Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-10-21
HUME AND FOREIGN NEWS
BRIEF ITEMS OF THE WORLD
Odds and Ends of happenings in the
fo"r quarters of the GIobe-Acri-
dents, Grimes and Business Mat
iers-Fires, Fever and Family
News.

NlnetN-tW" flour mills in North Caro- !
Ina grind all the wheat grown in the
state.
Over 1900 has been raised in London |
Tor the Spanish soldiers wounded in the
recent war.
The Cubans will declare for independ |
eEce at the convention soon to be held
at Camaguey.
Savannah, Ga. has been selected aS
the winter port of departure for gov
eminent transports.
Admiral Cerveras personal ensign, re-
covered from the cruiser Colon, has been
sent to Washington.
Thirty kegs OF beer were consumed
by the guests at wedding OF foreigners
at Shenandoah, Pa.
A chain of Canadian police stations has
been established along the Yukon from
Dawson to Lake Bennett.
| The yellow fever grows worse at Jack
son, Miss, despite the efforts of the health
authorities to check the disease.
A balloon line from Europe to America
is the projected enterprise of a Vienna
company headed by Count Zeppelin.
During the yellow fever epidemic cur
few ordinance in Meridian, Miss, re-
quires everybody to be at home after :
p. IN. An hour later is permitted to the
people of jackson.
1t will require weeks to form an intel
ligent estimate of the losses sustained in
Colorado by the recent forest fires.
The enrolled members of the Methodist
church in Canada is S0,537, ne-tfth of
the entire population of the Dominion.
An appeal for the relief of starving Gu
ban soldiers has been made to the he'd
Cross Society and to Secretary Alger.
The National Holset hief Detective AS
sociation held its annual session at Alex
andria, Ind, last week.
Forest fires near Wichita, Kan, dro. Q
clouds, of insects and birds from their
haunts in such vast numbers as to darf>-
en- the sky.
Ex-Governor Swineford of Alaska says
that the gold seekers who returned empt y
handed have themselves TO blame tor lack
: OF foresight.
new monitors contracted for last week a'
, follows: Connecticut, Florida, Arkansa'
/ and Wyoming
, The United States army is to be reor
panized with four corps instead OF eight
E and radical Encouragement OF dirisior
9 and brigades.
The deaths among the troops in tat
| M n
September numbered four officers and s
) enlisted men.
Admiral Dewey intended to Use Tn
4 transport China to ram the Spanish flee
i under Admiral Camara If it had put i
4 an appearance ut Manila.
: Robert p. Porter has returned from liza
e yana with financial and industrial into'
q nation about Cuba to be embraced in III
presidents message.
-Four men of a sheritf's posse who Wei
Lowing on some property belonging to
II farmer were killed and one fatally WOUND
NJ ed by man named Hollingsworth an
l. his friends in Cannon county, Tenn
" The Red Lake reservation III Mlnnes'
d IA has lust been thrown open to settl
/, ouires five years residence and the pa.
/ ment of 81 % an acre at the end OF th'
period. The territory includes 301 ,o'
e acres.
i. The annexation of Hawaii has give
| a big boom to the sugar industry.
o Rural free mail delivery service n
r been ordered at Parkersburg, W. Va.
The oil wells OF Senator Mills at &c
- sicana. Tex. are said to net him abo
~ 800 a day.
il Mrs Lille Isenbcrg OF Nicksbui
D. Miss, died Sunday night from the eiiet
Id of a spiders bite.
10 Ex.Ireasurer Wedber of San Franc
co. Cal, has been convicted OF embezzl
of S76.242 of public funds.
,t The Kentucky court of appeals mas
~ cided that the railroads IN that STA
IS must furnish separate coaches Tor
groes.
The president will not announce t
selection of an ambassador to Lond
M before his return from his western u
ry 1t is stated that IA proclamation
~, he issued in China threatening the
IL fiction OF capltal PuhiHh'h' "P'
"a. person insulting Europeans.
il \. c. Cleveland of Nevada has
, nounced himself candidate Tor I'm
al. States senator from that state to succ'
IA. William NJ. Stewart.
~. Large numbers of counterfeit 500
Yer certificates have been produced
San Francisco. 1t is said that 3ooo
these spurious bills were sent to
mo- klondike.
80 Alaska Indians have abandoned
hunting and joined the whites in
tho search for gold As the result, AlasI
,ro fur output has dwindled from 500
ali to 100000 in a year
The converted yacht Wasp has b
assigned a. a training ship for the us'
the Illinois Naval Militia. The We
will soon start for Chicago, via the
gcr Lawrence canal.
hot Reports from various points IN u
a. Ola indicate that the storm of last "
49,, WAS disastrous to the cotton crop,
and the damage sustained is believed to /
rhis reached S5,OO0,O00.
nor. The Texas Old Settlers Associa