Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1902-06-27
NEWS. SUMMARY.


near st. Louis.
Tracey and Merrill, the convicts who
escaped from the Oregon penitentiary,
arc still at large.
The Chinese cruiser Kai Chi was
wrecked by an explosion and $50 Of
Acers and men killed.
A plague of grasshoppers is menac-
ing the crops of Sacramento, Eldorado
and Placer counties, Cal.
II is announced in Madrid that the
government has decided to appoint
minister to the Cuban republic.
Charles L. Dillon, one of the best
known sporting characters in the
west, was killed in a runaway accident
at Helena.
A bad cyclone, accompanied by .
tidal wave, has swept over Kurrachee,
the principal seaport town of the pro-
vince of Sinde, India.
An earthquake shock lasting twenty
seconds was felt at Chilpancingo,
Mexico. No damage was done, but
great terror prevailed.
The report has reached Colon, Col
ombia, that the government troops
have reoccupied Chorrera, which was
held by the insurgents.
The Peruvian press is urging the
government to adobt energetic meas
ures to get the South African Beers to
emigrate to that country.
Gen. Jacob H. Smith, who recently
was court-martialed in Manila, has
instructed to proceed to San Francisco,
there to await further orders.
WV. Atchison, saloonkeeper, shot
and killed James O'Meara and wound
ed Will Thayer after a quarrel in
Atchisons saloon at San Pedro, N. M.
The Cuban senate has approved the
bill fixing President Palma's salary at
s25, 900 a year, and that of Senior
Estevex, the vice-president, at $4,000.
Two hun dred employees of the War
rem City, O., Boiler works went out on
strike because of the discharge of the
president of their union by the COM
pany.
The Italian chamber of commerce
of New York City has decided to try
to arbitrate the differences between
the striking silk-worlxers of Paterson
and their employers.
Senator Warren of Wyoming has in
troduced bill providing for the pur-
chase of site and erection Of pub
lie building in the city of Sheridan,
Wyo., to cost 500, 900.
Violent earth shocks and subter-
ranean rumbling caused panic
among the inhabitants of Melilla,
Morocco. No damage was done, and
there was no loss of life.
The Dutch cruiser Keonigen Rentes
has been ordered to proceed from
Willemstand, island of Curacao, to La
Guayra, Venezuela to protect the in
terests of the Netherlands.
United States Circuit Judge James
Jenkins of Chicago has attracted
marked attention by an address advo-
eating the abolition of an elective
judiciary in the state courts.
A steamship service between New
York and north Brazil has been decid-
ed upon by the Hamburg-Americ
Steamship company. At the outset
the sailings will be monthly.
Every silk factory in Union Hill,
N. j., with one exception, has closed.
The owners decided not to attempt to
resume operations for the present
owing to riotous disturbances.
Minnie Gay of Tacoma, 20 years OF
age, took fatal dose of corbolio acid
dying soon after. She killed herself
because Elmer Smith, a Tacoma base
ball player went walking with another
girl.
General Motto, captain-general OF
Of Marid, is dead from injuries sus-
tanned when he fell from his horse at
q review of Spanish troops held at the
time King Alfonso attained his ma
jority.
In indianapolis Andrew. Deiss, 30
years of age, cut the throat OF his
bride, 16 years old, and then swallow
ID dose of carbolic acid, from which
be died. The girl will die. The
motive was jealousy.
Although the German Foreign Office
has received no news from the German