The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1903-02-20
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Natlonal
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.
dont Pelee Is active again.

Mont Pelee Is active again.
Susan B. Anthony is eighty-three
years old.
The Odd Fellows Temple company
Of Cincinnati has assigned.
A terrinc lubricant visited Budapest
recently and did enormous damage.
~ Secretary Wilson entertained the
president at a cabinet dinner recently,
The weather has been extremely
cold at Dawson for the past Is days,
the thermometer going as low as 81
degrees below zero.
In the senate recently the law legal.
izing professional Sunday baseball in
all cities In Indiana Of 10000 popula-
ton and over was killed.
Seventeen letter carriers have been
suspended from the San Francisco
postoftice for alleged political activity
during the November campaign.
President Palma Is ready to sign the
naval coaling stations agreement on
receipt of President Roosevelt's ap-
proval Of certain minor changes.
After being out for 48 hours, the jury
In the case Of DR.. ]. G. Alexander,
charge with grave robbing in Indian.
apolis, failed to reach an agreement
and was discharged.
The New York Evening Telegram
prints an interview with William J..
Bryan in which Mr.. Bryan said he
would not be candidate for the dem
ocratic nomination next year.
Governor Mcbride has signed the
bill giving King county. Wash. a fifth
superior judgship and Immediately op-
pointed R. B. Albertson, ex-speaker of
the legislature. to fill the newly Great
ed position. it
Plate glass window fronts Of four
of the finest Kansas avenue saloons
and two drug stores, in Topeka, Kan,
were smashed recently with an axe by
Miss Blanche Boise, a disciple of Mrs.
Carrie Nation.
In duel at resort at Galena, Kan,
Charles Trotter and Earl Gent emp
tied their revolvers at each other.
Trotter was hit in the neck and shoul-
der and fatally wounded and Gent was
shot in the leg.
The most successful winter carnival
Of the six given in Rossland, B. c.,
concluded Saturday night. Nelson
won the hockey championship In a
bitterly contested match with the. Vic
torias of Rossland.
The blizzard which has been raging
over southern Wyoming for the past
three days is over. but has been fol
lowed by weather SO intensely cold
that stockmen, especially sheepmen,
are very ry~apprehensive.
One person was cremated, two fatal
ly hurt, two others seriously injured
and seven buildings totally destroyed
north Of Pittsburg recently. Ray
Craig, aged 1S. was cremated while
his father was trying to rescue him.
An immense crowd was attracted to
the senate recently to hear the invo-
cation of General William Booth, foun-
der and commander in chief of the
Salvation Army. Among the occu-
pants Of the galleries were Booth
Tucker, the generals chief assistant
and son in law, and large number of
Salvationists.
The great prevalence Of smallpox
In the coke region near UniOntown,
Pa, has prompted the officials Of the
H. G. Frick Coke company to issue an
order calling for the free vaccination
Of all It's employees and their families
AS the Frick company has about 5O,-
900 men on its pay rolls. this order
will affect about 100000 persons.
Senator Turner has been selected
one Of the subcommittee of the COM
mittee on interoceanic canals to Sc
lect permanent quarters for the 18TH
mian canal commission in Washington.
and also on the subcommittee charged
with fixing the salaries of the com.
the subcommittee are Kittridge of
South Dakota and Millard Of Nebraska.
Mackenzie & Mann, promoters Of the
Canadian Northern railway, one OF the
new transcontinental lines being con-
structed in Canada. north of the ter
ritory covered by the Northern Pacific,
have concluded a deal whereby they
become owners of the Great Northern
railway of Canada, a line in operation
from Hawkesbury to Quebec, with con-
nections which afford an entrance to
the American Atlantic seaboard.
The New York World says that from
evidence brought in the United States
circuit court it appears that Emperor
Williams sudden and mysterious re-
call Of Baron Won Holleben, German
ambassador at Washington, closely fol.
lowed charges that he had used his
official position to advertise certain
wine. This wine had been urged In
vain by the embassy for use In the
christening Of the emperor's yacht,
Meteor. by Miss Alice Roosevelt.
Martin Mason Hazeltine, the vet
eran pioneer photographer of the Pa
cific coast. is dead at Baker City
Ore.
Denis ]. Swenie, Chicago's veteran
fireman and former chief Of the fire
department. is dead.
Vic Langley of Wallace put Jacl
Overdorf of Wardner. Idaho. out ir
the second round Of a mill Monday
night.
The senate has confirmed the nomi
nation of George B. Coytelyou to bt
secretary Of commerce and labor un
der the act creating the new depart
meut.