Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-11-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

i Ac HUI. OOuu van NdlkeuDurp,I
past supreme chancellor OF the knights
of Pythias. died at Fort Madison. la.
Captain l.. w. Cutler, editor and pro-
prietor of the Field and Farm OF Dem
YER, died at Salida, Col, on the 18th.
The tunnel under the ST. Clair river
between st. Clair. Mich, and Sarnia,
Ont, is now ready for railroad tracks.
Four hundred carloads Of lumber
have left Ottawa. Can. for the United
States since the removal of the export
duty.
The Mexican government announces.
that it will adopt the international
American system of weights and meas
ures.
According to the census bureau the
population of Pennsylvania is 5, 249,-
574-an increase of 965, 583 in ten
years.
Petitions for the communication OF the
death sentence of Birchall are being
circulated in all the principal cities of
Canada.
Mount Aetna is in a state OF erup-
ton. The whole eastern side of the
mountain is covered with a thick layer
of cinders.
The body of j. T. Veatch, machin-
ist from Effingham, Ill.,. was found on
the railroad track near Tuscanola, hor-
ribly mangled.
A dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
the supporters of ex-President Celman
are intriguing with view of returning
him to power.
A company has been formed with
cago a permanent exhibition of the
products of Texas.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized tho Merchants National
bank of Burlington. Ia, to extend its
corporate existence.
Bishop McLaughlin's jubilee cele-
bration closed in Brooklyn with grand
parade. in which nearly fifty thousand
people participated.
Three miners were crushed to death
in shaft ut Andendried. Pa. One
was to have met his sweetheart in New
York the next day to marry her.
The emperor Of Germany has ordered
the closing of all schools in the empire
October 26, in honor of General Won
Moltke's Goth birthday anniversary.
The population of the state of Wis
consin, corrected, is 1858, 679 an in
crease of $685. 800, and that of the state
of Oregon, 312, 495, an increase of
1877, 222.
Milwaukee papers say there are
strong indications that the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore 4 Western is actually sold
to the Chicago & Northwestern, or
that such deal will shortly be con-
sumated.
The Greek patriarchate has ordered
all churches in Turkey under its juris-
diction closed until further notice as
protest against the porte's action to-
ward the church. Intense excitement
prevails.
The trial in London of Stephen
Holmes. alias Stephen Smith, an Amer
lean. who was charged with stealing
jewels belonging to the Duke OF Edin-
burg in May last, resulted in a verdict
of mot proven"
Preston Turpie of New York city, a
youth aged IA. committed suicide by
hanging himself in his fathers house.
He was an inveterate reader of dime
novels and it is supposed that his mind
had become thereby affected.
The Hamburg-American line steamer
Columbia arrived in Southampton on
the 10th from New York, having made
the trip in 6 days, Is hours and %
minutes, breaking the best record, her
own. by hours and IL minutes.
The Missouri & Kansas division of
the st. Louis. Arkansas g. Texas rail-
way, commonly known as the Cotton
Belt extending from Birds Point,
Mo-, opposite Cairo, ILL.,, to Texar-
kama, Ark. has been sold ut auction.
President Harrison has granted q
pardon in the case of Arthur w. Street
of Illinois, ex-assistant general freight
agent Of the Michigan Central railroad,
sentenced to pay fine of $1,000 and
costs for violating the interstate COM
merce law.
The local wage-workers' political
alliance of Washington has presented
a petition to President Harrison, re-
ouesting him to present the name of
Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the senate
OF the United States as associate JUS
tice in place of Justice Miller. deceased.
The United States express company
has issued peremptory orders to all
agents not to receive money, tickets or
lists OF drawing from the Louisiana
lottery company or in any way to as
sist in the transportation Of the lottery
business.
A Washington dispatch says: The
OF Admiral Porter was not SO
favorable today. Last night he was
very restless and did not secure much
sound sleep. This afternoon he had
. slight setback. but tonight is report