Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-10-14
NEWS FROA FAR AND NEAR.
ITEMS FROM HOME AND AWAY.
The Minor Events of the Day I'm Al
PORTIONS of the Globe-Natfers of
common Interest, Both Foreign
and Observation-Disclosures and
'ri"tn"ls-odds and Ends Of Many
Kinds.

Robher bands inte>t Puerto Rico and
Wilage and burn plantations.
Maroons in jamaica are seizing valu.
able property owned by Englshmen.
The Spanish war-ships in Cuban waters
have been ordered TO sail for home.
yellow fever is reported to be spreading
in Mexico.
Wisconsin forest fires have been
quenched by rain.
Three men were asphyXiated in Il we'll
on farm near Somerset Kan. All are
dead.
The Spanish cabinet decided to main
tain The war tax. but to abolish the
tax on imports.
Adrices from Pekin say quiet has been
restored there, and the crisis is regarded
as having passed.
Special Treasury Agent hurry, in
charge OF the seal herds, reports gen
eral decrease OF the seal herd.
At Cincinnati Edward Kritzinger was
arrested for trying to sell at the stock
yards Kentucky cattle afflicted with the
black tongue.
The report comes from Havana that
the caSket containing the remains of Col
umbus bears evidences OF having been
tempered with.
The navy department sent $4,000
at Santiago last week, to help raise the
Spanish cruiser Colon.
1t is said that OF the American troops
in Puerto Rico % per cent are on the
sick list, and that it is impossible for
them TO recuperate there.
Lieutenant Rooney began last week the
distribution of 100000 rations among the
Cubans in the interior of the province of
Santiago dc Cuba.
Ministers at Pittsburg, Pa, have en-
tered protest against the laying of cor
nerstones of new public school buildings
by the Masonic fraternity.
According to the statement of Com
mander Sebill OF the United States gun
boat Wheeling, there is no danger of
starvation in Alaska this winter.
The Cuban-American League has APP
pealed to President Mckinley to prevent
the removal of the remains of Christopher
Columbus from Havana to Spain.
Campbell island, in the Altmaha river,
Georgia, is reported to have been com
pletely swept away by the recent terrible
storm in that vicinity. From 20 to 50
people are supposed to have persisted.
The board of arbitration to settle the
dispute between the American railroads
and the Canadian Pacific. has been com
pleted by the selection of Edward ).
Washburn OF Chnicago as the third mem.
Der.
The house and furniture of NJ. Emile
lola will be sold to satisfy Il judgment
obtained against him in the libel suit
growing out of the Dreyfus case.
The Spanish peace commissioners at
Paris have been armed with a mass OF
bubbles and technicalities, and the out
come of the negotiations is said to be
very uncertain.
Owing to more fIaternal feeling, en-
gendered by the late war, the Forty first
Ohio volunteers will return a confeder-
ate flag to the Thirtieth Louisiana CON
fedcmte regiment survivors.
southern cotton mills, New England
manufacturers contemplate substituting
machinery for the production OF silk
fabrics exclusively.
The Cuban general, Demetrio Castillo,
has accepted position under Heneral
Wood at $500 year and the friction be
tween Cubans and Americans at Santi-
AFRO is rapidly decreasing.
After foilng detectives for two years,
Mailing Clerk Thomas Miller has been
arrested i'll the postoilice at Jacksonville
Fla. with large number of stolen let
tiers in his possession.
The only herring known to be caught
, with hook and line in the neighborhood
of Bristol, Pa, was fished out OF the
; Delaware a couple OF days ago by sam
uel Fenton, a veteran angler.
The queen of Holland recently received
, by parcel post herring from one OF her
| loval subjects. A note explained that 1t
was the first herring OF the season
catch, and was the gift of some Dutch
fishermen. Her majesty promptly had 1t
cooked and ate it.
The bottom OF the Facihc between
| Hawaii and California is said to be SO
| level that a railroad could be laid Tor
i, 500 miles without grading anywhere
This fact was discovered by the United
; States surveying vessel engaged in max
inc soundings with a view OF laying d
cable.
t The yellow fever situation in Mis7I7
e sippi is growing worse.
G General Denver, for whom Denver
) Col. was named, is still living
/ \ general military hospital is to be-
= erected on Angel island, off san Fran
cisco.
,, Elk President Harrison has just cndr,
! a pleasant vacation in the Adirondack
t President Mckinley will make speecf
e TO railroad employees at Chicago Octo
n Der 20.
@ General Lee says the United States
0 forces in Cuba will be used merely t.
preserve order.
= General Shafter has been temporarily