Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-12-09
NEWS SUMMARY.
well-known

the condition of national banks at the
close of Dec. /.
David Stuart Erskine, thirteenth
earl of Bnchan, is dead at London in
his S4th year.
Showalter won the seventh game OF
the match against Janowski. Janow-
lski games, Showalter 8, drawn2 Q.
A plot to assassinate Prince Fredi-
nand of Bulgaria has been discovered.
1t is said numerous arrests have been
made.
A mass meeting of undergraduate
lstndents was held at Wesleyan univer-
lsity to protest against the system OF
co-education now in vogue at the col
lege
The French vintage of 1898 is Off
cially estimated at 32,2s2, 900 bectol-
ttres, which is 6s, 900 hectolitres below
the vintage of last year.
The death is announced of Sidi-
lMohamed Thieb Bey, brother and heir
Ipresumptive of Sidi Ali Bey of Tunis.
He was in his 18th year.
Nearly the whole business portion OF
Eufaula, l. t., on the NJ, K. & 7. rail-
road, was destroyed by fire. The loss
is estimated at $50, 900.
It is asserted in Madrid that a mar
rage has been arranged between Don
Jamie, son of the pretender, Don Car
los, and Bavarian princess.
Jewelry and diamonds valued at
"a, 500 were stolen from the apartment
of Mr.. and Mrs. Max Blumenthal at
the Great Northern, hotel, Chicago.
James G.. Lindsey, who represented
the Seventy-seventh New York district
in the Forty-pinth congress, died at
his home in Kingston, N. Y, aged 70
years.
Six men of the crew of the Mallory
line steamship Alamo were killed by
the bursting of a steam pipe while the
vessel lay at her pier in East river,
New York.
Seven persons were burned to death
in fire which broke out in the small
hamlet of Exenthal, near Sonneburg,
ISaxe-Meinengen, about twelve miles
northeast of Coburg.
A great improvement in the health
of the army has taken place within the
last two months as shown by the last
reports to the surgeon-general from
the field and general hospitals.
Lieutenant Colonel Frank G. Green,
the signal officer of the department OF
california, has been ordered to for
ward several hundred miles of tele-
graph apparatus to Manila
The government of Nicaragua, as a
result of the collapse of the republic OF
Central America, has established de-
cree declaring Nicaragua to be an in
sovereign state.
Mrs. Elizabeth Howe is dead at Phoe-
nix, Ariz. She was the widow OF
Brigadier General Howe Of Illinois,
and was one of the five women who /
the Woman's Relief Corps OF |
America.
Rev. A. j.. LcLim, agent OF the
American Bible society, sailed for
Puerto Rico with thousand copies OF
the Bible and portions thereof for dis
tribution among the inhabitants OF
that island.
A dispatch from Stuttgart announces
the death there of Princess Augusta OF
Sake Weimar, nee Lady Augusta Len
nox, daughter of the fifth duke Oh
Richmond and Gordon and sister OF the
present duke.
The Spanish Government has re-
ceived an important dispatch from the
in which it is stated Agui-
naldo, the insurgent leader, demands
81. 500. 900 for the release of the I'M
friars.
A man giving his name as Charles
Walker and saying he resides at uue-
bee, has been arrested at Lyons
France, for attempting to snatch a
wallet containing 111.6oo francs, from
, bank messenger.
Brussels Soir says trouble has arisen
n Africa between Germany and the
Congo Free State, relative to the re-
,pective boundary lines of German
;erritory and Congo territory north OF
Lake Tanganika.