Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-06-24
NEWS SUMMARY.


Nevada.
The business portion of Tracy, Cal.
was destroyed by fire. Loss ss7, 900
partly insured.
A dispatch from the Canaries dated
June 9, reports the presence of IA
Spanish torpedo boats.
Two new cases of yellow fever have
broken out at McHenry, Miss, in the
same house where the first seven cases.
occurred.
Hereafter, while postal cards will
be sold, it will be lawful to use
cards with one cent stamps affixed for
the same purpose.
There is a persistent rumor from
Madrid that the queen regent proposes
to abdicate because of the critical con-
dition of her country.
The United States cruiser Columbia,
which has been undergoing repairs at
Brooklyn navy yard since Decoration
day, has left the yard and passed out
to sea.
All the coal mines in the Jellico dis.
trict, covering a total acreage of 3d.
600 in Whitley and Campbell counties,
Tennessee, has been sold to an English
syndicate.
The men on the ships of the fleet at
Key West have been afflicted with dys-
entry and diarrhoea. The distilling
plant has not been able to furnish
pure water.
When about to go in bathing at Jack
sOHgille, Florida, James T. Gatewood,
private stenographer to General Fitz-
burh Lee, was struck by lightning
ar. Instantly killed.
senator Rawlins and Senator Can
non will both support the Hawaiian
annexation bill. Each expresses COLI
fidence that Hawaii will become part
of the Union before congress adjourns.
The house passed the general defc-
iency bill, carrying 1924 900, 900. The
bill occasioned little debate and it
passed practically as reported to the
house from the committee on appro-
priations.
Lieutenant Hobson, the hero of the |
Merrimac, will be transferred from
the construction corps to the line of |
of the navy and raised to the grade
of lieutenant commander probably /
next week.
At Brunswick, Mo-, ]. H. Heisel,
mayor of the town, shot and killed
Richard Ashby, the town marshal.
Heisel was also severely wounded by
Ashby. The fight was the result of
family quarrel
The conferees on the sundry civil
appropriations bill have agreed to the
provision for the Paris exposition. 1t
is in practically the terms of the
original senate amendment, to limit
the cost to S6OO,OOO
A special dispatch from Belgrade,
Servia, says ex-Queen Natalie is or
ganizing an expedition to the seat of
the war between Spain and the United
States in order to nurse both Ameri-
cans and Spaniards.
The belief is expressed in govern
ment circles in Madrid that Captain
General August will ask the foreign
warships to land detachments to occu-
py Manila on the ground that he is no
longer able to resist the insurgents.
The French steamer Pictovia, from
New York, May 20, which has arrived
at Marseilles, reports she was fired
at by the Brooklyn near New York"
The owners of the steamer will make
a protest to the French government.
Governor Leedy announces that the
TWO battalions allotted to Kansas I'M
Ter the second call will be recruited
rom the colored population. He has
been urged to officer both battalions
with negroes, but has not decided as
20 this point
Representative King of Utah has ac-
,epted an invitation to speak at the
rammany hall celebration of the
Fourth of July. This is fine compli- !
nent to the Utah representative, as {
he Tammany committee on speakers S
.lways selects the leading congress
onal orators for the independence day
celebration. |
W. veron Booth of the A. Booth