The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1901-12-05

months ago. Outwitted ana o..
ed with = 1ghter just the ooa.point
himself, McGovern had to ,o" ane a
colOrs recently at Hartford C"e bis
Young COrbett within siy oonn, TO
from the start of the fight nihutes
Two men suspected of hav;n
up saloon at Standpoint wers sue, ueld
at Milan, Wash. One of tbam sausht
arrest and was fatally shot bv 81, u
monson. WI 10
1t Is reported at Mullan, Idaho =,
Thomas Ashcroft, a cook at tho ~, 'aat
mine. and Peter Dole, were k,l,a uatef
night in shooting scrape at tho o.
pany's boarding house. ' w.
During q recent fire at Oman,
supply house OF the Creamery DE-, ae
Manufacturing company ait r,ara ase
and ZONES streets, three firemen s
injured and q loss of $85, 900 sus,., wore
The report OF the manager ~ ~
istics at Harvard university for 1 ~
past year shows that the receints ,, W.
all branches of athletics amounts oa
$117.317. and the expense to s7o o., ~
The receipts from football were AK 0,a
and expenses $l9.699. ''A''
-Four Thousand Boer sympatbi,o,
tended q meeting held at De.rot MI. ~
Sunday. under the auspices ~ 49,
Transvaal league. and applauded thu s
antl-Brttish sentiment of Commands sas
Jan Krige, WHO served under ~.
Botha, and ex-Congreasman ,JJ1an.4
OF Ohio. -D1'
William Alexander selkirk c.u
fornaa pioneer OF 1850, and for near,,
half century prominent fieuro !.
the newspaper and political world =,
the Pacific coast, died in Seattle =.
Gently after q lingering illness apa, ),
years. He had been an invalid for marr
months.
A bill will be introduced in conoro,,
at the next session reducing the nos.sss
on letters to cent. It is douhtfn, =
the Dill becomes a law. One cent nost.
age has been demanded for number ~
years, but 50 long as the receipts of tho
postofltce department are not eoual ~
the expenses, the officials are not likoly
to call strongly Tor cutting the presen,
letter rate in two.
The Denver Post says Senator VII
liam A.. Clark, Of Montana, and Thma,
F. Walsh, Of Colorado have, it ia m.
mored, Joined issues in railroad scon.
str1ction, and will build practically a
new transcontinental railroad. The
Chicago. Rock Island & Pacific is.said
TO belong to Senator Clark and Mr.
Walsh.
Five persons. q mother and her four
children. were burned to death at Gwyu
station, three miles north of Altoona
Pa The husband escaped with severe
injuries. The dead are: Mrs. Mary c.
Burke, ~ years old: Adam G. Burke
l6; -,Aark e. Burke. IS: Joanna Burke
IL; Joseph Victor Burke, 8 years; Carl
w. Burke, the husband, is seriously
burned about the back.
Mystery attends the shooting at Cas-
cade. Montana, OF Fred Dawkins, who
is fatally wounded. Dawkins claims
that he was shot from ambush by J.B.
Mcbride. The officials have a theory
that Dawkins 10 monomaniac ON the
subject OF the capture of Pat Grove,
and that while performing the self
duty Of effecting the capture
OF IMAM whom he suspected OF being
Grove, he accidentally shot himself.
The military departments of North.
ern and Southern Luzon have ceased to
exist. Major General James F. Wade,
Formerly in command of the southern
division. will leave Manila tomorrow
to assume command OF the American
FORCES ON Cebu island, and Major Cen
eral Lloyd Wheaton. formerly com
mander of bhe northern division, will
lake command Of the department Of the
Northern Philippines.