Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-26
NEWS / home AND ABROAD
ITEMS FROM EAST AND WEST
Facts aud Occurrepce. Ero An
Quarters-Matters Curiou. and
Peculia r-PersOns Talked About
Accidents and Crimes.

MIS- Margaret fallon, buried last
Thursday, at Kings Ferry, n. y, was
said to be liz years old.
The Texas State Horticultural Societe
enumerates and names l19 varieties of
plnms raised in the Lore Star state.
California is preparing to establish an
experiment station and school of instruc-
ton in the grating and planting of vines.
! Governor Barnes of Oklahoma spent Il
short time in the guard house at Fort
Reno last week for failing to give the
countersion.
! Violent storms and floods in the Island
| of Formosa resulted in the loss of hun
dreds of lives and great damage to prop
erty.
Denmark has placed the seaport of Co
penhagen in state of military efficiency
in fear of conflict between England and
Russia.
The list Of postoffices in the United
States now includes Hobson, Va; Sigs-
bee, Ark; Dewey, n. c.; Sampson, Fla,
and Manila, Ky.
State geological survey will go to the
Philippines to examine the coal and Pc
troeum deposits.
Charles Pope, an electrician. while
working with street railway wires in New
York, received shock of 1000 volts and
escaped serious injury.
Gold has been found between London
and Manchester, on the line between Clay
and Laurel counties, Ky. A sample has
been forwarded to New York for analysis.
| Late advices from Sitka, Alaska, state
that large and extensive coal deposits
have been discovered at Whale bay. on
Baranof islands, about forty miles from
Sitka.
| The superintendent of the mint at San
Francisco estimates the gold output of
the KlondiEe this season at not to exceed
Sc 100000. Food riots are feared at Fort
Yukon.
Senator II. NJ. Teller and wife of Colo
RADIO have been spending week in East
ern Washington and Northern Idaho,
making their headquarters at Spokane,
where on Saturday evening reception
was given for them by Senator and Mrs.
George Turner.
Emperor w IlhIH VI has Ch-
tended an invitation to representatives
of Evangelical churches in the United
States to attend the ceremony of ded-
icating the Church of the Redeemer at
Jerusalem on October 81.
In view of the success which has at
tended the use OF dynamite guns in Cuba,
the Russian minister Of marine is arrang-
| 30 IN fnnr Rita-
sian warships. Their use will be extended
if they turn out to be satisfactory
The West Indian weather service was
practically inaugurated last Wednesday.
when reports were received at Washing
ton from the observation stations estab-
lished there. The system is now in com
plete working order, and the signal service
department will be enabled to forecast
the terrible West Indian hurricanes that
for years have swept the Atlantic coast
without warning.
Sampson and Schley have been made
rear admirals; Captain Clark of the Ore.
gon has been advanced more numbers
than any other captain, and Wainwright
goes up higher than any other officer.
The war department has under consid'
! Grafton the establishment of army camps
as Lexington, Ky; Knoxville, Tenn; and
. Tryon, n c., to which the troops now at
Chickamauga may soon be sent.
krupp IS building 5-centimeter (2-ineh)
; paper field guns for the German infantry
; They are so light that single soldier
can easily carry one, while the resistance
; of the paper is greater than that OF stee
of the same caliber.
Col. w. +. Cody received the name Of
buffalo BilI,' from the fact that he HAD
the contract to supply meat to the mcr
who were constructing the Kansas Pacific
railroad, and that he almost always gave
them buffalo meat.
Our war with Spain lasted three months
and twenty-five days.
A plague of reaches infests the northern
: portion Of West Philadelphia.
: The Piccadily Club of Cincinnati viii
> present a loving cup to Admiral Dewey.
U C. r. Clifford, a legless man, and wht
u only has one arm, was arrested at Au
= burn, Ind, charged with horse stealing
Bannotk Indians who have been slaugh
tering elk near Jackson's Hole, Idaho
II will be driven back to their reservation.
D Divers in Lake Huron have recovered
600 tons of copper from wreck l6o fee
L deep. after it had lain there for 80 years
While cutting tobacco near Lancaste'
!. Pa, Henry Barr stopped to pick up
! stalk and gouged one of his eyes out wit
>, his cutter.
Father KozIowski, recently excommu
= nicated, filed his threatened suit agains
Archbishop Feehan at Chicago for $50
> coo damages
: trolley car on the Nassau line c
q Brooklyn jumped from the track in Ne'
d York city. Thirty persons are reporte
e. to have been seriously injured.
italy is the first of the powers to lear
a lesson from the war The navy depar
lie ment has given orders that wood snail nc
q be used on battleshlps.
il The American colony at Sydney, Ne
South Wales. has cabled to Washingto
g PRAYING the government to retain posse
a, sion of the Philippine islands.