Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-07-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

Ex-Secretary john Sherman is dali.
improving in health.
The state department is watching
with anxiety the developments Il
Guatemala.
A scheme to establish negro colony
At Oak Grove, near Pennington, N. j.
is assuming form
The report that the king of Belgium
would visit Newport is discredited in
official quarters in Washington.
The loss of cotton crop by food in
the Brazos bottom, Texas, will be 20O,-
900 bales, representing s5,OOo.O0O.
The drought is still terrible in the
pastoral company of New South Wales
Fifty per cent Of the stock are dead.
Five thousand refugees in Salvador
and as many more in Mexico and Hon
duras are ready to take up arms against
Cabrera.
At Fort Smith, Ark, ten of the strik-
ing miners were convicted in the feder-
al court of entering into a conspiracy
to intimidate negro miners
1t has been many years since the.
Panama isthmus has been visited by
such an outbreak of yellow fever as is
prevailing in the city of Panama.
The Separatist uprising in the South
ern provinces of Peru is spreading, and
the government has sent 500 infantry
and cavalry into the rebellious district
1t il reported that Russia is arrang-
that large orders have been made for
rails and ornaments to counter balance
it.
There are now 40, 900 troops in South
Africa The official estimate for the
Boer males of 16 years and upward,
plus third of those under 10, is only
80, O3s.
The late Czarowitch, according to
the Paris correspondent of London
Daily News, was privately married
with his mothers consent. He left no
children.
Secretary Alger reports that General
Otis, in response to an inquiry, had
"a bled that there was no necessity for
cavalry horses from this
Attorney-G General Grow won the first
.ound in suit to GUST the Con tinental
md other parties from doing business
n the state for violation of the anti
rust law.
Mrs. Rich is to be surrendered to the
Mexican authorities to be tried for the
murder of her husband. This has been
decided upon by the authorities at
Besides dynamite guns, Calling guns
will probably be sent to General Otis,
md the army transports are to be
Irmed with six-pounder apid-fre.guns
o prevent any possible attack by in
urgeuts.
The customs receipts at the port of
1avana for June were 81 ,O12, 800. The
otal receipts for six months of 1899
re, to be exact, $5,146,s3 The
nonthly average for six months is
49,, sos.
1t Is problematical what attitude
yill be adopted by our government in
ase an attempt should be made by the
European governments to seize custom
ouses in Guatemala to collect money
Dr. bondholders-
An order of the war department per-
hts the immediate family of regular
soldier, who is absent abroad,
} purchase at post prices fuel and
lbsistence stores which are for the
use of the family.
II. s. Coleman, Wisconsin man, has
lied for Alaska with a cargo of cats
, which he expects to realize at least
1000. He says the rats are very
in Dawson and his cats
i'll bring from $50 to $50 each.
Dynamite guns are to be used by the
merican troops in the fall campaign
'ainst the Filipinos- Preparations
. being made by the ordinance de-
'rtment to supply General Otis with
( Sims Dudley dynamite pneumatic
eapons-
No representations have been made
the state department as reported
om Pretoria touching the reported