Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-02-26
NEWS SUMMARY.

N. Y.
DR.. Manuel Amador has been unani-
mously elected first president Of the
republic of Panama
Two miners were killed and one is
missing as the result of an explosion
in the Monroe mine near st. Paul
Glence Bays, negro, was burned
at the stake near Crosset, Ark. on the
charge of numbering ]. D. Stephens of
Ashley.
An explosion at the Lain & Rand
powder mills at Wayne. N. j. caused
the death of three men. The mills were
wrecked.
florence Crosby, the Mormon elder
who shot himself in sleeping car
near Kansas City, has succumbed to
his injuries.
The United States protected cruis-
ers Cincinanti and Albany of Rear Ad-
miral Evans fleet, have sailed from
Manila for Shanghai
Lockjaw, caused by cut on the
hand transfer slip, caused the
death u George Powers, street car
conductor of New York City.
Samuel Hazard, the West Pointer
and former army officer, convicted at
Minneapolis of bigamy, has been SEN
fenced to two years Imprisonment.
President John Mitchell of the Unit
ed Mine Workers, speaking before the
Illinois miners at Chicago. advised the
miners not to accept any reduction in
wages.
Fourteen employees of a celluloid
comb factory in Paris lost their lives
in a fire which was started by an ex-
plosion of gas. Twenty others were
injured.
The federal assembly of San Juan,
P. R., by a vote of so to Is, demanded
that Porto Rico be admitted to state
hood, or that the island be granted in
dependence.
No new cases of bubonic plague have
developed at Pascasmayo, Peru, dur
ing the last seven days and it is
hoped that the outbreak has been
stamped out.
Flour exports from the United
States in 1903 were larger than in any
preceding year in the history of our
commerce and aggregated practically
100000 barrels.
1t is authoritatively stated that the
question of the annexation Of San Do
mingo to the United States has never
received the slightest consideration on
the part of the United States.
Japanese fugitives who were NAL
treated at Port Arthur have arrived
at Chemulpo, and the report of their
ill-treatment has caused great excite
ment among the soldiers there.
1t was thought not a life was lost in
the fire at Baltimore, but charred
body has been found in the water at
Bowers wharf. The body was so bad
ly burned as to be unacceptable.
A Paris paper affirms that at the
last ministerial council it was decided
definitely to put off President Loubet's
visit to Italy, but the reason for the
postponement of the presidents trip
has not been announced.
The senate committee on mines and
mining has favorably reported the
senate bill to establish mining exper-
iment stations for the development of
the mineral resources of the United
States and for other purposes.
Eddie Hanlon, the California
feather-weight boxer, has been
matched to meet George Decker be-
fore the National Athletic club on
March 1st. Decker is considered the
best featherweight of Philadelphia
The Russians explain that the
wholesale arrests of Japanese at Har-
bin and elsewhere was due to the dis
covery that Japanese had in those dis
tricts upwards of 100 spies, Of whom
sixty belonged to the Japanese gen
eral staff.
The trial of Senator Burton of Kan
sas, charged with accepting money
for using his influence in preventing
the issuance of a fraud order against
the Rialto Grain and Securities COM
pany of st. Louis, has been set for
March %.
At Santa Fe, N. NJ, the territorial