Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-08-12
NEWS SUMMARY.

Five United States volunteer regr
ments of immunes have been ordered
20 Santiago for garrison duty.
All the salmon canneries in southeru
waters have closed down. The total
catch is nearly 200, 600 cases.
Samuel L. Black, mayor of Columbia
o., has been elected president of the
League of American Municipalities.
Sam Smith and Tom VIM, the two
men who robbed the Frisco train al
Andover, 0. T., have been captured
Chief Isparhecher has refused to
turn over to the Dawes commission
the citizenship rolls of the Greek Ma
ton.
Mrs Emmons Blaine has presented
the University of Chicago $4,000 for
the higher education of teachers In
the public schools.
Judge F. o. Phillips of Medena has
been nominated for congress by the
Twentieth Ohio Congressional district
RSpuOllCd<l cOu ven tlOu.
The Acknowledgements of British
Columbia has called upon Robert
Beavon to form government. Beavon
will undertake the task.
The Hawaii commissioners, who
will lay the foundation for new
government of the Sandwich Island,
have sailed from San Francisco
The paramount issue at the coming
Missouri Democratic state convention,
which meets at Springfield on August
10th, will be territorial expansion.
Secretary Long is now dcvoting
good part of his attention to reducing
the expenses of the navy department
which were SO vastly increased dur
ing the war.
Alexander Steele, a cousin to the
late William Ewart Gladstone Of Eng
fand, is hopelessly i'll at hts home al
Marshall, Mo-, where he has lived
for the past twelve years.
The queen regent and Senior Sagasta
are both DESTROYS that the details OF
the final draft Of the treaty Of peace
should, If possible, be conducted In
Paris by Senior Leon y Castillo
The Yukon is getting too low for
navigation, and the distress will be
very great this winter, it is said, I'M
less the government takes some ener.
getic relief action.
Advices from st. Mich aels states
that passengers who have been unable
to get up the river after paying their
fares to Dawson, talk of lynching
agents of steamers.
Barrett was killed while trying to
enter the room of Miss Phoebe Stokes,
a school teacher Miss Stokes fred six
shots, killing him instantly.
The Dominion government granted
the request of section of the Grand
Army of the Republic to visit Hamil-
ton. Ont, to attend celebration,
carry ing their arms.
The Ninth Illionois infantry has
received orders from Adjutant General
Corbin to go to Jacksonville, Florida,
where the regiment is to join Major
General Fitzhugh Lees corps.
In proportion to population, Texas
has furnished more troops for the war
than any other state. Texas pays
each enlisted man 81 a month in adj
dition to his government pay.
The dead body of woman, apparent
ly about 40 years of age, was found on
the government breakwater, Mil
Wis, by two fishermen. She
is believed to have been murdered.
There are now nineteen companies
on the Comstock which have given
notice of their intention to reduce the
par value of their stock from 500 to
amounts varying from 81 to SO
share.
Announcement was made by the
American Sugar refining company of
the withdrawal of its thirty days.
price guarantee and three grades of
soft sugar refined by the company were
advanced one-sixteenth of cent.
The hospital ship Bay State, sent to
cuba by the Massachusetts, Volunteer
Aid association, sailed from Boston
oaded with provisions and many
ielicacies for the soldiers at the front
The continuous rain of the past ten