Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-09-04
NEWS SUMMARY.

srs have visited Alaska this year.
Henderson Pierson, living near Dav-
export, Texas, in a fit of jealousy, shot
and killed his wife and her mother.
There have been several cases of
bubonic plague recently at Palermo
and Naples, three or four ending
fatally.
The total number of buildings de-
stroyed by the Victor, Colo, fire is 500.
Total loss about sl,75o.OO0; insurance
$500, 900.
The number killed by the hurricane
in Porto Rico is 1913, missing 1000,
houses destroyed, 6,42l. persons home
less 22,o46.
st. Paul, Mimi, Globe advocates the
nomination of Admiral Dewey for
president by the next Democratic ma
tional convention.
Fourteen fishermen camping on Wan
island, near the mouth of the Neuse
river, n. c., during recent storm
were drowned.
John and Jay Saunders, colored,
were killed and four other negroes
wounded at Parsons camp ground,
Kentucky, in fight.
The London Church Missionary so
ciety has received a report stating that
10000 persons have died of famine on
l the oact cooef If fr-iro
From most parts of England reports
state that the wheat crops are being
gathered in fine condition. 1t is con-
sidered the best crop for years past
The steamship City of Columbia has
been abandoned at sea in a water
logged condition and her crew of
thirty-eight men are now in Honolulu
Until quite recently man to hold
Office in the Transvaal must have re-
sided there fourteen years and be at
the same time a member of the
Dutch church.
At the Berkeley Oval, New York
City, George Scheiber and Frank Kra-
mer lowered the quarter-mile tandem
bike record. They covered the dis
lance in % rs seconds.
In Havana the Masons have been
asking for an increase of wages
About 4, 600 workers held conference
at which strike was agreed upon.
Nine thousand are idle
The Echo Agricolo, Paris, states that
several estimates of the wheat crop
have already been given, varying from
ITO, 600, 900 to $50, 900, 900 hectols-3s,-
600, 900 to "A, 700, 900 quarters
Isis the quartermaster departments
intention to have not only the first ten
regiments afioat for the Philippines
by the last of October. but also those
to be raised under the last order.
mission of Russian engineers and
their escorts was recently attacked by
Chinese brigands at Kirin, on the
China-Ru frontier, on the main
Manchuria railway. All were massa-
cred.
A shooting affray growing out of the
old row between cattlemen and sheep
men occurred on the range southwest /
of Chadron, Neb.. when George Coil, 4
sheepherder, instantly killed Thomas
Ryan, cattleman.
Miss Viola Horlocker, who is under
SOS, 900 bonds to appear in Hastings, 1
Neb., next month to answer to the
charge of poisoning, is patient at
Oak Lawn sanitarium, Jacksonville,
Ill, under the name of Miss Allen.
A cable dispatch has been received
at the war department from General
Davis, giving additional details of the
conditions in Porto Rico. He places
the number of killed at l, 900, and reit-
crates his estimate of 100, 600 destitute.
James Birch was shot and killed by
Patrolman G. NJ. Warren at Birch's
home. Indianapolis, Ind. Before he
was killed Birch shot the policeman
twice, making serious but not neces-
sarily fatal wounds He resisted ar
rest
The bonds of Daniel Coughlin,
with jury-bribing in Chicago,
and at present a fugitive, and those of
his co-conspirator, William Armstrong.
have been declared forfeited Cough
Inns bonds were $4,000; Armstrong;