Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-12-24
POINTS N GENERAL NEWS
HONE AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK.

HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK.
Accidents ana Crimes Ala over the
worla-Dusinsss ARairs ana Pc
litieal saesatisns-varaety ~
Items.
According to special dispatch from
Shanghai the German government con-
templates colonis'ng the province Of Shan
Tung with German families and making
Kiao Chau IN open port
Cuban insurgcnts dynamited the rail-
road between Canarias and Dagene, prov.
ince Of Pinar del Rio. destroying the track
and wrecking the engine Of . freight
train. A force Of troops with = repairing |
gang was sent to the scene Of the out. |
rage, where they found q dynamite bomb |
and arrested the men who caused the ex.
plosion. The line was repaired.
Charles C. Brown Of Sacramento, Cal,
a veteran sport, has fallen heir to an e.
tate In New Orleans valued at 100000.
William Henry Theodore Durrant, the
condemned murderer Of blanche Lamont,
has been sentenced by Superior Judge
Bahrs at San Francisco for the fourth
time, to suffer the extreme penalty Of the
law, the date for his execution being Get
for January 7 next
The following nominations have been
sent to the senate by President McKin-
ley: Court Of private land claims: Joseph
Reed TO be chief justice, William M. Nny
| Of Tennessee, ThoA +. Fuller Of North
Carolina, Henry q. Strauss of Kansas.
Wilbur +. Stone Of Colorado. to be $3.50
ciate Justices, reappointments, their terms
expiring December 81, 1897.
| A bill has been introduced by Soma
tor Wilson in the senate granting to the
Spokane Falls 4 Northern railway right
Of way through the Colville Indian req
ervation and also for any branch line
commencing at point in Stevens county,
crossing tho Columbia river and running
northwest by the most feasible route
through the northern part Of said reserva-
ton to connect at the International boun-
Diary line with any road which may be
built from British Columbia.
Louis and John Bonner, negroes, who
have been attending the United States
court at Nashville, Tenn. ~ witnesses
against white.cappeys, were murdered In
q foul manner near Kennedy, In Lamar
county.
President Mckinley has decided to put
quietus on the protests formulating on
the Pacific coast against Attorney General
McKcnna of California 40 judge OF the
; supreme court, and sent In his nominA
: ton. The president II determined u
stand by his attorney general to the enc
Of the fight It Is said. He will insist, \
is said, that McKenna continue ~ attor
I ney general until the senate confirms hi
: nomination M associate justice.
: One, ON possible two, lives were los
and $4,000 worth Of property destroye,
: in a disastrous Are at Durica, Pa, whicl
: almost ruined the business portion Of tn
!. town.
william Terriss, the well known actcl
= was assassinated. being stabbed with
0 knife an he was entering the stage doo
8 Of the Adelphi theater in London.
!, Senator Frye has introduced hill ]
r congress providing for the purchase
y construction of vessel for the revenu
q cutter service on the Yukon, and apprt
l. priating $4,000 for this purpose.
O There were no services Sunday In tn
d old Catholic church Of Green Bay, Wi
d Rev. A. A. Miller, the priest Of the paris'
t has resigned his charge and accepted u
Ir Protestant faith.
T. The death Is reported at Tacoma
If Jonas Stanup, one Of the best known Il
Is dams in western Washington, aged
N wears In the Indian war Of 1850 he tor
an active part in defense Of his people
the Puyallups-and ut its termination !
fused TO surrender his gun TO the COVER
IN ment.
II No appointments will be made by q
IL president during the holiday recess, e
n cept in case Of emergency.
TO John (Kd) Mccoy, the noted ex-ba'
Is burglar. whose record il known To t
n police Of all countries, was struck ON t
head with a club and probably fatally
10 iured in New York by John McGinn
nj proprietor Of Bowery lodging hou
us Lately Mccoy has earned a precario
living by selling locks.
ne The establishment Of Crook, Horner
on Co.. dealers in plumbing, machinists q
!" millers' supplies. occupying a seven-st
building at Howard and Saratoga stree
sh- Baltimore has been damaged $450.OOO
fire. The loss il covered by insurance.
The state department has been
my vised that the Canadian authorities HI
me surrendered upon an extradition war;
no James c. Eennett, WHO was arrested I
rse held at Victoria on a charge OF murder
assault upon his wife in San Francisco
The state of Nebraska, by the attor
,ad general, has filed civil suit against
he Treasurer Hartley snd his bondsmen
u,d $335 900 This Ia the amount which III
mi. ley is charged with einbezzling from
,ou public school fund during his first
,Ixe years in Office. and il only one Of n
~ BIER Of similar suits.
,es. The subcommittee Of the senate {
mittee on Pacific railroads heard F.
Nd Gideon. the attorney who was charges