Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-11-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

extended tour OF inspection OF the army
posts Of the West
The firm OF Mitsui g. Co of Japan il
considering plan TO establish new
trans-Pacifc steamship line.
Count Torransz, governor OF the Bank
of Spain, has been appointed minister
Of justice in succession of Senior Duran
The Rio Grand river is on a boom,
and is threatening the buildings a,
Fort Brown. Tex.
Colonel Pondo has been elected
President of Bolivia, in succession to
Senior Severe Fernandez Alonzo.
The President has appointed Edward
+. Kingsbury of Centralia, Wash, to
be surveyor-general at Olympia, vice
MacMicken, dead.
Secretary Long will, IL is said, make
= recomme ndation foe but limited in
crease OF the new navy in his forthcom-
ing annual report
Buckner Mckee, prominent farmer,
and Mrs. John Wilson, a widow, were
found dead by the roadside near Law
renceburg. KY, Saturday.
The engineers reports confirmed the
previously reported discovery of extern
sive and commercially available coal
beds in the State Of Puebla. Mexico.
Gen. Otis has notified the War de-
partment of the arrival at Manila of
the transports Sheridan and Elder. The
former carried the Thirtieth volunteers.
At Tucson, Ariz, AL Ezekiels shot and
killed c. c. Rasmussen, a well known
contractor, because the latter had
Ezekiels elected from house rented
from Rasmussen.
Brigadier-General Frederick Funston
is to be breveted major-general and
Colonel Wilder b. II. Metcalf of the
Twentieth Kansas is to be breveted
brigadier-general by the President.
Maj. Gen. Miles, commanding the
army, has submitted to the secretary
Of war his annual report on the con-
diton and needs of the army. The re-
port il very brief and rather formal.
The French Cabinet has approved the
text OF a bill granting trades unions the
same status as AN individual citizen and
enacting privileges and penalties to
secure the free working of such bodies.
The Alaska Territorial convention
adopted n memorial to Congress, and Sc
lected John q. Price of Skaguay rs a
to go to Washington, d.
c., in the intrest OF the people OF Alaska
The hospital at Sagua la Grande,
Cuba, collapsed Saturday, having been
by floods from the recent
heavy rains. az the fourty two limit ss !
four were killed and twenty-seven in
jurcd.
In Peoria, ILL.,. Saturday, Fred Patee,
president OF the Patee Bicycle company
and ex-chief consul of the Illinois d.
vision of the l.. A. W., was sentenced
10 five yeaas in the penitentiary for
forgery.
Paris, Mo-, grand jury has returned
IN indictment for murder. in the first
iegree against Alexander Jester, on the
'haree of numbering Gilbert Gates, son
u Chicago millionaire, twenty-eight
ears ago.
1t is learned that owing to tho tenn
'orary character of the settlement of
he Alaskan boundary question there
viii be no meeting of the Canadian
|oint High commission in the immedi-
tie future. r
1t Is positively stated at the war de-
'artment that 90 decision has been
cached in reference to the vacant
rig adler gencralship in the regular
resulting from General
hafter's retirement.
Mrs. Mary Ruby, sister OF Kit Carson.
he famous scout, is dead at Warrens-
urg, Mo-, OF apoplexy. She was born
a an Indian fort near Boouebore.
Toward county, and during the eighty
even years OF her life was never out
I the State OF Missouri Mrs. Ruby
'as the last member of the kit:carson :
amily. o
Colonel John h. Yates, who died ut !
mesburg. Ont. last week was GO years
Id. He had fine record as colonel
the First Michigan engineers. The
sgiment was the main reliance of
eneral sherman for bridge building :
nring his march from Atlanta TO the !.