Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-12-17
POINTS IN GENERAL NEWS
THE HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK
Accidents and Crimes All Over the
World-Business Affairs and Po-
utical ConsideratiOns- Of
Items.

President and Mrs. Mckinley arrived
at Canton, Ohio, Tuesday, to find the
aged mother of the president still living.
The diving woman rallied and for a mo-
ment plainly gave evidence of recognizing
her children about her bedside
The old age pension bill Of the New
Zealand government provides for the pay
ment of yearly pension Of SIS out OF the
consolidated fund to every person who |
has affirmed the age Of IS and whose in
come is under $36.
About $4,000 has been realized by the
Hawaiian government from the pubic
sale of royalty chattels.
Rich strikes have been made at Kali
poorlie. the new mining district in West
Australia.
An Englishman names Graves. VINO
has been inspecting the Penang gulf tele-
graph line about nine miles from Jaska'
province of Herman, on the Aban sea.
lust north of Cape Jaska, has been muir
dered in his tent by tribesmen.
General Paul Vandervoort, at one time
grand commander Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, and one OF the promoters
of the Grand Army colony in Texas, has
closed deal with John +. ("Shanghar)
Pearce. the great cattle king, for land for
1000 colonists, who will move Immediate
" after the beginning of the new year.
The undertaking is fashioned after that
at Fitzgerald, Ga.
The defalcation of A. r. Spoiford, IL
brarian of congress, will amount to $4,000,
and the authorities are uncertain wheth-
er the man is knave or fool. Seven
hundred dollars was found in an old desk
belonging to the librarian, much OF it in
shin plasters. Many postotiice orders
have never been cashed, and the entries
in the books are for less than the amount
received. Spofford will be removed.
United States Ambassador Hay and
Mrs. Hay have dined with Queen Victoria
at Windsor and slept at the castle.
The Washburn & Moen Manufacturing
Company state that several of the larger
wire manufacturers are proposing to form
new corporation, under the auspices OF
j. p. Morgan l. Co. of New York.
General Agent Herman of Haverstraw,
of the Amoskeag corporation at Manches-
ter, n H., is authority for the statement
that the cut in cotton mill wages in Fall
River will not be followed in that city;
that the Fall River action pertains only
to the mills of that city, and it is not
probable that the example will be follow
ed in other New England cities.
According to startling report made to
the Boston Globe by st. Louis man,
Mrs. Luetgert, the supposed victim of the
sausage manufacturer murderer, sOcalled,
in Chicago, is alive and well. Mrs. Luet-
CERT was seen in Boston during the month
of July and acknowledged her identity
besides giving more or less explanation
relative to the reasons which caused heI
to leave her husband, who is again being
tried for his life.
Lewis Noxon of Elizabethport, N. j..
is to build stern-wheel steamboat spe
cially designed for use on the Yukon
river, for the Philadelphia Exploration &
Mining Company, which is about to send
an expedition under charge of Prof. An
gelo Heilprin of Philadelphia. The party
will have eight members, who expect t.
spend two years in Alaska.
The latest reports of late fights in PIMA
del Rio province of Cuba show the Span
ish loss was more than claimed. The deaf
or wounded include one colonel, one ma
. jor, seven captains, IL subordinate Off
GERS and "a privates. Most of the wound
ed will die. The rebel loss was IA. Tn
rebels used explosive bullets.
:. Governor Black has pardoned Albert II
Smith, who in 1890 was sentenced to Sin,
Sing for IL years. The convict was sen
fenced for series of forgeries, by whicl
: he swindled his partners in the firm @
Mills, Robertson & Smith, stock broker,
: out of over 100000, causing their finan
!, cial ruin.
I Charles Fleischman of Cincinnati, sey
y eral-times millionaire, is dead. He wa
J. born in Hungary in 1884 and came t
America in 1866. The foundation of hi
great fortune was laid by the inventio
OF patent machinery for use in distillerie
: Until recently he was president of tn
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune COMPANY
he was also president of ...e Market N.
:. tional bank. He had an extensive inte
,c est in the turf, and was the employer .
n the famous jockey, Tod Sloane.
II A counterfeit $40 silver certificate
.r in circulation in Denver, Col.
r. Rev. Dr. +. b. Cherington Of the Yves
,e kane, Wash. has accepted call from IL
" minister Congregational church of Sp,
n. Plymouth Congregational church of So
-, Francisco.
1T There were no services Sunday in II
ii old Catholic church of Green Ray, Wi
" Rev. A. A. Miller. the parish of HTH
" Kew. A. A. Miller, the priest of the paris
,e has resigned his charge and accented IL
n. Protestant faith.
&c Sioux City, Iowa. Christian Scientis
ut nave dedicated a new church the first
e. that faith ever built in Iowa. It COS
.. $4,000. all of which was fully paid VIII.
the trustees accepted the building fro
the contractors.
Secretary kopalowitz of the executi,
a. board of the United Brotherhood of Cloa
as makers announces that membership