The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-07-25
SUMMARY TELEGRAPH NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
a Complete Review Of the Events OF
\ the Past Week-In This and FOr-
eiRn Handkerchief From the
Latest Dispatches.

General Butterfield is dead. HI passed
away at his home near Poughkeepsie,
n. Y.
The pension roll is rapidly growing. 1t
arnounts to nearly Sl4O,OOO,OOO ior the ifs
cal year. I.
Shamrock III. sails for New York July
rs. Mr.. Thomas Upton thinks she is the
fastest racing yacht afioat.
Marshall, Mo-, town of 5000 people, on
the Chicago 4 Alton road, % miles east
of Kansas City, is reported burned.
There is an almost complete cessation OF
mining operations in the Lackawanna val
lev because of the strike of stationary fire.
men.
The strike in the National Steel COM
pany's furnace at Miles, Ohio, has been
settled, and $50 men have returned to
work.
With threatening curses and at the point
OF guns two masked men held up c. b.
Clemmer and Con Reagan on the east
bridge across the Umatilla at Pendleton.
An explosion occurred recently at the
Gyttorp Powder works at Nora, province
OF Orebro. wrecking seven buildings. -Four
persons were killed and number injured.
Leigh s. j. Hunt, the Korean million
Aire, Is very ill at Nagasaki, and has been
compelled to give up his project Of starting
an opposition paper to the Post-lntelligen-
car Of Seattle.
The steel strike in America is attracting
Anuch attention in England generally, and
while long articles are being printed in
the newspapers on the subject, no com.
,ment il made in the editorial columns.
The contract for the construction Of an
electric railroad between Seattle and Ia
coma, distance Of % miles, has been let
to Hale 4 Smith Of Portland. The con-
Nxact price il not given out.
The mobilization Of two fleets at Ports
uponth and Davenport, England, for naval
aaaneuvers Of exceptional interest serves
% divert public attention from the inglor-
lOus and protrscted war in South Africa.
During operations with q military bal
loon near Schlusselburg, on an island in
the Neva, u miles east Of st. Petersburg
the balloon exploded. One person was
killed and 20 were injured, several fatally.
Billy Madden, manager Of Gus Rubin.
the heavyweight pugiIist, who was in
Butte, states that he had been offered
purse 81 10000 for q meeting between
Rubin and Jeffries by the Olympic club
~ Butte.
Official announcement has been made
~ y. Pierpont Morgan that he had select
"a James J.. Hill. Z. H. Hartman, William
Rockefeller, H. Nick. Twombley and Sam
.alel Rea to all vacancies to be created in
s4he directorate Of the Northern Pacific rail
ssroad.
AT Rochester, N. Y, after nearly nine
,xesslks' idleness. the striking laborers en-
sgaged in the municipal contract work have
Areaumed work. The men are granted 70
xents an hour for an eight hour day and
time and half for overtime and doxble
time on holidays.
At Vienna Deputy Bakman has been
commissioned by the representatives Of the
boot and shoe trade to question the staath.
alter In the lower Austrian house as to
what that body intends to do with regard
( 70 the threatened invasion Of the Vienna
narket by An American syndicate. Local
boot and shoe men consider that American
competition menaces the very existence Of
the local industry.
Twelve miles south Of Glenwood, Iowa,
tho clnrred bodies found in the ruins Of the
residence Of Fred Fourhelm with shot
gun and razor by their side mutely tell the
tale Of q tragedy. Appearances indicated
that Fourheim had cut the threats of his
wife and child with the razor, set fire to
the house and then shot himself
The ministry won In the recent cleo
lions for the councils general in prov
lnces OF France.
Brigadier General Samuel T. Cush-
ing. U. s. A.. retired. formerly COM
missary general Of subsistence. IL dead.
Captain Charles Botha. son Of Philip
Botha. and Field Comets Human and
Oliver have been killed in the Orange
River Colony.
]. d. Groy. switchman for the
Northern Pacific, was killed recently
In Tacoma by falling from the gravity
bunkers to the deck of collier.
Earl Russell. arraigned at the bar Of
the house of lords for trial on the
charge Of bigamy. pleaded guilty after
lengthy arguments against the juris.
.diction of the court
Major James O'Neil. one of the old.
.est pioneers of the Pacific northwest
and for many years deputy clerk of
the United States circuit and district
courts. died at Spokane Sunday.
at Is ofAcfally reported In Shang-
hal" says the Shanghai correspondent
OF the London Standard. 'that serious
disturbances have broken out in the
Hsing-hwa district of the province OF
Fokien.'
The war in Cape Colony is hurting