Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-08-20
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CHANCES ALL OVER THE WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Record Of MisfOrtunes, Mishaps and
Crimes, as Well AZ Of Indus
trial Progress.

Count Posadowski Wehner, the new |
vice chancellor and imperial foreign secre-
tary Of Germany, is appointed to repre-
sent the chancellor in the capacity of SUI
preme head of the Reichsbank. He has
more than once publicly advocated bimet-
allism.
A dispatch from Havana says that Of
fetal information has reached Havana of
a decisive battle between loyal troops and
insurgents forces in Matanzas in which
the Spanish troops were routed with
heavy losses.
Advices from Vladivostock state that
the Russian government intends to
make an attempt to keep the port open
all the year round. A tremendous ice
boat, built in Denmark, has been
brought round from Europe, and the in
ventors, who accompanied the vessel, are
sanguine of success.
The injunction which stood in the way
of the new glucose combination by re-
straining the sale to it of the American
Glucose Company of Peoria, ILL.,, has been
dissolved and the transfer took place i'm
medately, certified check for over So
OOO,O being passed in order to forestall
any similar attempts at complication.
j. A. Knowlin a live stock commission
merchant of Kansas City, has bought i'll
Oregon $4,000 sheep which are now being
driven overland to Kansas, where they
will be fed next winter and spring. This
immense herd has been divided into l2
bands, each of which is driven by eight
men, Knowlin expects to reach Kansas
with the sheep by October.
Five hundred coal miners employed by
the Albert Coal Company at Lethbridge,
Canada, are out on strike for an advance
of 10 per cent in wages.
The annual report of the Oregon Rail-
way & Navigation Company for the year
ending June 80, 1897. shows an increase
of 81, obs 1921 in net earnings over the pre-
vious year. Total earnings, $4,7lS,354;
operating expenses, $2,779O47. Net earn
ings, 81, 939.3O7.
The property of the Chicago Sugar Re
filming Company has been formally trans
ferred to the Glucose Sugar Refining Com
pany of New Jersey for the consideration
of $6,25O,OOO "and other valuable con-
siderations" The plant consists of an
enormous sugar refinery and glucose fac
tory which have been in operation for Is
years.
A special from Coffeen, Ill.,, says
Frank Campbell, who was the trusted
lieutenant of General" Bradley, was
forced to flee for his life from the strikers
camp west of town. He was pursued by
an angry mob of Slavs, who charged him
with having sold Bradley and his men out
to the Coffeen Coal and Copper Company.
The Falls Creek tannery at Falls Greek,
Pa, has closed down because of the ap-
pearance of peculiar and terrible di.
sease among the employees, of whom four
died within few hours after they were
seized. 1t is supposed to be caused by
handling hides which were imported from
China and which contained germs of an
unknown and dangerous disease.
Captain w. H. Shafoe, one of the best
known racing men in the south, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself al
Gallatin, Tenn, apparently withou:
cause.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock of St. Louis has
been appointed minister to Russia. Mr..
Hitchcock is great grand son of Ethan
Allen, who captured Fort Ticonderoga
lin the name of the Great Jehovah and
the continental congress-"
Captain General Weyler has rendered
his resignation as commander of the
Spanish forces in Cuba. His campaign
was brought to an inglorious close, he
having been chased into Havana by the
rebels on the last day of the protractetl
struggle.
All of the big labor leaders in the co,,,,.
try have assembled at Pittsburg to aid
the miners in their fight for hiphe,
wages. President NJ. d. Ratchford of the
United Mine Workers of America, fro II
the West Virginia districts, says the
working men are bound to win; they arc
daily growing stronger, and have now
reached the point where the courts have
been compelled to step in and enjoin thu
striking miners from carrying un tn-.l
organization. Samuel Gompers said Is.
600 out of 10000 diggers in West Vir
ginia were now striking.
was forbidden to visit his sweethear..
shot and fatally wounded the girls faith
er, afterward escaping.
Several hundred tests of adulteratet
tea, imported by Portland Chinese firm
were rejected by the Tacoma customs in
spector, regardless of the protests of the
! company's agent.
Governor Rogers has received an invi
tation from the governor of Texas in
wiling him to send four delegates to thu
national prison association meeting il
Austin. October 1920. The delegates
must pay their own expenses No ont
, has been found.
The eighth international congress O
pharmaceutical chemists is in session Al
Brussels, the direct object of the two
, weeks meeting being to discuss hygiene
! pure water supplies, public health an,
, sanitary legislation.