Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-07-08
ITEMS FROM FAR AND NEAR
MINOR NEWS OF THE WORLD.
The Business PrOEress-Facts for
the Curious-Accidents and Crime
Notes Of PersOns-Churches and
Religious News.

Revised estimates on the losses of the
Letter wheat deal place the net sum at
Is 100000.
Dizziness in the -four trade in Milwau-
kee, Wis, has led to the closing of four
large mills.
The government internal revenue col.
lections for May increased s., 2Sl .225 over
May last year.
Mrs. John =. Sawyer of Mobile, Kan,
was shot and killed by her husband, who
says he mistook her for burglar.
Many prominent army officers think
that 100000 more men will be needed to
make the war against Spain short and
decisive
The war department is making ar
rangements to send a 600 bed field hos.
pital to the Philippines under charge Of
the United States navy as needed.
Ex-Queen Natalie of Servia is reported
to be organizing an expedition to Cuba
to nurse sick and wounded Americans and
Spaniards.
1t is reported that the people of Japan
are strongly in favor of triple alliance
consisting of Great Britain, the United
States and Japan.
Mr.. Gladstone at the time of his death
J was member of the Royal Academy Of
Great Britain, holding the sinecure Of
fee of professor of ancient history.
For the third time in six months the
Shideler postofiice, eight miles north Of
| Muncie, Indiana, was robbed last Monday
day night. The booty amounted to $50
Gen. Weyler says that instead of send
| ing Cervera's squadron to Cuba to be
= bottled up at Santiago, it should have
been sent to destroy eastern coast cities
. of the United States.
t Two hundred girls belonging to loca
. at Wappinger Falls, New York, have con
t tributed several truck loads of provision
to starving Cubans.
n David Ferris, a retired New York gro
!. Ger, driven to frenzy by the constan
r nagging of his mother-in-l law, shot an,
o killed her and then turned the weapon
on himself with fatal results.
Minneapolis tailors are taking steps t
abolish sweat shops and to organize tn
women and girls engaged in the tailorin
!. business 80 that they can obtain fai
wages for their labor.
- Frank Shafter, a railroad man of MOI
q. walk, O., has recovered a verdict of IS
600 against the Nickel Plate Railroad
:, by which he was formerly employed, fc
- having black-listed him.
=, Sixteen-year-old Jessie Low, of Dayto,
;. O., was awakened from nap on a couc
down stairs in her home by dream this
, certain upstairs room was on fire. 81
=, ran up stairs and found it just as it al
- peared in the dream, and she put ou
. the fire.
~ Patrick Fay, Boston waiter, 80 yea
-, old, who died at hospital recently
~ ~ supposed poverty, left $4,000 to Bosto
:. charities. The money was saved fro
IN tips received from quests at hotels whe
>" he worked from 1850 to 1860.
- The special committee Of the Unite
y :, States senate on the Nicaragua canal h
NJ agreed to report bin providing for i
IT, construction, the stock to be held e
=, clusively by the governments of the Uni
~ ed States, Nicaragua and Costa RIGA.
oe A. G. Waite. of Waverly, Lafayet
"e county, Mo-, is the tallest man in u
NJ state. He is six feet eight inches in h
socks, and is one of family of ten, t
'p, tallest of whom was seven feet Gig
od inches. His smallest sister is six fe
o" eight inches tall. The Waites are rel
y, tives of the late Chief Justice Waite.
'P' Drouth has made sheep fodder 50 scar
nj in Australia that thousands of men q
rd. being employed in the various distrit
ne cutting the boughs Of oak, apple q
M other trees for food for the starving a
IN mails, and in skinning the sheep that p
ish in the mud at the failing water hol
OF Count Cassini, new Russl6n ambassad
OF at Washington, says that events of
n.y. war can not affect the long standi
ais friendship between Russia and the Unit
len States.
nj The rudder frame for the battles
dy' Illinois has arrived at the Newport Ne
as ship yard from the Cleveland Iron Fo1
raj Works. The weight Of this frame is
the 900 pounds.
ing A. J. and w. j. Bryant of Tippecal
county, Ind, have just completed this s
MS sons wool clip, yielding nearly 81
vas pounds from 800 sheep, an average
her nearly pounds to the fleece.
non Lieut.. w. w. Harris, who was inju
rig recently by an accidental explosion wi
7ese placing submarine mines for harbor
Two tense near Jacksonville, Fla, is tota
'ere blind and deaf in consequence.
the Among the bills just passed by cong
'ree is one providing severe penalties for
ter. licious injury or destruction of sub
and rine mines, torpedoes, Notifications
eel other military or naval defenses.
and In an harangue on the battleshiP
in layo before the departure Of the Spal
cur fleet from Cadiz, Spain, Admiral Cam
the said to his officers: "We shall not ret
and to Cadiz till our flag is wet with Al
'nts lean blood"
the The Madrid story that the South
was, Central American republics are abou
aged form an alliance against the United st
is pronounced absolutely false by dl
ines matte representatives of these count
urse in Washington
ring Peace or war ia the all-absorbing
cted at Madrid, and the desire for peace