Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1897-09-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CHANCES ALL OVER THE WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD,
RECORD Of MisfoFtanes, laisAaps ana
Crimes, ~ Well - Of Indus.
TRIAL Progress.

commission from President Mckinley
and will tomorrow enter upon his du.
ties as postmaster at Olympia, Wash,
in place Of A. w. Wisner.
At the Pennsylvania democratic state
convention ex.Assemblymen Walter Z.
Retter was nominated for auditor gen.
eral and NJ. G. Brown Of Blairsville for
state treasurer. Bryan's name was wild
ly cheered, Chicago's platform endorsed
and William Harrity had TO give way
to James NJ. Guffee a. national commit.
teeman.
Jack Leonard, the condemned murder.
er of Jacob Malquist, now in the Spo-
kane county Jail awaiting the action of
the supreme court Of the United States,
will soon be returned to Colfax to suffer
the death penalty. The time for perfect.
ing this appeal expired August 20, and
as appeal was never perfected, there il
no record of it in the United States su.
preme court, and consequently that court
can take no action in the case.
Mrs. j. H. Staples safe at the City
Brewery at Walla Walla. WASH. was
blown open Monday night, the robbers
making away with $500 in money and
valuable papers. There is no clue a. yet.
A telegram announces the death near
Coban, Guatemala, of Right Rev. Bishop
Lemmens, Catholic bishop of Vancouver
island and Alaska. The diocese Of
Bishop Lemmens embraced part Of Brit.
ish Columbia and the entire territory
north.
The 18th annual meeting of the Farm
ers' national congress Of the United
States was called to order at st. Paul,
MINI, Tuesday by President b. +. Clay
ton of lndianola. Iowa. Following the
invocation by Archbishop Ireland the
congress was greeted on behalf Of the
city of st. Paul by Mayor Doran, and
on behalf of the state by Governor
Clough. The president address calls for
the extension of free mail delivery
to the rural districts, the enlargement Of
the weather bureau. more systematic
crop statistics, the reclamation Of the
arid and semi-arid lands, and to restrict
boards of trade to point where they
will prevent fraud in dealing in options
and to entirely stop the bucket shop
disgrace.
The corporation Of Brown university
has voted, after q long meeting, to re-
quest President Andrews to withdraw
his resignation as president Of that in
stitution.
The Austrian government, it il stat
ed, has proposed the rejection of thu
British plan for the settlement Of thu
Graeco-Turkish difficulty. and urge
that the five remaining powers proceed
with the conclusion Of peace betweel
the two countries.
Warden Van Dorm has returned Il
Boise, Idaho, from HALEY with Jess
Coleman, one of the convicts who escap
ed two weeks ago. He was captured nea
Sawtooth lake. The posse is now on tn
trail of the other man. Coleman ma,
have to stand trial for highway robber,
!. for holding up sheep herder. For thi
he may get life sentence.
The capitol commissioners have award
. ed the contract for the superstructure q
the new Minnesota statehouse for 5000
600, deciding on st. Cloud granite for til
basement and Georgia marble for tn
: rest of the superstructure, excepting tn
!. dome.
= A special train Of Is cars Of cattle an
r one of horses left Wilbur. Wash. III
;. car of horses and three cars OF cattle al
), to leave Seattle for Klondike Frida
!, morning, the balance of the train g
n ing to st. Joe, Mo. Another cattle tral
/. will be taken out tomorrow morning.
Il Thirteen members Of the family al
e people living on the farm of Henry Mi
. er, near Metropolis, ILL.,, were poison'
q" and three are dead. It Is thought
least eight Of them will die. A hir
girl who is insane threw package
,r though on Rats" into the well.
A. Rumors are current in Pekin u
m Shanghai that the Hong Kong d
TT Shanghai hank is negotiating q loan
to 100 900, 600 pounds for the Chinese &c
s. eminent. 1t il stated that difficult
e, which arose to prevent the fulAllme
as of the Belgian loan to Shang Tai 10
d. have disappeared and that the loan y
as 20 through and the much-talked
I'd Hang Ko railway will be started.
ed Victor L. Berger Of Milwaukee. v
d. was secretary Of the committee VIII
nd prepared the declaration OF the st. Lo
nd labor conference. calls attention to
error in the resolutions, as sent out.
says that a demand was made for p
lie ownership Of mines and railroads,
pie railroads and telegraphs, public owl
he ship of mines being considered by
an conference as important to the b
it'll polite as ownership of railroads.
ice Colonel George d. Bliss Of New Y
ial died at his summer residence at Wa
an field, X. l., Wednesday, aged 81.
INST Fire in the paper mill Of Manning
Ear Paine at Troy, n. Y, damaged the
ish chinery and building to the extent
100000.
Simon Lowenthal of Syracuse, n.
In. a well known liquor agent, aged 10,