Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-12-30
NEWS SUMMARY.

IL is SAID the RUSSIA mas D0oSnt An
thony j. Drexe's fine steam yacht
margarine, paying $G50.000.
The Fall River cotton manufacturers
have rejected the proposition for arbi-
tration by the National Civic Fedora
ton.
More than 100000 Christmas trees
were taken from the sides Of the
Green mountains to supply the wants
Of New York and Boston.
A dispatch from Sydney, N. s. w..
announces that two British warships
have sailed for the Tonga islands with
the intention of annexing them.
Nellie Tracy and May Johnson were
found dead in their room in 10 lying
house in San Francisco. They had
been accidentally asphyxiated by gas
The steamboat Robert e. Lee struck
a snag near Craighead Point. Tenn,
and sank in shallow water. All of the
passengers and crew were taken on in
safety.
Secretary Wilson has appointed f
H. Webster OF Kansas, chief of the
dairying division of the department OF
agriculture, to succeed the late Major
Henry E. Alvord-
Four more deaths from wood alco-
hol have been reported from the mouth
Of the Beaver river, in Kentucky. max.
ing a total of ten deaths. Two more
are said to be dying.
Secretary Shaw has transmitted to
the house a request from Secretary
Wilson for deficiency appropriation
OF $4,000 to eradicate scabies in
sheep and mango in cattle.
King Peter OF Servia has signed the
new press law, which practically abol-
ishes freedom OF the press In Servia.
though aimed principally at the anti
dynastic and opposition papers.
The governor of Moscow has offic.
tally condemned the resolution of the
Moscow town council December IL.
popular control of the gov
eminent and freedom of the press and
of meeting.
The Pitcairn island cruising cutter
the passengers, was drowned Three
young men managed to make their es.
cape by swimming eight miles In
rough sea.
Several newspapers of Copenhagen
charge War Minister Madsen with per
hitting Danish gun factories to manu-.
'acture arms for Russia. 1t is ex-
Dected that the incident will cause a
storm in parliament
DR.. Leroy S. Chadwick and his wife
Mrs. Cassie l.. Chadwick, have been
Ointly indicted by the grand jury az
cleveland, o., on the charge of having
orged and uttered a S5,000,000 note
igned Andrew Carnegie.
A courier from Alcazar, about 16t
niles northeast of Tangier. says thai
ribesmen have surrounded AIcaxaI
nd threaten to sack the town unless
he French consul and one British sub
ect are handed over to them.
A gang of bell-boys, organized to
teal the property of guests In tbs
owntown hotels, has been discovered
y the police of Chicago, and money
nd jewelry amounting to nearly 81 ,00e
as been found in their possession
A fund to be used for prizes for the
est papers on the subject OF the rela-
ons of the United States with the
republics has been
wen to Columbia university by JohI
arrett, American minister to Panama
The victorious forces have entered
lie city of ASCENSION. Paraguay. ane
Jet with an enthusiastic reception
eneral Caballero and other politicians
i'll leave the country. it is said. not
0wever. under sentence of Danish.
ent
Military critics in st. Petersburg do
II attach vital Importance to the cap
Ire of the north fort of Kekwan
ountain. They declare 1t is not part
the main line of defenses of Port
rthur and therefore without influence
/ the fate of the fortress.
Fred Jones. clerk in store at
ewfane. N Y. shot and killed Mrs.
bby Goodrich and Constable William
ray. and the shot himself fatally.
le constable had been called to ar
st Jones at Mrs. Goodrich's request,
hen the tragedy occurred.