Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-11-11
NEWS SUMMARY.
The Greek cabinet has resigned.


vana are increasing daily.
Joseph jefferson, the veteran actor
is seriously i'll, with but little hopes of
recovery.
The Eighth cavalry regiment has
been ordered to the province of Puerto
Principe. Cuba.
At Portland, Or, Claud Branton,
convicted of the murder of John Linn,
has been sentenced to hang December
49,
The contract for the American coal
ing station at Pago- Pago has been let
TO a San Francisco firm and the work
will soon be begun.
The London Standard says editor
tally: I'VE can see no Alternative.
Spain must accept as inevitable the
loss of the Philippines.
Capt. Chesters decision to abandon
the work of the wrecking the Colon
marks the end of that undertaking on
the part of the government
Forest and prairie fires are raging all
over the Seminole Indian nation.
Emahaka mission and property valued
at $3.50. 900 has been destroyed
Negotiations are in progress for the
formation of corporation, capitalized
at about $40, 900, 900 that will take in
all the Pittsburg, Pa, breweries.
The cruiser Philadelphia has been
ordered to Samoa and will leave San
Francisco within few days. The
yorktown will probably follow her.
The sugar estates in the vicinity OF
Cienfuegos. Cuba, which suffered little
during the war, are commencing Oper-
atoms, as also are many near Man
tanzas
Premier Sagasta says it is by no
means certain that Spain proposes
sending memorandum to the powers
on the subject of the Paris peace com
mission.
Commander G. A. Bicknell has been
ordered to command the Monocacy at
Woo Sung, China, relieving Commander
0. w. Farenholt, ordered home on
waiting orders.
Upon the departure of troops from
Pana, ILL.,, a change of affairs is ex-
pected, as the union miners are more
determined than eve. that the negro
miners must go
At the London National Club, Nat
Smith knocked out Tom Turner with a
blow over the heart, causing death q
few hours later Smith and his Sec
onds are under arrest.
An insurgent captain and lieutenant
have been arrested at Guantanamo for
holding up a man on the street and
taking away his machete. which they
afterward sold for $3.50.
A trust of Chinese laundrymen is the
latest. 1t is called the Dop Song Kong
Sow, aud it has its tentacles wrapped
around more than 1000 Chinese laun-
drymen in Greater New York.
The United Strtes training ship
Adams will, on or about December LIST,
start from San Francisco on seven
cruise. BY that date she will
have received her batteries at Mare
island.
Work on the Marianao pier for land
ing the troops is almost at a standstill
The cradles have been thrown out and
are now being filed with stone, but
he Cuban labor employed is found most
unsatisfactory.
The tobacco properties of Cuba are
making provision for a vast increase of
business this year. One Havana firm
If importers has placed an order for
10000 lengths of piping for irrigating
iobacco properties.
The president of the Red Cross So
,iety has cabled to the president of the
Red Cross society, Havana. inviting
he society there to continue in active
,rgination until the last Spanish sol
Iiers left the island.
Commissioner Jose Miguel Gomez,
rom Sancti Spiritus, reports great
Misery from lack of food in the Cuban
amps there and at Santa Clara, and
will see the American commission re
,arding the situation.
The London Daily Mail urges the
american people to pronounce boldly
n favor of retaining the Philippines.
for otherwise there will be a scramble