The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1902-10-24

writer of San Diago, Cal, is dead.
The Tillamook, Ore, stage was held
recently by three masked men. The
robbers secured 5000 from the passen.
gers and then escaped.
Yellow fever and smallpox have
broken out among the forces of the
Columians at Colon, and there are ten
deaths daily from these diseases among
the soldiers there.
The sudden and unexpected death OF
Jhon Lathrum, republican nominee fol-
states senator in the ninth district,
caused general sorrow throughout Whit
man county, Wn. where he has been
resident for nearly 30 years.
1t is stated in Liverpool that the
steamship service between Boston and
Manchester under the International
Mercantile Marine company will be
started in a few weeks by the Leyland
line.
The finding in the inquest following
the accident in which President Roose-
velt's body guard, William Craig, was
killed last September, has finished, says
that the unlawful acts Of James T.
Kelly, conductor, and Euclid Madden,
motorman," Of the electric car which
ran into the presidents carriage, ICON
tributed" to the death Of Mr.. Craig.
The Chicago Federation Of Labor
has gone on record as strike breaker
when by almost an unanimous vote of
the delegateds the strikgin members of
the Wholesale grocer employees union
were ordered to return to work pending
t he settlement Of their troubles by ar
bitration. Five large stores has been
tied up and two more had been threat
ened.
A committee, headed by B H. War.
ner, chairman Of the citizens executive
committee Of the recent national en-
campment of the g. A. r. and Hon.
j. H. Brigham, assistant secretary of
agriculture, called at the White House
recently and presented to President
Roosevelt q. A. r. badge commeror-
alive of the national encampment. The
badge is of solid gold, handsomely EN-.
bossed and engraved.
The body Of Arson Cook Of Kettle
Falls, WASH, was found in the mount
aims recently. He came to his death
by gun shot wounds inflicted last De-
cember.
Marion Nolan, a young woman who
became famous on the Pacific coast in
1898 as the California Venus, was shot
and killed recently by Edward March
utz, who then sent bullet through his
own head.
Charles Young, negro, charged
with assaulting and afterwards muir,
dering Mrs. Ed Lewis, a white woman,
was burned recently by a mob of infur.
lated citizens of Forest City, Arkansas.
The bank at Summit, s. D. was re-
Gently blown up by robbers and the
vaults robbed. The loss is estimated at
from $40, 900 to $40, 900.
Mrs. Rene Arnsbach shot and killed
her husband at Everett, Wash. recently |
and then killed herself.
The plant of the American Glue com |
pany, located in Springdale, Pa, was
destroyed by fire recently, entailing a
loss of $3.50, 900, which is covered by
insurance. Two hundred men are
thrown out of employment.
A serious catastrophe was narrowly |
averted at the First Christian church |
at Omaha, Neb., last Sunday, when
the 500 people who gathered there in
the morning, barely escaped being |
thrown into the basement % feet below
by the giving away of rotton timbers
in the floor. The vast audience passed |
out quietly and escaped unhurt.
A hobo had part of his leg shot |
off by the sheriff near Pasco, never-the-
ess he made his escape.
Charles M.Schwab, president Of the
United States Steel corporation, who
has been in Venice some time, has gone
to Italy.
Former President Hawser of Swift
zerland is dead as the result of a para
lytic stroke
The worst drouth in the history of
New Mexico has prevailed
during the last six months.
1t is believed that the Philippines
will experience rice famine. The
island crops are small, the oriental sup
i'll Sour the Sweetest dicpoc;f;o,, o~A