Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-10-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

Companies K, L and M of the Second
volunteer engineers, now at Honolulu,
will be the garrison left there.
The Russian imperial yacht .sPole
STAR" having on board the Gar of
Russia, has arrived at Copenhagen.
The sultan has yielded to the de-
mands of the powers, and the Turkish
troops will be withdrawn from Crete.
The strike situation in Paris is i'm
proving. Some of the strikers are re-
turning to work at the exposition
grounds and other places.
Commodore Watson was slightly in
jured in railroad wreck near Colfax,
CAL, while en- route to his command of
the Mare Island naval station.
In a fire at Hankow, China, 1000
lives were lost, and one square mile of
the city was destroyed, including the
government buildings and temple.
Thirty persons were killed and eaten
at barbaic feast given by the Head
huubtIS, d Call Odl ldCblOu Vi htu0ONd,
Australia, in honor of their victory.
William Ogilvie, Yukon, administra-
tor, has been appointed by the Cana
dian government to inquire into and
report upon the alleged scandals
among government officials at Dawson.
Joseph Simon of Portland has been
elected by the Republicans to the
United States senate, to fill the vacan-
cy which has existed since March A,
1897.
H. Fl. Lowry, president of the Amer
lean university in China, denies the
truth of all the recent stories as to the
suicide or assassination of the En-
peror.
General Grants brigade, consisting
of the Fourth Ohio and the Third Hi
nois regiments, has been ordered to
sail for home from Puerto Rico about
October 49,
Joseph Murray, United States agent
in charge of the Pribyloff islands, is
dead at Fort Collins, Colo. Mr.. Muir
ray was noted in the west as cam
paign speaker.
Bishop Whipple of Minnesota, who
is in Washington in attendance upon
the Episcopal council, places the blame
of the Indian uprising at Bear island
upon whisky.
The Chinese foreign office has pro-
tested against the excessive Russian
escort pointing out that it is twice
the strength of the detachments of the
other powers.
The English troops who have re-
turned from Khartoum are dying like
flies from enteric disorders, supposed
to be due to canned beef and indul-
gence in cheap spirits.
Chen Paochen, governor of the prov
ince of Hu Nan, who is the most en-
lightened governor in China, and has
been active in introducing improve
ments, has just been cashiered.
The steamer Reina de Los Angels
has arrived at Manzanillo, Cuba, with
Colonel Henry Ray and 400 United
States troops, and the United States
flag now floats over one more Cuban
city.
Lieutenant Morgan, Twenty-second |
Kansas, charged with participating in
the dissertation of Confederate graves
at Manassas last August, has been ac-
Quilted by court martial and restored
to service.
United States secret service officers
have discovered that large numbers of
counterfeit 500 silver certificates have
been produced in San Francisco. The
operators are reported to be under
police surveillance.
The depot quartermas ter at Phila-
delphia has been authorized to pur-
chase 400, 900 yards of kersey, 100000
yards of flannel, so, 900 yards of cloth,
2. 700 Sibley stoves and $4,000 joints OF
Sibley stove pipe.
f. Mallen, an eighteen-year-old boy
who enlisted in the First Washington
volunteers without permission of his
has been discharged on habeas
corpus by United States District Judge
Hawley in San Francisco.
Major c. T. Doxey's 100000 hold
ings in the American Plate Glass COM