Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1903-05-01
NEWS SUMMARY.

killed by an explosion at the plant or
the Northwestern Star Oil company
at Minneapolis.
Stephen H. Mallory has been re-
elected to the United States senate by
the Florida legislature, receiving
every vote but one.
at The Hague the first chamber of
the States General last week adopted
the treaty of arbitration between Hol-
land and Venezuela.
Resolutions have been passed by
the Montgomery county, Illinois.
grand jury condemning progressive
euchre as gambling.
special dispatch from Melilia,
Morocco, says Muley Mohammed the
sultan's brother, has been proclaimed
emperor of Morocco at Fee.
Because the Ironton, o., Portland
Cement company refused to give Ben
Garvey his old position as oiler, the
entire force of the plant and mines,
numbering 700, went out.
Eight persons are dead and ten in
jured, three of them seriously, as the
result of a collision between pas
senser train and a freight train on
the Erie railroad at jamestown, N. Y.
Disorders have been reported in
France from various points in connec-
ton with the expulsion of the men,
bers of the congregations who have
remained in France. Several arrests
were made.
d. w. Anderson, former treasurer
of Weccacoe tribe, Improved Order Of
Red Men, has been sentenced in Phil
adelphia, to one years Imprisonment
for embezzling $2,47O of the organiza-
tons funds.
Seven more bodies have been found
frozen in the snow drifts about Bres-
Ian, making a total of twenty-five
persons who have been frozen to
death in Silesia as a result of the re-
cent storms.
Joseph Boyd, a retired farmer and
ex-Confederate officer, was found
dead on the back porch of his home
at Mexico, Mo-, from a bullet wound
in his chest. 1t is believed he COM
mitted suicide.
John K Hendrick of Paducah has
withdrawn from the race for the Dem
ocratic nomination for governor of
Kentucky This leaves Governor
Beckham without opposition in the
primary of May 9Th.
The famine in Kwang-Si province
is killing tens of thousands of per-
sons, and women there are selling
themselves into slavery to escape
starvation. The American consul at
Canton has inaugurated relief fund.
In the trial at Mt Vernon, KY, of
Charles Durham, who killed John |
Lawson, County Judge Lewis rem
dered the following decision: the |
prisoner is dismissed Lawson COM
to Durham's home on a hunt for ,
trouble"
An island 125 feet long and 80 feet |
wide, seemingly fixed as solidly as
rock on the east shore of Lake Gar |
field, says a Winstead, Conn, dis |
patch, has floated three-quarters of |
mile down the lake. Twenty-Five
years ago the island made similar
journey.
Mrs. Margaret Horsack, who was
convicted of the murder of her hus-
band, wealthy Iowa farmer, and
sentenced to life Imprisonment, is to
be. freed. The jury at the second
trial disagreed, and the prosecuting
attorney will dismiss the case rather
than put the state to further expense.
The sealed verdict returned by the
jury before which Louis Decker, for
mer member of the Missouri house of
delegates, has been tried on the charge
of perjury in connection with subur-
ban franchise Doodle legislation, found
him guilty.
At Carthage, Texas, negro named
Hensley Johnson, was lynched for
criminally asaulting a 14-year-old
white girl A mob hanged him on the
public square, where his body was
found next morning suspended from
a telephone pole.
Herbert w. Bowen, the Venezuelan
plenipotentiary, has drawn up new
protocol for the determination by The
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