Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-06-03
NEWS SUMMARY.

At the annual conference of the Dun
kards, held at Carthage, Mo, the name
Of the organization was changed to
German Baptists
The project for the establishment Of
the Panama coinage on a gold basis
was defeated in the legislature after
q heated discussion.
The local police have discovered
hundreds OF skeletons of children in a
loft on the premises occupied by an
old midwife at Tagil, Russia.
According to the latest reports the
Japanese camps at Lao Yang are in
fected with cholera and there is an
average of 100 deaths daily.
Military measures on large scale
begun recently by Venezuela are CIV
ing rise to great deal of uneasiness
and apprehension at Washington.
Charles Parkin, retired iron and
steel manufacturer, who has been
termed the father of the crucible steel
Industry in the United States. is dead
at Pittsburg.
Yale having accepted the challege to
compete with Harvard against Oxford
and Cambridge athletes about July 5,
the teams will sail during the first
week in July.
Pitsewo correspondent writes that
the Chinese are assisting the Japanese
in every way, and that the Hunhutzes
and other bandits are regularly enlist
ed in the Japanese army.
The kindness of the Japanese to
their prisoners has been exempiified
by the sending to their homes of two
wounded Cossacks' photographs, show
ing them to be alive and safe.
Fire that started in the Central hotel
at Greenwood, S. c., caused the death
of Mrs. Anna Hosely, the proprietress
of the hotel Eighteen stores and the
First National bank were burned.
City Building Commissioner Will
liams of Chicago has formally refused
to grant a permit for the reconstruc-
ton of the Iroquois theatre, in which
hundreds of people persisted by fire.
The approaching arrival of United
States warship at Tangier, Morocco, is
viewed with some apprehension in Of
fetal quarters at Paris, as it is feared
It may lead to a turbulent demonstra-
ton.
The report that Rear Admiral Jes-
sen, finding it impossible to save the
cruiser Bogatyr, which went ashore re-
Gently in fog on the rocks near Vlad-
fvostok. caused the vessel to be blown
up, is confirmed.
The large village of Iskovosk, Rus
STA, has been burned down The loss
is estimated at 81, 100000. The fire was
started by children playing with
matches. The whole Of the population
rs homeless and reduced to beggary.
The Japanese troops have swept all
the Russians from their defenses west
of Talienwan bay. 1t is now improb-
able that the latter will be capable OF
offering any further serious resistance
in the territory north of Port Arthur.
A revolt that began in village
north OF Sidoarko, an island of Java,
Dutch East Indies, and was started by
fanatics, has been quelled by troops,
who killed seventy-two of the rebels
and arrested dozen of the ringlead-
ers.
There has been issued an imperial
decree ordering the establishment of a
Red Cross society in China, and that
1t Join the international convention. 1
The sum of 100000 taels from the i'm
perial treasury has been devoted to the
society.
Furnace No. l of the Mountain Cop
per company's works at Keswick, CAL,
exploded. seriously injuring five men,
wo of whom, E. Blair and F. Hawkins,
will die. The other three were terribly {
nangled. The furnace was totally
wrecked.
The Methodist Protestant confer
nee at Washington cleared the way
Or union between itself and the four
with which negotiations
re pending by the adoption of a sup
lemental report from its committee \
q union. 4
An agent has left Halifax, N. s., for F
lew York to close the sale Of the :.