Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-11-18


Collector Of Customs J. w. Ivey at
Juneau. Alaska, has been arrested on
the charge of criminal libel.
DR.. Nancy Guilford, the Bridgeport
midwife charged with murder, is being
brought from England to stand trial
Preparations have been completed foi
the dry docking of the second-class
battleship Texas at the Brooklyn navy
yard.
There is very little serious sickness
among the troops at Santiago Every
body is improving with the cooler
weather
The state of Texas has raised the
yellow fever quarantine and the guar
antine inspectors and guards have
been Withdrawn.
The war department has established
permanent paymaster's Office IN
Huntsville, Ala, in charge OF. Major C.
NJ. Marsh and 5. II. Tyler.
Charles H. Thornton of Los Angeles
committed suicide in st. Louis hotel
by shooting himself in the mouth. NC
cause is known for the deed
1t is estimated that no fewer than
Is, 900 people in the section IN anc
around Santiago are learning English
in addition to the school children.
Wilmington. n. c., city authorities
are bending every energy toward per-
suading the refugee negroes who are
in the woods, to return to their homes
Orders have been issued to push
work on the monitors Puritan and Ter
ror at Norfolk navy yard, so that they
will be available for service at short
notice
The miners employed in the vicinity
of Silverton. b. c., have rounded up all
the Chinese 1aborers in the various
camps and shipped them out of the
district.
Advices from members of the Eighth
Illinois volunteers, colored. now IN
Santiago province. Cuba, state that
fully 80 per cent of the regiment is in
the hospitals
The Cubans around Guantanamo are
going to work on the plantations
Colonel Ray refuses to issue rations to
those who decline to work at 40 cents
daY. the regular rate.
1t is learned that the war with Spain
has not delayed the surveys of the
Nicaragua canal to any appreciable
extent, and practically all parties have
sent in their notes to be plated
Edward lola, a resident OF Kansas
City, and a cousin of Emile Zola- the
champion of Dreyfus. says that the re-
port that the French author is coming
to this country shortly is untrue
Owing to the great i'll health of the
New York volunteers now encamped
at Honolulu. that regiment will be sent
home as soon as the method of its
trausportat alton can be decided upon
The board of ordnance and fortiica-
sious has decided to institute an in
Yestigation of the possibilities OF flying
for accommodating purposes
and as engines for destruction in time
of war
The winter plans for the postal SER
vice in the Yukon region are completed
and will consist of twice-a-month ser
vice via Juneau, that is. the regular
route through Dawson to Circle City
and Weare
Mr.. Chong XII Ye. connected with the
household of the Crown Prince of
Korea, and eldest son of Chin Pom Ye,
the minister from Korea to this coun-
try, has been appointed an attache of /
the Korean legation.
The United States last year COM
handed more of the Samoan trade
import and export-than any European 1
nation, and in the matter OF exports to
he islands stood second only to the
nearby Australian colonies. The rec
'rd for the coming year will be watch
ID with interest
The deaths at Holguin. Cuba. from
smallpox average thirty day for the
army and as many in the poorer quar-
ers. Every hut is infected. and wo-
men, children and men lie literally
citing to death without the care of
ven one doctor. The poverty of the
is beyond description.
The Italian anarchist, Luigi Luc-
.heni who stabbed and killed Emr,resS