Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1898-09-23
NEWS SUMMARY.

General Joe Wheeler will resign his
command early next month and return
to congress.
Under the Anglo-German agreement
Delagoa bay was ceded to Great Britain
commercially and not politically.
Two men were burned to death. and
seven buildings, valued at $50, 900. de-
stroyed in fire at Elmwood, N. Y.
Charles II. Cadwallader, the Indiana
bank wrecker, has been arrested in
California, and will be taken back for
trial
The Michigan NJ E. conference, in
session at Lansing, has adopted reso--
lutions pledging the brethren to pro-
hibition.
DIR. Henry Otto Claus, 70 years of
age, committed suicide at New York
by shooting. He had large practice
and was worth $500 900.
AS result of the British protest, the
Tsung Lii Yamen has authorized the
conclusion of the Niu Chwang railway
loan with British syndicate.
The yellow fever epidemic in the
south is gaining Roadway. Over 100
cases are reported in Mississippi. The
death rate is greater than last year.
Mccoy has refused to hold any fur
ther conference with Corbett and his
managers, relative to the change of
date and place of meeting with Cor
bett.
The Twelfth infantry, 670 officers
and men, has arrived at Jefferson Bar
racks, near st. Louis, and will be sta
toned at that point until further
orders.
The British steamer Mount Tabor,
from Iloilo for Liverpool, has been
abandoned on fire off the island of
Socotra. The British steamer Telena
landed the crew.
Edam Pashan, the Turkish COVER
nor at Crete, has had a proclamation
publicly read sayin G that by order of
the sultan all arms must be surren-
dered to the committee formed for that
purpose.
1t has been recommended that mos
quito bar head nets and buckskin
gloves be made a part of the regular
equipment of the men in the army who
are to go to Cuba, Porto Rico and the
The steam schooner Excelsior
reached Seattle from Copper River,
Alaska, with 200 prospectors who failed
to find gold. They report that the
gunboat Wheeling will bring down $50
destitute men from Copper River.
George Bartlett, who shot and killed
James Motfat and mortally wounded
Warren Richmond at Pittston, Pa,
has surrendered to the officers He
claims to have no recollection of the
being drunk at the time
ex-governor Buren, R. Sherman. of
Iowa, speaking of the Omaha exposi-
tion, said: II was much surprised, L
must confess. 1t is very much big
ger show than Expected. One is most
lgreeably disillusioned when he com
oares the Exposition with the Worlds
Fair. The Omaha fair compares ex-
remely WELL
Mrs. Woodward, a wealthy woman
If the laity of the NJ. E. conference,
las signed deed conveying property
n the city of Seattle, Wash, valued at
'ver s75, 600, to Bishop Hurst in trust
or the California conference. The in
ONE from the property will, under
ertain conditions, be given to the Uni
ersity of the Pacific.
The London News, in an editorial
rticle, says: 1.-The Philippines are Nc
linleys old man of the sea and the
nere cooling of the annexation senti-
lent will not shake him OFF. Aguin-
Idols message to the Associated Press
scouched in the language of suspic-
ously Pathological protestation, and
ONES rather late in the day. Aguin-
lido himself could hardly expect his
ersion to be preferred to that of Gen
raj Otis"
Captain Allyn Capron. First Artil-
Try, is dead. Captain Capron was born
, Florida and entered the military
nademy as = csdet in 1853. After
raduating he was made second lieu
'nant of the First artillery on the 18th
Jane, 1867, and was an officer of that
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