Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-09-10
NEWS IN BRIEF.

MIN neSOta ana the BakOtaS thlS year
raised $50. 900, 600 bushels of wheat.
The trouble at the Omaha smelters
ic at an end the men having resumed
work on the old terms.
Secretary Foster says there is a
marked Improvement in the monetary
situation IN the country.
A commission of three government
engineers will be appointed to invcs-
tignte the l!ennepin canal dispute.
Mrs. Samuel Kenyon of Eau Claire,
who was placed in Jail for assaulting a
notorious woman who had alienated
her husbands affections, after being
locked up hanged herself with sheet,
but was cut down in time TO save her
life.
Highwaymen at Detroit held up a
young man and young woman who
were walking alorg d, serted street
about IL o'clock at night The young
man showed fight and he and his com
panion were knocked down. The ar
rival Of officers frightened the robbers
away.
Mrs. Anna NJ. Wood has b, en- held at
Des Moincs, Iowa, FIR sending o, scene
letters and postal cards through the
| mails
Burglars opened the safe of George
| Clark. at Marseilless III. There was
no money in the strong box.
"Bud" White, who shot James
| Slisher, is now in Jail at Emporia,
Kan. He is playing the insane dodge.
Conductor Nawlcr elected Charles A.
| Ross at Columbus, Ind, last month.
| Ross, who is a traveller for Boston
| shoe house, settled for 81, 200.
| The Rev. d. +. Carnahan, represent
ing the American Educational Aid asso-
ella ion, whose OBJ Jet is to secure homes
for homeless children, addressed the
various churches at Galcna, Ill. Last
year homes for 50l children were
| founded by this society.
| Austria is taking great interest in
the worlds far Interesting exhibits
| will be sent
| Troops have again been sent TO Four
niles in France to quell the labor
troubles. Bloodshco is expected.
State Senator John s. Woolson, of
Mt Pleasant, has been appointed
United States District Attorney for the
First District of Iowa in place Of Judge
Love, of keokuk, deceased.
At Macerta, Italy. an aeronaut made
q balloon ascension Sunday. The bal
loon was swept out over the Adriatic,
the man fell out and was drowned.
An epidemic of scarlet fever is rag
ing at Covert, Mich.
Tom Johns, of Milton, Ind, bar
tender, shot George Gowdy in the side.
Gowdy will die.
Willie lIousweild n l5-year-old boy
of Corvdon, Ind, killed himself while
hunting.
Miss Mary Wilson was struck and
killed by lightning at her home at
Salem, III.
Scarlet fever has broken out afresh
at Vandalia, Ill.
John Stutsmnn of Des Moincs, brother
of the Chief Of Police, died from sun
stroke while in q boat on the geological
garden lake.
Cornelius Bos, IS years old, promi-
nent farmer of Fillmore, Mich, was
instantly killed Mt Thirteenth street
crossing, Holland, by the Chicago &
West Michigan mail train.
The State Tax Commission of Indiana
has decided to assess all gas wells for
taxation at $780, Tho pipe line will be
assessed ut 81 per foot for sixtecn-inch
mains, down to four cents per foot for
one-inch pipe.
1t is announced that DR.. Edward
Eggleston, the novelist, is soon to be
married to Miss Frances +. Goode,
daughter of DR.. w. S. Goode, OF Madi.
son, Ind.
Mrs Mary Bolt, white woman, died
in New Orleans of leprosy. There arc
other cases in the city.
John Thyson, an extensive grain
operator at st. Louis, was caught short
on wheat in the recent furry and was
compelled to quit. The amount of his
liabilities is not known.
Annie Hardness, of Terre Haute, Ind.
was killed in making parachute de-
scension from o balloon at Cincinnati.
The parachute closed and the young
woman fell 500 feet.
A disastrous cyclone passed over Ell.
derville, Ill. No lives were lost.
Pearl-fshers at Waterloo, Iowa,
opened $50, 900 clans and secured 500
worth of pearls.
The German cabinet, notwithstand.
ing the scarcity of breadstuffs, has de-
clined to remove the heavy corn duties.
France is saia to have got the worst
of it in the recent negotiations for a
treaty of offense with Russia.
Emperor William is greatly worried
by the reports of his ill health. He at.
tempts TO convince his subjects that
there is not a more hearty man in the
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