Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-05-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

900, 600 TO prosecute the war.
q Havana is now surrounded by i'm
trenehments for thirty miles.
"swiftwater Bill" of Klondike fame
was not drowned, as reported.
Gladstone is dying. His physicians
say he will never speak again.
The first cargo of Klondike gold is
expected to arrive about June l.
A tornado swept Nebraska Tues
day, doing much damage to property.
The president has approved the
Alaska homestead and right-of-way
bill.
Up to May II, the actual disburse-
ments on account of the war were
SIC, 900, 900.
Manila, it is said, can draw supplies
from the interior and hold out for
months against blockade.
Blanco has shown great energy In
preparing for the expected siege by the
American fleet and land forces.
The report that Spain would send
relief expedition to the Philippines is
regarded, in London, as bluff,
Spaniards believe the mortality
among the Americans from the heat
and rain will cause the Americans to
raise the siege.
A special from Rio Janeiry says that
the radicals in the chamber of depu-
ties are about to declare in favor of
the United States.
The Cuban army is composed of
about 40, 900 men, but at present only
about 25, 900 are in the field, there be-
ing scarcity of arms.
The price of bread was raised one
cent a loaf by nearly all the bakers in
New York as result of the great rise
in the price of wheat
Many Philippine families at Hong
Kong, desire to take the oath of allie
glance to the United States before
they return to Manila,
All of Admiral Dewey's message was
not given to the public. 1t is learned
that he captured 10000 tons of coal
and plenty of provisions
At Huelva, Spain, all the buoys have
been removed and the lights have been
extinguished 1t is impossible to en-
ter that port without pilot
Brigadier General Guenther has been
assigned to temporary command of the
troops concentrated at Washington
for purposes of organization.
1t is believed in Havana that the
in the island will prove en-
fatal to the American troops,
and will be prolonged year
Senator Sewall of New Jersey has
declined appointments as maior-genoral
ot volunteers, presumably because he
would have to forfeit his seat in the
senate.
Captain General Blanco has cabled
In urgent request to Madrid for food
However, the first supplies which
each Havana will be with the invad-
ng army.
Saturdays and Sundays rain was
worth hundreds of thousands of dol
ars to the farmers of California.
fany fields of wheat were saved from
otal destruction.
When asked the whereabouts of the
ape Verde fleet, Admiral Bermeio.
Minister of marine, said it was where
ought to be according to the in
tructions given it,
French embassies in Europe are cir
nIating an official dispatch saying at
smpted landings at Cardenas and
lentuegos have been repulsed with
'ss to the Americans.
The central cable office of the West
N Union Telegraph company has is
led notice that the Porto Rico gov
prohibits all messages to or
ON the United States
The Spanish naval authorities are de-
'utly praying that Admiral Cerveras
uadron, the Cape Verde feet, will
Old fight with the superior force
der Admiral Sampson.
For the past two years the rate of
change between France and Spain
5 been enormous. 1t has been for
me time lowering between 40 and so
cent and now it is ia and over
at
Rear Admiral L. A. Kimberly, U. s.