Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-12-16
NEWS SUMMARY.

MADE the military governor OF CuDa-
The Missouri Pacific paid it's floating
debt of 81 300, 900 to Russell Sage De-
cember s.
A body of soldiers has been ordered
to be in readiness to escort Dreyfus to
Paris for trial.
The pope has decided that the Span
ish policy of the Vatican shall be anti
Carlist and not neutral.
Sir Thomas Upington, premier OF
Cape Colony from 1884 to 1886, died at
Cape Town, in his 54th year.
The Ninth, Thirteenth and Tweaty
first regiments of regular infantry
have been ordered to Manila.
Secretary Long has cabled to orders
to Rear-Admiral Dewey to send the
cruiser Raleigh to the United States.
Sir William Anderson, director gen.
eral of the royal ordinance factories
and part inventor of cordite, died at
London.
Captain Samuel Mckee, ex-member
Of congress and one of Kentucky's most
promising Republicans, died at Louis
vile of paralysis.
The thermometer at Denver on the
9th registered 10 degrees below zero;
at Valentine, Neb., on the same day,
20 degrees below.
The widow of David Blakely has OBJ
tanned decision involving 100000
from John Phillip Sousa, leader of the
famous Marine band.
Reports regarding the health of the
troops at Santiago are encouraging,
and in the Philippines the conditions
have materially improved.
The senate in executive session has
ratified the treaty for the extension OF
the time for the completion of the
Mexican boundary one year.
James Shaw, the only surviving
member of the Michigan legislature of
1s47, when Detroit was the capital of
Michigan, died at Niles, aged SO.
The auxiliary cruiser Buffalo, which
sailed from New York with 900 troops
for Manila, broke down soon after
starting for sea and put in at Newport
News.
Henry Mortimer Platt is dead at his
home in New York aged rs years.
Fifty years ago he established the first
gold and silver refinery in the United
States.
Three hundred men of the New York
regiment and number of sailors and
officers of Admiral Dewey's fleet arrived
in San Francisco December 9, en- route
home.
Among Bedford's population of 1880
there are about 1000 cases of what is
called genuine smallpox. Other Penn
sylvania towns are excited over the
affair.
The fire in the works of the Stand
ard Oil company at Los Angeles has
burned itself out, the entire property
being consumed. The total loss is
estimated at 1925, 900.
The Ohio commandery of the mill
tary order of the Loyal Legion, has de-
cided to elect President Mckinley com
mander of the order at the next cleo
ton which takes place in May.
Sam Smith, the train robber, has
been found guilty of murder in the
first degree at Eldorado, Kan. He will
receive a death sentence, which in
Kansas means life imprisonment.
A report submitted to congress by
the commission of fish and fisheries
shows an expenditure of $3.50 for
the propagation of food fisheries dur
the fiscal year ended June 3Oth last.
John Barrett, formerly United States
to Siam, after visiting Pekin,
SAYS the situation in China is one of
the most critical nature. and that Man
churia is no longer Chinese, but Rus
sian territory.
High Commission yesterday was again
devoted to the reciprocity clause, but
there is no official intimation Of how
far or how amicably this discussion
had proceeded.
Secretary Long, at the instigation Of
Senator Hale, has submitted a bill ap-
$40, 900 for the erection OF
a monument and fence at Colon GEM
etery, Havana, where the dead OF the
Maine are buried.