Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-09-30
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wood, Miss.
One new case of yellow fever near Wa
terford, Miss.
Astors Honduras syndicate will push
is work along now that the war is end
General Miles plan is to reduce the
army by reducing the number of com
panies in regiment.
The king of Korea and the crown
prince, who were i'll from supposed pois-
oning, are recovering.
Benoit, Miss, reported free of yellow
fever.
Italy is ennged at Colombia over the
Cerruti claim
The free soup kitchens in Havana are
being gradually closed
The pecan crop of Texas is almost
complete failure, and prices are advanc-
ing.
The Fourth United States infantry re-
turned with 235 men to Fort Sheridan,
ILL.,, where it was located before being
called out.
Two million bicycles have been made in
the world since the wheel was perfected.
Mount Vesuvius is in violent eruption.
and the spectacle is the grandest since
1872.
Detroit, Mich, has been chosen by the
Sons of Veterans for their encampment
in 1899.
The treasury department has received
SlS0.OOO,OOO thus far from the sale of war
bonds.
The supply of food at Dawson is report
ed to be sufficient to carry the camp
through the winter.
More than 1900 Jews joined the vol
unteer regiments in the United States to
fight against Spain.
The Indians in Supia, Ariz., are left
destitute, in consequence of the destruc-
ton of their crops by recent storm
A committee of three statesmen having
no interest in the case will be selected to
determine the Alaska boundary.
During the extremely hot weather last
August Dakota farmers did their field
work at night by the light of the moon
Heirs to the estate of George NJ. Pull
man say that debts against the New York
property, worth 100000, will wipe it out.
The cartmen who haul sand to Rome for
builders work 10 hours a day for 80
cents and sleep in the stables with their
mules.
The queen regent of Spain visits daily
the sick soldiers who have returned from
Cuba, and attends personally to theH
needs.
During a riot among striking plasterer'
on the outskirts of st. Louis, one mar
was fatally and three others seriously in
jured.
The account book of the paymaster o
the Spanish cruiser Crstobal Colon, SUM
at Santiago, was found on the beach a
Middletown, R. I.
Resident Spaniards of Havana hav
held meetings to protest against the della,
of the United States in recognizing tn
independence of Cuba.
Miss Cora Flood, daughter of the Cali
fornia millionaire, has donated Menl
Park mansion and $40 acres of land t
the University of California.
The japanese press is almost unan
nous in expressing the hope that tn
United States will permanently retain an
govern the Philippine islands.
In Green county, Ky, near Greensbur'
IA human skeletons have been found
a cave The remains are evidently tho'
of prehistoric people.
The Kankakee river, in Illinois, is sa
TO be slowly drying up, on account
the drainage of the swamps from whlt
it receives its supply of water.
The annual convention of the nation
Baptist association, at its meeting
Kansas City, decided to enter the missio
AIRY field in Cuba Immediately.
Bradstreet reports the crop impalrme
in August proved to be less than feare
and the average condition of the leadi1
crops, notably wheat, corn, cotton al
potatoes, is better than one year ago
Major General Davis has diapprov
the findings of the court martial in t
case of Captain Duncan, accused OF ia
pering with confederate soldiers gray
and ordered the captain released from
rest and returned to duty.
The government will send troops
garrison Cuba early in October
Spanish troops from Cuba and rue
Rico are to be landed at different Pc
in Spain.
Mrs. jefferson Davis is Frustrated o
the death of her daughter, Miss wan
Davis.
Behring sea seal herds are disappear
so rapidly as to threaten extinction
the sealing industry.
Australian rabbit skins are beng
verted into seal skins for the Amer
market.
The Italian government mas rec
mended to the powers that 1nterhit'
action to be taken against anarchiS'
Fully $500 people are homeless, ii"
loss of 100000 was incurred by
incendiary fire at New Westminster
c.
The Italian government has hoI
the ear that if the pope Is repre9e
at the peace conference, Italy VIII