Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-11-25
NEWS SUMMARY.

hour day with ten hours pay.
1t is still unknown in Paris whether
Dreyfus viii be brought back, and the
most conflicting statement are current.
Jesse /. Gates, of the Second United
States artillery, has been awarded the
first pension on account of tie Spanish
war.
Three thousand operators in the
cotton mills at Augusta, Ga, have
struck on account of reduction in
wages.
All the job printing establishments.
at Minneapolis closed owing to a strike
of the press feeders for shorter hours.
Two hundred men are involved.
The hurrying of work On warships
continues at the Norfolk navy yard
and the probability is that the night
work will proceed for some time.
The Alabama house of representa-
lives has passed bill providing for
test of the constitutionality of the
federal 10 per cent tax on state bank
issues.
Monsignor valdes, the Spanish
bishop of Porto Rico, has resigned the
diocese, alleging that it is impossible
for him to serve any other country
than Spain.
The French line steamer La Nor
mandie, which arrived at New York
| from Harve, is detained at quarantine,
owing to smallpox among her steerage
passengers
Comte Esterhazy's ''L'Affaire Drey-
fus,'' is believed in Paris to be an at
tempt to throw mystery on the Ester
hazy case rather than enlighten the
Dreyfus affair.
Lieutenant Lucien Young of the
Hist, reports it is practicable to raise
the former Spanish cruiser Reina Mer-
cedes, sunk on June near the en-
trance of Santiago harbor.
Word has been received from Col.
Wood of the evacuation commission of
Holguin He has taken possession OF
the city and appointed Col. Rodriguez,
a well-known Cuban, as acalde.
Assistant Secretary yanderlip has
sailed for Puerto Rico, to fos7iliarize
himself with the fnap Editions
of the island, its possib of reve-
nues, and its requirems 1 expendi-
lures
Mr. Kemper, Unitt>4 States postal
agent for the military department OF
Santiago, has arrived with materials
for establishing post offices at all points
in the island occupied by United States
troops
T. A. Hauxhurst. agent of the Pan
American Express company OF Brook
Iva, attempted suicide yesterday morn
ing in Havana, by cutting his throat
in the Hotel Inglaterra. His condition
is serious.
The Royal Geographical society has
issued formal appeal for funds to ut
Harmswortb, proprietor of the London
Daily Mail and the Evening News, has
offered $4,000.
Havana is overrun with Americans
who have arrived there quite without
means of support, but in hopes OF get
ting lucrative employment. There Is
l. f.x.< tcld a1
in Havana at present.
At Shanghai, Prince Henry of Prus--
STA unveiled the monument to the Off
GERS and sailors of the German third
class cruiser Hits, which was lost in a
typhoon on July 20, 1896, north of the
Shan Tung promotory.
Dispatches from Perpignan, CAPITA
of Pyrenees-Oriental, on the right bank
of the river Tet, report that the regior
has been visited by severe storms
Many villages have been flooded anc
traffic has been interrupted.
Reno Goblet, former premier ane
member of the French Chamber o;
Deputies for the First ACCOMPLISHMENT
of the Department of the Seine, an
nounces that he will soon definitely
withdraw from the political arena.
The town of Macomb, Mo-, reported
threatened by forest fires, has moi
been reached by the flames, which
have undoubtedly been quenched, as
heavy rainstorm is said to have pre-.