Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-12-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Santa Fe railroad shops at La
Jgnta, Colo. were destroyed by fire
ON the 18th. Seven locomotives were
badly damaged.
Colorado Springs has declared q
quarantine against Manitou, Colo, be-
cause of an epidemic of scarlet fever
at the latter place.
Queen Alexandra of England had
a narrow escape from burning to
death during a fire which destroyed
her sleeping chamber.
AT Clarksburg. N. j., Mr. and Mrs.
Clayton Fowler and three of their chill
dren were burned to death in a fire
that destroyed their residence.
Spain will not participate in the
st. Louis exposition, the reason given
being that there would not be sufi-
cient time to complete operations.
Senator Patterson has introduced a
resolution calling attention to the al
legged military outrages in Colorado
and asking for a senate investigation.
Norman Wolf, Jack McGovern,
James Burns and James Smith were
killed, and several other men injured,
by a boiler explosion near Montrose,
Colo.
The Panama Railroad company has
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able January LIST. The last dividend,
which was paid on October 1. 1903,
was per cent.
1t has been decided at a meeting of
the leaders of the Citizens union of
New York City to favor the Sunday
liquor selling plan proposed by Dis
trict Attorney Jerome.
United States Minister Thomas at
Stockholm has informed the state de-
partment that the government of Swe-
den and Norway has recognized the
republic of Panama as an independent
state.
Three Americans and seven natives
were killed by the fumes from blast
of forty-six tons of dynamite in quar-
ry of the Atlantic & Pacific company
at Mariveles, near the entrance to
Manila.
Waliam Dawson, aged Sc, is dead at
Longmont, Colo, from injuries re-
ceived by falling into a lime pit eleven
feet deep, at the sugar factory. He
struck on his head and brain fever
developed.
The Venezuelan government has
purchased $4,000 rifles and 100000
cartridges and it is reported is pre-
pairing to invade Colombia in case Of
war between the latter country and
the United States.
Claiming descent from a signer of
the Declaration of Independence, and
kinship with one of the noted families
of New York, William w. Morris has
been sentenced to six months for so.
liciting aims in the street.
Russian troops have defeated a
band of Chinese robbers on Lao river,
killing 200 and wounded
as many. The great loss of the rob-
bers is attributed in Port Arthur dis
patch to panic among them.
The Iowa society for suppression Of
disease and degeneracy has prepared
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assembly, providing for a physicians
certificate of examination before a |
license can be issued.
John McCrea, colored, who killed /
Detective William Murphy last June
while the officer was trying to arrest
him for stealing coal, was hanged at
Peoria, Ills, Friday last. He pro-
ested his innocence on the scaffold.
James Cheney, said to be the wealth
est man in Indiana, his fortune being
estimated at s25,OOO,O0O, is dead at
Fort Wayne, aged Sc years. He was
associated with Jay Gould in financing
is affairs in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois.
Booker T. Washington, in a speech
q New York City, declared the real
roblem for the colored parent in the
orth is not of getting his son and
aughter educated, but of finding
ob for them after they receive their
iploma-
In the presence of 10000 people at
frankfort, KY, and with elaborate GER
Governor ]. c. w. Beckham
as, on the 8th, for the second time
laugurated as governor, making the
lird time he has taken the oath in
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