Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-12-23
NEWS SUMMARY.

Madrid newspaper representing Senior
Gamazo and the dissenting Liberals,
declares for cabinet headed by Senior
Montero RIGS,
The General commanding the north
ern army of Spain has proclaimed the
closure of all Carlist clubs and societies
in his district.
Jake Still and II. b. Ray engaged in
duel at Clarendon, Texas, in which
Still was killed. The trouble arose
over woman.
James G. Jeffries, the Los Angeles
heavyweight, has agreed to meet James
j. Corbett some time in February in
San Francisco.
A dispatch. from Utica, n. Y, an
nounces the suicide of Leroy P. Mid
lam, the last Democratic postmaster of
Marquette, Mich.
The steamer Vera, which sailed
from Havana on December 9Th with
about 20O0 Spanish soldiers, has ar
rived at Malaga.
Phineas T. Barnum's widow, his Sec
ond wife, has taken a third husband.
She has married Baron Alex Orengiana,
French nobleman, in Paris.
Cuban forces have entered the evacu-
ated towns of Calabazar and Santiago
de las Vegas. Havana province, and
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The United States cruiser Cincinnati
is now in deep water. Apparently she
is not much damaged BY running on
the reef while leaving Santiago.
Representative S. W. Smith of Mich
igan has introduced bill for a national
military reserve, consisting of one
regiment for each, congressional dis
triet.
In Buffalo, n. Y, about 500 in
spurious coin was captured in an Ital-
ian tenement house in Scott street.
The supposed counterfeiters are under
arrest.
At meeting of the general officers
of. the Women's Christian Temperance 4
union the dates for the next annual |
meeting, at Seattle, Wash, were fixed
at October 20 to 25, 1899.
Most encouraging reports concerning I
the health of the American troops gar
risoned in Porto Rico continue to reach I
the war department. There has been
no fatalities for four days.
James Christensen and wife of
Neenah, Wis, while crossing the
Northwestern railroad tracks, were
struck by train and killed. They
leave family of eight children.
Commander Mort of the japanese
navy places Admiral Dewey in the
same class with Admirals Ito and Nell
SON. -.He is not only great naval
officer said he, '-but a general and a
statesman
In Munich duel with pistols took
place between Major Seitz''and Lieu
tenant Pfeiffers growing out of the for
mer's misconduct with the the latter's
wife. Major Seitz was killed.
The Midland Railway company of
England has ordered twenty freight
engines in Philadelphia and New York.
As consequence of the engineers
strike the English firms are only able
to cope with arrears of work.
The first train from Merv. Russian
Turkestan, 300 miles southeast of
arrived on Friday last at Kusk,
in the Jamshidi province of Afghan
istan, the line thus being completed to
within ninety-fve miles of Herat.
f. Ex-President Grover Cleveland has
decided to abandon the school farm"
for homeless boys, which he, in COM
pany with others, undertook early in
the summer In practice the scheme
failed, and the ex-presidenth has decided
10 return to the original method of
farming.
The agricultural appropriation bill
contains retaliatory clause authoriz-
ng the secretary of agriculture to in
'pect articles dangerous to health, and
llso authorizing the secretary of the
reasury to exclude such articles. The
restriction is designated to apply to a
arge number of articles imported
rom foreign countries
Charles Nelson and H. K. Spring
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