Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-08-23
NEWS SUM MARY

| John Dogan, railroad fiagman, shot
his sister dead at Philadelphia because
she refused to lend him money.
Robbers blew open the safe in the
| Farmers State Bank at New Foulden.
MINI, secured $4,000, and escaped.
A trial for murder at Tchita has es-
tablished the fact that voluntary slav-
cry exists in many districts of eastern
Siberia.
A census of the canal zone just COM
pleted shows nearly $4,000 inhabitants
of the zone. About 20 per cent of the
total are whites.
A large portion of the business sec
ton of Princess Anne, county seat of
Westmoreland county, Va, has been
destroyed by fire.
Suit is to be instituted by the gov
eminent against the International Har-
vester company, for alleged violation
of the Sherman antitrust act.
By an explosion in a dynamite fac-
tory at Doemitz, Germany, nine per-
sons were killed, twenty dangerously
injured, and sixty slightly hurt
Dispatches from Saloniki report thir-
ty BuIgarians killed in battle with
Turkish troops near Menelik. The
Turkish losses were also heavy.
President Roosevelt has issued an
executive order making Labor day,
September 2, a holiday for govern
ment employees and laborers who are
employed by the day.
The National Christian Endeavor so
ciety has planned to raise half mil
lion dollars for building in Boston
as a memorial of quarter of CEN
fury of Christian Endeavor work.
The American bark Prussia has been
wrecked in the Straits of Magellan.
The captain committed suicide when
the vessel ran ashore, and fourteen
passengers in addition to four sailors,
lost their lives.
The Korean supreme court has
passed sentence upon the members OF
the Hague deputation. Sang Sol has
been condemned to be hanged and VI
Wi Chow and vi Chun have been SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life.
Announcement is made that great
artillery training school will be added
to the United States army and estab-
lished at Fortress Monroe, Va, for the
higher technical training of the Off
GERS and enlisted men of the coast Az
tillery corps.
Mrs. Esther Davis, an inmate of the
Home of the Daughters of Jacob, New
York City, was 112 years old Sunday,
and the day was duly celebrated in
the home. Mrs. Davis, to show that
she was still spry, danced few steps
for the guests.
City Food Inspector Cutler of Kan
sas City has notified the national gov
eminent that his tests of California
and Arkansas dried fruits cured with
sulphite shows that this fruit when
cooked is entirely wholesome, and
Kansas City will accept it.
The news comes from Lima, Peru,
to the effect that the British steamer
Columbia, from Panama, struck Saenz
Point, August 8, on Lobos TERRA ISL
and, and is a total loss. The report
states that both passengers and crew
of the Inflated steamer were saved.
An alleged Japanese spy, captured
in the Philippines, brought prisoner
to this country for the disposal of the
military authorities in San Francisco
on the transport Thomas was ia
ken to Mare Island for observation.
The mans name is Tanah Tsutsuti.
The Trans-Mississippi. Commercial
Congress which convenes at Musko-
gee, in the new state of Oklahoma,
November 1922, will not only be the
guest of the city of Muskogee, but
will be the guest of the Creek Nation.
in whose ancient territory the city OF
Muskogee is located
Having in his possession new
dress suitcase, stuffed with $40 gold
certificates, amounting to $4,000, Win
field Marson, aged 16, was arrested at
Oldtown. Maine, on the charge of steal
ing $4,000 from the Chicopee, Massa-
chusetts, National Bank, in which he
had been employed.
Dispatches from Shanghai state that
the dowager empress has announced
her determination to abdicate at the
next Chinese new year and hand the
authority to the emperor. Since 1898,
when the dowager took control from
the emperor, she vigorously has kept
him in the background.
Jakob Morengo, the chief wh1
caused the Germans more trouble in
their South African territory than all
others, and who has been in British |
custody since he sought refuge in Cape
after the last hostilities, es-
capped last week, and with 400 follow
ers is again marauding.
A cage containing five miners who
were about to descend to work at |
Sonman, Pa, shot upward instead of |
struck the top of the tipple !
eighty feet above the ground and over |
turned, precipitating the men to the |
bottom of the shaft 400 feet below. |
All five were killed.
Theodore Olsen, former Danish vice |
consul at Omaha, and former city |
is missing, and it is al
eged that his accounts. with the Dan