Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-12-21
NEWS SUNNI A R Y

| at standstill as a result of the strike
inaugurated by all railroad employees.
The total resources of the S5 trust
companies in New York state show
a decrease of about sSO,O00,0OO in
| three months.
The Citizens bank of Cedar Hill,
Texas, was robbed of $4,000, the rob
bers using nitro-glycerine in forcing
open the safe.
Representative Lacey of Iowa has
introduced bill making s12 the MINI
imum pension to be paid veterans of
the war of 1861.
The Senate in executive session on
the 18th ratified treaty with
Guatemala for the reciprocal protec-
ton of patents.
The war department has selected
the site for the government powder
factory, for which congress appropri-
ated $165, 900 the last session.
The steam trawler Forsoga has
been sunk in a storm off Christian
sand, Norway. All of her crew, num-
bering twelve men, were drowned.
Fourteen merchants and business
men of East st. Louis have entered
pleas of guilty to charges Of vio-
lating the Illinois child labor laws.
julius Persky, of Hammond, Ind,
died lasts week from excessive smok-
ing of cigarettes. He said that he
had smoked 500 900 cigarettes during
his lifetime.
Mrs. Frank Coonrad is believed TO
have been killed and property valued
at $4,000 destroyed in fire which
consumed the American house block in
Burlington, Vt.
Ten prominent lumber dealers have
been indicted by the grand jury for
an alleged violation of the Oklahoma
antitrust laws by entering into COM
bination to fix prices.
John C. Brain died at Tampa, Fla, of
paralysis. During the civil war he
commanded several warships. He
was the last Confederate prisoner to
be released after the war.
In response to cables from the chief
of police of Warsaw three Russian i'm
migrants were arrested Immediately
after leaving the North German Lloyd
steamer Halle at Baltimore.
The passenger steamer Monarch
with ten passengers and crew of
thirty is a wreck on Isle Royale,
Lake Superior. The passengers and
crew succeeded in reaching shore.
The differences between the federal
and insular governments over the di-
vision of the public lands in Porto Rico
have been amicably adjusted, subject
to the approval of the secretary of the
navy.
1t is the opinion of Representative
Victor Murdoch of Kansas, as he out
lined his position in speech in the
house. that the government is paying
too much for the carriage of railway
mail.
B. c. House, proprietor of laun-
dry at Ell Paso, Texas, shot three
men whom he claims attacked him
in a saloon, fatally wounding two
of them and seriously injuring the
other
For the first time in 20 years the
great Treadwell mines of Alaska are
closed. Douglas and Juneau are suf-
fering from coal famine and lack of
fuel has resulted in the closing of the
mines
Andrew Carnegie has sent to the
board of trustees of st. Viateurs col
lege. Kankakee, ILL.,, a check for
200 for the rebuilding of the col
lege building, which was recently de-
stIoyed by fire.
Emperor William has authorized
Chancellor Won Buelow to dissolve
tHe ltiCHobdS anu oAuSA new SiSStiOhS
if the supplementary appropriations
asked for by the government are not
granted by the house.
Dr. George M. Gray citizens can
didate, was elected mayor of Kansas
City, Kan, by plurality of 800 votes
over NJ ]. Pheian, democrat, and |
John P. Sims, republican, at a special
election held last week.
Changes in administration in six of |
the nineteen Massachusetts cities
which held elections on the 18th will |