Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

mated J. E. McComas of Pomona fol-
: governor
The japanese are discussing the de
STABILITY of buying the Philippines
the islands are in market.
A dispatch from General Rlanco at
Havana says the Spanish torpedo-boat
, destroyer Terror is in Porto Rican
waters
Congressman D. ". Mills was unan-
imously renomiuated by the Republic
can convention of the Fourth Illinois
district
1t is reported that Germany will pro-
pose a meeting of the European con-
ference to discuss the question of the
Philippines.
Madrid newspapers are printing vio-
lent articles demanding that the re-
sponsibility for the political situation
be determined.
At Castle Rock, Wash, the 5-year-
old son of j. W. Scott secured loaded
gun and shot and instantly killed his
2-year-old sister
Political circles in Madrid express
themselves as being quite satiied that
the powers will not permit the United
States to hold the Philippines.
The: president has granted pardon
to Capt. John D. Dart, now serving
sentence of two years for engaging in
filibustering expedition to Cuba.
1t is asserted in Rome that the queen
regent of Spain has submitted to the
pope the question of her retirement in
order to allay the public discomfort.
Critics in Paris regard the occupa-
ton of Guantanamo as master stroke
and the fact that 1000 Spanish allowed
the landing is omniously significant.
The prohibitionists have nominated
r. V. Muir for governor of Nebraska,
and adopted a platform declaring the
party opposition to the liquor traffic.
The bureau of internal revenue is
now busily engaged in preparations
for the enforcement of the war rev
enue bill which is soon to become
law
At st. Joseph the Missouri river is
higher than it has been for several
years, and it is cutting away consider
able good farming land north of the
city
Advices from Hongkong report that
any serious resistance by the Span
iards, who are pressed by the insur-
gents and Americans, is out of the
question.
The war department has acceded to
the request of the owner of the steamer
Centennial, now on the Pacific coast,
that another examination shall be
made of her.
An American, it is reported, was ar
rest at Algeiras, on the bay of Gibral- (
tar, Spain, June 10, charged with be-
ng in the possession of plans of the :
Qualifications at Cadiz.
San Francisco ship-owners strongly
leny the charges of hampering the !
in the work of securing :.
transports, which We're made by Sena-
or Carter in the senate. y
A car containing soldiers from Iowa 8
aught fire on the desert near Reno.
Sev., and the soldiers lost their cloth =.
ng They passed through Reno, New. r
lad in their underclothing. :.
The Spanish minister of foreign af O
airs, Duke Almodera de Rio, says h
here is no truth in the statement that T.
he cable communication with Santa
o de Cuba has been broken off. =.
Constable Lowall was killed by vi
gorge Washington, negro, at Vienna, q,
'ex. The negro tried to make his es- ST
ape, but was captured and hanged to IL
n electric-light pole by 500 people. b,
The total subscribed for the new 8
er cent government bonds at the First 90
ational bank at San Francisco is th
100000. Subscriptions are beginning H
come in from interior cities and ar
,wns- We
At Redding, Cal, as a result of ST
rike in the iron mountains, 500 men
e idle. Feeling runs high between at
lie strikers and the management, and H,
ouble of serious character is ex- n,
,cted. ~
Horses and mules for the mountain sa
lttery which John Jacob Astor has Gle