The silver blade. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1895-1903, 1903-01-23
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review of happenings in, Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
> During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told. I

The 14th annual convention of the
United Mineworkers Of America open
ed in Indianapolis, Ind, Monday.
Charles M. Schwab has arrived at
Palermo on board the steam yacht
Marguerite and refuses to see visitors.
He has left the yacht, but he is re-
ported to be well. The party accomp.
anying Mr.. Schwab has been ashore.
Henri Georges Stephene Adolphe
Opper de Blowitz, for many years cor
respondent of the London. Times In
Paris, died recently in Paris. M. de
Blowitz experienced an attack of apo
plezy. He was born In 1882. 6fss {.G
Through the alleged interference OF
a messenger boy wreck was caused
on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad east
Of Cumberland, Nd, recently, in which
four employees Of the Baltimore & Ohio
railroad were killed and three injured
Narciso Gener Gonzales. editor of
the State, is at the hospital in Colum-
bia, S. G., in critical condition from,
a pistol wound inflicted by James H
Tillman, lieutenant governor Of South
Carolina, and nephew of United
States Senator Benjamin Tillman. .
Fraud and violence were resorted
to Sunday night by the two factions
that sought to gain control of the Chi
cago Federation of Labor and elect its
officers. Eleven assaults were com
mitted while the voting was in pro
gress, and every device known in the
days of corruption primaries was em-
ployed. Not until squad of police
was sent to the hall was order re-
stored.
Among the curious exhibits that the
Prussia ministry of public l1lstruc.
tion will include in its educational dis
play at the st. Louis exposition .ie
an apparatus for measuring mental
fatigue, which is widely employed. 1t
is called an aethesiometer and meas.
ures the sehsitiveness of the skin
which corresponds directly to brain
fatigue, the sensitiveness diminishing
as the mind wearies.
Washington-The secretary of state
has supplied Senator Morgan, chair.
man of the senate committee on inter
oceanic canals, a statement Of expen-
ditures made ON account of the 18th.
mian canal commission. 1t showed
that each member of the commission
has been allowed compensation at the
rate of $1,000 a month, with travelling
expenses added. The salaries were
fixed in 1899, when the commission
of of %
president. In the cases of Col. Peter
C. Haines and Lieutenant Colonel O.
M. Ernest of the army the allowance
is equal to the difference between thei,
regular salaries and $1,000. Under this
arrangement. the aggregate amount
paid to the nine commissioners as sal
aries up to February %. 1902, amount
ed to $225,2S9. The treveling expen
ditures of the commissioners at that
time had averaged about $4,000 each
Julian Ralph, the author and wal
correspondent, is dead.
Both houses of South Dakota II
joint session elected Hon. A. B. Kilt
redge United States senator. &
The bark Abiel Abbott, salt laden
aground near Ship Bottom recently.
Joe Goddard, the puginst, who wa:
shot at the republican primaries il
Camden county, N. j.. July last, il
dead.
Raising of the blockade is Venezu
elias condition precedent to the for
NAL institution of negotiations witt
ho nf
claims.
1t is stated on good authority tha
the Kettle Valley line, now runninl
between Grand Forks, B. c., and Re
public, Wash, may be extended to tn
coast.
The South African money king, Al
fred Belt, is reputed to be the wealth
lest man in the world. He is recover
ing from a long illness. The late Ceci
Rhodes was his close friend.
Frank Marsh was instantly kille
and AL Lake badly injured by cave
in at the Oregon Monarch mine, nea
Sumpter, Ore. The two men wer
working in tunnel when the acciden
occurred. Marsh's relatives reside a
Athena, Ore.
In a fight between Is Japanese an
three cowboys near Havre, Mont, 4
Makusimi, a Japanese, was killed, an
Tom Corrigan, cowboy, mortal
wounded. There has been Ill feelin
between the Japanese and the white
for some time.
The sale of the Sunnyside group {
mines near Silverton, Col, to the Vel
ture corporation of London for 81
100000 has been practically compile
ed. The Sunnyside group includes
claims and two mills, with six mile
of tramway. It is gold proposition
The United States naval tug, Le
den, from Porto Rico to Newpor
Wells commanding, with 33 men, wei
ashore on a rock off Block Island r
Gently. High water 80 feet, den.
fog. Probably all will be saved. tt
tug is absolutely total loss.
Carl Mueller of Cook county, II
has introduced in the senate bill
thorizing cities in the state to ov
and operate street railways. The b
also provides that no city shall opt
ate street railways unless the measu
is approved by three-fifths OF tho
voting on the proposition.
A head-on collision occurred
tween two Santa Fe freight trains
Cajon pass, above San Bernardir