Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-08-04
NEWS SUMMARY.


Arrivals at San Francisco from Cape
Nome declare that district rich in gold.
According to all accounts the expert
ment Of using native. troops In Porte
Rico has been successful.
Severe storms ragged off the Austria
liam coast during June and the early
days of the present month.
No more cases of rellow fever are
reported among the troops or govern
ment employees at Santiago.
Upon one scaffold and Simultaneous
ly. four negroes were hanged in the
Baltimore, Md, city jail yard.
There were 253 cases and 121 deaths
from the plague at Poona, India, on
the Goth ult The cases include four
Europeans.
Officials of organized labor in Chi
cago state that the brickmalxers strike
is likely to precipitate general walk
out in the city
The secretary of agriculture has de-
cided to change regulations recently
issued for the free admission of cattle
into Cuba next year.
Samson, an emissary seeking miners
for Missouri and Indian Territory coal
fields, was fatally stabbed in the coal
fields.
L. l.. Stocking, assistant postmaster
at Tacoma. Wash, has been appointed
assistant director-general of posts at
Manila. He will be next in rank to
D;rector-GeneralV aille
mortgage for $4,000, 900 given by
the writing paper trust required inter
nal revenue stamps to the amount of
$500, which were placed upon it and
cancelled.
Jeffords, the San Francisco heavy
weight pugilist, who is now in Port
land, Ore, has practically concluded
negotiations for fight with Peter jack
son, who is now in Victoria, b. G.
The anthracite companies announce
that all orders for coal at prices prior
to July l. not filed on July 81, will
be filed at an advance of 25 cents per
ton which will then go into effect
Twelve Spanish gunboats recently
put on blockade duty have done re-
marlSably good service in cutting off
supplies for insurgents between the
different islands of the Philippine
group.
1t is the intention of the war depart
ment to send all cavalry horses to the
Philippines by way of Unalaska and
Nagasaki so that they may be taken
off the ships at both these places and
given rest.
James M. Garlinton, alias Darling
ton, was hanged at Fort Worth. Tex.
Darlington was the leader of band
who on the night of July 81, 1898, rob-
bed Santa Fe railroad train near
Sawinaw.
BY the assassination of President
Heaureux of San Domingo. Cuba may
lose one of its central figures. as it is
we'll known that General Maxine Go ,,
mez aspires to the presidency of the
black republic.
Albert Ballinger. who is in the re- t
,eiving hospital, San Francisco await
ng examination as to his sanity, is I'M
Ter confinement because of his wild :,
vooing of Blanche Bates, the San ;,
Francisco actress. .
At Westchester, Pa, revolving muir d
Ter has come to light. 1t is alleged c
drs. Fannie Stevenson, colored, n
nd then threw the body to some hogs l
which devoured it. II
Charles Walfangle, of Brazil, Ind,
ecame suddenly violently insane and d
With Ratchet chopped his two daught- Il
RS and wife to death while they were
leeping. He then took a knife and Z
ut his own throat. p
General Roy Stone, director of road =
,qury of the apartment of Agricul- =
nre at Washington, who is in New ;,
ork, says that more activity is being
ispayed in road improvement than
as been shown for years :,
The Privy council of England has y
ecided in the case of Briden VS.. the !,
MON Colliery company that the prov :,
ice of British Columbia has not the cl