Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-02-25
General News.

1t now turns out that the recent fire
in New York destroyed human life by
the result Of official neglect. No fire
escapes to q five story building, al
though the law required it and the
building inspector had, in his report,
sworn it had.
A few weeks ago in Covington, KY,
Richrard Gray shot and killed Stephen
Grogan in the office of the city treasur-
er. Gray accused Gorgan of deceiving
his daughter under promise of marriage,
which Gorgan admitted and offered to
settle with money. Gray was tried
for the murder, and the jury yesterday
afternoon acquitted him after being out
fifteen minutes.
Last week Customs Inspector Duval
captured Thomas Machuca, a Mexican,
who was attempting to smuggle
Chinaman from Ciudad Juarez to this
side of the river. Both were arrested
and held to appear before United
States Commissioner Gibbs. Machuca
acknowledged at the trial that he had
been paid to dress the Chinaman in
Mexican fashion and conduct him past
the guards at the river. He was bound
over in the sum of $500, and the Celes-
tial ordered returned to China. This
border is so poorly guarded that China
men in numbers are reported crossing
into the United States at different
points without trouble. The Rio
Grande Is scarcely knee-deep most of
the year, and affords no protection,
and there are not dozen guards be-
tween Nogales, Ariz., and Presidio del
Norte, Texas, a distance of about 900
miles.
Considerable comment has been
aroused by the statement of a promi-
nent Mexican official of the state of
Sonora, Mexico, en- route from Her.
mosilla to the City of Mexico. that a
resurvey of the international boundry
line would throw sixty miles of Amer
lean soil into Mexican jurisdiction.
This change would include the large
towns of Tucson, Yuma, Tombstone,
Nogales, Bisbee, Wilcox, Benson, ella
Bend, and many smaller ones, also
San Diego, CAL, and as far north as
San Juan Capisrance. An immense
amount of valuable mining property
would also come under the new deal,
also the entire line of the Southern
Pacific railroad in Arizona. While the
statement is not credited as being cor
rect it is generally understood that the
survey now about to commence will
show some l0oseness at least in original
lines. Capt. Finley. U. S. A., is at
Fort Bliss, Texas, with two companies
Of soldiers, and corps of $50 men pre-
pairing for the survey, which will occu-
py the better part of the year.
It Is rumored in Wall street that
Thomas A. Edison is dissatisfied with
the projected consolidation of the Edi-
son General Electric company and the
Thompson-Ho company, and
that he will retire, If indeed he is not
frozen out. It Is said he owns only
one tenth Of the stock of the Edison
company, which controls nearly all
his patents, and with such a small por-
ton of the whole stock he is practically
powerless. The fact that he has only
a comparatively small amount of stock
Is interesting IN itself as showing that
Edison Is sharing the fate of inventors
generally. Other men have majority
and are drawing the dividends. Some
believe that through his ignorance of
the ways Of Wall street he has been
outwited, and that some one else has
control of his stock. No one has been
able to find out definitely what Edison
thinks OF the consolidation scheme, as
he refuses to discuss the matter. BY
the terms Of the consolidation the total
capital stock of the Edison company
will be exchanged for one hundred
millions Of stock in the new company,
and that the Thompson Houston
company gets $18, AGO. 900 stock in the
new company.