Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-05-24
NEWS SUMMARY

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gives the population of the District o.
Columbia as 3S9,591, of whom 96,1S'
are negroes.
There will be no strike of the train
men of the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad as result of the differences
over the wage scale.
Harry Marshall bystander, was
| killed and another man was wounded
as a result of row growing out OF
the 'longshoremen's strike in Hobo
ken.
Three hundred and seventy-two
banks of California were represented
in the bankers convention which
held three days session at Santa
Barbara.
David W. Ross, general purchasing
agent of the Panama canal commits
sion, will resign shortly to become
president of large manufacturing
concern in Chicago.
The village of Goreville, ILL.,, mas
been swept by fire, entailing loss
of $4,000. Sixteen buildings were
destroyed. 1t is believed the fire was
started by incendiarism.
Governor Carter Of Hawaii arrived
In San Francisco on the steamer ST.
ezra. He will remain In the United
States several weeks ard will visit
President Roosevelt at Washington.
Orrin W. Potter, the pioneer steel
man and multi-millionaire, retired.
whose life was linked with the devel-
opment of the steel industry of the
United States, died in Chicago on
the 18th.
The military has taken charge of
the Jail at Brunswick, Ga, to protect
a negro Lee Holmes. who is charged
with killing A. A. Sands at Darien
Junction. Sands was a prominent
white man.
Governmental returns show that
the deaths from the plague through
out India for the six weeks ending
May IL reached the appalling total OF
1892. In the Punjab alone 2S6,777
ieaths occurred.
The sultan of Morocco has decided
o comply with French demands for
'eparation as the result of the muir
Ter of Dr. Mauchsnp, according to
etter from Fee, handed to the French
minister at Tangier.
No special delivery postage stamps
viii be needed after July 1 to insure
he immediate delivery of a letter
he affixing of 10 cents extra postage
nd marking the covering "specia'
elivery" will suffice
Five masked men at Elletsyille
nd, bound and gagged the towr
larshal, took from him the Jail keys
nd secured the only prisoner, Osca.
Iorris. whom they dragged to a tree
nd whipped severely.
The imperial conference at its clos
lg session in London adopted the
otion of Sir Wilfrid Laurier in ia
or of an all-British subsidized steam
lip route from the United Kingdom
Australasia, by way of Canada.
The street cars of Evansville, Ind.
gan to operate again Saturday with
'n-union men imported from st &
oufs and Nashville. Mayor Bohne
IS ordered the enlistment of specia Il
!trolmen to handle the situation.
Governor Hughes of New York has |
en- elected president of the North (
sstern Baptist convention. This ac
IN was taken at the general meet
3 of the delegates to the genera
Iptist Societies in session in Wash \
5ton.
The lockout in the building trade.
gan in Berlin on the 18th. Abom
600 men are directly affected. ane
600 are affected indirectly. II /. T.
most serious labor difficulty il Fl
rmany since the great coal strike Z
1905.
After ordering supper and stating
would return in few minutes, ] Fl
Clarkson, a prominent mining man
merly of Detroit, left his boardins
Use in Guadalajara, Mexico, three
eks ago, and he has never beer
n since.
;. w. Franks and David McCuL
gh, charged with being members
the gang that robbed the Bank OF
Ter. Okla, last Christmas, Of