Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-09-02
THE WORLDS NEWS IN BRIEF.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS.
curious and Peculiar Happenings--
Discoveries In Nature and Science
The business Progress of the
"orld-News of Crime and Acct
dent.

HAL has ruined the tobacco crop in the
vicinity of Lancaster, Pa.
The city council has dispensed with the
police force at Waxahachie, Tex. owing
to the decision of the state court of Grim.
inal appeals that municipalities have no
jurisdiction.
The China (Cal.) sugar factory has be-
gun operations with force of 26o men.
The beet supply available will keep the
factory in operation three months. The
crop is estimated at 81 900 tons. Il
Windholm Siehold, the last of the
group OF men who founded Gunterville,
Ala, died in that city Friday. He was
70 years old and a native of Germany.
This year is the centenary of the bat
tie of the Nile and of Napoieon's landing
in Egypt.
Hay is SO plentiful this year in some
parts of Connecticut that it is offered
for sale at 81 a ton:
| Two thousand, makers of children's |
clothing won their strike and returned 10
work in New York.
The longest canal in the world is in
Russia. 1t extends from, st. Petersbufgrl
to the frontier of China and measures
near $500 miles,
Many deaths from heat have occurred
in Germany, and number of destructive
forest fires have broken out on account
of drouth.
The last battle of Manila was fought
during fierce thunder storm, the rain
at times obscuring the view of the ships
from the shore.
| The president,it is believed, will recon-
mend revival of the grade OF vice adj
miral,a which will be conferred upon Ad-
iral Dewey.
Millions of men in India live, marry
and rear apparently healthy children up
on 2s I'd a week, and sometimes it fails
below that.
If pair of behring's could be left to
breed and multiply unuisturbed for
period of twenty years, they would yield
an amount of fish equal in bulk to the
globe on which we live.
Spanish commercial classes and prop
erty owners of Havana favor the annex
alton of Cuba to the United States rather
than the setting up OF an independent
government under the Cubans.
As this country consumes practically
half the worlds production of coffee, the
annexation OF Hawaii and Porto Rico,
and control OF the Philippines will be of
great benefit to the public.
The Commercial Cable Company, at
New York, announces that censorship has
been raised on all commercial code and
cipher messages to and from Cuba, Puerto
Rico and all the West Indian islands.
Henry S. Treadwell, postmaster OF South
Boston and supreme lieutenant governor
of the Pilgrim Fathers, claims that for
six months during 1868, Weyler, then
young man, worked for him at $3 week.
At White Lake, n. Y, Fred Recknall
mistook his son Philip for deer while
hunting and shot him, death ensuing soon
after. A few years ago another son,
George, was shot and killed in mistake for
? a bear.
The barn of Peter Foy, ten miles north
of Independence, Iowa, was struck by
: lightning last Wednesday night and five
e sons of Mr.. Foy, the Oldest being IL, who
y were sleeping in the hay NOW, were
burned to death.
; Our new Philippine possessions Will OF
fer some strange and interesting exper'
fences to Americans visiting the islands
for the first time. One of them will be the
hutlike chow shops in which stewed grass
e hoppers are Sold
$ The general association of colored Bap'
y lists of Kentucky, in session at FRANK
. fort, adopted resolutions favoring the
u sending of colored missionaries to Cuba
9 Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Hawaii
= anticipating annexation by this country
:. The last two descendants of Christie
pher Columbus are said to be occupants
of poor house at Cadiz.
, 1t il said that an ordinary caterpillar
increases 10000 times in bulk 80 days
4 from the time it is Matched.
Captain Evans of the battleship Iowa
is suffering from typhoid malaria at the
|. Roosevelt hospital, New York.
70 The cabbage still grows wild in Greece
o where it originated. Radishes are Ma
i tive to China, but have been grown il
lie Europe for centuries.
It Governor Scotield has pardoned Patnct
ID Mcdonald, an inmate of the state prison
Is sentenced for life. Mcdonald is over y
20 wears Old ana mas DeeH III ~ Se"f'
trusty.
W Jose Castellanos, alias George Wander
TT bilt, the Spanish spy imprisoned at Fort
ress Mcpherson, has been released. Ill
presence in Atlanta excited such hos
tile demonstration that he had to b
l. placed in the police station for safe keep
ie ing.
l. Senior Vicuna, envoy extraordinary an
,e minister plenipotentiary OF Chile to tn
- United States, has arrived in this countr
- as the new Chilean minister.
N Newspapers in the south say that tn
cotton crop in Texas alone will be equa
to a pound of cotton for every man, won
an and child on earth.
It, Irishmen of all parties are prosecutln
A. the movement for securing the restora
ce ton in Ireland of Celtic gold ornament
is which recently found their way to tn
te British museum.
pension has been granted to a Turl