Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-01-15
NEWS SUMMARY.

gone on a strike and much inconveni-
ence, especially to undertakers, has
ensued
1t is announced that Great Britain
has agreed to the Anglo-Italian arbi-
tration treaty, which will be signed
in Rome.
Charles Foster, former secretary of
the treasury and former governor of
Ohio, is dead. from an attack of pa
ralysis.
The health officers of Lincoln. Neb.,
Indignantly refute the story that there
is leprosy in the Russian colony at
that place
Three more deaths from typhoid
fever at Butler, Pa, raises the total
to ninety-eight deaths since the
scourge started.
/ A roitous strike of 1000 coolies for
higher wages occurred on the Ameri-
can railway at Sainam, China. No
one was injured.
The Argentine senate has voted the
immediate abolition of another per
cent of the customs duty, making the
total reduction 10 per cent.
In Panbasinan province, Luzon, the
rice crop will amount to three million
cavans, sufficient to supply the de-
mand OF the entire archipelago.
There are approximately 1000 cases
Of typhoid fever in Montreal, Canada,
and the half dozen smaller municipal
tiles which join it on the three sides.
Russia is negotiating with Turkey
to permit her Black sea feet, said to
consist of seventy-six ships, to pass
through the Straits of the Darda-
nelles.
1t is officially announced that peace
has been declared in Damaraland,
German Southwest Africa, and that
the hostile Hottentots have surren-
dered.
A record of loss by fire in the Unit
ed States and Canada for the year
just closed compiled by the Journal
of Commerce, shows total of $780,
1870.
The Russian volunteer fleet cruiser
Saratoff has been ordered to Sebasto-
pool to receive her armament and
thence proceed with all haste to Port
Arthur
The commissioner of internal rev.
enue has decided that it is permissi-
BILE for state prisons to manufacture
tobacco or cigars for their own in
mates without paying license.
The senate committee on military
affairs has authorized Senator For
aker to report favorably the nomina-
ton of Governor Taft of the Philip
pines to be secretary of war.
State Bank Examiner drummer has
found only $500 cash in the wrecked
bank of Highland. Kansas. The de-
posits at the time the bank was
closed amounted to more than $4,000.
Apparatus for wireless telegraDhy
has been installed at Point Reyes,
forty miles north Of San Francisco, on
the coast line, and on the southeast
Farallon island, which works per-
fectly.
Several Japanese officials who have
been attending the cavalry school at
Hanover have received cable mes
sages from their government instruct
ting them to return to Japan imme-
diately.
1t is reported that a volcano on
Sugarloaf mountain in Rowan coun-
ty. KY. is assuming alarming proper
tions, smoke pouring from the ifs
sures, accompanied by deep rum
bling noise.
United States Consul General Cow
dy in Paris has received instructions
from Secretary of State Hay to rep
resent Panama in all consular matters
and that the secretary had notified the
other consuls in Europe to take like
action.
The war scare has caused furry
in the camphor market. Japan is the
source of almost all the worlds sup
ply, although lately there has been
a little manufacture of the gum in the
United States by chemical process. us
np coal tar as a base.
Mother Jones, known as the Joan
If Arc of the United Mine Workers.
8 III with pneumonia at her hotel at