Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-12-04
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Incidents Detailed by the Latest
Dispatches.

Dispatches.
A violent shock of earthquake was
felt on Nov. % throughout the Danube
valley. Inhabitants were panic
stricken and fled in terror from their
houses. No serious damage Is reported.
On Nov. 90, Stamboul again lowered
his record by a quarter of a second.
trotting mile easily in 2:l1. The.
first quarter was made in thirty-two
and three-quarters; half in one five and
u half. He made the mile without
faltering.
Additional advices of the disaster to-
the fishing feet on the Norwegian
coast show that seventy vessels were
driven ashore and butted to pieces.-
Many smaller boats were also wrecked.
1t is feared that hundreds of lives were
lost. Bodies of victims are constantly
being washed ashore.
A dispatch from Carlsbad, Germany,
under date of Nov. "a, says: The dam.
age caused by the floods is enormous.
Aqueducts, bridges, streets and squares
are destroyed, and hundreds of shop
keepers are ruined. Hundreds Of =
thousands of dollars are required for
public repairs alone. A terrific storm
Is raging on the Black sea.
There was a report at Seattle on Now.
% that the Northern Pacific manage.
ment was quietly working to gain CON-
troll Of the Oregon Improvement conn
pany ,Iwhile it was embarrassed, through.
negotiations carried on with Joseph
Simon, the receiver. No confirmation
of this rumor could be gained. In
fact, there was fiat contradiction and.
the assurance that the report had no
foundation.
The reports sent out from Denver,
Col, Nov. 20, regarding the smallpox
scare on the Union Pacific passenger
train, have proved to be greatly exag--
gerated. Instead of five passengers"
being residents of Kansas City they
were on their way from a mountain
camp in search of employment. After
keeping thirteen in quarantine ten
were permitted to continue their.
journey tonight, while only one serious
case has resulted.
The town is much excited over an
outrage reported from Paragon, q small
village near New Martinsville, Ind.
On the night of Nov. % masked mob
took Andrew Holsapple and his wife
from their bed, brutally whipping them
1and warned them that II 1t were found
necessary to call on them again they
would be killed. The woman is be-
lieved to be fatally injured. 1t 10
claimed that the Holsapples abused
their children.
The Tacoma Coal Company have
just made rich strike in their mine ct
Wilkenson. In opening up the Good
: win vein In their mine they struck the
richest vein Of coal 1t is claimed yet
, found in the state. The coal from the
vein is hard as anthracite and burns q
well and gives as hot fire. The vein
as disclosed is nine feet thick, and Il at
least 10000 long, and the coal grows
. thicker and harder, as 1t Is opened.
The shaft of this vein IL 500 feet in
! depth, $50 feet Of which Is through
Q solid rock.
A young man named Herbert Palmer
: attempted to commit suicide at Day.
ton, WASH, on Nov. %. He went into
Oppenheimer's store at 7:3O and called
. for q pistol. He looked at one and
= said: "Let's see you load it." After
1t was loaded he took it and, saying
a "Stand back, I am going to kill my
SELF" shot himself In the right breast
and Immediately called for q doctor
The bullet was extracted from the Skin
Of his back. He will not state hil
reasons for shooting. The wound 4
not thought to be fatal.
vi Aspecial dispatch from Washington
70 says the census office Is now engages
= in again adding up the returns fo'
J. New York, and an astonishing result
V will be produced. The corresponden
T. asserts the final calculation win show
u l35, 600 more in New York city thai
II announced In Superintendent Porter
A. "unofiicial" circular. The correspon
dent adds: "In other words the IN
1e nouncement upon which the appol
" tionment was expected to be made I
Of 125 900 short Of what the census enum
It. orators showed"