Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-05-09
NEWS SUMMARY.


destroyed by fire.
The business portion of Grass, Neb.,
has been destroyed by fire, probably Of
incendiary origin.
tornado which passed over Lincoln
county, Oklahoma, did much damage
to crops and stock.
Forty-nine bodies Of victims of the
City of Pittsburg disaster, near Cairo,
H.. have been recovered.
The fourth monthly installment of
the Chinese indemnity, amounting to
sl,922, 1872, has been paid.
There is no truth in the story that
the Dowager Queen Margberita of Italy
has decided to enter a convent.
| President-elecu Palma is warm in
praise of the United States for the
healthy condition of the island of Cuba
1t is reported that San Domingo, the
capital of the Dominican government,
has surrendered to the insurgent forces.
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spector Brown has captured six cannon
in good condition and 200 iron cannon
balls.
An official estimate of the total cost
of the South African war to March 81,
1908, places the amountat nearly e223-
900, 900
The French fishing feet was recently
caught in gale in the North sea.
Three schooners foundered and many
lives were lost.
Balschaneff, the assassin of NJ. Sipia-
guine, the Russian minister of interior,
is now reported to be very sick. due to
voluntary starvation.
John D. Rockefeller, it Is understood,
is behind the Virginia-North Carolina
Chemical company's designs on the
German potash fields.
Count Bobrikoff, recently governor.
general of Finland, has been appointed
Russian minister of war in succession
to General Kuropatkin.
The American chamber of commerce
in Manila has passed a resolution in
dorsing the action of the United States
army in the Philippines.
The Colombian government army in
the department of Cauca has been reor
ganized into six divisions OF six bat
talions each, totaling 10, 500 men.
At Osborne, Kan, Lee Forester was
shot and killed by Homer Beck. Both
men are farmers, and the shooting was
caused by a quarrel about a fence.
The emigration of Germans for the
quarter ending March 3lst was three
times as great as that which occurred
during the corresponding quarter
of 1901.
The revolutionary General, Riera, at
the head of 2, 600 men is at the outskirts
of Coro, capital of the State of Falcon,
Venezuela, and is expected at any mo-
ment to take it.
Lizzie McGarvey, Brooklyn school
teacher, was burned to death, and her
aunt, Mrs. Lizzie Lambert. 20 years
old, was probably fatally burned in
Williamsburg, n. Y.
A report to the state department
from Consul-General Hollway at ST. |
Petersburg, shows that last year the
government expended si3, 201 in |
relief for famine sufferers.
Crazed by the death of her three
year-old child from scarlet fever, Mrs
Adelina Sage of Detroit poured can
of kerosene oil over herself ignited it
and was burned to death.
In Branden burg, Ky, Ernest Dewly,
g negro who shot and seriously wouded
Harry Dowell, young white man, was
taken from Jail and hanged by mob
and his body riddled with bullets.
Flames will soon destroy all that
can be burned of the historic receiving
ship Vermont, which for more than
half century has been moored at the
Cob dock in the Brooklyn navy yard
acting as Uncle Sans nursery for tyro
sailors.
The dead body of Mrs. Ida Randolph,
}, bride of four months, was found in
the Kaw river near Topeka, Kan. The
BODY shows no evidence of death by
and the opinion of the
a.. ;s that there has been a murder /
committed
Mrs. Mary Roberts, charged with
omplicity in the murder of her hus-
band near Maxey, Tex, year ago,
las been found guilty and given a
of seven years in the peni-