The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-05-02


snowslue at sunrise city. Alaska.
Many houses were caught in the ava
lancne.
values, Alaska, is crowded with idle
men anxiously awaiting beginning OF
work on the government line to the
interior.
At Houston, Texas, in fire which
destroyed a livery stable and three resi-
dences recently, five persons were
burned to death and several others
were injured.
Carefully compiled statistics show
that the gold production of the Cripple
Creek district up to the close of the
present month makes grand total Of
over S1OO,O00,000. Gold was first dis
covered in this camp in 1889.
Light, life and air has broken in
onto the five entombed miners at Au
rora, Ohio. Two were rescued alive,
one was found dead and the other two
are supposed to be lifeless. Grant
Shard was mangled by falling rocks
and earth and dieu instantly.
Thirty-one billion dollars is the ag-
gregate of national debts Of the world
at the close of the nineteenth century.
This is ten times as much as in the
closing years of the eighteent cen
fury, according to expert statisticians
Of the treasury bureau devoted to this
work. This bureau has just issued a
statement on the subject, 1t apparently
being suggested by the recent an
nouncement of the new British loan
of $300,000.000.
The Mechanics Savings Bank of
Westerly, r. l.. Is closed. This action
came as great surprise to the town
and great excitement prevails among
small depositors. The estimated
amount of deposits is something less
than 81. 900. 900, the securities on their
face values less than $1,10O00O. The
number Of depositors is about 200.
Many OF the securities are western in
/ vestments, which are understood to
have decreased in value year by year.
George Cummins. aged %, a son Of
d. w. Cummins, telegraph operator at
Northport, Wash. who recently re-
Philippines, and was employed in the
railroad yards as switchman, was
caught between two heavy ore cars
while making q coupling, and killed
almost instantly, living only a few
minutes. He called by name favorite
sister May. who lies very sick at home.
and then asked to have his head raised,
after which he gasped few times and
expired.
At Cincinnati Mrs. Richard Crater.
the wife of a housepainter, on being
unable to keep her husband from a
saloon, went to the place with one of
his kalsomine buckets and a white
wash brush. She kalsomined him
from head to foot in the saloon. He
returned to the saloon after he had &C.
companied her home and changed his
clothing. She followed him again and
the next time kalsomined the saloon.
keeper and his bar fixtures, and gave
notice that she would repeat the per.
Torrance to anyone selling liquor to
her husband.
c. F.. Sayler Of Iowa, the special
agent in charge of the beet sugar in.
vestigation Of the department Of agri'
culture, Is in Washington and has sub
mitted his report to Secretary Wilson
He says this year shows an active ten.
dency toward the institution of new
beet sugar enterprises. Next autumn
he Gays, Michigan will have three new
factories and Ohio. Indiana, New
York, Colorado, Utah, South and North
Dakota and Illinois will install new
factory enterprises. making thirteen
throughout the United States now In
contemplation. A conservative est
mate. he says, Is that there will be 4.
best sugar factories in operation
throughout the United States by thu
end Of next autumn. Everything in
dicates that the industry is thorough,
established throughout the country.