Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-07-28
NEWS SUMMARY.

begin its sittings until August 10th.
The total output for the season in
Klondike is estimated at $50, OOO, 900.
The lack of the usual fall of rain in
Cuba is delaying the maturing of the
sugar crop
The war department has chartered
the steamer 1iam to carry 300 cavalry
horses to Manila.
There is no confirmation of the re-
port that Chief Justice Chambers of
Samoa will resign.
The Volksraad at Pretoria, in secret
session, has adopted the seven years
franchise proposition.
Christian A. Geoffrion, member of
the Canadian cabinet and a distin-
guished lawyer, is dead.
News of the Arctic whaling fleet is
that SO far it has been bad year, as
very few whales have been seen.
The Federal government has sent
agents to several points in Texas to
secure horses for service in Cuba.
Tremendous storms have destroyed
bridges and Frustrated telegraph wires
In Chile, interrupting communication
The new tug Fearless, recently
built for the Speckels brothers, San
francisco, has been chartered by the
government.
Abe Rothschild, notorious diamond
thief and crook, has been sentenced TO
erye three years in the Texas peniten-
tiary for forgery.
United States Consul Jenkins has
cabled the state department that San
Salvador is in a state of siege as re-
suit OF revolutionary plotting.
The past week closed the period of /
two years prescribed by the Ding
ley tariff law within which recipros-
ity treaties may be negotiated
An English syndicate has paid s215,-
600 for the Iowa and Yellow Jacket
groups in Boise Basin, Idaho They
join the famous Gold Hill group.
Governor Bradley of Kentucky has
declined to call special session of the
legislature or send troops to Clay
county where feudal war is in pro-
gress.
The Mark Lane Express says that
the British wheat promises a full aver
age yield, and barley an average, and
that the oat crop is distinctly de-
icient.
A reciprocity treaty, under the pro-
visions of the Dingley law, has been
negotiated between Portugal and the
United States, and went into effect
the goth inst.
Americans built the first street rail
way constructed in Korea 1t is an 3
overhead electric trolley road, six
niles in length, and runs through 5
seoul, the capital
The Argentine minister of finance \
proposes to reduce the taxes on for y
'ign insurance companies from 10 to 5 +
'er cent, raising those on Argen tine y
operations from 2 to per cent. I
From John Sherman's closest friend n
nd former law partner, Henry C. t
lodges, it is learned that the venera- Il
lie statesman is improving slowly from
is recent illness and hopes to be about n
gain soon. =
The triple murder of an American p
AIMED Ward and two japanese women ci
Yokohama, the supposed cause be-
lg jealousy, brings an American sailor c,
AIMED Miller under the Japanese law N
5 the suspected murderer. te
The agricultural departments for L
gn crop report for July states that IL
numerical authorities estimate the
portage in the Russian wheat crop at al
ON s5,o0O,o00 to 12o, 900, 600 bushels, Ii
) compared with last year. W
The United States district attorney tr
Jacksonville. Fla, has been warned pc
ON Washington to beware of fill tn
lstering expeditions from the Flori- OF
/ coast TO Honduras. Nicaragua and on
her Central American countries. tn
The removal of spassers-white
ttlers-from the Leech Lake Indian to
servation, has been postponed until el'
igust 30, by order of Assistant Sec DO
tary of the Interior Hitchcock. by
lie settlers are vigorously opposing to
noval. Gu