Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-07-26
NEWS SUMMARY


At Dalhart. Texas, eight conyicts
sawed through the jail ceiling and es-
capped, making ropes Of their blankets
A waterspout caused damage within
a radius of Is miles Of Leavenworth,
Kansas, estimated at half a million
dollars.
Governor Hughes of New York has
signed bill making adultery crime
punishable with a fine of $3.50 or six
months in prison or both.
Thousands of acres Of farming land
lying along the smaller streams in
the Kaw valley, of Kansas, are under
water as the result of heavy rains.
During the past few weeks 100 de-
serters have been listed and adver-
tised from the battleship Minnesota,
one OF the warships in Hampton
Roads.
Burglars broke into the postoffice at
South San Francisco at an early hour
in the morning and secured $1,000 in
stamps and money The robbers es-
capped.
James II. WOOu, du VI
Asherville, N. c., has been sentenced
to thirty days on the chain gang for
selling tickets in disregard of the new
rate law.
Henry Berg, retired grocer. COM
mitted suicide by throwing himself
over the railing from the twelfth
floor of the Chamber of Commerce
building in Chicago.
Governor Vardaman, of Mississippi,
has pardoned Mrs. Angie Birdsong.
She was sentenced to five years in the
penitentiary for the killing Of DR.. But
Ter in Lawrence county.
Captain August Azzali, leader of the
Mexican band. which organization ac-
companied the Ell Paso, Tex, lodge OF
Elks to Philadelphia, was drowned
while bathing at Atlantic City. N. j.
The constitutional convention Of Ok
lahoma has adopted the election .ordin-
ance calling the state election for
Sept. z, when the state officers as well
as the constitution will be voted upon. |
Richard Croker, according to adj |
vices from Dublin, has declined the |
nomination for member of |
parliament for East Wicklow to re-
place D. J. Cogan, nationalist. re-
signed.
At their home at Fort Smith, Ark,
T. o. Gholston, a well-known educator,
kissed his wife and then cut her
throat, killing her instantly. The cause
If the murder was jealousy. Gholston
was placed under arrest.
Returns of deaths from the plague in
india show the appalling total of 1,060,-
)67 for the six months ending June
20. The monthly total is at present
however, the death roll for
June being placed at 69,064.
AS a result of exceedingly heavy
aims all the streams of Poland have
,verfowed their banks The water
s damaging the crops. number OF
persons have been drowned and many
mall houses have been carried away.
P. o. Milford, former cashier of the
lefunct American bank at Manila, has
,een sentenced to Imprisonment for
light years and ten months on convic-
ion of having falsified notes purport-
ng to be part of the assets of the
ank.
Tchun, a member of the Korean mis-
ion to the peace conference, which
vas refused official recognition, died
uddenly on the 10th. There were ru
nors that Tchun had not met natur
| death, but doctors state the mar
led of apoplexy.
In a pistol duel at Petersburg, Va.
ohm w. Wheelhouse was shot anc
killed, and his nephew
ichard Wheelhouse, perhaps fatally
The fight between uncle and
ephew was the elimination of fam |
Y feud of long standing. i
Katsunoske Itouyea, the ambassador
t Japan to the German empire, has {
cen recalled. The reasons for this '
ction are not given. 1t is reported,
owever, that he is to be promoted 2
membership on the committee of ell a
sr statesmen of Japan
The bathhouse upon the estate of 6
cunt Tolstoi at Yasna Polyna. Russia, +
as burned at hight ny lnOcHuidAiCS- IL
his gave rise to the report that the Z
amor house had been destroyed by n
re and that several members of the y
mily, including the count had per-
he'd
An unknown man who was walking
it'll crutch and cane leaped into
e rapids above the Niagara falls and
as carried over the American cata- d
ct. His crutch and cane he left Il
hind, with a note signed d. j., say d
3: Tell my friends that have gone z
glory" te
Smolyany, small townu in Russia, a.
S recently suffered severely at the VI
nds of incendiaries. One hundred u
d fourteen houses occupied by Jews s.
d fifteen tenanted by Christians as
III as seventy shops, have been re
rned. Several persons persisted in 10
2 flames. of
Fire destroyed the Southern Pacific st
pot and hotel and the McCloud River is
change depot at Sisson, CAL, and TO