Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-10-28
GENERAL Ne VS..
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR.
The Minor Happenings of the Day
an All Parts of the WOrId-The
Aftermath of the War-Business
Features-Crimes and Accidents
Facts of Interest

The emperor ana empress OF Germany
have started on their journey Ia the Holy
Land
Congress will he asked al it> next -
saan 10 provide for the defense> u P"eT'g
Rice and Hawaii.
Tk captain and crew Of the steamer
Scs Ghost were killed and eaten by ~,
eenUa Island natives.
Coca Smith. life prisoner in the lo0a
,sniteniisly,, committed suicide by s~ai-
ao~isas live spiders
The railroads are sand To he planning
a movement Tor reduction -; pa7ce foE
EssIsng in Pullman cars
Can't. james Gold>burv ID WarUIck.
Mass, who reached M Tooth birthday
February TO- 1897, + dead
yellow fever has paIss'yzed business 40
Mississippi and thousands ot people aTa
freeing from their homes.
Ne~r3y $4,000 Spanish soldiers included
an the surrender ii Santiago, CslhA, have
besn transported Ia spain,
The spanish government i employ
isc tNeaGy-ane vessels in transporting
s4vrp, from Cuba and Puerto Rico Ia
Spain,
In. insurgent camps throughout Ciba
xre celebrating the anniversary OF the be-
gInning of the ten years war.
Fifty five war-ships for the United
States government are under contract,
and twenty are nearing completion.
Recent census report on agricultural
products of Massachusetts, shows $3.50
A3i worth and S2l9,957.2l4 land value.
Thaee Spanish vessels have adopted the
American flag under which to sail in trait
lacking among the Philippine islands.
Pension sharks are already sending out
circulars to Spanish war soldiers offering
Inducements fr business in their line.
The United States representative on The
aslaad of Guam, in the Pacific, admins
sers all of the offices from governor down
daltain McCalla, who commanded the
gFaiser Marblehead through the war, has
he~n given command of the Norfolk navy
yard.
Citizens OF Portland, Ore, have sub
sc, ibed $1,000 to buy sword of honor
10 he presented to Captain Clark of the
hattie ship Oregon.
Ssmuel Ensign Of Rockford, H., just
released from Moro Castle at Havana,
Cuba, where he was imprisoned for eight
cen years, arrived home last Wednesday.
William r. Travis has been arrested in
New York as professional burglar. He
had handsome home, and his wife and
Sa,aily, it is said. knew nothing Of his
Ealing.
Id is estimated in Madrid that the cam
paiyns in Cuba and the Philippines have
Cos. Spain total of 5000 100000 pesetas
or about SGo0.o00.000.
Tie war department has discovered
system OF frauds whereby enlisted sol
siiers are seeking discharge by means o
.orced appeals.
The Core,n minister OF justice has beci
dismissed for permitting the savage mu
sih.tion OF the bodies of executed men an'
women.
;wt SAN Francisco bankers have sale
for Honolulu, there to establish the flrs
National bank OF Hawaii, with II capital c
Sl.O00,O00.
Sheriff Houpt of Hot Springs Ark, Ia
been indicted, charged with being shor
shout $l7 900 in his accounts.
The sultan has ordered the withdrawa
uf all the Turkish troops in Crete in con
pliance with the joint note OF the power
a monument was dedicated in Paris
the soldiers OF France who fell in tn
Franco Pru,~ian war,
The socialist party met in Paris, Franc
and denounced governmental interferent
with The right to strike.
Anti-senlitic riots occurred at kossow
Austria -Galicia. Ten persons were kille
and Others wounded.
DIS. Lane and O'Reilly have made n
port to the surgeon general insisting upo
abe immediate establishment at Havana
an American fever hospital for the purpo'
pf isolating yellow fever patients.
Colonel Clous has received a plan OF e.
cry forti6cation on the island OF Cuba.
Zen. Wood received requests from t"
companies for railway concessions - OF
line between Santiago and Manzanillo an
the other between Santiago and Havana
These requests will be forwarded to Wasl
ipgton
NHf,Ason expects to get the lnfanta 1
res.l of to the United States by the end
lt1uDer. lie ma, IL iihpooSiuV " 'ai'e u
s.sistehai Colon from the sea because
xhe swell, and has built trolley line OF
10 a distance OF $50 feet, with Il suspense
bridge, and the compressed air pumps a
slow IN position.
Owing to the yellow fever quarantine
New Orleans, the Morgan line OF steame
will use Sabine Pass, Tex, for all Tex
and California traffic from New York.
The eldest unmarried daughter of Ca
cain Sigsbee, who was in command OF t
SsAspe when she was destroyed in Hava
hasbor, is doing good work as an iliusti
ser ct magazines.
Mrs. George, alleged murderer of Geor
a. SAXON, brother of Mrs. Mckinley,
s2antop, Ohio, was held by the grand ju
On charge of murder in the first degr
without bail.
Goli and silver ore worth about $40
900 has been found in a cave near Les