The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1902-04-12
NEWS OF THE ENTIRE WORLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
CULLED
! Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatiOna1.
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.

NEW OrK City was dry dll Gay sui
day, except in a few favored spots,
whore rumsellers took big chances.
Casper Kruger, the oldest son of
President Kruger, and "a other rela-
tives of Mr.. Kruger, bearing the same
family name, are among those who
have recently taken the oath of allie
glance to Great Britain.
James Carter, young negro, who
shot and seriously wounded Don
Thomas, near New Glasgow, in Am
herst county, Va, was taken from Jail
at Amherst courthouse just before
midnight and lynched.
A certified check for $4,000, drawn
to the order Of President Roosevelt,
has been forwarded to the president
by the committee of citizens which
Governor Yates of Illinois appointed
in December last to raise funds for
the relief Of Boer women and chill
dren sufferers in the concentration
camps of South Africa.
George Wertz, who recently arrived
in Boise from Thunder Mountain, tells
a thrilling story of the experience of
his partner, A. c. Gallupe, in snow
slide on March %. Gallupe was car
ried 1900 feet down the west side OF
Rainbow mountain and over preci-
pce, but managed to get out alive.
Wertz says the precipice is 1900 feet
high
Owing to the great distance separat-
ing the members of the Transvsal mis-
sion from Mr.. Steyn, the former presi-
dent of the Orange Free State, and
General Delarey, the negotiations be-
tween the Boer leaders in South Africa
looking to the conclusion of the war
make little progress. It Is expected,
however, that Mr.. Schalkburger and
his colleagues on the mission will
shortly leave here for a more convent
ent center from which to conduct the
negotiations.
The year old son Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Joseph H. Stratton. who reside on a
farm seven miles from Dayton, was
drowned Monday.
At Hartford, Conn, organized labor
of Bridgeport and Ansonia they have
elected a mayor Of the city.
William Ward. shoemaker, was
electrocuted at Seattle by a fallen
| electric wire, after warning several
others of the danger. He was instant
ly killed.
In the Butte. Mont, city election
| the democrats carried six out of the
eight wards. The republicans and
| labor party each carried one ward
IN Anaconda the democrats carried
five out of the six wards.
In the Helena Mont, election the
republicans elected their entire ticket
with the exception of two aldermen
| F. j. Edwards was reelected mayor
e. S. Walker police judge and T. B
! Kirkendall city treasurer.
George E. Horner. the Viola, Idaho
| farmer who was recently convicted OF
perjury for swearing that Miss Mary
Spray, daughter of neighbor, was
"over IS" after he had cut the figure
us" in the sole of her shoe, in order
that she might be granted a marriage
license to wed Horner's brother-in-law
was sentenced by Judge Chadwick al
Colfax to serve 80 months in the pen
itentiary at Walla Walla.
A special from Kalispell says that
Nettie Russell, who Is familiarly
known as Sensation Nett" has beer
placed under arrest for the alleged
murder of William Hawkes., a promi
nent young farmer of Kalispell. This
two were in row at a dance hall and
during the fracas the woman hi
Hawkes. over the head with cuspi
dor and fractured his skull. Hawkes.
dead body was found in a livery sta
BILE Near the dance hall.
A miner was found dead in the Sil
yer Seal mine. Cedar canyon. 1t II
supposed premature blast was The
cause of death.