The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1902-09-19
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
cu1LED FROM DISPATCHES.
4 Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Exp0unded.

HistOricaA, fOAltica1 ana Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.
The United States battledship lows
run aground last week near Brazil.
Peter Mayer knocked out Jim JEFF.
ords in six seconds at Philadelphia re.
Gently.
Freight traffic is the heaviest ever'ex.
perienced by the transcontinental rail.
roads at this time of the year.
Secretary Moody has sent the battle.
ship Wisconsin and the cruiser Cincin.
natl to the Isthmus Of Panama.
Big Fred Russell knocked out Hank
Griffin, late of Bob Fitzsimmons'
camp, in the 14th round at Los Angeles
recently.
A new combination of paper manu-.
facturers, to include all the mills in
Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan,
has been effected.
The president has removed William
Vaughn. United district attorney OF
the north district of Alabama, for
neglect of duty.
Mayor johnson of Cleveland, Ohio,
says he is not candidate for governor
nor to be president of the United
States.
The anniversary of the death of Pre-.
sident Mckinley Sunday was appropri.
ately observed in most of the churches
over the United States.
The staemer Humbolt passengers re.
port earthquake shocks occurring Aug.
ust II in Alaska along the coast be.
tween Muir and Yakutat.
There will be no fusion of the dem.
ocrats and populists this year in the
state of Colorado as the democrats on.
ly allowed the pops one place on their
ticket.
The grand jury at New Orleans has
returned an Indictment against Mrs.
Dauphin, widow of Macmillan Daup-
him for many years president of the
Louisiana state lottery.
Abram S. Hewitt, former mayor of
New York, has given out a statement
in which he said he knew positively
that J. P. Morgan could not interfere
with the coal strike.
Thirty thousand people saw Prince
Alberta defeat Anaconda at the Penn.
sylvania state fair recently in the two
fastest heats ever paced on half mile
track. Time, 2.05.
The largest and most far reaching
union in the history of railroads has
,oI 1~xy< tho 1,@ro 4
conductors and brakeman ON the rail.
roads operating on roads west Of Chi.
cagO.
Robert w. Coulter has been sentenc.
ed to seven years imprisonment in
South DakcGa. According to his OWL
statemen. which has been verified by
investigation Coulter was formerly
associated with Harry Tracy in the
holdup business.
William s. Stratton, the multimil.
lionaire Of Colorado Sprins, Col. ,ownel
of the famous Independence mine in
the Cripple Creek distract, is dead
after an illness of several months.
Monday started the nineteenth week
of the coal strike.
At Fort Erie, Ontario, Tommy Ryar
knocked out "Kid" Carter of Brooklyn
in the last minute of the sixth round
A gas and powder explosion occurred
in Norfolk, WA, recently in the BIZ
-Four mine, as the result Of which
James Letter, an engineer; John Reic
kie, a miner, and a number Of coloret
miners are known to be imprisoned.
John Larson, a carman at the BUTT
& Boston smelter at Butte, was smoth
cred to death in pit of concentrate
recently. Larson fell headfirst into tn
pit.
Herbert L. Bridgeman, secretary
the Peary Arctic club, has received
dispatch from Lieutenatn r. E. Peary
the Arctic explorer, dated Chatea'
Bay, Labrador. Lieutenant Peary say
that he is ON his way home on the re
lief ship Winward and that all o.
board are we'll.
Geroge D. Bruce, a notorious Indial
OUTLAW for whom the officers of Calf
ornia and Arizna have been hunting TO
several months, has met his death. h
was captured by his countryman an
tied to the saddle on horse and dragge
for an hour and then his body wa
burned up.
Edgar F. Neff has plead guilty :
the charge of embezzlement OF $852
from the Union Pacific Railway com
pany, and was sentenced to serve nv
years in the penitentiary at hard labor
Lodges Of railway trainman and raj
road conductors, west of line draw
rom Duluth, Mimi, south to New u
leans, are voting on apropositlon
ask for additional compensation fe
their services.
Families Homeless.
Portland, Ore. Sept. 15.-About ~
people are left homeless in Multrom
and Clackamas counties as the resu
of the forets fires which have ragged Il
the past week. Fires have burned ov'