Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

against the Spanish Bank of Cuba
collecting taxes
Albert j. Beveridge, Republican, has
been elected to the United States SEN
ate from indiana
In Chicago John Diethloff shot his
wife, after quarrel. He then shot
himself twice. Both died.
Investigation shows that reports of
threatened uprising of the Indians
of the Northern Cheyenne are unbound
ed
Francis Marion Cockrel has been re-
elected to his fifth term in the United
States senate by the Missouri legis-
lature.
Reports from Pinar del Rio say that
the province is being ravaged by the
bandits, who have broken away from
the insurgent forces.
A boycott war is waging among the
Havana newspapers. The Cuban jour
nalists are trying to GUST the former
organ of Spanish opinion.
About 22O miners in the employ of
the Little Pittsburg Coal company,
at Lingo, Macon county, Mo-, are out
on strike for higher wages.
Dennis Carly, while drunk, shot and
killed his aged mother at Mahony
City, Pa, and then attempted to COM
NIT suicide by shooting himself.
The Rome correspondent of the Lon
don Times, referring to the rumor that
Italy is about to seize port in China,
says he believes it absolutely devoid of
foundation.
During the past eighteen months
American promoters have sold to Brit
ish buyers S11, 900, 900 worth of mining
property in the Rossland, B. c., min
ing camp.
James Walsh, an old man, was struck
by an engine in the yards at Cheyenne
and received a broken leg and arm and
internal injuries which will probably
result fatally.
The citizens of Santa Clara City object
to having the capital of the province
removed to Cienfuegos and propose ap-
pealing To President Mckinley against
the suggested change;
The American government is now
building and equipping railroad in
Cuba, 100 men being at work. At
least 300 more will be given employ
ment as soon as possible.
The whole remaining force of Ahmed
Fedil, the only unconquered Dervish
chieftain, numbering about 1000 men,
has surrendered to the British on the
Blue Nile. Fedil escaped.
The mysterious disappearance of Mrs.
Rosie Gagne, an alleged heiress, and
the seventeen-year-old bride of George
Gagne, professional bondsman, is
puzzling the police of Chicago.
The London Times, discussing edit
orally Anglo-French relations, hints
that France will be offered concessions
in Madagascar as a set-of to the
French shore rights in Newfoundland.
Germany, it is understood, is not
likely to propose a conference as to
Samoan affairs, but the government
will readily consent to enter con-
ference if the United States proposes
one.
An Agrarian revolt is in full Swing
in the Arad district, Hungary. Fierce !
conflicts have taken place, in which |
sixteen rebels and ten soldiers have |
spreading.
There is not single case of yellow
fever in Major General Lees camp at
Havana The two suspected cases in
the Second Texas regiment have been
as typhoid and pneumonia,
respectively
Henry Hoyt, assistant United States
has been ordered by
the department of justice to go to
Santiago and advise with General
Leonard Wood on legal questions
which may arise.
The treasury department has given
to the custom officials of
Skaguay to stop the transportation of
liquor under convoy from Canadian
ports through the White Pass to the
Northwest territory.
In Colon, Colombia, the strike of
lock La horers Is fast assuming a veru