Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1892-02-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

st. Louis, for the first time in four years.
At Palmer, Mass, Monday, Herbert
G. Gath blew his brains out while suffer-
ing from an attack Of Ia grippe.
Frank Means, a printer. while coasting
in SPOKANE, suffered double fracture Of
his leg by collision with pile of rocks.
The Roseburg Daily Plaindealer has
suspended publication. The immediate
cause of it's death was lack Of patronage.
Sixteen thousand cases of influenza
were reported in Copenhagen during the
past week. There were seventy-two
deaths.
The president has decided, it is said, to
appoint John H. Baker, of Indiana, to
succeed William II. Taft as solicitor.
general.
Chauncey NJ. Depew has been re-
elected president OF the Union League
Club, Of New York, by 456 votes out Of
722 cast.
F. G. Davenport of Boston an i'm.
porter Of tin.plate, eheet.iron and met
als, has assigned. His liabilities were
$2OO,OOO.
BY the collision Of two steamers in the
river Tyne Monday, the British brig
Wellington was sunk and two sailors lost
their lives.
A fire in Warsaw, Wis, Sunday de-
stroyed the opera house and several
other buildings. The damage amounted
TO 100000.
man named g. W. Fry has been
bound over at Walla Walla on the COM
plai"t Of his wife, who says he threat
ened to kill her.
Henry Nelson was accidentally killed
Sunday by the discharge Of gun while
hunting near Big Lakes, twelve miles
from Modesto, Cal.
Harry johnson, Of Peoria, ILL.,, fatally
sho: his wife Monday, and then killed
himself. The couple had only been
married four months.
Many people were crushed to death,
many drowned and large number in
jured by the collapse Of q bridge at
st. Petersburg Sunday.
Hon. r. X. Nichols, recently ap.
pointed register OF the Yakima land
office, has declined the position, owing
to other and imperative engagements.
J. F. Stirling shot and, it is thought,
fatally wounded himself at San Bernar-
dino, CAL, Saturday. Business losses
are supposed to be the cause of the act.
Rudyard Kipling, the well.known
story writer, WAS married Tuesday in
London to Miss Balestier, sister of the
young American novelist, Wolcott Bales
tier.
A passenger train on the St. Louis 4
San Francisco line was wrecked near
Fayetteville, Ark, Monday and half u
d. zen people were painfully hurt. Two
may jie.
The Northwestern Miller's reports of
tho official output of -four bv the Minne-
apoiis mills for 1891 was 7,77S, TAI barrels,
exceeding the banner year Of 1888 by
over 8OO,UO0.
Ex-Speaker Tom Reed is quoted by a
personal friend AZ expressing the opinion
that neither Blaine nor Harrison will be
nominated at the Minneapolis convention
In June next.
Census returns show the population Of
Labrador and Newfoundland to be 2O2,-
coo IN increase In the last seven wears of
only 4lOO. This showing is great dis
appointment.
Miss Maggie Casey, of Grants Pass,
was attacked by pet deer The other day,
and but tor the timely arrival of assist
ance would have been seriously hurt and
perhaps killed.
A railroad wreck occurred near Sparta,
Wis, Saturday. A passenger coach was
hurled down twenty.foot embankment,
and fifteen OF the passengers received
serious injuries.
Newspapers report that the governor
OF Colorado will commute the sentence of
Or. Graves, convicted OF poisoning Mrs
Barnaby, TO imprisonment in the peni-
tentiary for life.
Block 4 Schwerin, the PHILADELPHIA
Wholesale toy dealers, have failed. |. is
estimated their liabilities will reach
@1OO, 600. They offer . compromise at
twenty five per cent.
w. H. Schell, conductor on the
Aadteon-street cable road at Seattle,
vas killed Tuesday morning by the col.
lieion OF . runaway car with the car on
which he was riding.
A train ran into sleighing party in |
the suburbs Of st. Louis Tuesday night
and killed eight persons. Twenty. four
young men were on the toboggan, none |
Of whom escaped injury.
w. B. Bushnell, the Tacoma capitalist
and president Of the Northwestern Base
ball League, 10 said to have gone insane
- . result Of too close attention to his
large business interests.
Colonel "Dick" Howard, q prosperous
and highly-admircd resident Of Cowesett.
3. l., New Prov,dence), is believed to
b the only survivor now left Of John
Browns historic party Of Harper's Ferry.
The late Senator Plumb of Kansas ia
said 70 have left an estate valued at
q. 00O, 600. He had property in New
York, Florida. Alabama. Virginia, Ohio,
Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, and Mon.
lama.
The Rev. Father Walsh, who was At
one time assistant pastor Of st. Joseph's
Catholic church in San Francisco, was
struck BY Howard-street cable car 1t 9
o'clock Saturday night and seriously in.
ured. !
New Years day Robert Wallace disap.
Peared from Astoria. His dead body was
ound Thursday afternoon. Blood had
'osed from . gun-shot wound in the side,
md i 10 thought his death was acct. -,