Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-08-19

The navy has reached its full strength
and enlistments have been stopped for
the present.
Seventy-fve small children of Chicago
are in the homes of the people in the
vicinity of Cerro Gordo, ILL.,. for brief
visit of three weeks.
England is getting ready to mobilize
her fleet and be prepared to fight Rus
STA and perhaps France.
Scores of hogs are dying near Bellefon-
tame, o., from disease which farmers
say is typhoid fever.
Two clerks in the revenue Office at Ow-
ensboro, Ky, have received cuts of 500
in their salaries, and this has been added
to the salary of John Franks, assistant
division deputy, who is a brother OF Col
lector +. T. Franks.
The steamer Gussie, in which Captain
Dorst made his famous trip with arms
for the Cubans. has been wrecked
Farmers at Muncie, Ind. have organiz-
ed vigilance committee for the purpose
of running down cattle thieves.
Privates HUMPHREYS and Gill of Com
pany +, First Texas regiment, were kill
ed by a bolt of lightning at Miami, Fla.
Gypsies stole the child of George Conk-
lin, of Wilton, n. Y, and clairvoyant
is advising the anxious mother as to its
recovery.
Aaron kinslow, a farmer near Glasgow,
KY, 80 years old, committed suicide by
hanging himself to the rafters in his
barn.
Wade Counts. leader of notorious
band Of outlaws near Red Sulphur
Springs, w. Va. and his son were killed
by lightning.
The city council of Dublin, Ireland, has
adopted a resolution opposing the erection
of a monument to Gladstone in that city
Charles Martin, in Jail at Evansville,
Ind, confessed he killed Lazarus Vince t.,
wealthy timber man, in the spring of
1895. for $40
The military society formed at San
tiago has elected General Shafter presi-
dent, General Wheeler first vice presi-
dent and Major Sharp secretary.
Captain Alfred S. Barker, who has
been ordered to succeed Captain Clark,
was the Oregon's first commander, when
she took her rough initial sea trips
The Madrid police are investigating an
anarchist plot laid against the life of a
high political parsonage, which was to
have been carried out last Monday.
Turkey has replied to our demand for
compensation for American missionary
losses during the Armenian massacres,
disclaiming all responsibility.
On the body of Candida d. Perez, one
of the victims of the Bourgogne disaster,
picked up off Sable island recently, was
found a draft for 2l5.00O francs, about
| $4,000.
According to reports of railroad com,
panies and business men throughout the
country this years wheat crop will be
the largest in the history of the United
States.
The marine hospital service will assist
the war department Iva supervising the
transportation of troops from Santiago
and in preventing infection of vessels
and men.
Louis PERI, a prisoner in New York,
feigned death, was put in a coffin, load
ed into an undertaker's wagon. A rough
ride a short distance completely revived
him and he begged Justify to be released
A special dispatch from Washington
says there are the very best of reasons
for the prediction that neither EXPIRES
ident Harrison. ex-senator Edmunds MOI
eX-Secretary of State Olney will be in,
vited to serve on the Spanish peace COM
mission.
A highwayman held up Police Judge
John w. Burress, nearly 60 years old
Tuesday night, at Sedalia, Mo. The
judge managed to get out his knife, and
then took charge of the robber, but he
broke away and escaped a short distance
from the police station, whittier he was
being taken.