The Lewiston teller. (Lewiston, Idaho) 1900-1905, 1902-06-05
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Review of Happenin4s In Both
Eastern aHd Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Natfonal.
Rhetorical. Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expoanded.


San Francisco from Manila. On board,
besides the passengers. are % officers
and S54 men of the Twenty-first in
fantry.
Two hundred garment workers Of
Syracuse. N. Y. mostly Hebrews. have
struck for nine hour day, with the
same pay now given for 10 hours.
A daring Jail break took place at
Leadville, Col, recently. Five pris-
oners from the county Jail are now at
large They escaped by an under
ground tunnel. They had sawed of
the lock to trap door leading to the
sewer. broke the sewer wall and then
crawled to the outside of the Jail
through a small hole in the founda-
ton wall.
A letter found in the possession Of
L. Wachman. a travelling salesman who
committed suicide in Chicago saloon
recently. leads to the belief that he
was a member of a New York suicide
club.
Max Kastan. 81 years Of age and
Mrs. Lydia McRowatt. the same age
lost their lives Sunday in fire which
swept away many buildings at Rock
away Beach, N. Y. Thomas s. Nc
Krow and year old son Frank: Mar
tin Hanson. aged %. and Morris Kas
tan, aged Is. were injured and taken
to a hospital in Long Island City
Since being taken to the hospital
young McKrow has died and the father
is probably dying.
Bert C.. Lewis. special officer en-
ployed at loca, theater in Los Ange-
les. was waylaid and shot through the
body after midnight Sunday while oil
his way home.
Colonel Patrick Donan. for several
years past advertising agent of the
Oregon Railroad & Navigation com
pany. died at his home in Portland
Colonel Donan was widely known
among newspaper men Of the west.
The strike situation in the building
trades at Denver is unchanged. ex-
cept for the declaration Of the owners
they will start up tomorrow with non
union labor. No serious trouble is an
ticipated il the attempt is made.
]. Pierpont Morgan, leaving Rome
for Venice on board the Corsair, cables
the Rome correspondent of the New
York Tribune, said he was going to
Athens and will return to Venice in
two weeks and go to London for the
coronation.
There are $50 Americans at one ho-
tel in Berlin, and other hotels are en-
tertaining numbers Of travellers from
across the Atlantic. The hotelmen
think Americans are more numerous
in Berlin this year than ever before.
Leading fruit growers and shippers
of California have formed a shippers
combine. known as the California Fruit
Distributors. which will take charge Of
the marketing of all shipments Of
green deoiddous fruits intended for
consumption throughout the east.
Hon. Michael Henry Herbert. who
is nominally secretary to the British
embassy at Paris, will probably be the
next British ambassador to the Uni
tide States in succession to the late
Lord Pauncefoote. Mr.Herbert's ap-
pointment will probably not be an
nounced until the remains OF Lord
Pauncefoote arrive in England. The
only question in regard to Mr.. Her
bert's selection is the approval Of King
Edward.
The consolidation of the First Nation
al bank and the Metropolitan National
bank has been formally approved at
meetings held by the stockholders of
the two institutions. On Monday
morning Chicago opened for business
its first $1OO.OO0,0OO bank.
The several hundred special officers
brought to Hazleton. Pa, Sunday night
for guard duty at the collieries in the
Hazelton district have been distrib-
uted. They will be housed and board
ed at the breakers Public sentiment
there is against the special officers and
the local labor union made an effort
to induce the servant girls at the ho-
tel where they remained over night
to strike. The girls are still at work.
however. Some of the mineworkers'
leaders think the officers are non-un-
ion f1remen and pumprunners.
The illness of Governor Taft of the
Philippine islands. who is suffering
from tonsilitis at Rome. is not consid-
cred serious. He is confined to his
room by slight fever which accom-.
panies his sore throat
H. E. Nutting Of Lardo in the upper
end OF Long valley. has arrived in
Boise. Idaho. He brings a story of
the drowning OF Thunder mountain
travellers that, IL true. constitutes the
SaddeSt incident that has nccurred In