Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1900-03-14
Lewiston, Idaho

ming Leopold before whom Signor
Marconi has recently made experiments
IN wireless telegraphy, promises to intro
duce the system into the army.
The white flag treachery was person.
ally witnessed at Driefontein by Lord
Roberts, who was looking through tel
escope when the Welsh were charging
and saw the Beers hold up their hands,
show the flag and drop their guns. He
saw an English officer advance to receive
their surrender, whereupon a Boer volley
was fired and the officer fell.
An imperial edict Just issued directs
the Imprisonment for life of WI Shin
Shu for assisting the Pekin syndicate to
get the Honan railroad concession. Brit
ish Minister Macdonald has sought in
vain to mitigate the sentence. The case
Is regarded as calling for energetic &C
ton, because it is bound to produce a bad
effect upon all business between Chinese
and foreigners.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company
OF New York has subscribed for Ia, 600 900
i OF the new English war loan. The
company at first offered to take this
amount outright, and even now hopes to
secure it. The offer of the Mutual Life
Insurance Company was made before the
books were officially opened for subscrip-
ton, and it is believed stands today as
the largest subscription for investment
made in this country.
According to Boer reports the fall of
Mafeking is certain. There has been
heavy fighting this week and the Beers
have been Smelling the town from all the
outlying forts which they have captured
Colonel BadenPowell cleared all the ma
tlves out of town, but the Beers drove
them back. The Beers are preparing for
final assault, with the idea that the cap
ture of Mafeking will raise the dropping
spirits of the burghers.
The remains OF Abraham Lincoln were
! transferred Saturday from tie crypt of
the national lincoln monument to tenn
porary vault just north of the monument
and on the brow of the hill overlooking
Oak Ridge cemetery. The removal of
the body was made necessary by the de-
moition of the monument preparatory to
its entire reconstruction on a different
plan, for which 500, 900 was appropriated
by the legislature. The ceremonies at
tending the transfer were informal.
The March report of the statistician Of
the department of agriculture will show
| the amount of wheat remaining in farm
ers' hands OH March l to have been
about 1888 SOC, 900 bushels, or 80 per cent
of last years crop, as compared with
5000 900 bushels, or 1913 per cent OF
the crop of 1898 i'll hand March, 1899
The corn in farmers hands is estimated
at 1890 600 bushels, or 37.2 per cent o.
last years crop, against Soc, 500 900 bush
els, or 4I.6 per cent of the crop of 1895
on hand March I, 1899.
Implement mep say trouble is about t
result because of the action of the boart
of control of the Kansas state peniten
tiary making binding twine. Kansa
City makes about 100000 pounds o
Irvine a year and the new factory at thu
state penitentiary is equipped to turn on
about one-tenth of this amount. This i
enough to disturb the market. Will
regular dealers are asking retail met
, chants to pay them M cents per pcun'
for their offerings the Kansas peniten
tiary managers say they will sell diree
TO the farmer at 10 cents per pound, ha
a cent lower than the retail dealer ca
, buy it.
1t appears that General Wheeler ter
dered his resignation from the Unite
, States army last fall. 1t was dated N
; vember as, at Paniqui, Luzon, and WI