Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-03-29
NEWS SU M MAR Y


has passed a bill carrying the adop.
ton of the metric system of measures
in Denmark.
The Russian evacuation of Manchu
ria is complete. The last battalion OF
Russian troops left Hardin Thursday
of last week.
Thirty woman suffragists were ar
rested Wednesday afternoon for at
tempting to force an entrance into the
House of Commons.
Six former or present attendants OF
the State hospital for the insane at
Cleveland, o., were indicted last week
for alleged attacks on patients.
AS the result of collision between
a passenger train and freight train
at Turuschiche station, seventeen per-
sons were killed and thirty-five in
jured.
Mrs. James Tolbert, wife of former
Mayor Tolbert of Fairmont, Ga, was
Ibrutally assaulted and her 2-month-old
baby was murdered by negro at their
home.
Secretary Taft and party which is to
accompany him to Panama, Cuba and
Porto Rico will go on the Mayiower,
which the navy department has placed
at their disposal.
Peasants have again invaded Botos-
sahni and set fire to different parts OF
the town, especially the Jewish quar-
tiers. Troops interviewed and several
of the peasants were killed or
wounded.
Every man in Fort Dodge, Iowa, be-
tween the ages of % and As years
must become a married man or pay
a fine, as the result of an ordinance
introduced by Mayor Bennett and
passed by the city council.
Count Arco, in his wireless telephone
experiments, says a Berlin dispatch,
has succeeded in obtaining distinct ex-
changes of words in tolerable natural
voice at a distance of two miles, by
using poles thirty feet high.
Two corps of Western Pacific en-
gineers are surveying the proposed
| line between Ely, Nevada, and the
main line of the Western Pacific, and
will complete their preliminary work
within the next thirty days.
Mrs Fred Belasco, wife of the senior
partner of the Alcazar theatre and
known on the stage under the name of
Juliet Crosby, died suddenly in San
Francisco, and an hour later M. l..
Mayer, Mr.. Belascos partner, died OF
the shock.
Edward Howell, one of the most in
fiuential negroes in southern Missis-
sippi and president of the Peoples
bank, of Hattiesburg, Miss, was shot
in the back and killed while on his
way home late at night. No motive
is known.
A Santa Fe freight locomotive boiler
exploded at Simms, Cal, killing Fire
man J. B. Kerr and fatally scalding
Engineer P. Barnum. Brakeman ]. L. |
McElery was badly hurt. Four cars
were demolished and the track blocked |
with wreckage.
A murder trial presenting features
of unusual interest began at Garnet, |
Ills, Monday, when Jennie Burch, |
fourteen-year-old girl will be called |
ON to answer the charge of poisoning |
Wilbur Winship, two-year-old child |
whose nurse she was.
President Baer of the Reading Rail |
road company has been authorized by. |
the board of directors of his company
to advance the age limit of employees
from 80 to 40 years. This is in line
with the recent action of the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad company.
When Mrs. Levi Jett, of Ashland,
Ky. was bathing her infant, she sud
ienly was seized with pain in the
head. il is said, and fell dead. The
babe fell from the lifeless arms of
is mother into a tub of hot water
md was scalded to death.
Governor Folk of Missouri has
signed the bill passed by the last les
stature making it a felony to operate
bucketshop in this state; the penalty
.lause also includes any telegraph or
telephone company which furnishes
to bucketshop-
Arthur Bean killed his wife with an
x at North Baltimore, o., and then
committed suicide by shooting himself.
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