Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1904-02-12
NEWS SUMMARY.

Three were burned to death and fouI
probably fatally injured in fire al
Montreal, Canada
Forty persons were killed by an ex
plosion of ten tons Of gunpowder al
Fort Bhatinda, in the Punjab.
Theodore Peteroff, known as 30 10
the dog-faced boy" is dead of pneu'
monia at his home in Salonica, Turkey
The supreme court of Ohio has de
| clared unconstitutional the law per
hitting trust companies to administer
estates.
A bill has been introduced in the
state senate of Maryland, the purpose
of which is to eliminate the negro vote
in that state.
Dan Barker and his wife have been
found murdered in their home near
Riverton, Neb. Bankers brother,
Frank. is under arrest.
| Two robbers shot and fatally wound
ed George Becker, a conductor on
Chicago street car, when he resisted
their attempts to rob him.
Chris Massey, a carpenter. suicided
in a barber chair at Monterey, Cal.
Massey suddenly seized a razor from
the shelf and cut his throat.
There has been hard fighting around
Monte Cristi and Santiago de Los Ca
belleros, Danish West Indies. Hun
dreds of men have been killed and
business is paralyzed.
The jury in the case of Colonel Ed
Butler, the millionaire st. Louis poll
tician, on trial on charge of bribing
nineteen members Of the house of del
egates of st. Louis, returned verdict
of not guilty.
The postof1ice department an
nounces that all rural free delivery
carriers in the United States will have
a holiday February %, Washington's
birthday There are, approximately,
10000 of these carriers.
In a fight on Olive street, st. Louis,
before daylight, Joseph Littler. pro-
prietor of the Bachelor hotel on Olive
street, was shot and Instantly killed
and Policeman Edward Mackele was
shot and seriously wounded.
A dispatch received from Sofia, Bull
garia. says the chiefs of the Macedon-
ian revolutionary organization in the
interior have sent out circulars to the
members of the organization ordering
a renewal of the instruction.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows that at the close Of bust
ness January 80, 1904, the total debt,
less cash in the treasury, amounted
to 1915, O62, 549, which is an increase of
S911. 663. as compared with the preced-
ing month.
Miss Kate Moriarity is dead at
Springfield, Mass, from heart failure
which was caused, according to the
doctors, by pressure from corset stays.
She tainted while dancing, was re-
moved from the ball room and died
within a few minutes.
Munitions of war intended for Gen.
eral Jiminez, the Dominican revolu
tionary leader, were seized at Puerto
Plata on the north coast of the repub
lie of Santo Domingo. after having
been landed there by the steamer New
York from New York.
Walter NJ. Woolnough, probably the
oldest newspaper editor in Michigan,
Is dead, aged SO years. Mr.. Woclnough
started the first paper published in
Battle Creek, and was one of the men
present at the organization of the Re
publican party at Jackson
A Tribune special says the Smoo'
inquiry promises to be prolonged
one, Chairman Burrows having been
given unlimited power to summon wit
nesses. and a subcommittee may be
appointed to visit Utah The Leilich
charges will not be entered into.
Sam Yung, Chinaman, was brutally
murdered in Chinatown, San Fran
cisco. Shortly afer o'clock four I'M
known Chinese entered the restaurant |
where Yung was employed as cook. at
tackled him with cleavers and knives, |
and literally hacked him to death.
Several accredited agents of the
Japanese imperial remount department
are in the Okancgan and Nicola dis |
tricts Of British Columbia purchasing |