyl-
vanians and 0eorgetowns wsre inter
ested spectators. All the Americans
appeared to be in excellent trim and
said they were feeling fine. Perry of
Princeton was entered for today's mile
race, but was not allowed to compete,
owing to. the fact that he was suffering
from water in the knee. which will
probably debar him also from next Sat
urday's contest.
There are from 25 to s5 seriously in
jured, some fatally.
Women Of Iowa can not vote is the ue-
cision handed down by the court, but it
may be.appealed
According to . dispatch from Cape
Town, President Kruger is reported to
have moved to- Nelspruit, the Yransvaal
station for Lydenburg.
A car lon the Webster 4 Dudley street
railway and car on the Worcester 4
Webster road came together on down
grade at East Webster, Mass. Nearly a
score Of persons were injured, three of
whom it is feared may die.
The dead: j. II. Hamilton, genera. su-
perintendent; Bradley Reeves, engineer;
ruward Shannon, telegraph operator;
Nardmaster Carr, Master Mechanic La
lime and Conductor Bradford.
| Quarrermaster Captain Chas. T. Baker
of the U. s. a. transport Sumner will
shortly appear before San Francisco su-
perior judges to show cause why he should
not be compelled to pay $lO,OvO damages
for assaulting and imprisoning John Cal
way, formerly chief steward Of the same
vessel.
A complaint has been filed in which
Galway alleges that on june 8 Baker as
saulted and imprisoned him in compart-
nient six feet square. Here, he says, he
was kept on bread and water for two days
and nights in a temperature which varied
from ~ to l2O degrees The complaint is
backed by several affidavits.
On the Fourth in New York
city in the. search for victims of the
North German Lloyd fire three bodies
were found off Fourth street. One was
identified as that of longshoreman
named Henry Kunz. The two others were
charred beyond recognition. A fourth
body was taken from the river at the foo,
of Bay street, Jersey City. 1t was that
of painter on the Saale.
Charles Wesley Dickinson, inventor ol
the geometry G lathe, which made sue
cessful counterfeiting Of bank notes inn
possible, is dead at his .home in Belleville
N. j., aged II. He manufactured ma
chimes for banA note engraving for ths
United States and many foreign govern
ments.
The Crucible Steel Company of Americs
is proceeding rapidly toward its forma
tion. On Monday the directors of the
Benjamin Atha 4 Illingsworth Company
of harrison, N. J.,. which was the last O.
the important companies to hold out, met
in Newark and decided to grant the pro
moters an option on their crucible and
open hearth plant and cast their fortunes
with the other concerns. The new com
pany will have an authorized capital o.
$50, 100000.
At the Ohio River railroad shops il
Parkersburg, w. Va, yard engine run
ming at good rate Of speed went through
an accidentally opened switch and strucl
large train of gasoline cars. One o
the tanks took tre. A cannon ball wa!
fired through the remaining tanks of oil t
let the fluid out. Instantly after the sho
was fired one tank exploded. The smok
rose hundreds of feet into the air, ant
after it had cleared away dead bodie
were scattered here and tnere and injured
were lying all over the surrounding terri
tory.
AS a result of the celebration of Inde
, pendence day with firearms, toy cannon
giant crackers and other forms of expl0
sives 80 persons were killed and 1922
/. wounded, according to reports receivet
from l25 cities. The toy pistol and tn
toy cannon are shown to have done a
deadly execution as sometimes has beel
, done in war, as those loaded with bullet
and aimed to kill. Skyrockets and powde
explosions, the premature discharge o
Fourth of July cannon help to complet
the list of mishaps. In several instance
persons were killed through runaway ac
'. cidents due directly to fireworks.
A fire loss of $lZ5y 900 was caused by tn
fireworks. s .
In Chicago boy was killed. There wer
no costly fires in the city. Frankfort, Ky
alone suffered a fire loss Of 100000 due :
! firecrackers. Other cities also suffere
heavily. Out of this total of 1925 peopl
hurt, 442 can attribute their injuries t
crackers and dynamite torpedoes. TIL
deadly cannon firecrackers did most Of tn
execution. Out of l52 injuries by firearm
. in 81 cities the toy pistol caused lOo.
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