Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-10-16
NEWS SUMMARY.


Paterson, N. J., is again threatened
by destruction, this time by food
AS was predicted short time ago
the entire Gillian cabinet has re-
signed.
The volcano of Mauna Loa, on the
island of Hawaii, is again in a state
of eruption.
A terrible storm has swept the
Dutch coast, and twenty vessels are
reported to have been wrecked.
Pacific Express messengers demand
higher wages and recognition of their
union, otherwise they will strike
James Beck, a pioneer of British
Columbia, suicided Sunday by hang
ing, while suffering from melancholy.
Mrs. A. J. Smettena of Cedar Rap
ids, Iowa, hanged herself and her one
year-old daughter. III health was the
cause.
Wilson S. Bissell, former postmaster
general, died at Buffalo, N. Y, on the
9Th, Bright's disease being the cause
of death
David Nation, divorced husband Of
Carrie Nation, the Kansas joint
smasher, died at Medicine Lodge,
Kan, last week.
Mayor Menke of Nation, Ills, has
been convicted of malfeasance, the
specific charges being accepting brides
from saloon-keepers.
Gustave Becker, who was injured
in football practice in Chicago, is
dead. His back was broken in col
lis.on with another boy.
III health caused Mrs. John Fisk,
aged 20, of Chicago, to kill herself and
babe by asphyxiation. Another child
was discovered in time to be saved.
While thawing powder at the Silver
Star mine near Lake City, Colo, Jake
Evans and John Cord were instantly
killeu and their bodies horribly multi
ated.
A phenomenal gold strike is report
ed to have been made near Silver
City, New Mexico, ore having been dis
covered which assays as high as $4,000
per ton.
The remains of Sir Michael Herbert
the late British ambassador at Wash
ington, were inferred in the family
burial grounds at Wilton, Wiltshire,
England.
Four men were killed and two in
jured in a head-on collision between
a double-header freight train and an
extra engine four miles north of ST.
loan Springs, Mo.
click" Rose, who escaped from the
Madisonville, Tenn, Jail, last week,
killed Thomas Morten and fatally
wounded T. o. Dugan in an encounter
with a posse in pursuit of him.
United States Minister Squiers is
preparing report on the political con-
ditions of Cuba, in which special ref
erence will be made to the recent in
surrectionary movement in Santiago !
province.
King Peter of Servia opened the
Skupschtina on the 7th. In the speech |
from the throne his majesty, referring
to Macedonia, said he hoped the re-
forms would be carried out and peace |
be restored.
Bishop Doherty, the first American |
clerical dignitary appointed for the isl |
ands, has arrived at Manila. An en-
thusiastic welcome was extended to |
him by the Filipinos and Spanish |
American residents.
A mob lynched Samuel Williams, a |
white man, at Lawty, Fla, because he
would not reveal the hiding place of /
his brother, whom the mob intended I
to lynch because he was accused OF
maltreating two girls.
A hose company of the Fort Worth,
Texas, fire department, has lowered
the worlds speed record for going in
to action. The contest was to run
$50 feet, make plug connections and
get water. The time was % 4-5 sec
onds.
Julian Ramos, leader of a band of
ladrones in the province of Cavite, has
to the authorities. Noriel,
a former officer of insurrectos, has
been arrested and charged with aiding
and a1etting the ladrones operating in
Cavite.
vlceroy Taen Shun Hsuen since TAX
Ing charge of the movement against