La Junta tribune. (La Junta, Bent County, Colo.) 1881-1939, 1898-08-06
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by an earthquake last week.
The secretary OF the interior Is ap-
pointing forest superintendents.
Twenty salmon fishers were drown
ed in recent storm of the mouth Of
the Fraser river.
General Wheeler informs his Ala
bama constituency that he is candi-
date for denomination.
In quarrel at Price. Utah, satur-
day night, Jack Watson was shot by
County Attorney Warf.
Admiral Dewey has been given the
degree of doctor OF laws by the UNI
versity of Pennsylvania.
The Illinois Board Of Arbitration has
decided the coal miners strike, but the
operators reject the decision.
General Shafter has issued an ad-
dress to his army extolling their brav-
cry in the Santiago campaign.
The Earl of Mlnto has been appoint
ed governor general of Canada in sue
cession to the Earl of Aberdeen.
James Eggleston of the Adams Ex-
press Company has been elected pres
ldent of the Pacific Express Company.
Spain. through the French ambassa-
dor, asked President Mckinley on the
26th, II he would consider peace pro
posals.
Levi u. Letter of Chicago has bor-
rowed S2,OO0,OoO on his real estate in
order to pay the debts of his son, the
wheat spcculator.
Six of the crew of the lost steam
ch t,nl
French court for trial at Havre on
charges of brutality.
The jury failed to agree and was
discharged in the case of Senator
Kennedy of wrecliing national bank
at Dover, Delaware.
City Surveyor Reid of Skaguay, who
killed "Soapy" Smith recently, re-
ceived n wound in the hand and may
die of blood poisoning.
The steamer Charles Nelson arrived
at Seattle from St Michael. Alaska,
Monday with 1T3 passengers and
about 81 100000 in gold.
Lewis Warner. formerly president of
n Northampton. Massachusetts savings
bank. who stole 100000, has been ar
rested ut Louisville, Kentucky.
The coal miners strike Mt Pana,
Illinois, continues to be attended by
scenes of violence, strikers beating
men who have taken their places.
Five men attempted to rob Santa
Fe train near Fort Worth Thursday
night. They We're chased Off by ofli-
GERS after having killed the engineer.
The first shipment of new war
bonds. amounting to S52O,O00, was
ts A he,
300, 900 persons made successful bids.
Spain has stated, through General
Toral, that she wants the Spanish
prisoners landed at Vigo Corunna, on
the Atlantic, and at Santander, in the
Bay of Biscay.
The Chicago Civic Federation has Is
sued n call for national conference at
Saratoga, New York, August 10th and
Goth, to consider the proper future for
eign policy of this country.
General Miles began 10 land his
troops on Porto Rican soil mt Guanica
on the 18th. There was slight resist
ance and forty Spaniards were killed
None of our men We're hurt.
One of the largest transfers of gold
ever made in New York city took
ion dollars We're transferred from the
clearing house to the sub-treasury.
The transport steamer Rio Janeiro
bearing two battalions of South Da-
kota volunteers, recruits for the Utah
Light artillery and a detachment of
the signal corps, sailed for Manila on
the 23rd.
Raiders dynamited two toll gates on
kentucky roads. The keepers were
warned that death would be their por.
tion If they made further efforts to col
lect toll. Guards viii be appointed fol-
both gates.
A dispatch to the LonCon Chronicle
from Shanghai says that Ii Houi, the
king of Corea desires to abdicnte and
to take refuge Mt the British consulate
at Seoul. The British consul, however
declines to receive him.
The Independent Republicans organ.
ization of the Thirty-fourth Assembly
district, New York city. has unani.
mously adopted resolutions favoring
the nomination of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt for governor of the state of
New York.
The town of Pugwash, / 200 inhab.
itants, a shipping port of considera.
BILE Importance in Nova Scotia, was
dwellings, five churches, twenty
stores, three hotels and several mills
being destroyed.
The British steamer ReguIus, of
about 800 tons, was captured by the
United States auxiliary gunboat Hawk
nineteen miles from Sagua Ia Grande,
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