Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1899-03-24
NEWS SUMMARY.

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been killed in the New York hotel fire.
The navy department has been adj
vised of the arrival of the battleship
Oregon at Manila
Secretary Alger will probably start
on his tour of inspection of Cuba and
Porto Rico during the week.
The imports Of dry goods and general
merchandise at the port of New York
for the past week were valued at So
965, 2O7.
Baron Russell, chief justice of EGG
land, has been appointed successor OF
Baron Herschell on the Venezuelan
arbitration commission.
The exports of specie at New York
the past week were 81 1858, ass silver,
and S., 400 gold. Imports were $780,
179 silver and 1913, s54 gold.
Since his deposition from the Porto
Rican cabinet by General Henry, Ri
vera's party has been the object OF
vigorous attack by the radicals.
Not single newspaper in Havana,
Cuban or Spanish, has yet had word
to say in defense of the assemblys
attempt to depose General Gomez.
w. j. Bryan, will on March 25, de-
liver lecture in Hot Springs. Ark,
for the benefit of the proposed Nation
al Pythian sanitarium to be located
there.
Three of the four newspapers OF
Ponce begun a campaign of abuse
against Diaz and the military govern
ment. They were closed by order OF
military authorities.
The question of succession to the
throne of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha has
been decided in favor of the Duke OF
Connaught's son, Prince Arthur, who
was born January 10, 1888.
1t is now practically certain that ten
freight steamers have been lost on the
Atlantic in recent storms. This IN
wolves the sacrifice of more than 300
lives and So, 500, 900 capital.
The Cuban assembly from now on
will be dealt with as any other organl-
cation. If it's sessions provoke riots
and disturbances it will be dispersed
like any other disorderly body.
G. A. Brit, the missing chairman and
managing director of the Millwau
Dock company, London, who is de-
faulter of 81 900 900 in the accounts OF
the concern, has been arrested.
A floating island, between one and
two acres in extent and from four TO
five feet thick, has come down the Lii
nois river and stranded at Havana, LII.
DYNAMITE will be used to move 1T.
General Gomez has decided to pro
coed with the plans agreed upon for
Distributing the So, 100000 to the Gu
ban troops on disbanding, as though
the military assembly did not exist.
An element of mystery still sur
rounds the case of the st. Louis widow,
Mrs. Mcvean, whose face and body
were badly burned Tuesday night by
acids thrown by some unknown per-
son.
Thirteen Spanish friars from Manila
md Macao arrived in San Francisco on
the steamship China. Several OF the
friars were taken prisoners by Agu1-
naldo's forces and were only recently
released.
The murderer of Mrs. Anthony
Steigler of Mount Lookout, o., whose
dead body was found in her home by
her son, has been found in Albert
Luken, boy of 16, living with his
widowed mother in Clifton.
The Texas legislature passed bill
making an appropriation OF $4,000 to
be used by the state health officials IN
suppressing the prevalence OF small
pox at Laredo. There are now SOC
cases of smallpox at Laredo
Hazing as practiced at the Chicago
College of Dental Surgery may make
James J. Mount of the class OF 1903 an
invalid for life, if it does not cause
rasults even more serious. He is nov
in the Presby terrain hosrital.
Jacob M. Woodring, blacksmith o.
Mount Vernon, is in Jail in Seattle
charged with running an Illicit distil
1arv This is the first case of moon
shining" that has ever been brough'
before the federal court in Seattle.
Comptroller Fred White OF the Ca