Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-10
NEWS sum MARY

All records for enlgrantS -arrl'inS
at the port of New York was broken
on the End, when 20,729 emigrants
from all parts of the world arrived.
The ironworkers' strike in San
Francisco has settled down 20 siege
Practically all the iron works, foun
dries and shops in the city are
closed.
The bodies of eleven dead have been
recovered from the Whipple mine, at
Charleston, w. Va, where an explo-
sion of gas occurred. This is thought
to be the full list of the fatalities.
Chief of Police Arlan, of Guatemala
City, an American, has resigned, and
will return to the United States. The
government paid him his salary for
the time between now and the date
his contract expires.
John Hamlin who has been on trial
at Grand Island, Neb., for the murder
of Rachael Engle, aged 10, was found
guilty of murder in the first degree
Hamlin shot the girl when she re
fused to receive his attentions.
Peter Savage and Joseph Chan
owsky were sentenced to three years
Imprisonment and to pay fine of $500
and costs for wrecking with dynamite
the Welsh Congregational church al
Edwardsville, Pa, two years ago.
The Rev. Jere Cooke, former pastor
of st. Georges Protestant Episcopal
church at Hampstead, R. l., and II
year-old Floretta Whaley, who disap
peared simultaneously last week,
have been located at Peekshill, N. Y.
The Kentucky law inficting the
death penalty for criminal assault was
sustained by the court of appeals last
week in affirming a death sentence
imposed on Harrison Alexander, col
ored, for an assault on white wo
man.
Eight men working in a new tun.
mel at the new National Cash Regis
ter plant at Dayton, Ohio, were pain
fully burned in an explosion of natur
al gas. They were shot twenty feet
out of the tunnel by the force of the
explosion.
The results of the senatorial cleo
lions in Spain, as far as they have
been announced, show an overwhelm
ing governmental majority, compris-
ing seventy-two conservatives, four
teen liberals and fifteen members OF
other groups.
Prospects for settlement of the Los
Angeles teamsters' strike, have sud
denly taken turn in the opposite
direction, and there is a possibility OF
a serious strike in the immediate fu
ture, with many other branches of la
Dor involved.
Thirty-three Koreans, most of them
of prominent rank as scholars, have
been arrested at Seoul on suspicion of
being ringleaders in plot to assas
sinate the five Korean ministers who
signed the convention for Japan
csc protectorate.
]. Henry Middlekarp, seventeen
years old, shot and killed his father,
who was a Waterman at the United
States subtreasury at Baltimore, at
their home at Catonville. Middle |
karp was beating his wife when the
son interfered.
The San DOMINICAN congress in rati. |
flying the new treaty between the |
United States and Santo Domingo |
the acceptance of amend |
ments to the treaty proposed by mem.
bers of the Dominican committee on
foreign affairs April %.
At Portland Mayor Harry Lane,
Democrat, was renominated, and
Thomas A. Defvlin, Republican, pre-
sent city auditor, was nominated for
mayor at the party primary elections
Both men were chosen by majorities
over their opponents.
Sir George Cough Arbuthnot, head
of the firm of Arbuthnot & Co., of
Madras, whose London house, P. Mac
Fadyen & Co., failed for a large
amount in August last and caused the
head of the firm to commit suicide,
has been arrested at Madras.
William A. Brewer, Jr., former
president of the Washington Life In
surance company, has been sentenced
to pay a fine of $500 for making a
false report to the state superintend-
emit of insurance in regard to the finan-
cial condition of the company.
The court martial which has been
trying Captain Edgar Macklin of the
infantry in connection
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