Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-06-23
NEWS SUMMARY.

Premier Seldom explains that old-age
pensions granted in New Zealand for
the year to March 81, amount to e217,
252.
The trial of the proprietors of the
Klondike Nugget for libeling United
States Consul McCooz resulted in their
acquittal.
At North Yakima, Wash, the trial of
ex-City Treasurer Pressy on the charge
of emblezzing $4,000 resulted in his
acquittal
In FIJI, coolies are maintaining their
unpleasant record of crime. Several
murders have recently occurred on
sugar plantations.
A work man named Montag, living in
Manneheim, Baden, has succeeded in
manufacturing artificial coal from
earth and mineral substances.
A company has been formed in Bel
GUM for the purpose of developing the
Philippine islands, the capital stock
being fixed at 5000, 600 francs.
continuous series of earthquakes.
extending from Colon through the
Carribeas to Curacao and Marocaibo'
have been reported since the middle of
May.
The reply of the secretary of state
for the colonies, Mr.. Joseph Chamber
lain, to the petition of the Uitlanders,
has been officially communicated to the
South African league.
According to a general order issued
by the war department, sales may be
made on credit to officers and enlisted
men who have not been regularly paid
or who are in the field.
The navy department, it is stated
has no intention of relieving Admiral
Sampson of the command of the North
Atlantic station until he has completed
the usual tour of service.
Deplorable accounts of the drought
comes from central Rivera. There is
no water and no grass and absolute
y
are dying by the thousands.
masked man held up two bank
clerks near Kalgoorlie in west Austria
liza recently and robbed them of S25, 900
which they were taking from bank
TO the mines to pay off miners.
No official confirmation of the reach
ing of an agreement in London provid
ing for the temporary delimitation of
the Alaskan boundary has been re-
ceived at the state department
The Servian post at Papachtitda has
been plundered and burned and several
strategic positions are occupied by the
Turkish troops and Albanians. Great.
excitement prevails at Belgrade.
Bella Anderson, alias Carrie JONES',
pleaded guilty in the criminal branch
of the New York supreme court to the
Indictment for kidnapping Marian Clark.
She was remanded to the tombs.
Democrats who desire to nominate
General Joe Wheeler for governor of
Alabama, profess to find in the gen.
erals non committal attitude, hope
that he will accept the nomination.
Famine is more prevalent in the Ger
man possessions, East Africa, owing
to the drought which also prevails
alarmingly in the British protectorate.
Hundreds of women and children are
dying.
1t is announced semi-officially In
Berlin that any increase in the tax on
American bicycles is impossible, be-
cause the commercial treaties with
Austria, Russia and Italy exclude such
> thing.
From New Hebrides comes the re-
port that hostilities have broken out
1t Tanna. At Port Resolution there
lad been tribal war, during which
.wo women were reported to have been
murdered.
A corrected edition of the May state
nent of imports and exports of the
United States show that during the
ast eleven months the exports of
merchandise exceeded the im ports by
g. 452, 131.
Johnson's island, Lake Erie, which
vas famous as a prison for rebel
soldiers during the civil war, has just
'een sold at auction for S45, 600 The
sland lies in Sandusky bay, few
niles from the city of that name.
"Jue" Mullett, the Irish political