Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

The Japanese captured $4,000 pris-
oners at Port Arthur. The total mum.
Der of inhabitants is $4,000, of whom
10000 are sick.
John Alexander Dowie has gone to
Mexico for the purpose of inspecting
an extensive tract of land on which he
expects to build second Zion City.
The savings bank of Treyner. Iowa,
was dynamited at night and the build
Ing badly wrecked. 1t is not known
how much was secured by the burg
lars.
The British consurs residence out
ode Tangier, Morocco, was attacked
by Insurgents during the night of JAN
uary 4. Guards drove the attackers
away. az
John Hathaway, negro, who sew
eral years ago rated high as a jockey,
was hanged at Winchester, KY, for
the murder of Eta Thomas, his sweet
heart. a.
| 1t is said that twenty-four persons
lost their lives in the mountains dur
ing the recent blizzard in Switzerland,
fourteen of the casualties being on the
st. Bernard pass. sf
BY the backing Of work, train into
freight standing on the Northern
Central track near York, Pa. eighteen
men were injured, five SO badly that
their recovery is doubtful. p -.
I Justice Greenbaum OF the New
York supreme court has denied the
application of Nan Patterson for bail,
pending a new trial on the charge Of
the murder of Caesar Young
White Jetton. q negro. less than Is
years old, who, with negro compan-
| ion, assaulted farmer named hobbs,
near Spring Hill, Ark, has been taken
from a constable and lynched.
The fall of Port Arthur has taken
the heart out of the approaching fes-
tivities of the Russian Christmas. 1t
ib oven pIOpOScQ W uiopChoC Will LIZ
Examinations and decorations.
: Reports from all the mine in
spectors in the anthracite region Oh
Pennsylvania for the year 1904 show
that 564 mine workers we're killed in
the region, leaving 272 widows
Sewing machine agents to the num-
Der of 200 have decided to inaugurate
strike in New York City. Nothing
of the kind has ever occurred before In
the profession. and no union had been
| thought necessary. tl-t
One person was killed, another was
MORALLY wounded and two others were
wouded less seriously during an at
tempt by the police to capture Harry
Feinberg, wanted on murder charge,
In Chicago last week.
In the United States district court
at Little Rock, Ark, Judge Byber de-
clared void the amendment to the
constitution of Arkansas which re-
quires the payment of a poll tax as
qualification for voting.
William Rapson of Joliet, Ills, after
family quarrel. fatally shot his son,
Herbert, after which the old man
called Herbert's wife out to the barn,
shot and killed her and then shot. and
fatally wounded himself =
The British government has offered
Adolph Beck $25 900 In compensation
for wrongful Imprisonment. Beck was
wrongfully convicted in 1896 OF OBJ
tanning money and jewelry from wo
men under false pretences.
The supreme court of Nebraska has
declared unconstitutional the sugar
beet bounty law enacted at the legis.
lative session Of 1895. The law pro
vided a bounty on sugar manufac.
tured from Nebraska grown beets-
Miss Muriel Byram, an heiress,
known as one of the most beautiful
women in Chicago society, was found
dead in her boudoir with bullet-hole
through her neck. 1t is believed she
accidentally shot herself while clean
ing a pistol.
Statistics regarding trade between
Canada and Japan show a decline
during the past year. The value OF
Canadian goods exported to japan and
of Japanese goods brought into Can
ada were considerably less in 1904
than in 1908.
Lying across the threshold Of his
home with bullet-hole in his brain
James Reed, aged 80 years, was found
at his residence in Brooklyn. victim