Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-07-25
NEWS SUMMARY.

kong and vicinity.
Again the Genessee valley, N. Y,
has been submerged by torrential rains,
causing immense damage.
Official dispatches announce the
serious spread of cholera in Mancburia,
accompanied by great mortality.
Gowanda, N. Y, reports disastrous
flood that did great damage to that
village and surrounding country.
In Leavenworth, Kan, Theodore
Pullen shot and killed Leila Madden,
aged It, because she refused to marry
him.
The British government has decided
to take over the warships now in course
of construction for the Gillian govern
ment.
In New York 25, East side gar
ment workers have gone on strike,
and it is predicted that Is. 900 more will
follow.
d. G. Longworth, of Cairo, who is
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ing that the Egyptian Sphinx is rapidly
decaying.
Tremendous explosions have occur
red at the Waimaugu geyser at Rotro-
rua, N. H., height of 800 to 900 feet
being reached.
The United States government has
pate in the antitrust conference pro-
posed by the Car.
The president of Venezuela has
abandoned the idea of attacking the
enemy at Barcelona, and is preparing
TO return to Caracas soon.
In New York. Lyman Hoffman,
Russian tailor, shot his wife through
the mouth and then killed himself by
swallowing carbolic acid.
The introduction of the state monop-
oily in liquor traffic in Russia has &C
cordingly been almost universally fol-
lowed by increased drunkenness.
The steamship Premius, with 1875
passengers on board, was cut in two
and sunk by the tug Hansel on the
river Elbe. Only about thirty on board
were saved.
Thirty persons were drowned by the
sinking of a small passenger steamer
on the LUCE river near Probroa-S chen-
skain, Russia. The disaster was caused
by overcrowding.
A violent cyclone visited Chalon-Sun-
Saone, France, doing immense damage.
Several vessels in the river were sunk.
The Alcazar was destroyed and the
streets and shops were flooded.
Fred Lee Rice was hanged in Toron-
to, Ont, for the murder of William
Boyd, constable, in June, 1901. He
greeted the hangman smilingly ana
mounted the gallows without tremor.
As far as can be learned five persons
were killed in the tornado that swept
the region about Chesterfield, Ontario,
and fifteen seriously injured. The
country for miles around is devas-
tated.
A Mexican woman in Ell Paso has
given birth to two healthy children,
the second one being born six weeks
after the first. The case has caused
considerable comment among ply
sicians.
Joe Ames and Jane and Sylvia Sims,
sisters, were killed by lightning at
Pollock's Ferry, N. c. Two Others
were injured. All five had sought shell
ter in resthouse, which was destroyed |
by bolt.
The commission appointed to reap
portion Oklahoma has announced the |
total population of the territory to be
$1,000, with one representative for
over 90. 900 people and one senator for
every $4,000.
In Oswego, Kan, Mrs. Josephine
Hart made desperate attempt to
drown her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wal
ter Fisher, in a we'll and, failing, com
mittee suicide by taking strychnine.
She was demented.
The St. Petersburg Novoe Vremya |
published a dispatch from Seoul, |
Korea, which says that two American
missionaries have been stoned and |
beaten on the line of the Seoul-Fussan
railroad by Japanese laborers.
The municipal health board o
Manila has decided to remove 10000 |
natives from the slums to the subur-
ban camps in an effort to check the