Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1905-01-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Smith railroad.
-Four Porto Rican students at the
University Of Michigan, at Ann A-bor,
Mich, have been seriously injured In
a coasting accident.
The Arizona legislature has passed
unanimously a joint resolution TSo-
testing against statehood with New
Mexico in any form and preferring ter
ritorial government forever.
AS result Of the fire in the stables
of the Decatur (n) Coal company
mine four miners are known to be
dead, one miner is missing, and anoth-
er is probably fatally injured.
The Italian government has issued
a decree providing for the abolition of
slavery in Italy's East African colo
MES, which was denounced years ago
by the American consul at Cairo
The national convention Of the Unit
ed Mine Workers of America, in ses-
sion at indianapolis, adopted resolu-
ton forbidding membership to all sa-
loon keepers, owners of saloons or bar
keepers.
Word was received that a man
named Nevins, alleged to have been a
member of the noted band of horse
thieves which operated in New Mexico,
was shot and killed at Folsom, N. NJ,
by Deputy Sheriff Thomas
Shortly after leaving her fathers
store on her way home at night, Miss
Belle Bloodworth, daughter Of we'll
known merchant, was found murdered
in an alley in New Decatur. Ills. So
far there is no clue to the perpetrator.
John Kenneth Mackenzie, a mining
engineer and Dr. Robert C. Coy, q
dentist, both of Chicago. were killed
recently by Indians sixty-five miles
from Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico, &C.
cording to word just receiced in Chi
cago.
William Peterson, a longshoremans
shot and killed William Nieberg, a sa-
loon keeper, in San Francisco The
men had had trouble over the divorced
wife OF Nieberg, and Peterson was
arrested last week for threatening the
woman
The coffee crop of Hayti is almost
q failure, according to a report of the
state department from Minister Pow
ell. He says that not more than so
per cent of the crop win be saved
This is a sad blow to the government
revenues.
Booker T. Washington, principal OF
the Tuskegee school for negroes, has
an option on $50 acres of land about
five miles from Montgomery. Ala, and
it is said he will establish thereon a
school farm or experiment station for
negroes.
BENJAMIN Conigisky Of Peoria, his,
has Just been awakened from a five
weeks trance, having succeeded in
hypnotizing himself while studying art
and the occult at Washington, D. c.
Indications are that he win recover
his health.
At Wilson, Kans., City Marshal Till
man shot and killed Sam Hutchinson,
the postmaster and editor of pa
per, and then committed suicide Sew
eral days ago Tillman whipped Hutch
inson's boy, and the latter scored the
marshal in his paper.
The dead bodies of Miss Mary Con
way and Mrs. McMurry were discov-
cred in a house in San Francis
CO. The women had been asphyxiated
by gas and evidently had been dead
for several days. The police believe
that the deaths were accidental
In recurrence of earthquake in
Thesaly. a village was destroyed and
several persons killed or injured
Floods are general in Greece, especial
" in Sparta. in consequence OF the
continued rains. Much damage has
been done and traffic is suspended
Because her husband unbraided her
for smoking cigarettes. a habit which /
had undermined her health and which 4
She could not conquer, Mrs Sadie I
Thompson of Chicago swallowed a
lose of corrosive sublimate and died
after a lingering and agonizing illness.
An explosion in stereopticon out
il during a lecture on volcanoes mar
'owly missed causing serious panic
n the Oyster Bay. n. l.. high school
building. A blaze followed the explo-
ion and the crowd scrambled wildly
or the doors. No one was seriously
lurt
James Abshire and his son fought a