Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-07-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

Canacas production OF pig iron in
1901 was pa, 97s tons, gain OF 1874 per
cers over 1900.
Cholera is raging in Kwan 81 pro-
vince, China, there being over 10, O0C
deaths reported
Two men were killed and several
seriously injured in a freight wreck
near Peoria. Ill.
Lord Methuen's return to England
has been as quiet as Lord Kitchener's
welcome will be demonstrative.
Reports of the acquisition of the
Cunard line by the Morgan combina-
tion can neither be confirmed nor
denied with authority.
The strike on the Oregon City trolley
line has been settled and the company
has commenced to run cars regularity,
the first time ia two weeks.
In Lisbon a rumor is in circulation
that Germany has offered TO purchase
from Portugal a portion of the de-
tendency of Macao, in China for e.
900, 900.
The state department has decided to
press forward toward completion the
Colombian treaty looking to the ac-
QUESTION of right of way of the 18TH
milan canal.
While watching an exciting baseball
game In which his son was participant
ing, Irving McGowan, a well-known
st. Louis fnancier, died suddenly from
heart disease.
At Castries, France. overwhelming
heat prevails. Five men fell dead from
sunstroke while moving in a field
where the heat was 1879. Many horses
have persisted.
Extreme heat prevails throughout
Italy. The temperature yesterday at
Milan, Mantua and Pavia was 100 de-
grees, and there were many deaths
from sunstroke.
The French chamber of deputies, af-
ter validating the elections of several
deputies. including that of Count
Stanislaus de Castellane, adjourned
sine die. The senate also adjourned
sine die.
In Des Moines, Ia, thirtyfive tele-
phone operators resumed work for the
Mutual Telephone company after hav-
ing been out four weeks. They OBJ
tanned practically every concession de-
manded.
According to the annual report of |
Stroud of the New
York Coffee exchange, the total sales
during the year amounted to 9,7o7, 900 |
bags, against 1898, 900 bags in the pre-
vious year.
In contradiction of a recent report !
that Russia had already practically |
evacuated Manchuria, an official dis
patch just received at st. Petersburg
from Kharbin, says the evacuation has
not even begun.
In his report to the French minister
Of Colonies on the eruption of Mont
Pelee on the evening of July 9th, M.
L'Huerra, the governor of Martinique,
says the outburst of flame set fire to
the ruins of St. Pierre.
The Z. K Wood Lumber company,
n addition to buying up S3,000,0 900
worth of wood belonging to the Simp-
ION Lum Der company of San Francisco,
las bought all of the spruce obtainable
u the western market.
The headless body washed on the
,each at Fort Baker, CAL, has been al
most positively identified as that of
apt. William Ward. master of the
teamer Rio de Janerio, which found
red February %, 1901.
J Nicholas Nathan of Hoboken, N. j.,
gho visited Aurora, N. Y, some weeks
go searching for his long lost daugh-
er, thinks that Ethel Gren blum is his
aughter Mary, who was kidnapped
welve years ago at Hoboken.
The threatened Turko- Bulgarian
arising from the forci-
lie removal of the flag and coat of
rms from the Bulgarian agency at
erres, for which Bulgaria demanded
!, abstraction, have been averted.
David z. Kronacher, assistant pay
aster, United States Navy, stationed
4 the rigship Franklin, was drowned
+ Ocean View, Norfolk, Va, while en- s
'ute to the launch Madge 10 a small |
Dat. His body has not been recovered d
The contract made by the Louisiana I
nrchase Exposition company to keep y
q fairt closed ON Sunday In commit | g