Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-06-10
GLANCE OVER THE WORLD
NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL PARTS
business POtnters-PersOnal Notes.
Curious Facts-RecOrd of Crimes
and ualtien-PrOgress of Man u
Observation-Disclosures Notes.

| The government has expended 81 ,0O0,-
coo for army mules.
f. w. Knight, correspondent of the Lon
don Times, has reached Havana.
A son of Brigham Young, the great
Mormon prophet, has failed for 81 $685.
40.
| Mrs. Betsy Barker of North Grafton,
Miss, has just celebrated her Tooth birth
day.
Days of grace, customary in banking
methods, have been abolished in Rhode
Island
In broad daylight, at Dover, N. H.,
tramps boldly walked into livery stable
and stole horse.
In all the seacoast cities there is great
demand for insurance against loss by
bomha rdment.
All the large breweries in Cleveland, o.,
except two, are to be consolidated into
one corporation.
Forty Krupp guns have been struggled
from Germany through France into Spain
as kitchen furniture.
| Count Eugene A. Van Waldick, of Hol-
land, has enlisted in the United States
army at Cleveland, Ohio.
| The government has accepted the offer
of battery by John Jacob Astor, of New
York. 1t will be equipped for mountain
| service.
Shocked by the undraped figures in the
statuary hall of the Omaha exposition
Miss Dorothy Manar took an ak and
chopped number of groups to pieces.
OF the ls,OOO,OOO population of Spain
about l2,OOO,OOO can not read or write,
100000 have no visible means of sup
port, and more than 81 ,OGO are profess
sional beggars.
The number of foreigners in Japan is
only S246, of which 3642 are Chinese,
1873 English, 1922 Americans, 493 Ger
mans, 39l French, 222 Russians, l27 Port
uguese and so Dutch.
Horse meat has become a staple article
of food in Manila None but the wealthy
can afford to buy beef, which now sells
for S. per pound. Potatoes are sold by
weight, at so cents pound.
The widow of George M. Pullman, the
Chicago millionaire car builder, has re-
nouced the will of her husband and ac-
cepted her dover right, which enables her
to provide for her sons.
The French government has issued an
official denial of the rumors of the occu.
patton, cession or sale of any Spanish
territory to France. Cuba and the Phil
ippines were mentioned in the rnmor.
Senior de Castro, at Tampa, Fla. Just
from Matanzas, says that il the United
States does not aid the Cuban recon-
centrados within three weeks nearly all
of them will die of starvation.
The rainy season is just beginning il,
Cuba.
, Tampa, Fla, is now secure against hos
tile attacks.
France and the United States have
} signed a reciprocity trade agreement.
The black plague is making frightful
Roadway at Hong Kong China.
The production of California sweet
wines from August to May was 1000,
900 gallons.
: Train loads of walnut logs are constant
ly arriving at Philadelphia for shipment
to Europe.
Governor Ieedy of Kansas has refused
to commission Jerry Simpson to raise a
; regiment of volunteers.
The Hamburg American steamer Bra
silla is loading at Baltimore $685. 900 bush
E els of grain for Germany.
Guadaur and r. NJ. johnson will row
e for the worlds sculling championship al
g Vancouver harbor July !.
The three Spanish spies who attempted
to blow up Fort Taylor, at Key West, es
capped to sea in a small boat.
Weyler is represented as being anxious
to go to Cuba and if sent he declares h,
e will invade the United States.
r At the suggestion of General Wheeler
:. the cavalry which will invade Cuba viii
: be provided with Calling guns.
A list of Spanish spies in the United
A States has been secured by United State
e secret service detectives at Montreal.
l The Philadelphia common council ha
0 passed a bill appropriating $ll 100000 TO
f new city buildings and improvements.
C The postotiice department will ALLOW
t natural history specimens to pass through
= the mails as samples of merchandise
1t is reported that United States Am
o bassador White is much plea sed at evi
i dences of strict neutrality on the part o
J. Germany
William Meehan, pioneer gold hunte
on the Yukon river, was shot from am
n bush by Indians near Skaguay, Alaska
# and instantly killed.
3 Senator Lodge of Massachusetts has in
l. troduced in the senate a bill for the an
j. nexation of Hawaii, as an amendment t
the war revenue bill.
The postal clerk force at Chickamaug
Park has been increased and is now equa
l. to that required by community of 2s6
3 600 population in other places.
e Fire destroyed nearly 100000 wort
l. of property in the best business portion
4. Dallas, Tex, Friday, and j. Walter Cow
a an, a collector, was burned to death.
Of Senior CASTELAR, advises Spain to be re-
o onciled to isolation by being compelled I
n fight unaided but adds that "the Yankee
can blockade our islands, but not our hol
or"