Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-02-10
NEWS SUMMARY.

w. v. Cobb, United States consul at
Colon, Colombia, is dangerously i'll.
Agoncillo. the representative of
General Aguinaldo has fed to Canada.
Foreign wheat shipments from Port
land for the past week were s24, 272
bushels
At Los Barrios, near Cadiz, Spain,
several persons were injured by
tornado.
At Cairo all the powers have agreed
to prolongation of the mixed tribun-
ais for one year.
San Francisco Office for the month of
January amounted to S249, 708.
Owing to threatened rioting among
natives, soldiers have been sent from
Kingston, Jamaica, to Barbados.
Ten thousand rebels are besieging
Shu Shau, the third most important
city in the province of Anhoui, China
San Francisco is to have worlds
fair in 1901 1t is to be known as the
Pacific Ocean and international expo
sition.
In consequence of the disturbance at
Algiers the project of police has sus-
pended the mayor and municipal
council.
To
key have been matched to box six
rounds in Chicago on the night of
March z.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin has been SEN
fenced the term of her natural life. in
the San Quentine, CAL, penitentiary,
for the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunn
ing.
j. H. Miles, president of the Fremont
Hot Springs company of Wyoming,
has gone east to press his offer OF
100000 for the Sharkey Fitzsimmons
fight.
The Winnemucca Silver State, New
lands organ, announces that he is now
a candidate for Jones's seat as United
States senator from Nevada four years
hence.
1t is rumored the troops of Major
Lothaire, the Belgian commander on
the Upper Congo. have Joined the reb-
els and that he himself is wounded and
a prisoner.
a span of the bridge over the Mis-
owing to contraction due to the cold
Patrick Curry was injured and four
horses were killed.
The Chinese foreign Office has agreed
to pay $780, 900 to the relatives of the
murdered British missionary, Mr..
Fleming. In addition, two of the MUIR
derers have been beheaded.
Senator Proctor has returned to Ha-
vana from Pinar del Rio. He found
$500 insurgents there, of whom l, 400
were doing rural police duty, for
which they had received no pay.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, the retiring
American ambassador to Russia, who
was recently appointed United States
secretary of interior, has arrived in
London on his way to Washington.
The Alabama house of representa-
tives has, without a dissenting vote,
adopted resolution that the national
flag be hoisted over every schoolhouse
in the state and be kept floating there.
The recent action of the Canadian
government against alien miners will,
it is said, prevent about 1000 Americans
from going to the Klondike next year
who have already made preparations
for the trip.
1t has been announced that the pro-
jected visit of Prince and Princess Hen
ry of Prussia to japan has been aband-
oned, the japanese government having
intimated its inability TO guarantee their
personal safety.
The monthly comparative statement
of collections of internal revenue
shows that the total receipts for De-
cember, 1898, were s22, 1872, s91, an in
crease, as compared with December.
1897, of 81, s19, 2o9.
The Spanish government Sunday
night had no news of the conflict at
Manila. 1t was said in Madrid that
the government of Spain will ''act in
the most correct manner and scrnpu-
eously respect the treaty of Paris"
The town of Stilesboro, Ga, was
nearly wiped out of existance Sunday