Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-11-12
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.
RECORD OF CRIME AND MisHAP.
Progress Of Business At Home and
AbrOad-Flre Losses ana AccSden.
tai Deaths Political Apuosnt.
menta.

Fire has destroyed the Grand Central
hotel and Carey block at Marlboro, Mass. :;
loss, $l5O,OOO.
General Thomas L. Clingman. ex.
United States senator. died at Morgan.
town insane asylum. Aged, poor and in
firm, North Carolina gave him a home
there.
Rev. DR.. Charles A. Gerry, pastor of
the Queen street church, Wolverhampton,
London, and chairman of the Cougrepa.
tlonal union in England, has reached New
York on his visit to the United States in
the interests of Anglo American arbitra.
ton.
Particulars of the terrible casualty
which occurred in the village church at
khiloff. kizoloff district, Russia, October
~, state that "a persons were killed and
l6O injured in the stampede which fol.
lowed the false alarm of fire.
The Chesapeake l. Ohio's yestibuled OK.
press, known as the Of. F. w." from Gin.
cinnati to Washington, was wrecked near
Old Shawdell, five miles east of Charlottes.
VILE, Va. -Four persons were killed. The
wreck was caused by the breaking of an
axle on the forward truck of the locomo-
tive.
Thomas Davis Of Boise, Idaho, has for
w"rded to President Mckinley, through
Senator Shoup, a box of fine large apples
and pears produced on Idaho soil. This
fruit has attracted great deal of atten.
ton from members Of the cabinet and
their families and from others who have
been visitors at the White house, on &C.
count of its size, flavor and fine appear
ance.
q. ID. Mclean, the Grass Valley (Cal.)
millionaire miner, is dead.
A report has reached Chicago that the
operators at Carbon Hill, ILL.,, will import
Chinese to take the place of the strikinc
miners.
BY an explosion at the Illinois Steel
Works, Milwaukee, Thursday night, five
men were injured, two-Peter Hundt and
George Kolinsky-f fatally.
George s. Shaw, the pioneer lumber
man of Cloquet, MIMI. one of the best
known lumbermen in the northwest. is
dead.
There is every indication that from L..
GOO to $1,000 cloak makers will strike in
New York. owing to viola ton by con-
tractors of the agreement entered into six
weeks ago.
Charles l.. Fair, son of the late Senator
Fair of California, has announced his in.
tention Of selling his racing stable and re-
firing from the turf. having met with
nothing but bad luck for years.
The Upsala college, a Lutheran institu.
ton. supported by the state church of
Sweden, of Brooklyn, has agreed to move
to New Orange, N. ", on condition of a
100000 endowment from town-boom.
ing real estate firm.
Owing to labor organizations Directing
to the famous Washington marine bands
playing at the Chicago horse show, the
navy department has decided the organi.
zation shall not perform ut any more pri-
vate engagements. This may ruin the
band. it having depended largely upon
outside aid.
There are 232 business failures reported
throughout the United States last week.
as compared with 2l8 the previous week.
235 in the week a year ago. 200 two years
ago. 24I three years ago, and as compared
with 1913 in the first week of November,
1893.
The New York Herald prints a re-
markable letter from Hannis Taylor, for
merly United States minister to Spain, in
which, after telling OF his strenuous ef-
forts to prevent rupture of diplomatic
relations between the two countries dur
ing the dark days of the Competitor case,
he asserts that the ruling classes of Spain
are determined to refuse any concessions
which would be accepted by the Cubans..
The president has selected Frank Mon
dell Of Newcastle. Wyo.. to be assistant
commissioner Of the land office Mondell
was representativeat-large from Wyom-
ing in the last house and will be 81 years
old tomorrow. He has lived in several
western states and territories, was mayor
of Newcastle for seven years, has been
president of the territorial senate and was
a delegate to the Minneapolis convention.
Bradstreets weekly report on the bust.
ness Of the country says that features at
the larger Pacific coast cities are confined
to sales Of merchandise and provisions for
the Klondike and the heavy foreign ship
ments of wheat and -four Larger east
ern cities report no increase in the gener-
al merchandise movement. New England
centers report that orders from the west
exceed those from the south or east Lead
ing manufacturers are fairly well employ
ed. While there has been "a moderate re-
action in iron and steel. furnaces and
mills continue well employed and the
outlook for higher quotations is good.
For the month of October the receipts
OF the Denver 4 Rio Gmnde were S763.-
300, an increase of $54.7OO over the same
month last year. OF III per cent.
The annual session Of the committee
of the NJ. 4. church extension society at
Philadelphia, has closed. II was decided
to appropriate 100000 for church ex.
tension this year.