Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-03
NEWS SUMMARY.

Indebtedness of Havana was SIP, 500, 900
The New Guinea legislative council
has decided to restrict Chinese immi
grafton.
The men of Porto Rico are not reli
gious. Only the women and children
attend church
The civil governorship of Jamaica il
to be abolished, as is also the office Of
colonial secretary.
Bad water is causing terrible NOR
tality among the Russian troops a,
Port Arthur. Average deaths, foul
daily.
Four men were badly burned, one
probably fatally, by the explosion of a
boiler in the basement of the Chicago
Tribune
Something like an expenditure OF
ten to twenty millions of dollars will
be necessary to make an ideal city OF
Havana.
Admiral Montejo, who was defeated
by Admiral Dewey at Cavite, will be
tried for the incompetent condition OF
his fleet.
President Diaz has appointed Eman-
uel Aspiraz, assistant secretary of for
eign relations, to be ambassador to
Washington.
Ross Leary and Andrew Griswold,
farmers from Hill county, were burned
10 death in the Commercial hotel at
Hillsboro, Texas.
The bulletin of the American Iron
and Steel association says the total
production of pig iron in 1898 was H.
773, 934 gross tons.
1t is reported in Madrid that the
court-martia] will exonerate General
Toral on the ground that he acted
under superior instructions.
The military government of Porto
Rico is thorough and active. The
whole island is effectively patrolled,
and quiet and order prevails in every
quarter.
While the Porto Ricans do not offer
the least resistance to the military
administration, they make no secret of
the fact that they do not desire it's
continuance.
General Lee has practically decided
to Hove a full brigade from it's present
camp near Havana to the hills of Can
della, close to Guines. The location is
unusually healthy.
The report of the disappearance alto
gether of Nets island from the chart
is confirmed. This island in 1880 was
$50 feet high, and there is no sign of it
now beyond reef.
Another earthquake was felt in the
district of Kyparissa on the gulf of
Arcandia recently, a number of houses
falling. The inhabitants of the region
are panic-stricken.
Pope Leo, according to the Rome
of the London Daily
Chronicle, contemplates a universal
jubilee in 1900 to mark the opening
Of the twentieth century.
Reports from Juneau say that new
AXE has been discovered a short dis
lance in the interior from Lynn canal.
It has been named Walker lake, after
it's discoverer, G. w. Walker.
On the question of declaring vacant
seats held by congressman holding out
side offices, fourteen of the seventeen
members of the judiciary committee
favor declaring these seats
vacant.
While Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Malley,
living on Cedar creek in Newton
Mo-, were at church their
three small children, whom they had
eft locked in the house at home, were
burned to death.
The newly organized American Beet
Sugar company, it is announced, will
lave capital of 100000 preferred
took and SIS, 900, 900 in common stock.
t will operate in the territory west of
he Mississippi river.
Theo Kirchner, aged 60 years, shot
ind instantly killed his wife, Paulina,
lged As years, in their house at New
onville, near Albany, n. Y. by the
areless handling of gun, which was
lccidently discharged.
The San Bruno hotel at San Fran
isco was burned and an aged cripple
net death in the flames. An eight
ear-old son of the landlord rescued a
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