Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-06-06
NEWS SUMMARY.


Admiral Schley delivered the Me-
mortal day address at Bangor, Maine
Mt. Pelee is still active and vomets
fire which is visible forty miles away.
The situation of the famine stricken
peasants of Russia continues to grow
worse.
Pat Meagher, a steeple-chase jockey,
was killed at the Woodbine track,
Toronto.
The Emperor of Japan has sub
scribed 1000 francs to the Martinique
relief fund.
There is coal famine in New York
City, occasioned by the strike in the
Pennsylvania fields.
All the coal companies in Hazleton,
Pa, are commissioning special officers
to guard their property.
John Jermyn, the millionaire coal
operator, died at his home in Scranton,
Pa, last week. aged IS years.
The imports of dry goods and mer-
chandse at the port of New York for
last week were valued at Sc, 524 ,749
There is four feet of water in the
townsite of Walters, Okla. and the
transaction of business is impossible.
Four people were drowned by the
capsizing of a boat in the Colum bia
river last week near Martins Bluff,
Oregon.
The oklahoma rivers are receding.
The total damage of the floods through
out the territory is estimated at over
million dollars.
The floods in western Oklahoma and
the western portion OF Indian Terri
tory continue undated, and most
streams are still on the rise.
Up. Barrow committed suicide at
Butte last week by shooting. Brood
ing over love affair is supposed to
have prompted the rash deed
Senator Platt, of New York, has in
troduced bill in the senate making
train robbery a felony and providing
the death penalty for the offense.
All differences between the Chicago
Union Traction company and its en-
ployees have been settled and the COM
pany accepted the demandsof the men.
The Great Northern flyer was
wrecked last week near Grand Forks,
N. D. Several coaches were piled in
heap. Only one person was seriously
hurt.
Harry Hicks, an aeronaut, was killed
at Kingston Point, New York, last
week, by fall from parachute. He
struck head first on sand bar in the |
river.
Charles Jamison was drowned in the
swollen river at Perry, Okla, last
week, while attempting to ford it. All
efforts to recover the body have been
fruitless.
The fire and police board of Denver
has issued instructions to the chief OF
police to close all wine rooms and tc
the ordinance excluding women
from saloons.
Owing to the large aggregation OF
contract laborers going tc
Canada, the authorities of Norway
haye prohibited foreigners from hiring
laborers there for export.
The Ministers association of Manila
IS about to send cablegram to the
United States protesting against the
of the PHILIPPINES bill as
by the Philippine COM
mission.
An attempt on the life of the Car by
woman was discovered last week by
secret service officers The woman was
It the summer residence of the Car
With an internal machine concealed in
handkerchief
Later details of the earthquake 10
Guatemala only add to its horrors.
arriving at San Frankie on
he steamer City of Sydney say they
Understood that at least 1,40O dead
we're taken from the ruins of Quezalte- !
aDgo.
Officials of the Hawthorne race track,
,ho grand stand burned Friday of last
yeek, say that no lives were lost in the
re The stable boy who was reported
illed has been found. Detectives be- 9
eve the fire was the work of incen- G
iaries. 7
An outbreak of Yaqui Indians has a
A fight took place thirty +
lilies from Hermosillo. in which eight