Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1898-04-08
NEWS THROUGH THE week
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Items of Information Gathered From
wide Area-Political Happen.
lnEs and Industrial NOtes-Crines
and Accidents.

SPANS agents have purchased tOO
mules in Kansas City for their govern
ment.
The work Of putting the New Jersey !
militia on war footing is being success |
fully pushed. /
Autro Hungary is said to be negotiat'
ing for the sale Of war vessel to Spain.
General Butterfeld's old regiment, the
Twelfth New York, has rendered its ser
vices
Riciotti Garibaldi says if the United
States will defray their expenses he will
engage to send 10000 Garibaldians to
Cuba.
! A large number of Bellevue hospital
physicians and surgeons have rendered
their services to the government in case
Of war.
Four moonshiners have been arrested,
and their illicit still confscated, in eel
lar in New York city.
Threatened by tramp, Mrs. Gesella
Bond of Chicago clapped a pan of dough
on his head and the vagmnt fed in terror.
English newspapers hint that the French
navy mobilization may be in connection
with the impending rupture between the
United States and Spain.
Because of the unprecedented drouth,
stockraisers at Fresno, CAL, have petition
ed the president to permit grazing on GER
tain portions of Yosemite Park reserva-
ton the coming season.
The equal taxation committee of the St.
Louis Single Tax League claims to have
evidence that "more than $3.50 ,OOO, 600
worth in actual cash value of real estate
and franchises in st. Louis goes untaxed."
alive. Roll call followed amidst greatest
confusion. The parties were solidly
aligned as in the standing vote. On roll
call the appeal was laid on the table, l70
.. to 1879.
Eugene Saulsby, a prominent politician
of Indianapolis, has been stricken with to.
tai blindness.
The attorney general Of Texas has ruled
: that in consequence of the careless. draft
ing of resolutions in the legislature there
will have to be two state lections in Tex
as this year. The regular election of state
70 officers will be on the second Tuesday in
November, and a special election will hav.
!, to be held the first Tuesday, which is thu
first day Of November, to pass on som,
;, constitutional amendments submitted b,
- the last legislature, to be voteo on THU
year.
1t is understood that Frances demand
in China include the cession of Yang-ts
valley.
i, The troops at Fort Sheridan, Chicago
d are to join the troops at the New Yorl
d harbor defenses.
!. Five small children of Pottsville. Pa
q ate wild parsnips, and will probably di
?, from the poison.
. Two government engineers have al
= rived at Portsmouth, n. H., to arrange
u signal service on that coast to be use
\. in case of war with Spain.
Anticipating that Chile will sell tn
=, man of war Encalada to the Unite
=. States, Commander NJ. Symmonds, con
handing the gunboat Marietta, has bee
y ordcred to proceed at once from Gala
to Valparaiso, where he will hoist tn
American flag on board the vessel
-. The British government is massing
y powerful feet in Chinese waters.
Jesse r. Horton of Sherman, Texas ha
rendered Secretary of War Alger tn
D., services Of $4,000 men for active servic
to in defense Of American honor and for tn
er freedom Of Cuba. Thousands of these me
wore the blue and gray in the civil wa
and come from Oklahoma, Indian teri
e. tory and the plains of Texas. Adjntar
iai General Earl Of Henrietta staff, nortl
y" west Texas division United Confederat
Veterans, has also offered the presider
az his services in case of war with Spain.
40 The Russian government is construc
/. ing an ice crusher said to be capable
reaching the north pole.
nm The deaths from the black plague
he he Bombay, India, now average 100 week..
"a English tourists report a remarkab
demand for American goods in China an
al Japan.
at A bill prohibiting saloon to be opene
nix within 800 feet Of any church has bee
nd enacted by the New Jersey legislature.
Judge Campbell of San Francisco hi