Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-11-19
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS
RECORD OF CRIME AND MlsHAP
Progress Of Busine ss 1T Home and
AbrOnd-Fire Losses and Acciden-
tai Deaths - Political AppOint-
ments.

DR.. Heinrich Wiener, the eminent Ger
man jurist. is dead.
The Georgia house of representatives.
has passed bill making the playing OF
football crime, and providing $1,000 fine
or one year in the penitentiary, or both,
as the penalty.
The LOvejoy monument at Alton, ILL.,,
costing 100000, has just been dedicated.
Lovejoy was assassinated in that city
editorials against the slave trade.
The comptroller of tha currency has de-
clared dividends in favor of the creditors
of insolvent national banks as follows:
Twenty-f five per cent, Merchants & Min
ers' National bank, Phillipsburg, Mont;
Is per cent, Northwestern National bank
Great Falls, Mont. l4l2 per cent, Ma
tional bank. Pendleton. Or.
Patents have been granted John Jeklin,
Spokane, dust pan; Alfred Barrett, Puy
allup, baling press, and John d. Camp
bell, Leesburg, Idaho, a tool for miners
use.
The war department., acting on the rec
ommendation of General Wade, com
handing the department of Dakota, has
ordered the abandonment Of Fort Custer,
Montana. General Wade has also rec.
commended the abandonment of Fort As
sinabOine, Montana, but the department
thinks it imprudent at this time.
Leading business men of Iowa cities are
circulating petition to present to the
next legislature asking that married men
be not exempted from paying grocery and
tradesmen's bills.
DIR. Won H0llenben, the new German
ambassador to the United States to sue
ceed Baron Won Theilmann, recalled to
become secretary of the imperial treasury,
has left Brennan for the United States.
1t is probable that Rev. DR.. Collyer, the
eminent Unitarian divine of Brooklyn,
will fill the pulpit of the First Unitarian
church of Oakland during the first three
months of the coming year, filling the
place made vacant by the resignation of
Rev. c. w. Wendt.
The annual report of the Great North
ern shows total gross earnings of $751;
1856 ,225, q decrease of $83,474; operating
expenses and taxes. $l3,23O,22l, an in
crease Of $6l5,998; net earnings, $685.
OO3. a decrease of $699,474; surplus after
dividends, 81 ,53S, 7l6, a decrease of $50l,.
4lO.
Three thousand sheep were burned in
a prairie fire in Crosby county, Texas.
The two Mormon apostles, Leyman
and Crowley, have assigned missionary
elders to various portions Of Ohio, with
the view Of spreading the faith in that
| state.
The past year has been the most sue.
cessful financially, in the history of Yale
university, the school having received
$445 O55 in gifts.
1t is learned at the state department
that Charles Page Bryan Of Chicago has
been determined upon as the successor
of Minister Charles DENLY, who now rep
resents the United States in China.
In the Thorn murder trial in Long Isl
and City, N. Y, Mrs. Augusta Mack, who
was indicted, together with her erstwhile
paramour, Martin Thorn, for the murder
of her former lover, William Guldensuppe
for whom she deserted her legal husband
has appeared in the role of state witness
against Thorn, to the CONSERVATION o.
the latter's lawyers. She told of the aw
full crime, which will doubtless convict
her paramount.
Fire has destroyed the department
store Of w. A. Wieboldt l. Co., in Chi
cago The loss is about $l65,OOO.
Robert +. Lincoln has become tn,
head of the Pullman Car Company, bein,
elected chairman OF the executive com
mittee having the management of the at
fairs of the committee.
William Jennings Bryan has cOntribut
ed 800 to the Henry George memoria
fund.
Miss Frances f. Willard, president O
the w. G. I. u, announces that she viii
contribute 5000 of her own money t
start the fund of $500, 600 which the TEN
perance women need to hold control q
the temple property in Chicago
! The Pacific Steam Whaling Company i
preparing to place new line Of steam
ers on the st. Michaels- Yukon route mex
spring. The line will have it's headqua,
ters at San Francisco and will be direc
route. The company has also gone int
the Copper river and Cooks inlet trade
Upon the opening of the trial of Jos
eph +. Kelly at Dover, N. H., for tn
murder of Cashier Stickney of the Som
ellsworth National hank, Kelly retracte
his plea of not guilty and pleaded guilt
! to the charge of murder in the first de-
gree.
A. G. Gillian, manager of the Jones
Nixon Publishing Company of st. Loui,
and democratic candidate for stat
senator ut the last election, shot and kill
cd himself today. An injury received re-
Gently in IA bicycle accident is thought t
have affected his mind.
The police at Barcelona, Spain, hav
seized 800 rifles intended for the Carlist.
Fire caused loss Of $S5 900 by tn
burning of the Riverview hotel at Kar
kakee, H.. insurance $4,000.
President Mckinley has issued a pro,
lamation exempting from payment of to,
mage duties to Mexican vessels whic
come directly to ports Of the Unite
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