Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-05-26
NEWS SUMMARY.

y passed finally it's bill fixing pc,
ut tax on all personal incomes in ex
bs Of s., 900.
The industrial commission will heal
more witnesses It'll the 9th of June
Zen the investigation of the sugar
nst will be begun.
Fred Burt, farmer near Langdon,
Y, shot and fatally wounded his
nr-year-old son Clinton, and blew
{ his own brains.
Chairman Aldrich of the senate COM
ttee on finance will call meeting
the committee, to be held in Wash
gton early in June.
The cost of the proposed Nicara-
ian waterway, which is pronounced
)tirely feasible by the commission, is
>w fixed at 1925, 900, 900.
Complying with an earnest request
members. Senator Kyle has with
avn his resignation as chairman OF
e industrial commission.
DIR. Edmond, member of posse,
liking Bill Watson, notorious horse
ief, was shot and killed by the latter
brthwest of Shawnee, Okla.
QJohn H. Englis, formerly president
the Vallabout bank, Brooklyn, was
bbed in the neck by Christopher
kly, beggar. The wound is a severe
e.
The government of Nicaragua has
blished declaration to the effect
me laws and duties as the rest of the
gate.
4 Lieutenant-Colonel Edward ]. Nc
Uernand assistant adjutant-generaD
Us been appointed to Matanzas, Cuba,
= adjutant-general of that depart
ment.
The army transport service has be-
Iome recently of such Importance that
Ne secretary of war has decided that
+ is entitled to the dignity of dis
anctive flag.
John Mclean, representing a New
Fork and London Cuban association,
3as been authorized to make surveys
md estimates for railroad from Ha-
Iana to Guines.
Il Aee;.+o,+ cao~atorv Cpo1dinr has
Ield that Japanese seamen may land
b the United States without the exam
nation required in the case of mani
|ested emigrants-
At the request Of the secretary OF the
Interior, Secretary Alger has agreed to
rider troops to the Moqui Indian res
rvation in Arizona, to force the In
|ians to submit to vaccination.
At Charlotte, N. c., Charles Jackson
vas hanged for criminal assault COM
pitted on young white girl last Sep
ember. He made a five minutes
peech protesting his innocence.
The Commercial Cable company has
Issued the following notice.: eve are
dvised that cable commun ication be-
ween uoilo and Bacalod, Philippine
Stands, has been reestablished.
Enrique Garay, the wholesale hard
rare merchant of Havana, in whose
l, 800 Mausers, bought of the
parish, were found few days ago,
as been required to surrender them.
Charles Farris, company II, Third U. |
. Volunteer engineers, who was found
utility by court-martiali in Santiago de
uba and sentenced to be shot, had his |
sntence committed to life imprison-
lent.
Gustav Book of Hayana, is in New
ork City arranging the union OF his |
'bacco syndicate with the newly
,rmed Havana Commercial company,
which f. Garcia is the leading
brit.
The Phoenix Bridge company, whose
orks are located at Poenixville, Pa,
rs been awarded the contract for six
iditional steel bridges by the Russian
,vernment for use on the great trans
berian railroad.
In Enid. Okla, negro cakewalk at
70 opera-house broke up in riot be-
veen whites and blacks. Three white
en- we're hurt, four negroes fatally
I'd several others seriously injured.
fly shots were fred.
A st. Louis policeman found Willie
anters, nine-year-old boy, crying