Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1907-06-21
NEWS SUMMARY

ing is impending in Pinar del Rio
province, Cuba.
Mayor Grifiths of Springfield, H.,
was drowned while endeavoring to
ford a stream of water on horseback
southeast of that city.
Lieutenant Hart was killed and
three sailors injured by an explosion
of gasoline on board submarine
boat at Portsmouth, England.
August Meyer, well-to-do shoe
dealer of Brooklyn, was so severely
beaten by highwaymen that he died
several hours later in a hospital
| Col. Guessekoffsky, assistant harbor
commandant at Sebastopol, was killed
by revolver shot, in the vicinity Of
the docks. The assassin was ar
rested.
! Former President Cleveland will de-
liver the principal address at Will
mington, Del, next Saturday at the
unwilling of a memorial statute to
Thomas F. Bayard.
A triple drowning occurred Sunday
| in the Rio Grande at the Indian Pueb-
10 Isleta, twelve miles south of Al
buquerque, N. NJ, as the result of the
capsizing of a ferry boat.
Carrie Nation, after haranguing
crowd in front of downtown saloon
in Washington, was arrested on the
charge of disorderly conduct. She
was released on $50 collateral.
Observations of Atlantic steamers
arriving recently at New York are
very interesting as showing that the
waters of the ocean off other eastern
coasts are now abnormally cold.
The government reports show that
in the last three months of 1906, the
most recent statistics available, more
than 10000 persons were killed or in
jured on railroads, or about 700 day.
Twenty-eight passengers, including
twelve women and children, were
drowned by the sinking of the French
schooner La Jalouse from Cayenne
for ST. Lucias. The schooner sank off
Barbados.
Frank T. Edeson, lodging house
keeper of Los Angeles, shot his wife
through the head and instantly killed
her and then blew his head off. The
couple had frequently quarreled over
financial matters.
Francis Murphy, the veteran tenn
perance apostle, is seriously i'll at his
home in Los Angeles, with compli-
cation of ailments, and his physicians
are in doubt about the probable out
come of his case.
A dispatch from Lisbon says that
an explosion of dynamite at Covihilo,
a manufacturing town, killed thirty
persons. 1t is believed the explosion |
was caused by dismissed workmen, |
who sought vengeance.
The overdue Norwegian steamer
Preston, Captain Olsen, from New
Orleans, is ashore at San Andreas, |
says a Colon dispatch. The steamer
Ellis has gone to the scene to take
off the passengers and mail.
George Curry, late governor Of
Iloilo, sailed from Manila on the 18th
on the transport Logan to assume the
duties of governor of New Mexico, to
which position he was recently APP
pointed by President Roosevelt.
Don c. Henderson, once private
of Horace Greeley and for
many years publisher of the AlIegan
'Michigan) Journal has been taken
o the insane asylum at Kalamazoo
" direction of the probate court.
Phe.sgrave of Michel Pacha, tine
Turkish admiral who died at. TouIon
asst January. has been desecrated by
hieves, who stole the body. The
hieves, it is believed, expected to
md in the tomb jewels of greatyalue.
Albert Messenger, plumber, of st.
.ouis, has been arrested on the
barge of having thrown vitrol into
he face of Mrs. Lena Wunach, who
ad refused to marry him. Both her
yes were burned out and her face
isfigured.
The government officially declares
0bacco is not a luxury, but neces-
ity, in a decision by the comptroller
f the treasury. The question arose
trough number of Panama canal
Lborers held in quarantine demand
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