The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-04-25
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
I Complete Review of the Events of
the Fast Week-ln This and For
eixn nuds-Taken From the
Latest Dispatcher.

| Negotiations are about terminated for
the purchase OF the Danish West Indies by
the United States.
Funeral Of Apostle George Q. Cannon al
Salt Lake was one of the largest ever seen
/ in the intermountain country. 1t was
simple but solemn services.
| At GAINESVILLE, Ohio, j. X. Lambsley Of
Lowell drowned himself in the Muskingum
river recently. 1t was alleged that he was
short in his accounts as township treasur-
er, and his bondsmen notified him that
they would no longer be responsible.
Frank B. Loomis, United States minis
ter to Venezuela, has arrived at New York
on the Red I'D" liner Caracas, on which the
came from Porto Rico. MIR. LOOMS goes
! to Washington to report to the state de-
partment and President Mckinley imme-
diately.
To the Associated Press reporter who
met him at quarantine MIR. Loomis said:
81 did not say any Of the unpleasant things
that have been attributed to ME about
President Castro during my stop at San
Juan or anywhere else. The fact is, l like
MIR. Castro very much. was interviewed
at San Juan, but it was more Of a pleasant
chat than anything else"
A Kansas special from Memphis says:
Two men with drawn revolvers robbed
Ben Marsh's gambling house, back Of the
Peabody hotel, recently. The robbers
spent three minutes in the place and got
away with $1,000. The police have so Jar
failed to get any clue as to the identity or
whereabouts of the men, They were eyi-
IDENTIFY experts in the holdup business,
working quietly and rapidly.
At Shamokin 1000 men and boys have
gone on strike at the Natalie colliery be-
cause the Shamokin Coal company would
not accede to their demands. The colliery
is completely tied up. The men ask that
James Bateman, inside foreman, and Con-
ductor John Yeager of the miners train
be discharged: that trainmen running on
the company's road between Natalie and
Locust SUMMIT be granted 10 per cent
increase over the present wages.
Former Captain Oberlin Carter, U. S. E.,
and associates swindIed the government
out of $2,l69,l59 on army contracts at
Savannah. Carter has been tried and con-
victed by four courts. Yet he wants to be
leased on bail, perhaps to fly the country
with his i'll gotten gains. The foregoing il,
the substance Of the statements made by
Solicitor General Richards Mr.. Richards
has filed with the supreme court a bret in
opposition to the application for bail filed
some time ago.
The Lemars National bank at Lemars,
Iowa, has failed. Thomas J. Ward, vice
president and general manager OF the in
stitution, is self confessed embezzler to
the amount of $4,000 to $4,000. He
also absconded.
The great British rival to the isthmian
canal is railway which is being built
across Mexico's narrowest point. This
will be mainly an extension of the Te-
huantepec line, built by the Mexican gov.
eminent to connect the gulf of Mexico
with the Pacific, which has no terminal
facilities.
| At Butte, Mont, Al Davidson, mining
man operating at White Sulphur Springs,
but living in Butte, committed suicide re-
Gently by shooting himself in the head.
He had been in a row with another man
and went home to get his gun to kill his
adversary. His wife persuaded him not
to leave the house any more, and he lay
down. Shortly after this his wife went
into the room and found him dying, with
bullet in his brain and pistol by his side.
BY the exploson Of the boiler on the river
steamer Romona recently four persons were
killed outright and six others seriously in
jured. The dead include two women, who
were passengers on the steamer, and two
deck hands. OF the injured the purser and
the mate will probably die.
The dead-Mrs. H. Morrison of Fort
Langley, b. c.; Mrs. Baillie of Mount
Lehman, b. c.; John Mack, deckhand;
Henry Phipps, deckhand.
| The injured-Richard Powers, purser,
probably burned fatally; James Maynard,
mate, probably burned fatally; George
Knowell, fireman, badly burned; three
Indians, seriously burned.
/ The boiler explosion occurred mid
stream, while the steamer was en- route
from New Westminster to Fort Langley,
the latter being farming settlement
about 25 miles from Vancouver, B. C.
The New York Evening Post says:
The summary of the United States treas
ury's report shows that the governments
aggregate gold holdings for the first time
in history have passed the half billion
dollar mark. The actual total was $780,
27S,506 of which $252.O7s,S59 was held
against certificates in the hands of the
outside public. and $l5O,OOO,OOO as re-
serve against outstanding United States
notes, the balance being free assets.
! An attempt of three convicts at the
penitentiary at Santa Fe, N. NJ, to effect
their escape resulted in the killing
of Convict GaOrpe Stenhansnn the morfa |