Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-03-31
NEWS SUMMARY.

nificance.
In Cincinnati the Morris Foundry
company has advanced the wages of its
employees 10 per cent.
The strike on the White Pass railroad
is ended, and nearly all of the strikers
have returned to work.
obtaining commercial footing in Tur-
key and the east generally.
Don Carlos, the Spanish pretender,.
expected to issue manifesto at an
early date regarding the plans for the
future.
The Cuban army has 1929 men all
told. This number includes corporals
and sergeants, but excludes command
officers.
Nantuck, one of the four Stick In
dams under sentence to be hanged for
the murder of William Mean one year
ago, died in Jail at Dawson.
Missionary Parsons of the China Mis-
sion society was attacked by imperial
soldiers, while en- route from Chung
King to Paoning last month.
During the absence of John Dian and
wife from their farm near Winnipeg,
Man, their residence caught fire and
their five children were cremated.
The riots which occurred between the
reform and conservative elements OF
Korea have subsidized. The reformists
were victorious in large measure.
Arrangements are being made for a
reunion to be held at Guthrie, o. T.. in
June next, of the rough riders who
fought in the battles about Santiago.
The emperor of Korea has caused
sensation by appearing in full uni
form cut in American fashion. His
attendants have also been attired in
American style.
Preparations are being made by Chief
Wilkie of the secret service to destroy
81, 221 ,3O6,2 worth of counterfeit coin
and bogus notes, which have been ac-
cumulated by his bureau.
For the eight months of the present
fiscal year the total receipts from in
ternal revenue sources were SITS, 1885,
6S4; increase as compared with the
same period of 1898, sos, 299,05s.
AT McKeesport. Pa, Frederick t.
Clark shot and fatally wounded his
wife at the home of his mother-in-law,
Mrs. Richard Moyle, and then killed
himself Mrs. Clark recently applied
for divorce.
The English merchants have been
startled by the heavy inroads being
made by the Americans into their trade
with the British colony of Capetown,
and there is much talk of a combination
to repress this.
Near Oregon, Mo-, Samuel Grow,
aged 76 years, an eccentric character,
was murdered while asleep by robbers,
who beat his head to pulp with an
AK handle. Robbery is said to have
been the motive.
1t is said that about twenty tons of
mail matter bearing American stamps
is piled up in heaps at Skaguay, the
Canadian contractors refusing to handle
mail matter that does not bear the
Canadian postage.
Sung Kuang, controller of the house
hold, has been restored to favor by the
empress dowager of China, and all his
honors and titles handed back to him.
and Wal Ten, the censor, is now per-
mite to wear his peacock feather.
A dispatch to the Paris Eclair from
Toulon says that the experiments made
there with armor-piercing shells have
conclusively demonstrated the posi-
bility of shell piercing warship's
armor and exploding inside the ship.
The agreement reached between Mr..
Rhodes and the German government
includes the erection by the Trans
African Telegraph company of second
wire through German territory for the
exclusive use of the German govern
ment.
Frank Kinahan, an electrician, was
killed in street duel with two I'M
known men. Over twenty shots were
exchanged Kinahan before dying
acknowledged that he knew his assail-
ants but refused to divulge their
names.
Information has been received from
Sierra Leone, on the west coast of At
RIGA, that two daughters Of an Ameri-