Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1906-08-17
NEWS SUMMARY

Fourteen men in a coal mine at
Renald, Prussia Silesia, were killed
by the breaking of a rope while their
car was descending the pit.
A band of Chinese bandits engaged
in pillaging along the Sungari river
was shelled by a Russian gunboat and
large number of the bandits were
killed.
Wesley Shaffer a farmer, living
near Cedar Rapids, Iowa, killed his
wife, choking her and striking her
with hammer. The couple had
twelve children.
M. Mackenzie was shot and killed
by the accidental discharge Of shot
gun in the hands of c. B. Nichols at
Cahuenge Pass, about ten miles north
west of Los Angeles.
I Peasants of the village of Tcheneer-
mix, Russian Poland, murdered four
Socialists upon their arrival in the vii
lage for the purpose of melting the
peasants against the landlords.
w. H. Denny, former mayor and
banker, of Williston, n. D., who was
convicted on a charge of receiving
stolen horses, has been sentenced to
serve three years in the Denitentiary
Sir Francis Scott, BART. a lieutenant
of the Royal British navy, retired, was
found dead at his residence, Dunnald,
South Sea, with bullet in his heart
1t is surmised that he committed sui
eide.
A British launch, the Wingenat, was
attacked by pirates close to WI Chow,
China One of her crew was killed
and three were wounded. The pirates
secured about $500 and a chest Of
opium.
Advices were received from Hong
kong by the steamer Mont Eagle to
the effect that several Chinese firms
Of Hongkong have become bankrupt
as result of losses occasioned by the
San Francisco disaster.
The correspondent at Alden of the
London Mail reports that the Mad
Mullah has raided the Somaliland Dor
der. killing more than 1000 of the
Haron tribe, dwelling in the Ogaden
region, and capturing 10000 camels.
A coroner's jury has recommended
that K. o. Knudson, wealthy Chi
cago contractor, whose wife died re-
Gently under suspicious circumstances,
be held to the grand jury on the sus-
picion that he had poisoned the wo-
man.
On the gallows of the state prison
at San Quentin, Cal, w. H. Trebilcox
was hanged for the murder of his wife
in Grass Valley on March IA, 1905.
The doomed man went to the scaffold
without any unusual display of nerv-
BUSINESS.
Milton milestone, aged 80, cashier |
of the Citizens National bank of Lans- |
ford, Pa, was killed, and Daniel Nc
Geehan, aged 81, assistant cashier OF :
the same institution, was fatally in |
jured by their carriage being struck |
by trolley car.
The Lisbon correspondent of the
Paris Journal says that Brazilian
named Guerrero has been arrested
there charged with the theft of the
crown of the Brazilian emperor, which
is formed of precious stones and
valued at 100000.
While bringing the body of his
mother, Mrs Mary Riley. to Spring
field. Mo-, for burial from Peoria,
where she died, George Riley stepped
out on the train platform and dropped
to the rails between the baggage and
smoking cars. He was ground to
death.
Frank Mullins was shot and killed
Dy his 1O-year-old son at Bowieton sta
ion, Miss. 1t was said that Mullins
was whipping another of his children
md that his wife, when she attempted
o interfere, was struck with the strap
n her husbands hand.
William H. Taft, secretary of war,
las consented to come to Kansas and
make two speeches during the cam
,aign. The Republican state central
committee has made arrangements
or Secretary Taft to speak in Topeka
few days before election.
Thomas Daniels five children per-
shed in fire which destroyed the
omi1v recidenca at Oak Park q sinh