Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-04-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

adopted the new extradition treaty
with the United States.
Ii Hung Chang is said to be confer
ring with Marquis Ito of Japan regard
ing the trouble with Italy.
Numerous requests are received from
various districts in the island of Cuba
for implements and seed, not rations.
The session of the Pennsylvania gen.
eral assembly of 1899 has adjourned
after being in session little over three
months
The governor of Alabama has issued
q call for an extra session of the legis-
lature to repeal the constitutional
convention act.
Herr Polack, a well-known engineer
and electrician, has discovered means
of telegraphing 10000 words per hour
over a single wire.
General Henry, commanding the
department of Porto Rico. has asked
to be relived of his present duty on ac-
count of i'll health
The Minnesota legislature tabled the
governors message urging the recall
from the Philippines of the Thirteenth
Minnesota volunteers.
The stone reefs of Brazil are to be
mapped out and their relations to the
geological history of the South Ameri-
can continent will be studied.
Orders have been issued for the Ninth
immunes to return to the United States
by the steamer Meade via New York
for muster out at Camp Meade.
+; The Third Nebraska will be mus
tered out May IL at Augusta, Ga
Colonel Bryan will be invited to review
the regiment before it is disbanded.
According to statistics gathered re-
garding the bubonic plague it is esti-
mated there has been $500 deaths
recorded in India since its beginning.
The Tenth United States cavalry.
the colored regiment which did such
brilliant service in the Santiago cam
paign, is to have another tour of duty
in Cuba
Miss Dell Clevenger, who was shot
by her cousin, Ernest Clevenger, on
the night of December s. last, is dead
at Missouri City, No., of her wounds
Clevenger is in Jail.
The Naval Reserve association of
Illinois, veterans of the Spanish Ameri-
can war, have resolved to offer the
the Philippine islands.
After several conferences with the
minister from Venezuela, the United
States postoffice officials have entered
into an agreement for parcel postal
treaty with Venezuela
The farm on which Abraham Lin
coin was born. two miles south of |
KY, has been sold to |
David Grear of New York and will I
probably be converted into park
Simon Hotema, the full-blooded Choc-
tow Indian who was arrested on the /
charge of numbering a man and two
women last week near Cold Springs, L
T., has written confession of his guilt.
The municipal revenues of Santiago
have been reduced from $40, 900 to
], 900 per month, and there have been
similar reductions in other towns
works and schools must be stop
ped.
Governor-General Brooke. in the dis
ribution of the So, 900, 900 to the Cuban
has determined to treat the
5uban officers as soldiers and gentle
men and not endeavor to go behind the
oils.
At Carthage, No.. the jury in the suit
# Mrs Gilfllon against j. d. McCrills,
or SIS, 900 damages for the murder OF
Ter husband, rendered verdict for
:, 200 damages in favor of Mrs Gill
lllan.
Adolph Rehfold, the saloonkeeper
those place of business near the
reside was burned by a mob of SOL
iers belonging to the Fourteenth
United States infantry, has identified
our of the culprits.
A party of young men at Dalton,
linn, put lemon extract into the GIN j
er ale they were drinking and as re-
nit Duffy Riorson and Martin Dahl
70 dead, while several others were
,ade seriously sick.