The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1899-03-11
NEWS SUMMARY.


The mayor and majority Of the mu-
niciPal council of San Juan, Porto Rico,
have rendered their designations.
Upon the recommendation Of Major
General Brooke, the withdrawal of
American troops from Cuba has been
postponed.
The Paris correspondent of the Lon
don Daily News expresses the opinion
that the Dreyfus affair FASTENED M.
Faure's end.
The Republicans in the Spanish
chamber have decided to begin at once
an energetic campaign against the
government.
The inquest into the death of Mrs.
Kate j. Adams will continue in New
York this week. Cornish will again be
put on the stand.
The imports of dry goods and gen.
eral merchandise at New York for the
week ending Saturday, February 1s,
were valued at So, zoe, BAL.
A woman who registered as Mrs. T.
w. Jones, Seattle, committed suicide
in room at the Imperial hotel, Port
land, Or. She was temporarily insane.
1t is not the intention of General
Otis and Admiral Dewey to establish
garrisons for the present at other
towns in the Philippines except Manila,
Iloilo and Cebu.
All the surviving captains of Span
Ssh warships destroyed in the naval
battles off Santiago de Cuba and in
Manila bay by the Americans will be
eourt-martialed.
One of Admiral Dewey's ships will
soon go to the extreme south of the
archipelago to secure the alliance of
the Sultan of Sulu, and to report on
harbors of that miniature group.
The London Standards Berlin cor
respondent says that no request from
America for the recall of the German
officials in Samoa has been received in
Berlin and that none is expected.
There is a scarcity of supplies at
Rampant City and Fort Hamilton,
Alaska, but there is no fear of seri-
GUS shortage, The stock of butter and
sugar will need careful outstanding.
The trial by court-martial of Major
Edward Wilson on the charge of for
gerry and embezzlement, is being held
in Santiago. The general opinion is
that Major Wilson is out of his mind.
Senior Montero Rios, who was presi-
ident of the Spanish peace commission,
has resigned the presidency of the
senate, owing to the popular cutlery
against his defense of the commission.
According to the Rome correspon-
dent of the London Telegraph, the Duo
d'Orieans, realizing the impossibility
of anything favorable to him happen
ing in France, has left Turin for Milan.
The movement recently started to
form a gigantic combination of all the
leading glass, pressed and tableware
manufacturers of the country is ex-
pected to be contaminated at an early
date
During the calendar year 1898 the
number of cars loaded with goods ship
ped through the United States from
one point in Canada to another was
1896, the contents of which weighed
2O9, 900 tons.
Admiral Dewey will send ship to
explore the comparatively undeveloped
island of Palawan, in the China sea,
which many naval officers say will turn
out to be the most important island in
the Philippines.
The st. James Gazette, London, COM
menting on the high joint commission,
says: 1--WE wish for the friendship of
the United States, but we cannot have
it at the price of the sacrifice of the
interests of Canada"
Exports of gold and silver from the
port of New York to all countries for
the past week aggregate $94O, $50, sill
yer bars and coin, and $11, 900 gold.
The imports of specie last week were
$S2o,6o1 in gold and S5s, 34s in silver.
Representative Bland of Missouri has
introduced a resolution providing that
the government should take immedi-
ate steps to take care of the graves of
Confederate dead, in accordance with
the suggestion of President McKin-
ley.