Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-01-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

one Jay announced 10 pSl,OVO.
Two boys, Martin and Hillery Mich
OILS, were killed at Fullerton, CAL, in a
gravel pit cave-in.
The trade of Santiago is already
showing a surprising growth under
American administration.
A Porto Rican census is being taken.
1t has begun in San Juan and it will
be made to cover the whole island.
The import of precious stones at the
port of New York the past year were:
Cut stones, So, Oa4, GIG; uncut, 81, 900, 993.
OF the paper issued by two banks in
Porto Rico there is outstanding little
over 81, 200, 900. All the paper will be
retired.
Advices from La Paz, capital Of b.
livia, say that combat is imminent
between the revolutionists and the
government troops.
Reports received from the interior of
the island of Cuba indicate the will
ingness of the insurgents to disband If
left to themselves
Prince Victor Napoleon, now in
Brussels, is represented as preparing
assiduously for coupe, which he is
fully resolved to execute.
General Ludlow is determined to
form rural mounted police OF 300 men
and to patrol the suburbs Of Havana
with Cuban soldiers.
The remaining Spanish troops will
be embarked from Matanzas and Glen
fuegos within q fortnight, and then
Gomez will come to Havana.
The German government first hopes
to reach a commercial provisorium with
the United States before a regular
reciprocity treaty is concluded.
Aguinaldo holds as prisoners 1900
Spanish troops, including two gener-
ais, forty staff officers and 400 superior
officers. He has 300 civilians.
General Brooke has declined pro-
posal to send a special convoy into the
woods to find Gomez and treat with
him as an equal power in the island.
According to Chinese report, secret
treaty exists between Great Britain
and the United States to prevent any
further alienation of Chinese territory.
A statement of the coinage of the
United States mint at Philadelphia for
the year 1898 shows that the output
for the year just ended was the largest
since 1890.
In San Francisco CAL, United States
Circuit Judge Morrow has decided that
the stamp tax on telegraph messages
must be paid by the sender and not by
the company.
The payment of troops is putting |
American money in circulation in Ha-
vana, but the complaint is made that
small change is lacking in all business
It is announced that the Kynock
company of BirmAngbam has COM
nenced making 10,0O0,0 900 cartridges
Tor the United States at the rate OF one
million weekly.
An American syndicate has obtained
The right to build road in Eucador con-
1ecting the seacoast belt with the rich
Interior, heretofore almost cut off from
he outside world.
By an explosion of gasoline the hard
ware store of Kiel & Son, Pemperville,
D., was badly wrecked and Augustus
ziel, the junior partner, so badly in
ured that he died in an hour.
Two bills have been introduced in
he house of the North Carolina legis-
ature requiring all railroads in the
tate to operate separate coaches for
White and colored passengers
Colonel Biddle says there were 5000
paniards and 400 Americans in Man
anzas when the American flag was
aised. There are now 1900 Ameri-
ans there and everything is quiet.
Charles A. Brewer, ex-postmaster Of
aulding, O., shot and killed his wife,
fter which he placed the revolver to
il own head and blew his brains out.
omestic incompatibility was the
luse Of the shooting.
General Polavieja, former governor ,
eneral of Cuba and the Philippine I
lands, and Senior Silvola, the con- {
rvative leader, have agreed upon the c