Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-05-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

1t is said that civilians at Port Ar
thur are now experiencing difficulty in
securing food
Three persons were killed and prob
ably 100 injured in labor riots at
Buenos Ayres.
Seventeen business places and ten
dwellings were destroyed by FIRE that
wiped out half of Utica, MIcn., on Sun
day.
William R. Hearst swept the field in
the Iowa state Democratic convention.
He had a majority of ever $50 in the
convention.
Mrs. Mary A. Powell was convicted
at Dover, Della, of the murder of Es
tella Albin. the jury fixing the pun
ishment at life Imprisonment.
Four bandits, convicted of murder.
we're garroted at Santiago de Cuba on
the 4th. 1t was the first legal execu-
ton since the Spanish regime.
The threatened street car strike in
San Francisco has been averted, the
men accepting the proposition made by
the company through Mayor Schmitz.
While walking on the railroad track
near Monterey, CAL, Seth W. Fitch was
struck by an engine and instantly
killed. Being deaf, he did not hear the
approaching train.
Henry Judge, Dee Delp and John
Evans were hanged at Winchester,
Tenn, ON the 5th for the murder last
August of Simon Butcher and his wife.
They were stolid to the last.
While his fiancee and another young
woman vainly tried to lift the heavy
vehicle, H. S. Ringi of Chicago was
crushed to death in the mire of ditch
beneath his overturned automobile.
A three-story house collapsed at
st. Etienne, France, Sunday morning,
causing at least twelve deaths. 1t is
believed more corpses are under the
ruins. Many persons were injured.
While resisting an attempt of two
highwaymen to rob him, Captain Carl
Uphoven of the steamship Alps of the
United Fruit company lines was muir
dered on the levee in New Orleans.
Robert S. Kearney, prominent and
well-to-do iiyeryman, grandson of the
famous General Phil Kearney, is in
Jail at Joplin, Mo-, under arrest on a
charge Of leading gang of highway
men.
Frank Smith, stock yards employee
at South Omaha; shot and killed his
wife and eighteen-months-old son and
then fired a bullet through his own
brain. Domestic trouble is assigned
as the cause.
The farm house of Peter Schmitt,
twenty-five miles north of Hobart,
Oklahoma, was struck by lightning
and four children, aged 8, 6, and
years, were killed. The children were
asleep upstairs.
A Paris dispatch says the result of
the municipal elections has trans
fe-red the majority in the council to
the ministerialists. with forty-three
against thirty-five nationalists and
two independents.
The legislature of Merida, Yucatan,
has conceded to the immigration so
ciety for a term of five years a pre-
MUM Of S25 to every family that
comes to the state for the purpose Of
engaging in agriculture.
During a popular demonstration at
Toxic in honor of the victories by the
Japanese forces, twenty-one people
were killed and forty injured. They
were caught against a gate and
crushed by the throng.
Mary Gray Lyon is dead at Keokuk.
Iowa On April %, 1879. Shake
speares birthday, she caused much ex-
by firing two shots at Edwin
Booth in MeVicker's theater. Chicago
duSing the play, Richard the Third"
President Candamante, of Peru, who
has been Ill for some time at Arequipa.
S dead The presidents death is deep
" regretted as all political ele-
ments regarded him as an honorable |
man. devoted to the interests of the
C. ]. Ingram, station agent at Sno-
lualmie, a Northern Pacific station
north of Seattle. was shot in the 4
mouth by highwayman, because he
-efused to open the safe Ingram
recognized the bandit. and he viii be
A sensational killing occurred at
.uling. Texas. eighty miles southeast