Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-10-01
NEWS OF THE WORLD
BRIEF MENTION OF EvENRS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
Record Of HisfoPtunes, llishaps ana
Grimes, - Well - Of Inaus.
trial Progress.

Korea has joined the international tel
egraphic convention.
The Hawaiian senate by q unanimous
vote has ratified the treaty of annexation
to the United States.
Major Ballame. private secretary of
Governor Rogers, has been appointed ad-
jutant general of the state of Washing
ton.
Reports from all parts of Japan indi-
cate that the rice crop this year will be
good, in fact, it is predicted
that it will exceed anything seen during
the past 10 years.
United States Consul O'Hara at San J..
Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, reports to the
state department that the peso is worth
but 1886 in gold, a drop of 80 cents in
six months. On the other hand, provis-
ions have advanced.
The preliminary treaty of peace be-
tween Turkey and Greece which was
signed on Saturday by the representa-
tives of the sultan and of the powers has
been ratified by the sultan.
The plague is increasing in Bombay
presidency of British India.
The coal miners of Belleville. ILL.,, and
vicinity have declared the strike off, so
far as it affects the owners who are will
ling to pay the scale.
w. F. Karron, now imprisoned in the
county Jail at San Francisco, charged
with embezzlement, has fallen heir to a
quarter of million dollars.
Michael Cross. the composer and or
ganist of Philadelphia, is dead.
Louise Michel, the notorious French
anarchist it is said, will leave Paris in a
few days for the United States.
Major Edward l. Merrill, aged 20 years,
died at his home in Pennington, Maine
Sunday. He was the secretary of the
| ways and means committee of the ma
tional house Of representatives.
The declaration is made at Madrid and
ia being generally circulated that the
Spanish troops in Cuba have recaptured
Victoria de Las Tunis, which was taken
by the insurgents under Calixta Garcia
and Jesus Rabion, September 5.
The Afridis and Orakais of the Tirah
country. on the frontier of India, at a
council held at Bagh, have decided to re-
sist the British advance. They have sent
a message to Gholam Hyder Khan, the
ameer's frontier general, asking him to
help them.
President Mckinley passed Sunday
quietly at Adams, Mass. In the morning
the president and the Misses Mabel and
Grace Mckinley, accompanied by their
host, went to the Congregational church.
The church was crowded and was decor
ated with flowers. The usual order of
services was observed.
The attorneys for the Panama Railroad
Company have placed on record in New
York a mortgage bonding all the proper
ty, rolling stock, steamship, wharves and
other appurtenances Of the Panama Rail.
road Company in the sum of 100000
A disappointing rye crop is indicated by
final returns to the American Agricultur.
ist. Instead of some $4,000, 900 bushels
a. expected from earlier indications, the
crop of the United States now figures out
about 25,OOO,OOO bushels, 100000 more
than last year, and 100000 less than in
1895 and 1894. Latest European crop ad
vices are confrmatory of serious short
ages, especially in Russia.
j. w. Follert. government produc,
merchant at Trail, b. c., accidentally sho
last Sunday while enjoying days out
ing, is dead, having never recovered con
: seriousness.
Secretary Sherman still, according t.
interviews in the Spanish newspapers, de
sires a solution Of the Cuban question b.
November at the latest, as he fears tn
"jingoes" win make themselves heard OF
. the reassembling Of congress.
The supreme court of the state O
Washington filed an opinion to the effec
7 that L. s. Hewlett il still commissions
Of arid lands, and a peremptory writ q
mandate was ordered issued directing tn
state auditor to issue warrants for tn
| payment Of his salary a. such officer.
= Henry George has been unanimousl,
: nominated for mayor Of Greater Ney
4 York by the United Democracy. com
E posed of numerous free silver and Brya1
!, clubs. Mr.. George once polled $500
|. votes IA a labor candidate for mayor @
|. New York. His strength, if he shout
!. accept, would be drawn principally fror
4 the democratic vote.
. The slaughter Of mother and her 81
. children occurred at the home Of job
Blocker, . farmer, living eight mile
northwest Of Carrollton, Iowa. Boeckel
the fendish husband, completed hi
bloody work by sending bullet into hi
own head, inficting fatal wound. tn
l. family were prosperous Germans, and a
y far rs is known. had lived happily. N
e motive for the tragedy has been dir
n closed.
o BUTTE MAN SAYS HE WAS ROBBEE