Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-10-03
NEWS SUMMARY.

Enormous prices are being charged
for foodstuffs at Colon.
A second expedition against the en-
trenched Moros of Mindanao is under
way.
Mount Aetna shows further signs of
activity and the volcano of Stromboll
is active.
Advices from Macedonia show that
the insurrectionary movement there is
increasing.
A cyclone wrought havoc at Modica,
a town of Sicily, where several persons
were killed.
A trust has gained control of go per
cent. of the spinning and weaving
mills IN the south.
Nome has been storm-swept again,
with the loss of two lives and heavy
damage to shipping.
There is terrible suffering at Santa
Marta, Colombia, as the insurgents are
intercepting the supplies.
Direct cable communication between
the United States and the Philippines
will be established by July /, 1908.
An official telegram to the Korea
legation, Berlin, says the emperor of
Korea is alive aud in the best of health.
In London the new amalgamation OF
British and American tobacco interests
has been received with mixed feeling.
Viceroy Tseng, with two battalions
of the Shansi province guard, has de-
feated the Boxers outside of Cheng Tu
Flu.
A strike on the tram car lines of
Geneva has led to serious disorders and
the complete stoppage of the tram
service.
The statement is made that within
eighty days messages will pass over
the Pacific cable between San Francis
co and Honolulu.
A number of prominent people in
Panama are said to have been impris-
oned because they sympathized with
the rebel movement.
Official reports say that 5000 persons
have emigrated to the United States
from Greece during the past year, and
the exodus continues.
In Salonica, European Turkey, the
military forces have been called out
and troops are being dispatched into
the interior of Macedonia.
The city council of Detroit, Mich,
has adopted resolutions favoring a
movement to force the resumption of
coal productio in Pennsylvania.
1t is reported on authority that Bo-
livia is disposed to accept the modifca-
tions of the Acre lease contract pro-
posed by the Brazilian government.
The Madrid correspondent of the
London Morning Leader says thirty |
miners have been killed at Masearron, |
province of Murcia, by poisonous gas.
The Bolivian foreign minister and
the Peruvian plenipotentiary have
signed a treaty settling the boundary |
question between their respective coun-
tries.
The situation on the Isthmus of Pan
anna remains unchanged. Free transit |
between Colon and Panama obtains
and the American marines are still
on all trains.
The national committee to which
the national congress of French miners
the question of date of the
general strike. is composed entirely of
opposed to strike.
The Russian government estimates
he harvest as follows: Wheat, $40, oOO,-
100 pools Ia pood equals forty pounds);
we, 1925, 900, 900 pools; oats, $50, OOo,-
100; barley, 375, ooo,O 900 pools.
A patent has been secured covering
novel engine for marine propulsion,
which John Wilt, the inventor, as
erts will reduce the crossing. of the
atlantic to at least three days jour
ey.
General Botha, the former Boer COM
handler, in speech said he received
100, 900 in aid of the destitute Beers G
rom Arthur White, an American, and c
ppeaIed to others to follow his ex-
mple. r
Bessie Hickland, who murdered 12- 4
ear old boy at Wilson, Kansas, last t
uly, and who was found guilty OF =
lurder in the second degree few
ays ago, has been sentenced to 20
ears in the penitentiary. 3