Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-04-07
NEWS SUMMARY.

HSonSiiio uecldres tndL the war Will
not end while single Filipino remains
1t is now believed that eighty lives
were lost when the steamer Stella went
down
Major-Gcneral Otis thinks the insur-
gents can be subdued within three
months.
During the month of March $4,000
troops were landed in the United States
from Cuba.
Germany is said to be concentrating
a fleet at Annoy, with the intention OF
Selling Futsien, China.
News of the massacre of twenty-nine
farmers by aborigines at Byorsetsu,
Japan, has been received.
AtSparta, Mich, Leon Cram, aged 1s,
during quarrel, killed Falma Nelson,
comrade, by blow with his fist.
The war department is perfecting a
plan to use native troops if possible in
lighting Aguinaldo during the rainy
season.
Foreign business houses lost over
81 900, 900 by the destruction of Iloilo by
the Filipinos before General Miller cap
tured the city.
Mr.. Robert P. Porter, before leaving
Berlin, discovered that German beet
sugar cannot be manufactured under
cents pound.
Dispatches from Toxic to japanese
coast papers charge Americans with
shooting down men, women and child
rem in the Philippines.
The congress of Ecuador has just
enacted law which within two years
will place the monetary system of that
country on a gold basis.
The monthly statement of the treas
ury shows exceptionally heavy receipts
and material decrease in the expen-
ditures for the month of March.
The Norwegian government has is
sued an order prohibiting Swedish
officers from inspecting forts or wit
Messing the drill of troops in Norway.
Judges of the supreme court of Ha-
waii in decision declare that private
corporations have not the authority to
condemn government land for their
own use
Ostriches may yet be raised in Brit
ish Columbia. j. M. Robinson, who has
founded little colony of Manitobians
at Peachland, in the Okanagan valley,
will attempt it.
Oscar Straus, the United States min
lister to Turkey, had an audience with
the Sultan Saturday. The interview,
which was protracted, was of the most
cordial character.
1t is announced that the Paris Fig
arc, which is publishing daily the evil
dence before the criminal chamber of
the court of cessation in the Dreyfus
affair, will be prosecuted.
The fearful ravages of the Yellow |
river flood have caused terrible misery
and great discomfort in the province Of
Shantung, and the native officials have |
been unable to maintain order.
The April report of the Orange-Judd
Farmer makes the general winter
wheat average S2.1 compared with SO
asst year. 1t is the lowest average
since the beginning of service in 1894.
The Argentine government has re-
'olved to send note to w. T. Buchan-
IN, the american Minister, thanking
lin for his cooperation in the settle
nent of the Puma de Atacama question.
The Hongkong auth critics are press
ng for an extension of territory coded
o Great Britain by the treaties of Can
on and Marking, on the ground that
nore land is needed for government
buildings
Official circles in Rome say that Italy
nd Great Britain have arrived At an
greement, which will result in an
Italian occupation of San Nun bay,
royince of Chikiang, China, before
Ipril 25.
The marriage law of Porto Rico have
cen modified SO that authority is given
, ministers of all faiths to perform
Marriages, and the fees have been
polished where the ceremony is be-
,re civil magistrate.
Dispatches from Rasjiboulit, on the