Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-07-09
AT HOME AND ABROAD
SUMMARY OF NEWS FROM ALL
OVER THE WORLD.
Industrial Items. Record of Casual
ties ana the Happenings of
the Week.

President Mckinley spent a quiet day
with hi, mother at Canton, Ohio, Sunday
The coal miners of S:reator district in
Illinois, with a total OF about $4,000 men,
have laid down their tools IN answer to
the call of the national association.
The most disastrous fire that ever De-
Cured in the city swept over the princi
pal business portion of Batesville, Ark.
sunday, entailing a loss to property of
$4,000. The fire is supposed to have been
caused by the explosion of fire crackers.
Patrick Grace, a Chicago saloonkeeper,
and his wife were shot and MORALLY
sounded by three masked men who at
tempted to rob the saloon. Grace has a
bullet in his right temple and his wife
was wounded in the forehead The rob
bers escaped.
A terrible storm is reported from South
Germany. Hail stones as large as hens
eggs fell. Crops. vines, trees and whole
orchards were destroyed. thousands o:
hares and cartridges with otner game
were killed, and great damage done to
property. The loss is estimated at many
million marks.
Five persons were killed and 40 injured
during the celebration of the Fourth in
Chicago.
Governor Rogers delivered the Fourth
of July Grafton at New Whatcom. Wash,
discoursing on 1.-The Rights of Man."
At the Tammany celebration in New
York the name of Cleveland was slightly
applauded but loudly hissed," while the
report states that 1.-The audience broke in
to wild cheer" ut the mention of Bry
ans name.
The Turkish troops after Il sharp fight
with the inhabitants. have occupied the
village of Kalabaka, in north Thessaly.
The cheers of 10000 people greeted Will
liam J. Bryan at Forest park, Los An
geles, Monday, where he spoke for two
hours and 20 minutes, and held the close
attention of his audience.
| A dispatch from Danes island dated
June %, announces that the filling of
Professor Andres balloon was completed
June D. and that everything was ready
10 start on his attempt to cross the Are
tic regions on July l.
Special dispatches from Bombay say
that 600 to 1000 rioters were killed dur
ing the recent rioting in the vicinity OF
Calcutta, and it is added that native Of
ticials put the death roll as high as 1900
| The American Chamber of Commerce
gave its third Independence day banquet
in Paris, Monday. Covers We're laid for
500, and the company included many Ia
dies. Among the guests We're Chaunccy
Nj. Depew, NJ. II. De Young and General
Horace Porter, the American ambass,l.
dor. Ambassador Porter presided.
Three hundred citizens of the United
States, residents of London, and visitors
sat down to the annual dinner of the
American society in London Monday. the
official guests included Hon. Whitelaw
Reid, General Miles. former Vice Prcsi
dent Stevenson. Terrill formerly minister
to Turkey, and Bishops Potter, Doane
Whipple, futile, Leonard Perry and
Quinard.
The Fourth of July was celebrated gen
orally all over Montana, but as a rule
without oratory. Congressman Hartman
spoke at Livingston and Mrs. Ella Know
les Haskell at Marysville. The soldiers
home at Columbia Falls was dedicatad
the principal address being made by Rep
rescntative Fred Whiteside. Elsewhere
in the state. however, there We're hors'
races, base ball games and other forms o
sports, and no speechmaking. The wealth
er was generally cool.
Prof George Weston, the aeronaut, an,
his assistant, Section of Aberdeen, Wash.
were fearfully crushed while the forme
was attempting an ascension and para
chute jump at Eureka, Cal, Monday
When the balloon was inflated and tn
restraining ropes cast off it shot up g
} feet with Section entangled in the ropes
He was dropped to the earth and sustain
ed fractures and bruises from which h
will die. Weston chung to the parachut
and strong wind carried him with ter
: rife force through the tops of some trees
and he, also, dropped to earth, crushe'
and mangled in terrible manner.