Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-09-09
NEWS SUMMARY.


dangerously i'll at his home IN Dedham,
Mass.
Frontier Day festivities at Cheyenne,
Monday, were attended by 10000
people.
In fire in tenement at Newark,
NJ j. fourteen persons were severely
injured.
Gladstone's viii has been probated.
His personal estate amounted to about
s275, 0O0
Americas wheat crop is estimated at
100000, 900 bushels for 1898. which is
the largest on record.
The Third Nebrasks Tolunteers, W.
]. Bryan, colonel, is not to be mustered
out of service at present.
Over 400 delegates were in attend
nnce at the National Letter Carriers
Association convention at Toledo, o.
General Shafter was discharged from
the detention hospital at Camp WlkoH
Tuesday and assumed command OF the
camp.
General Lawton's health report shows
that conditions are improving at Santi-
ago as sanitary measures are intro
duced.
The Spanish government has decided
to pay the next coupon on the Cuban
debt, pending the settlement with the
United States.
The illness of the Queen of Denmark
has taken a serious turn. She has suf-
fered hemorrhage and it is feared
she cannot recover.
Justice White has decided not to
serve as one of the peace commission
ers and another appointment will be
made in his place.
The Hawaiian commission is making
a tour of the islands There ars some
200 of them, about 1920 miles inter-
vening between the remotest points.
The United States consul at Kobe,
Japan, has caused the arrest of Ssamen
Brady and Hine on suspicion that they
set fire to the American ship Barring
Bros.
Col. Lopez of the Fifty-frst Iowa de-
clares that his men are contented IN
the service and that they are willing to
remain in Frisco until Gen. Merriam
gets back.
The treasure department holds that
an article of agreement or contract for
the sale of real estate is not subject to
a stamp tax, unless it conveys some
right of title.
State Heath Officer Porter of Florida
has issued proclamation stating that
he believes no yellow fever exists in
Key West, nor has there been any
there this summer.
On the recommendation of the Swed-
ish-Norwegian council, King Oscar has
notified the czar of his acceptance OF
the invitation to send delegates to
peace conference.
Ashbel Green, general counsel of the
New York Central and of all roads con-
trolled by the Vanderbilt system of
Buffalo, is dead at his home in Tsnafiy,
N. j., aged rs years.
General Brooke, who was left in
command of the forces in Porto Rico
when General Miles left, has arrived |
st San Juan from the southern part OF
the island. Cordial relations in Porto
Rico are fast being restored.
Hon. Andrew J. Falk is dead at Yank-
ton, S. D.. Mr.. Falk was the third |
governor of Dakota territory, and it
was mainly through his persistent en-
beavers that the opening of the Black
Hills to settlement was secured.
Indians reaching Dauphin, Manitoba,
from the far north report meeting an
Eskimo who told of the appearance
among them of strange man who de-
seconded from the clouds on the shores
of Hudson bay. The opinion among
the whites is that the man is Andree,
the Arctic explorer.
General Guadens, who was relieved
of the government of Manila by General
Merritt, in reply to an inquiry from
Spain, asserts that it would require an
army of 60, 900 men for permanent oc-
cupation, strong feet and endless
quantities of war materials to restore
Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines,
were the United States to withdraw
The navy department has closed a