The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1902-09-05
WORLDS. NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings I'm Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Wcek-NatiOnal,
Historical, Political and Pers0nal
Events Tersely ExpOunded.

The democratic and silver parties in
Nevada have agreed to fuse.
The greater part of the town OF Ka-
IA Hassar, in Asia Minor, has been
destroyed by fire. ~
Representative Reese G. DeGraffenreid
Of Texas is dead Of apoplexy at Wash
ington. >.
Nearly a half a million dollars in
new gifts to the University of Chicago
are announced by President Harper.
1t is reported that $4,000 Navajo In
dams are actually at the poi mt Of
starvation in southern Utah, New
Mexico and Arizona.
The annual report of the labor de-
partment Of the board Of trade records
a deckne in thu wages of the United
Kingdom for the first time since 1856.
:: :. According to the military con imam
ders, all of the troops with the excep-
ton of the legation guards will be with
drawn from China next spring.
The betrothal ceremony of Prince
Nicholas Of Greece and Grand Duchess
Helene occurred recently. The mar
riage was held later in the palace
church.
Two persons were killed and three
injured in an automobile accident at
the park avenue bridge, over the New
York q Long Branch railroad tracks at
Long Beach, N. J.
The village of Limbo, SO miles north
Of Port An Prince, has been attacked
and recaptured by the troops Of the
government. Limbo was in tho poss-
ession Of the Firminite soldiers.
The Epidemic of cholera is reaching
alarming proportions on the other side
of the Pacific, the outbreak extending
further and having more victims than
ever before.
The annual xeport of the auditor Of
the department shows that the dis
bursements from the appropriation for
army pensions for, the year ending
June 80, 1909, amounted to $133, $685.
At Oakland, California, P. =. Bar.
ker, a EHn Francisco, man, shot Mrs.
M. J. Moss in her departments at the
Platerb BLOCK and then committed sui
eide. BARKER !. was jealous Of Mrs.
Moss. siShe will recover.
At Everett; Wash, Ben Lewis, a
egro, employed in a logging camp al
Robe, was found dead recently 1t il
thought he was murdered, as a revol.
yer was found near the body. Wounds
were found in leg and in the abdomen.
The mills of the Cameron Lumber
company, situated at Harrison, Idaho
were destroyed by fire last Wednesday
together with nearly 5000, 900 feet Of
choice lumber. The estimated loss il
between $50, 900 and 800, 900, with but
SIC, 1000 insurance.
The international match between r.
F. Doherty Of England and M. d.
Whitman Of America in the final round
Of the national lawn tennis champion.
ship at. Newport, RI, was won by the
formersin three sets to one, and by
scores Of 81, 3-6, Cd, 60.
The golden star of the Klondike is on
the wane, according to the report Off.
cial of George H. Hees, who recently
was sent to Dawson by the Canadian
Manufacturers association to make a
thorough examination into the business
prospects Of the Yukon territory.
Major B. E. Thompson, acting CHIEF
Of the signal Office of the war depart
ment has received word that the army
telegraph line between Fort Liscun
and Fort Egbert, at Eagle City Alaska
which has been in course of construc
ton for nearly two and one half years
has been opened.
A heavy puplic automobile fell into thu
rapid transit subway in Broadway fall
ing 80 feet Edward Morris was inter
nally injured and will die. During
the closing of the circuit at Provi
dence, R. I. Dan Ptach, the nnbeatel
on of Joe Patchen, paced an exhibi
toni mile in 1853 y. The mile wa
within quarter Of a second Of tn
worlds record Of 1:59 u, made b,
Star Pointer five years ago. This is tn
tasted mile in harness in half dec
.cade, and Dan Patch is the secon,
horse to beat two Minutes