Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-06-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

ordered of the Schwartzkopf works
Berlin, for the Russian railway in ST.
IBERIA
s. Jackson Close, an aged merchant
and postmaster at Stanwich, Conn.
was attacked by robbers and beaten tc
death
The Grand Central railroad of Eng
land has placed an order for twenty
locomotives with the Baldwin works OF
Philadelphia.
Harry Lasell and Richard Neal,
while digging for relics at the site of
old Fort Mackinac, Michigan, unearth-
ed six complete skeletons.
Ten persons were drowned at Sim
ZACH, Bavaria, in the river Inn. one of
the princip atfiuents of the Danube,
by the capsizing of boat.
The London Truth, ia spite of semi
official statements to the contrary, in
sists that an operation for cataract on
the queens eyes is inevitab BILE.
England, on the completion of ships
now under construction for her navy,
will, it is said, be in position to meet
the combined navies of any two pow
,ers of the world.
Mrs. Emma L. French, wife of Alfred
A. French, one of the best known archi-
tects of Cleveland, committed suicide.
She had been i'll and feared that she
was becoming insane.
Speaking before the Colonial Aid So
.ciety of New York, General Guy ".
Henry, late governor-general of Porto
Rico, compared the Porto Ricans to the
North American Indians.
Benjamin Franklin Clark, consul at
Pernambuco, died on board the Lam
port & Holt line steamer Hevelius, on
May 10, of Bright's disease, and was
buried at sea the same evening.
At the banquet of the Congregational
club at the Pamer house, Chicago, rep
ftScu IdIl"cS VI 1uC SOiOi Co A"SC us
cussed with their white brethren the
problem of the negro in the south.
A large portion of the government OF
Astrakan, on the northwest coast of
the Caspian sea, has been submerged
by an overflow of the river Volga,
which divides it into nearly equal
parts.
There is great scarcity of meat on
the Hawaiian islands, due to the fact
that much pasturage land has been
planted with sugar, and the native
herds have consequently been much
reduced.
Ten dock laborers at Buffalo, N. Y,
were sent to the peniten tiary for thirty
days. They were about to return to
New York and after drinking freely,
wrecked saloon near the Lehigh Val
ley station.
Charles Hutchinson was shot and
killed by his wife during family
quarrel at Arcadia, Ind. The woman
pleaded self-defense. She is but 26
years of age and Hutchinson was her
fifth husband.
Sir Clarence Ross, representing an
American syndicate, has offered to pur-
chase the municipal electric light
plants of Shanghai, on condition that
the purchaser is given the right to es-
tablish tramways.
The lord lieutenant of Ireland, Earl
Cadogan. has released O'Hanlon, Null
let and James Fitz-Harris, alias "Skin
the Goat" the last three Irish political
prisoners who were sentenced to i'm
for life.
The Yukon & White Pass railway is
now completed from Ska quay to the
summit of the pass. distance of about
eighteen miles, and for a distance Of
about twelve miles further the roadbed
Is ready for the rails.
Chief Wilkie of the secret service has
announced the arrest in Chicago Of
William Coleman, a silver teller in the
,ub-treasury there, on a charge OF hav-
NO distracted silver from bags re-
,eived from the banks.
An American missionary has recently
created a good deal of amusemen at
,inila, India. by beseeching the officials
% buy his books and attempting to Sc
.ure the aid of Lady Curzou, wife OF
he vice-oy.in reforming Simla society.
In San Francisco Judge Coffey issued