Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-08-02
NEWS SUMMARY

Catherine Moore died at Railway, N
j., on the 9th, aged 112. Her facul-
ties. except for slight deafness, were
well preserved
All the American employees on the
Parral & Durango railroad in Chihua-
hua, owned by Pittsburg, Pa. capital
lists, are on strike for higher wages.
A heavy windstorm struck crowd
ed Chautauqua tent at Ashland, Neb.,
creating a panic and resulting in the
more or less serious injury of fifteen
persons.
Richard Fl. Halsey, president of the
Oshkosh Normal school and well
known in educational circles was &C
cidentally shot and killed at Beoge-
bic lake, Wis.
A ST. Petersburg paper says the
minister of marine has ordered the
Baltic yards to prepare for the
prompt construction of several $4,000
ton battleships
Lightning struck the steeple OF ST.
Mary's church at Waterford, Wis,
killing one of the worshippers Sew
eral others were knocked down and
severely stunned.
Bowling Green, negro, was hanged
at Pittsburg for the murder of his
wife. Green marched cheerfully to
the scaffold, singing. I'm the Cross
Know I'm Anchored"
The president has signed a procla-
nation notifying the public of the
conclusion of the Dominican treaty
Similar action was taken in Santo
Domingo by President Caceres.
Ignacio Campisciano, his wife, Col
lagaro Gendusa and Tony Costa,
found guilty of numbering the La
mana child at Hahnville, La, have
been sentenced to life Imprisonment.
A revolutionary movement has brol.
en- out in one of the Argentine prov
lnces bordering on Brazil. The Brazil
ian government has sent troops to the
frontier in order to prevent violation
of mentality.
Miss Esther Norling, aged %, was
shot and killed in New York City, her
slayer, it is alleged, being Charles
Warner, her former employer, whose
attentions she had repulsed Warner
was captured.
The Grand Duke of Baden is strong
ly opposed ia the death penalty, and |
it is believed he will commute the |
death sentence imposed upon Karl |
Hau for the murder of his mother-in- |
law to life Imprisonment.
A terrific wind, hail and rain storm |
destroyed fifteen dwellings, injured |
twenty-five people, two of them prob
ably fatally, and did much other
damage to property in Williston, ~
D.. and the surrounding country.
The thirty-nine anarchists compos-
ing the entire national convention of
the German anarchist societies, who I
we're placed on trial at Monheim on
he charge of holding an illegal open
air meeting. have been acquitted.
The supreme court OF Guatemala
las confirmed the death penalty on
III those sentenced in connection with
he recent attempt to assassinate
President Cabrera, and who had ap-
Governor Folk of Missouri has
,ranted respite of thirty days to
Lord" Frederick Seymour Barring
on, under sentence to be hanged at
layton, Mo-, on July %, for the muir
er of James p. Mccain two years
go.
A long drawn dispute between the
oal operators and miners over the
Sc of the Pate steam dump, a labor
aving device which threatened to
lose the mines of the Pittsburg dis
riot with a general strike, has been
ettled favorably to the miners.
The chief sanitary officer of the
sthmian canal construction reports
nat out of 1890 white American en-
loyees there were only four deaths :
uring the month, and that out of
bout $4,000 whites other than Amer
ans there were but fifteen deaths.
Major Eugene Coffin, paymaster of
he United States at Manila, is dead,
blowing the amputation of his left
nm. He contracted blood poison
ON handling money in paying of
oops, and amputation of his arm
as resorted to in hope of saving his
fe.
Following a quarrel, Mrs. Alice |
ruce, aged Is years, bride of sew. ;
al weeks, was shot and instantly ;
He'd at her home at Camden, N. j. ]
her husband. Frederick Bruce. l
ho then fatally shot himself. Bruce {
Iarreled with his wife because she {
manned away from home until late I
night without his consent. {
Germany will oppose the ordering /
the British proposition regarding {
e elimination of ornaments. She q
intends it is impossible to acknowl- G
ge the urgency of disarmament
hen no practical scheme has been C
vised for the reduction of military
rdens. q
Grief stricken by the receipt of @
tification that her services would k
I be longer required, Mrs. Nielsen, v