Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-02-06
NEWS SUMMARY.

been lnaugurated.
The Kansas legislature has intro
duced bill imposing tax on bache
Tors and old maids
German experts declare that hypnot
ism is worthless in the matter o.
healing of diseases.
Chile and Argentine are discussing
the adyisability of following a joint
international policy.
Bubonic plague is spreading so SER
iously at Durham, Natal, that the ma
tives are panic stricken.
A detachment of Turkish troops has
defeated a strong band of Macedonians
near Lake Okhrida, Albania.
The sentence of death passed upon
Colonel Arthur Lynch has been com
muted to penal servitude for life.
Dr. Maurice Fishberg of New York,
a well known anthropologist, declares
there is no such thing as the Hebrew
race.
Expert accountants testified before
the anthracite coal commission that the
average wages of the coal miners is
1854 per year.
AT joint meeting Of the Swedish
Norwegian council, Crown Prince Gus
taf assumed the duties of the regency
of the two kingdoms.
John MITCHELL president OF she
United Nine Workers of America, will
be offered place on the Illinois state
board of arbitration.
The British war office has decided TO
invite tenders from Canadian farmers
for the supply of fresh meat to the
British in South Africa.
The Italian chamber of deputies de-
cided to send congratulations by wire-
less telegraphy to Signor Marconi on
the success of his work.
DR.. David J. Hill, who resigned the
office of assistant secretary of state to
accept the Office of minister to Switzer-
land, has sailed to his post.
The marine engineers strike on the
Columbia and Willamette rivers, which
has been on for the past six months, |
has been formally declared off
British revenue returns are more
favorable than everybody has been
willing to admit. The estimated reve-
nue. will be exceeded in nearly every
instance.
Liverpool and Manchester, hitherto
deadly rivals in trade, have entered
into a partnership in order to bring
about cotton-growing within the Brit
ish empire.
Three hundred engineers and fire.
men belonging to the state railroads
have joined the strike of the employees
of the transportation companies at
Amsterdam
According to the Vienna Weiner
Zeitung, Emperor Francis Joseph has
decided to deprive the crown princess
of Saxony of all her archducal titles
and prerogatives.
At the thirteenth annual banquet of
ohO V CbCIdA Sdlu VI 1NCW
York, Confederate toasted Lincoln,
while Union man responded to the
toast Robert E. Lee
La Tarde, the Liberal party news !
paper of Santiago, asserts that negotia- I
tions are in progress for the sale to the
United States of the two Chilean war a
ships now being built in England.
The senate committee on finance has :
authorized favorable report on the :,
bill to increase the subsidiary silver :,
coinage. The Democratic members of
the committee opposed the report n
AS an outcome of support given by p
lhe municipality of Vienna to the 81
working tailors, the strike of $4,000 of
the latter has ended by the masters
,onceding an increase of wages of 80 y
Der cent.
The house committee on military has ii
eported favorably bill to appropriate m
81 800 for marking the position of the pC
ocular establishments, infantry, ar dl
illery and cavalry, on the Gettysburg
Ia
ne
Representative Patterson of Tennes-
ee has introduced an antitrust bill. %,
seeks to accomplish the regulation an
trusts through the agency of the Or
ureau of corporations in the proposed un
apartment of commerce. SO
In Ell Paso, Texas, Fred J. Feldman. III
photographer, shot and Instantly ~
lied L. G. Casey, a former travelling -,