Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-03-31
General News.

John l.. Sullivan signed on the Goth
inst. articles Of agreement in the
Sullivan Corbett contest. He declined
to sign the articles first proposed and
returned them to the Olympic club for
alteration. This was done In order to
insure either suiting or to prevent a
complete back-down on the part of
Corbett. Sullivan objected to the arti-
Gle allowing the referee to decide the
contest If, in his opinion, 1t became too
brutal, saying he wanted to be sure of
q finish fight. This paragraph was
therefore. eliminated and Sullivan
signed the articles as amended and the
big fight may be said to be fairly on.
Rumors Of war again fill the air in
Europe and have been given an APP
pearance of truth by the presence in
Poland of an immense number of
Russian soldiers. The purpose, how
ever, may be simply preparations for
the usual spiing maneuvres, but the
proximity of these troops to the Rus
sian frontier causes general feeling of
uneasness. The activity on the part of
the Prussians across the frontier in
creases the anxiety, as the Prussian
balloons which have been lowering
over the Russian fortresses and camps
are believed to form part Of the extensive
German spy system. The balloons ap-
pear to be under perfect control and
indicate that new and dangerous ele-
ment has been introduced in modern
warfare.
The vatican, the ancient palace of
the pOpes of Rome, Is the most magnifi-
cent building of the kind in the world.
1t stands on the right bank of the
Tiber, on hill called the Vaticanus,
because the Latins formerly worshipped
Vaticanium, and ancient oracular deity
at that place. Exactly when the build
ing was commenced no one knows.
Charlemagne is known to have inhab-
tied it over 1000 years ago. The present
extent of the building is enormous, the
number of rooms at the lowest compu-
tation, being 4,422. It's treasures Of
marble statutes, ancient gems, paint
ings, books, manuscript, etc., are to be
compared only with those in the Brit
ish museum. The length of the statue
museum alone is fraction over mile.
Conservative writers say that the gold
contained in the medals, vessels,
chains and other objects preserved in
the vatican would make more gold
coins than the whole of the present
European Observation-Disclosures
A special from Hope, Idaho, says:
Tuesday morning Mr.. Joe Childs had
his steamboat, the "Hustler" anchored
to post in the lake opposite Joe Pic
ards boathouse, and as Chiid's was go
ing aboard with the mail for Lakeview,
Picard called him foul name and told
him he had no right to anchor in front
of his boathouse. Childs replied that
he should anchor wherever he pleased
as he owned just about as much of that
Jake as Picard did. Picard again
called him foul name and Childs re-
turned to shore and proceeded to give
Picard sound thrashing. This being
accomplished, Childs again started for
his boat, but Picard secured a Winches-
ter rifle and threatened to use it. This
SO exasperated Childs that he again re-
turned to shore and seizing the gun be-
fore Picard could discharge 1t, broke it
across rock and flung it into the lake
and then gave Picard another sound
thrashing. The fight was witnessed
by nearly all the inhabitants of Hope,
whose sympathy was all with Childs
after Picard drew the gun, and Childs
only used one hand as the other was
disabled. Joe Picard was to have been
married Tuesday, but owing to circum-
stances over which Childs had no con-
troll, the event was indefinitely post
poned.
There died last week in the city hos
pital In st. Louis John w. German,
known in the museum as James Ken
neday. On the 2lst inst. he was adj
mitted, suffering from gastritis. Emet-
les caused the election of nearly half
pint Of nails, screws, etc. This failing
to relieve him. laparotomy was per-
formed and resulted in the removal of
a. much more hardware, but to no avail,
for the poor fellow died in a short time.
At a. post mortem examination the
stonl Oh walls and lining were found
but literally filed with nails,
screws, tacks and broken glass which
the man had swallowed. None were
and there was not one In
stance of the perforation Of any part Of
the stomach or throat, but beginning
from the base of the tongue back to the
and from there entirely
down into the stomach, nails, tacks,
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