Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-06-01
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ton.
One man was killed and five injured
In head-on collision between light
engine and freight train near Oil City,
Pa.
In a fire at the Kubari colliery, on
the island Of Hokkaido, 41S buildings
were destroyed and nine miners per-
ished.
A naval lieutenant named Halschev-
nikoff has been identified as the would
be assassin of the encouragement Of
Moscow.
President Shontz says that If lock
canal should be constructed. the Pan
ANA canal would be in operation July
1, 1914.
Mrs. Sallei Elizabeth Sneed Vest,
widow of the late United State Senator
George Graham Vest, is dead at st.
Louis, aged IA years.
Tom Jackson, negro, who had been
arrested for holding-up and robbing
Henry Barnes, white boy, Of one dol
lar, was lynched at Blanchard, La.
Six men were killed and fifty others
more or less injured by an ex-
plosion in the plant of the New York
Glucose company at Shadyside, N. ].
Five persons were injured by col
Hsion between two automobiles near
Springfield, O., one of the machines
being thrown down ten-foot embank-
ment.
During a bali game near Mobile,
Ala, lightning struck in the midst OF
the crowd of spectators, killing five
and more or less injuring twenty-five
others.
The residence of ]. w. Duke, near
Waxahachie. 4 exas, was struck by a
cyclone and demolished, an infant be-
ing killed and other members of the
family injured.
Count Solsky has been relieved OF
the presidency of the council OF the
empire, or upper house of parliament
of Russia, at his own request, and on
account of illhealth.
The remains of a man, supposed to
be H. X. Shaw, a mining promoter,
were found under the Mission street
wharf, San Francisco, weighted down
with eighty pounds of scrap iron.
R. Brent Mitchell, the former San
Francisco stock broker who failed for
500, 900 some months ago and fled the
city a self-confessed embezzler, has
been located in Spanish Honduras.
Charles McEwen, a prominent far
mer and horseman of Cowles county,
Kansas, was dubbed to death by
Amassa Thomas as the elimination OF
a feud of long standing between the
two men.
The British steamer Oakbum, which
sailed from New York April Is for
Sydney, N. S. W., has been wrecked
off Duyker point, near Capetown. Her
crew, with the exception of two China
men, were saved.
The American National Red Cross
received $4,000 last week from the
Japanese Red Cross for the relief OF
the San Francisco earthquake suffer-
ers. This brings the total Japanese
Red Cross contribution to $4,000.
The British Felucca Consuelo has
been captured off the Anghera coast
by pirates. who are adherents of the
brigand chief, Valiente. The sum OF
81. 900 is demanded as ransom for the
vessel and the release of her crew.
In thirty fathoms of water and at
the risk of his own life, William Conk-
lin, a 14-year-old boy, of Stapleton,
Staten Island, rescued Captain August
Camarton, of the Gloucester fishing
schooner Maud S., from drowning
In the district of Tadiakensk peas
ant couple were killed and their six
year-old son was wounded and their
home set on fire by band OF revolu-
tionists. The crime was an act Of ven
geance because the peasant had led
Cossack patrol.
s. A. D. Puter, accused Of completely
in the Oregon land frauds, and who
has been hunted for months by the
federal authorities since he escaped
from detectives in Boston, was arrest
ed in Alameda, Cal, last week by sec
ret service men.
George II. Younger. a negro. who