Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-11-18
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EVENTS OF THE DAY


ashore in the Calcutta river.
General Weyler has taken personal
charge of the Spanish army in Cuba.
He reviewed the troops at Mariol, and
then took up the march to the interior.
The Chicago Tribune prints list of
275 mills and factories which have re-
sumed business within the past ten
days. giving employment to 155, 495
men.
A Constantinople dispatch says
while counseling American mission.
aries to remain at their posts in Ana.
tolia, Minister Terrell has advised the
removal of the children of missionaries
to places of safety.
Three men were injured by the burst
Ing OF a naptha retort in a straw fac
tory in Milford, Mass. Their injuries
proved fatal. The men were blown out
of the building, and when picked up
the skin peeled from their faces and
breasts.
Fourteen buildings in the business
portion of Traverse City, Mich, were
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
$50, 1000. Ed Newberry, hotel porter,
was burned to death. 1t is rumored
other lives were lost, but no other
bodies have been recovered. Thirty
guests escaped through the windows of
the Front-street hotel in their night
clothing.
From Greer county, Oklahoma comes
the news of a battle between officers
OF Greer and Washita counties and a
large body of Mexican horsethieves, in
which one robber was killed outright,
several wounded and two officers
wounded. The Mexicans had been
stealing horses and committing numer-
ous depredations in western counties in
Oklahoma.
Rev. e. L. Benedict shot and fatally
wounded Harry McWhorter, promi-
nent druggist, Of Larrabee, La. The
shooting was in self defense.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has
issued decree making lard duty free
from October to April, and -four and
corn, which are also scarce, are made
free of duty.
The country home at Glover Bend,
Lawrence county, Arkansas, of Miss
French, authoress and magazine CON.
trlbuter, we'll known as "Octave
Thanet.' was destroyed by fire. A
large and valuable library was burned.
Serious rioting has occurred at Shot
aput, near Bombay. Five Thousand
men looted ] 800 bags of grain. The
police fired upon the mob. killing four
men and wounding six. A further
outbreak. is feared as Shotaput is one of
the worst famine tracts.
A st. Petersburg dispatch to the
London Times quotes the Novosti as
saying that towards the close of the
war with Japan, China offered to cede
the island of Formosa to England with
out condition, with a view to excluding
the Japanese, but that Lord Rosebery,
then prime minister. promptly declined
the offer.
Mrs. Walter M. Castle, of San Fran
cisco, recently sentenced in London to
three months imprisonment without
hard larbor, after having pleaded guilty
to charge of shop lifting. has been re-
lea sed from prison on medical grounds,
by order of the home secretary, Sir
The report that was recently sent out
from Constant1nople that sixty Arme-
mans were massaoerd there early last
week was not exaggerated. On the
contrary, the affair turns out more seri-
ous than was at first announced. The
massacre occurred at the village of
Everek, where nearly one hundred per-
sons were killed and all the Armenian
houses pillaged.
A tramp, while going over the Balti-
more & Ohio, near Mitchell, Ind,
found enough dynamite on the track to
blow an engine to pieces as soon as it
struck 1t. He ran to the nearest
switch, tore off lamp. and returning,
signaled the approaching express train.
He was shot at by the wreokers and
was found unconscious by the train
men.
In Richmond, Mo-. mob collected
around the Jail and attempted TO get
hold of Jesse Winner and Lon Lackey,
charged with the murder of Mrs Eva
Winner and her two children. Their
evident purpose was to lynch them. A
brother of the murdered woman ad-
dressed the mob and pleaded with them
to leave the law take its course. They
accepted his counsel and retired.
Samuel s. Tucker. painter, met
DIR. James s. Wintermute on the street
in Tacoma. and suddenly drew re-
volver. shooting Wintermute through
the body. Tucker then turned the re-
yolver ON himself. shooting himself
through the head, blowing his brains
out. Wintermute was not killed and
may recover. The latter processes not
to know the cause of the shooting.
There is shortage of dry wines in
California. and the manufacturers wish
to advance the prices, but to this the
dealers object, for fear of foreign COM
petition.
The supreme court of Oregon has
handed down its third opinion in the
branch asylum case, and this time has
affirmed the Judgment of the lower
court in restraining the state treasurer
from honoring the $4,000 warrant
issued in payment of site purchased
for the location of the proposed asylum
building in Eastern Oregon.