Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-08-16
NEWS SUMMARY

January l, 1908.
Joseph F. Johnson has been elected
United States Senator to succeed Sen
ator Pettus of Alabama.
In accordance with the imperial de-
cree recently issued, all the opium
dens in Canton were closed on the
9th without disturbance.
Dr. c. p Dinsmore of Deep Valley,
w. Va, is dead and four others are
dying, as the result of family mis-
taking toadstools for mushrooms.
Mrs. A. L. Ferguson was killed and
her sister, Miss Henrietta Sharke,
seriously injured, by falling from the
same street car at Long Beach, CAL
The British bark GIencairn, Captain
Nichol, from Rochester, England. for
Seattle, has been wrecked off San
Paolo. Two of the crew were
drowned
BY the capsizing of a boat, Miss
Lucretia Evans and Emory McDougal
were drowned in Bear Lake, o. Nc
drawn under by her.
Seven freight handlers of the North
ern Pacific road were run down by a
tug in the Duluth harbor Sunday even
ing while returning to their homes in
a rowboat and drowned.
Leon Maille, the naval reservist,
who fired two revolver shots at Pres
ident Fallieres on the streets of Paris
July IA last, has been declared insane
and was sent to an asylum.
Severe fighting is reported from For.
mosa, where the natives are making
strenuous resistance against the Jap
anese troops. At Taikokan the jap
anese casualties numbered 200.
Representatives of silk mills In
Lackawanna and Luzerne counties,
Pennsylvania, have refused a shorter
work day to silk workers More than
5000 persons are now on strike.
John Butts shot and ldlled Tom
Crowley on the latters' ranch, four
miles east of Laytonville, Cal. Butts
and his son, while hunting, had a |
quarrel with Crowley over a dog.
Commander Robert E. Peary's dash |
for the North pole has been postponed I
Failure to complete the repair on his |
ship, the Roosevelt, compelled the ex
plorer to put off his trip until next
year.
August Rowe was brutality murder
ed near Buda, Neb., his head being
beaten into jelly with a hammer
Ludwig Korcek, neighbor of Rowe.
Is under arrest on suspicion and is
in jail
Tom Hall, negro living at Goliaa,
Texas, was arrested charged with an
attempted assault upon two young
white women. The next morning his
sody was found hanging to a tree In
ront of the jail
A detachment of infantry, com
handed by two lieutenants, has been
riot of the island of Celebes. The
-ictims, including some convicts
numbered forty-ive.
Thomas Myer. who claimed that he
oisted the stars and stripes over
santiago de Cuba during the Span
|
,ourtown while practicing for an at
empt to swim ST. Georges channel.
Randolph Rucklow, a structural
who weighs 270 pounds.
I'll from the fourth story of a build
lg in the course of construction in
an Francisco and escaped with nc
lore serious injury than broken
nkle
1t is surmised that Shirley David
IN, son of Judge Davidson, and Miss
Iingston, daughter of the late Sir
lillian Kingston, the great Canadian
irgeon, were drowned in the River
t. Lawrence Sunday, as their sail
pat was found drifting and empty.
One of three robbers who attempt
| the robbery of the Farmers and
erchants bank at Strongsville, Ohio.
as found later wounded and uncon-
ious in gully near Strongsville. He
Id been shot by citizens immediate
following the attempted robbery.
Mrs. Robert E. Pea1y. wife of the ,
1lar explorer, has announced her ,
tention of remaining all winter at
agile island, their summer home, and
regoing all social engagements
agile island is a rocky bit of land Z
Casco bay and four miles cut to i
a. Z
The police searched the imperial n
clinical schools at Moscow and dis
vered the central revolutionary lab
atory for manufacturing bonds of a
W pattern and tremendous explo-
res, regular supplies of which were
ing shipped to various interior
ints.
A sensational suicide has occurred :
Antwerp. NJ Jacques Simon, a silk h
in the presence of crowd c.
at thronged Cathedral square
nped from the second gallery of
2 cathedral tower, a distance OF 4,
IRE than 200 feet. Death was in. .
infamous.
Nicholas Longworth, =
a speech made at the Commercial
bis luncheon at Honolulu, said he