Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-07-04
NEWS SUMMARY.

President Roosevelt signed the istd-
milan canal bill Saturday night.
Hundreds of INDECENT Americans
now in Cuba are petitioning the
minister for aid.
The beginning of the eighth week of
the anthracite miners strike shows no
change in the situation.
Near Lancaster. Ky, tornado
wrecked dozen farm houses and FIVE
perscns were injured, one fatally.
The arrival is reported at Panama of
the gunboat Ranger, which will keep
watch of events on the Pacific side of
the isthmus.
Late Saturday night a tornado struck
Bohemian settlement near Wallis,
Tex, killing several persons and injur-
ing many others.
A bill has passed the senate authoriz-
ing the secretary of war to issue GER
tificates in lieu of lost or destroyed dis
charges from the army.
Dewey, in his testimony before the
senate committee, declared that Aguin-
aldo was mere fgurehead, and that
too much fuss was made over the Fill
Pine.
Reports from the storm-swept sec
ton of South Dakato and north
western Iowa confirm the first reports
of damage done, the loss being place
at $780, 900.
The house committee on foreign at
fairs has reported resolution giving
the thanks of congress to Admiral
Kempf for his conduct during the siege
of Taku, China.
In Pawtucket, R. l., street cars were
stoned and INSTRUCTED by sy mpathizers
of the striking conductors and motor
men. Two street railway men were
hurt by missiles.
The Ameer of Afghanistan, Habid
Oollah Khan, early in June married
his daughters to six prominent chiefs,
including the commander-in-chief OF
the Afghan forces.
In Minneapolis, Mimi, a verdict of
guilty was returned in the case of
Detective Nathaniel w. King, indicted
on the charge of being accessory after
the fact to a felony.
A drouth of six weeks in Texas has
been broken The rain extends rather
generally as far south as the gulf. 1t
is too late to materially aid the corn
crop, but will help cotton.
The government officials expect
possibly within a week to fix the APP
proximate date of the coronation, of
King Edward which will probably
occur early in the autumn.
Costa Rica has un favorably reported
a proposal to grant Chile a coaling
station on Caco island, the political
prisoners taken during the last revo-
luton having been pardoned.
Representative Foss, of Illinois,
chairman of the naval committee of the
house, has introduced bill to establish
an engineering laboratory, to be known
as the Melville engineering laboratory.
All of the unskilled employees of the
Carnegie Steel company, nearly $4,000,
have had their wages voluntarily in
creased 10 per cent. This will make
the wages of the lowest laborer S1.65 a
day.
/. S. Harischfeld, former president
of the suspended Merchants National
bank of Helena, Mont, has been adj
Judged bankrupt in the Federal court
His liabilities are S49S, AGA and asserts
32115.
A dispatch to the London Mail from
Copenhagen says that Queen Alexandra
has invited the deputation of Danish
hussars to return to London at the end
of Septem Der for the coronation of the
King.
have been defeated again near Urica,
in the State of Cumara, by the rear
guard of General Matos's revolutionary
army. Deserters and fugitives are
entering Cumara and Barcelona by the
hundreds.
In San Francisco Mrs. Ignaza Gerard
poured kerosene oil over her clothing
and burned herself to death in the
presence of her family. Her daughter,
Mrs. Maria Gilletti, in endeavoring to
save her mother from the flames, was
severely burned.
s'If the rains continue few days