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

DhOo dhu ny lis Wllcs MAJ
Ross, in the course of quarrel.
The exports of specie from New York
for the past week aggregate 1896, IA
of which 1882, 04S was silver and S54, O96
gold.
The Duke de ARGOS, the newly APP
pointed Spanish minister to the United
States, will leave for the United States
next week.
A family of four, living on the Dodge
ranch near Mount Vernon, S. D., were
frightfully burned, one fatally, by q
prairie fire.
Three thousand recruits and twenty
officers will be concentrated at the
Preside Immediately. One thousand
are there now.
In Dayton, Ohio, Murderer Kirves
has been declared sane and will now
be sent to the electrict chair for kill
ing his own child.
Secretary Alger will be a candidate
before the next Michigan legislature
for United States senator to succeed
Senator Mcmillan.
The British government will not
take any share in the Pacific cable, but
will contribute a sum not less than
ego, 900 sterling annually.
A fire at Sebastapol, CAL, destroyed
Chinatown, consuming fifty houses
and causing loss of 100000. One Chi
nese was burned to death.
Treasury receipts for April fell $751;
400, 900 below those for March, while
the expenditures were S22, 800, 900 more
than those of the previous month.
The following customs and taxes
were collected at the ports mentioned
during April: Manila, S457, 002 Ilollo,
S45, 534; Cebu, 3O,577; total, S533.293.
1t is stated that eighteen of the
judges of the French court of cas-.
sation are in favor of, and fifteen OPP
posed to revision of the Dreyfus case.
One thousand of the small army OF
Manila recruits assembled at the Pre-
side viii leave this month en- the three
transports, the Grant, Sherman and
Sheridan.
At Fresno, CAL, Internal Revenue
Collector Griffin, has seized about
5000 contraband cigars that have been
sent there by Jacobs & Kendig of Ian.
caster, Pa.
Advices from Bluefields, Nicaragua.
indicate that the situation there, sc
far as American interests are con
cerned, is extremely discouraging and
unsatisfactory.
The conductors, engineers and fire.
men of the Santa Fe Pacific threaten
to go out on a strike because of the
new schedule of wages. which cuts
them 20 per cent.
In Dallas, Tex, Tom Robertson was
hanged at Hillsborro, for assault. He
claimed to be innocent. The mother
of his victim was present and wanted
to pull the rope.
AS result of an expedition of the
Dominion police against the obstrep-
erous Indians at st. Regis, one Indian
was killed, two were seriously wound
ed and four arrested.
For April the government receipts
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including the payment to Spain. were
SOS, 1854, 900, showing a deficit for the
month of s24, 942, 421.
News has been received of the assas,
sination in Van Buren, county, Ark.
of the son of Hugh Patterson, who
was murdered in December, 1897. by
Lee Mills and Hugh Hardin.
The American interests in Bluefelds
Nicarauga alone now aggregate fully
50, 900, 900 in gold, and the state de
partment is demanding that they shall
be protected against extortion.
Charles McCulloch, farm laborer,
was shot and killed by Mrs. Eunice
Brown at her farm, south of Canton.
o. The woman claims McCulloch as,
saulted her and she shot him in self
defense.
The Baptist Church in Atlanta, the
largest church of that denomination
In the South, but recently constructed.
was entered Sunday night and consid-
erably damaged by vandals. The pas
tor had denounced the recent lynch.
.ngs.