Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-01-22
NEWS SUMMARY.

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over four billion dollars.
The mother of Captain Richard P
Hobson died at Boulder, Colo. on the
18th, after long Illness.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian
premier, has announced that parlia
ment will be summoned at an eIrly
date.
The house has passed the legisla-
| tive, executive and judicial appropria-
ton bill, carrying an aggregate of
s2s,717.700.
Welcomed by fully 10000 persons.
Archbishop Harry landed at Manila
Saturday, meeting with most enthu-
siastic reception.
The fight between Young Corbett
and Jimmy Britt has been definitely
settled. They will meet in San Fran
cisco on March II.
1t is reported that a serious battle
has taken place between the Uru-
guayan government troops and the in
surgents, the latter losing heavily.
Because Baltimore newspaper had
adversely criticised his writings, Pro-
fessor Lyman Elliott Smith of Mays
Lick, KY, shot and instantly killed
himself.
The London Standards Tien Tsin
correspondent says it is reported that
Russia has asked China to send $4,000
troops to Manchuria to protect Chi
nese subjects.
1t is reported at Topeka that the
headquarters of the superintendent of
transportation of the entire Santa Fe
system will be removed from that |
city to Chicago.
William A. Harris, former United I
States senator from Kansas, has been |
appointed member of the executive I
committee of the Kansas City, Mexico
G; Orient railway.
The elections committee in the
lower branch of the Kentucky legisla-
ture will report fayorably on a bill
DISTINGUISHING the negro, on the
ground of illiteracy.
In terrible hand-to-hand encounter
1T Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Ed
Kelly, said to be the desperate who
killed Bob Ford. slayer of Jesse
lanes, was shot to death by Police
nan Joe Burnett.
The Cuban senate, after a long de-
,ate, approved the fill authorizing
President Palma to increase duties in
lis judgment necessary, not to exceed
0 per cent than the present rates as
.dopted by the house.
J. H. Edmiston, vice chairman of
be national committee of the Peoples
arty, has issued a call for the COM
1ittee to meet in st. Louis February
to fix the time and place for hold
lg a national convention.
D. Bias, the murderer convicted of
omplicity in the Dos Hermos mutiny,
as garroted at Manila Saturday. He
lade statement generating three
Tiers connected with the affair who
re under sentence of death.
The official statement of the postal
sceipts at fifty of the largest post |
fees in the United States for De- |
smber, 1903, compared with Deem
Or, 1902, shows a total of s6,39S. 794,
net increase of s526,S14, or almost |
,r cent. II
The national Socialist committee
I'D a meeting at its headquarters in
maha, Saturday The referendum
tie in proportional representation
as canvassed and the PROPOSE
IN was found to have a large ma
rity.
Relatives of victims of the Iroquois
eatre fire and survivors of the dis
ter, more than 100 in number, have
1T and taken action looking to the
rpetuity of an organization to be
own as the Iroquois Memorial as
,iation. l
5ecrye Layton and his wife were
Ind dead in their apartments in San =
anoisco. They had been asphyxi
ID by gas that escaped from leaky
,e connecting with stove. Layton
S found leaning against a table
lie his wife was in bed. i,
The Danish navy department has
.ided to commission four of the i,