The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1897-04-29
ALL OVER THE WORLD
GRIST OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Industrial Pointers, Occurrences In
Political Circles, Fire Losses
and So On.

ed by fire. Loss, SlOOO00; insurance S40,-
900.
Charles H. Smith has received the ap-
pointment of surveyor of customs for
the port of st. Louis.
Fire has caused loss of 100000 at
Tallahoma, a town southeast of Nash
vile Tenn.
The sudden death of Bragadier General
Richard w. Johnson at his home m st.
Paul, Mimi, is announced.
DIR. w. Godfrey Hunter. the republican
senatorial caucus candidate in KentucHy,
has withdrawn from the contest.
The Southern Pacific Company Is maxi
ing arrangements to build bridge to
cost S. 900 across the Mississippi river
at New Orleans.
The interior department has granted
permission to Chief Joseph, Nez Perce
warrior, to accompany Colonel William
Cody in his Wild West show.
Many intimations are heard In san
Francisco that the execution of Theodore
Durrant, the convicted murderer of
Blanche Lamont. will never take place
Two of the state board of prison directors
in Interviews say they think Durrant
should not be hanged two others favor
his execution and the fifth is non-com-
initial.
The Mexican congress has ratified the
treaty settling the boundary line be-
tween Mexico and British Honduras.
The Portland board of trade urges the
! Oregon delegation in congress to oppose
|
treaty.
The state of Indiana has sued the Van
dalia railroad to recover s2,00O000 of school
money alleged to be due under an old
charter.
Amid imposing ceremonials the corner
stone of the Trans Mississippi Exposition
arch of states has been laid at Omaha.
A wind and hailstorm, passing over
Harvey county, Kansas. demolished two
farmhouses near Newton. one woman
was fatally hurt. Glass In the south side
of buildings was shattered.
All necessary measures are reported to
have been taken at Sebastopol for the
eventual Intervention of Russia in the
war between Turkey and Greece.
AS u result of the verdict of the cor
oner's jury at Salt Lake. Utah, in the
case of John II. Hamilton, Mrs Lou
Hamilton. wife of the dead man. is held
for murder, and Thos. p. Seddon is held
| as accessory.
The paper mills at Ellsworth, five miles
north of Terre Haute. Ind. have been de-
| stroyed by fire, entailing a loss of $4,000
1t Is stated that Greece has informed
the powers that she will abandon her
claims to the island of Crete If the pow
ers will force Turkey to cede her Epirus
and Mount Olympus, accorded to her by
the treaty of Berlin.
An attempt has been made to assassi-
nate the president of Uruguay, Senior Ji-
diarte Borda. He was shot at by a
would-be assassin, but the bullet missed
the mark. The presidents assaiant was
arrested
The Japanese. having been turned away
from Hawaii, are trying to gain an en-
trance into the United States. Fifty Jap
anese laborers have arrived from British
Columbia to work in California orchards.
Harold M. Sewall who has been select
ed for minister of Hawaii. gained promi-
nence during the last campaign by rea-
; son of his advocacy of the republican
, ticket and PLATFORM although his father
Arthur Sewall, was the nominee of the
democrats for vice president. Sewall had
the Endorsement Of the Maine senators
for the Hawaiian mission.
A murder is reported at the mining
camp of Granite Grant county, ore. The
shooting resulted in the death OF Louis
: Gutridge and a probable fatal woundinf
of his brother. Samuel, the slayer belni
John Mcmahon. A report derogatory L
the character of .McMahons sister wa'
charged upon Gutridge. A quarrel en-
: sued and Mcmahon shot the deceased
twice, killing him instantly. Sam Gut
ridge attempted to dlsarm Mcmahon, an'
: the slayer shot him in the face.
: The shah of Persia is reported alarm
:. ingly ILL.,
=. The entire French squadron has lef
Toulon for the Levant.
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|, 4 jured by a cyclone at Omer, Mich.
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