The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1900-10-13
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
a Complete Review Of the Events Of
the Past Week-In This ana Fora
etgn Lands-Taken Fron the
Latest Dlspatches.

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ter street, San Francisco. was acci-
dentally burned to death.
Roosevelt has been worked almost
beyond powers Of endurance and his
voice IL failing him. He may cancel
. few dates.
The navy department has detached
the island Of Guam from the Asiatic
station, making It an Independent ma
val establishment.
Elder Dempster Z Co. OF London
complain Of the lack OF shipping IA
cilities at the port Of London, owing to
the lack of docks and the naglect Of
dredging.
BY an explosion at the Asbury Pow
der mills at Shamokin Pa, Daniel
Burke and Daniel Helbush received In
juries from which they died. and Rap
pard Deweitt was 20 badly burned that
he il not expected to recover.
It is ANNOUNCED that there were 71O,-
900 spectators at the 48 productions Of
the Passion Play" ct Oberammergau.
The receipts were 1.100, 300 marks and
It is estimated that the villagers re-
ceived from visitors about 40 1000
marks.
The receipts Of Klondike gold at the
San Francisco mint and Seattle assay
once July to September 80 aggregat-
cd $16,047, ,055, and Of Cape Nome, $z,-
81, ,801. The total Of all deposits at
both ofnces during the three months
was $33.2S4.S10.
A serious llre has occurred at We'll
beck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, the IA,
nous seat Of the duke Of Portland The
Oxford wing was gutted. The duke
and duchess Of Portland are at present
absent from home. The damage was
estimated at 100000.
A man giving the name Of Frank W.
Travers has surrendered to the police
In San Francisco, alleging that he rob
bed his brother, d. r. Travers. Of Al
Park Row. New York, Of $1,000 last
July. He says that he stole the money
from the cash drawer after his brother
refused to lend It to him.
Before the largest gallery that ever
witnessed golf championship In
Amerca, Harry vardon, former cham
pion Of Great Britain, won the M. s. G.
A. open championship from Great Brit
tain's premier golfer, Taylor, by the
narrow margin Of two strokes on the
Chicago golf links at Wheaton recent
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The etemer Centennial has arrived
in Seattle from Nome with large pas
senger list and about 100000 in goli
dust. A hundred miles from Nome
the steamer picked up two men whit
had been adrift for eight days in al
open boat without food or drink, hav
ing been blown to see during the grea
storm.
The report of the commissioner O
the general land ONCE, just made pub
lie, shows large increase in the worl
OF the office for the past year, due. tn
commissioner says, to the genera
stimulus to all industries o. the coun
| try for a year past. The total lant
once receipts for the year amount t.
34.379,79S, an increase over the pre-
4 vious year of $1,309, ,o21, and over tn
fiscal year Of 1898 Of 81. .701, 800. Their
was proportionate Increase IN tn
amount Of land disposed OF amounting
to over 100000 acres for the year
being 400, 600 over the pre-ious year
The homestead entries for the year ae
gregated 1855, 400 acres. an increase 0
II 2,3OO, 1922 acres over the previous veal
/ Police believe that William Schreibel
the New York embezzler, is hiding !
New York. s..
i The British forces have occupied Smith
field, Rouxville, Wepener and Dewetsdorl
Orange River Colony.
Emperor William has conferred hig
decorations upon all the leading official
Of the Paris exposition.
Chauncey M. Depew addressed a NEE
ing of over thousand students q tn
University Of Chicago recently. III
speech was mostly ON political lines.
Major Seldom Noyes Clark, widel
known newspaper man, who had bee
connected with the Washington bureau {
the New York Tribune for % years
dead.
The British war Office has issued ordel
that the bulk Of the militia regiment
called out for service during the Sout
African war are to be disbanded. Thi
will affect about $1,000 men.
| Chief Constructor Hichborn, U. s. N
has been awarded q diploma and gold med
al for the Franklin Life Buoy, Hichbof
turret and models of war vessels exhibite
at the Paris exposition OF 1900.
i The wife of Rev. Meeder of the Evan
gelist church, near Pennington, Kansas
! jumped into cistern with her 3-year-ol
child and both were drowned. Mrs
Meeder had showed signs of insanity.
The state department has been informe'
by Consul General Holloway at st. Peters
burg that in addition to the recent changes
in the Russian tariff, an excise duty OF
spirits and tobacco is now collected.
| The launching Of the Monitor Kansas hal
!. been set for November 10 at the New