Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-12-31
NEWS IN BRIEF.

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out his brains,
Charl IS Brown was arrested at Nun
Gle. Ind, for embezzling S75. He wa5
bound over in the sum of $1,000.
The French ambassador at the Vati-
can has been instructed to reassure the
Pope regarding the policy OF France.
NJ. Desehanel of the French Cha amber
OF Deputies goes to the United States
Dec. 10 on special government mis-
sion.
The Suez Canal company is to con-
struct railway between Port Said AMI
Ismalia for .he carriage of passenger,
and mails
French chambers of commerce favc
been instructed to make compa rltivc
reports of export business before and
since the passage of the Mckinley bill.
All hope that any of the seventv-four
men buried in the st. Etienne mino
can BE- rescued has been aban lonetl.
So far fifteen bodies have been rccuv-
cred.
John Stanky, the convict who sealed
the penitent " wall at Joliet H..
Nov. 20, has been captured by the De-
troit, Mich. police.
Frank Miller, who died in Washing
ton Friday, confessed to the murder OF
his fatherin-law, l.. Billings, near
Mason City. Iowa, in 1875. lie had
been acquitted by jury.
Devils Lake, N. d., reports the
worst blizzard in its history, which
lasted four days. Wires were down,
trains blockaded and snow was banked
fifteen feet high. The thermometer
ranged from zero to 10 degrees above.
Tic Lights and shadows company
which has been playing at Powers
opera-house at Grand Rapids, Mich,
for the last week. is stranded there,
their baggage being attached for an
unpaid board bill. Manager Ciapp and
Miss Anna Moreland, who played
juvenile parts, have departed for New
York
DR.. G. J. Mawney of Nlnhomanc,
with perjury.
Three children of O. A. De Armon Of
Aurora, ILL.,, have died Of diphtheria
within five days.
Ed Atterbury, confined in the Shell
i byville. H., Jail for the murder of his
father, is said to be insane.
The Atchison kan Champion, prop.
| erty ofrthe late Col. John A. Martin, is
| offered for sale at $4,000.
| o. b. Sanford, a banker and lumber
| I,olor r,f E,.no,,crf I'll t..nc Str,,aly Ex,
| q locomotive at Lanarl and died.
| The city council of Dubuque. Iowa,
contemplatcs operating it, own electric
light plant. One thousand dollars can
J be raved each month.
! The fire in the Lake Superior Iron
company's hernatite shaft ut Ishpe'
ming, Mich, has been extinguishec.
The mine will he rebuilt.
Samuel Glaister, the Aurara, H.,
cigar dealer who failed, has been ar
rested on the charge of beating Men
treal, Canada, merchants out Of Sl3, 1000
! Thomas Whalen Of Chicago, &c years
old committed suicide in Boston
hotel.
Six thousand people saw the launch
ing Of the new United States cruise,
No. 0 at Baltimore.
A grain blockade is feared on til,
i railroads OF Kansas.
A snowstorm said to be the worst il
years is reported to be raging in Mani
toba.
II 1t is reported that the feeling il
China against foreigners is becoming
more bitter.
The trial of Lambert N. Goldsmith
for the murder of Robert Skillman
I set for Dec. Ii at Columbus, Ind.
E Harry Moore was killed beneath
) Wabash train at Decatur, Ill. He leave
\. wife whom he married week ago.
- Buildings at Muskegon Height.
Mich, were unrooted by cyclone
The damage is estimated ut $1,000.
1t is said that the establishment {
new Catholic dioceses in the Northwe,
Z will be recommended at the Vatica
q soon.
4 The Rev. Samuel L. Howard of s
Louis, Mich, pleaded guilty to scndin
an obscene postal card through til
mails.
The swine plague is carrying off hog
in great numbers in Scott and adjoil
. ing counties Of Iowa. One farmer !
j. Walnut Grove lost fifty.
a Wind destroyed property worth 500
/. 00O in the Cumberland Valley
Pennsylvania. Damage was done
several other places in the State.
The match arranged between Jill
Hall and Jimmie Carroll before tn
Pacific club at San Francisco has bee
a declared off for the present on accoul
|. of Halls illness.
L A verdict for 5000 was awartle
a against Morris u. Cutler in favor
George p. Puffer at Waukesha. Wi
The claim was for injuries received b
the fall of Il scaffold
: Six hundred acres of land bclongin
l. to w. W. Stud, John Stud. and NJ.
II Williams was sold at assignee's sale Z
!. Portland, Ind. Creditors bid in III
: land at s3a per acre They will hardl
receive IS cents on the dollar.
: In the United States court at Winon