The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-07-07
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE woRLDM BRIEF
\ Complete Review Of the Events Of
the Past Week-In This and FOr-
eisn Iands-TakeA From the Lat-
est Dispatches. tyass

The Nilsson rendering Works near
Cheektowaga, N. Y. burned recently.
LOSS 100000.
David Bell. formerly q wellknown
lumberman of Canada, Is dead at his
home in New York.
The battleship The Oregon went
ashore OF Hoo Kie island. Jardine,
Mathieson & Co. are sending her assist
ance.
Two slaughter houses in Chicago. oc-
cupied by Hess Brothers and Ruddy
Brothers. were destroyed by fire re-
Gently. Total loss $4,000.
Pugilist Tom Sharkey and Mrs. LII
liam Bauer. a widow OF q Chicago sa-
loon keeper, will be married this week.
Sharkey met Mrs. Bauer while in Chi
cago this spring.
Thomas w. Flannelly, who murdered
his father, David Flannelly. and sher-
iff W.P. McEvoy, Of San Meteo county
CAL. the night Of October 26th. 1897, at
Redwood city. was hanged today. He
had nothing to. say ON the scaffold.
A private telegram received from
Colombia, says the situation at Cartha-
gena and Savanilla is very grave, that
fighting is proceeding and that the for
eign residents are leaving hurridly..
One fireman was killed and IL 9th.
er fremen injured and nearly 100000
worth Of property destroyed by fire in
the machine shop Of the Best Manufac-
turing Company on Twenty-fifth street,
Pittsburgh. David Williams is dead.
The assessment on the Sunset Tele.
graph & Telephone Company has been
raised by Assessor Dodge of San Fran.
cisco. to $1,00O,000. Heretofore the
corporation has never paid taxes on
more than an assessed valuation OF
$25, 900 for its franchise.
The transport Grant, which will sail
Monday for Nagasaki, and thence, II
is believed, to Chefoo or Taku, will car.
ry 800 men of the Sixth Cavalry, which
in addition to a hospital corps made up
at the Presidio, 800 recruits and zoo
marines, will constitute the force.
I Judge Arthur H. Noyes, of Minneap
oils, the newly appointed jurist for the
Second United States District Of Alas
ka, comprising the st. Michael and
Cape Nome Districts, arrived in Seat
tie en- route to his post Of duty. He
is accompanied by his wife and official
staff.
The reduction in wages at the Brook
lyn navy yards, will be from to 6
cents a day in the following grades
Plumbers helpers, block makers. brass
finishers, tin roofers, wire workers
pattern makers, tool makers and boiler
makers. There has been an increase
Of about 25 cents for the wharf build
ers and ordinance men.
/ The steamer George w. Elder has ar
rived in Portland, nine days from Cape
Nome. The Elders passage was 9
quick one. She left here on May 26
and arrived at Nome on June IA. Tht
Elder brings news of two shooting at
trays which occurred at Nome recent
ly. On June 18, A. G. Lucas, watch
man for the Alaska Commercial Com
pany, while guarding some land for thu
company, was accostei by J.. Lyons
dnOtuCE C1dlmhuls AO AACA OOCoAAs
involved in an alteration and Luca.
shot Lyons, the bullet taking effect IL
the mans stomach. Lyons was alst
armed, and fred i've shots at Lucas, al
taking effect. Lyons wound was fata
and he died the following day.
Soldiers are to be better paid To-
service in Puerto Rica, Alaska and th'
Philippines in the future.
Rear Admiral Philip. commandant o
the Brooklyn navy yard died Saturda!
afternoon of heart disease
The Prohibition national conven
tion adjourned sinie die after having
placed in nomination for president inc
G. Woolley, Of Illinois. and for vic
president, Henry B. Metcalf, of Rhod
Island.
All the iron, steel and tin plate mill
under the Jurisdiction Of the amalga
mated association have closed, bu
there will be no strike, as is customar.
on June 30 each year, when the wag
scales are unsigned.
The weekly bank statement show
these changes: Surplus reserve, In
crease. $1.332,525; loans decrease
$1,157, 300; specie, increase, $455, 400
legal tenders, increase, $193,S00: de
posits, decrease, $2.733.s00; circula
tion increase. $91 900. The bank
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