Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-05-13
THE NEWS RESUME
A DIGEST FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE WORLD.
Comprehensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
CulIed From the Telegraph Columns
At Home and Abroad,

ant Happenings OF the Past Wees
CalIed From the Telegraph Columns
At Home and Abroad,
Columbia university will send /,
band Of naturalists to explore the Puge
Sound region. The expedition will SCI
out from New York June 10.
The six. story building Of the Junior
Order of United American Mechanics
in Philadelphia, was entirely destroyed
by fire. Loss, about $4,000.
The Paris newspapers confirm the
rumor that M. Hebete, French ambas'
sador to Germany, will at once return
to Berlin, to present his letters Of re.
call.
A woman named Mary Shore, leaped
from bridge into Elkhorn river, near
Washington, w. Va, fifty feet, to es'
cape passing engine. She was rescued
but will die.
Warren Fisher, who came into
prominence in 1875 through his con-
nection with the investigation of
charges directed against James t..
Blaine, died at his home in Roxbury,
N. Y.
Rain fell almost continuously for
twenty -four hours in Oconto, Wis,
and all the lowlsnds are flooded. The
city is nearly inundated and the river
reached the highest mark that 1T has
for years.
Princess Beatrice, the youngest
daughter Of Queen Victoria, and widow
Of Prince Henry of Battenbug, has been
appointed governor of the Isle OF
Wight, the Office previously held by
her husband.
Word has been received in Washing
ton by telegraph that the Canadian
government has adopted an order IN
council exempting American vessels
from entry and clearance charges at
Canadian ports.
A dispatch from Madrid says: The
Spanish government has declined the
pope's mediation in Cuban affairs, ON
the ground that acceptance would De
tantamount to recognizing Americas
right to interfere.
The black plague is still prevalent at
Hong Kong and Canton. Two En-
ropean children have been attacked by
the disease. Japan is taking elabor-
ate precautions to prevent the intro
duction of the plague
An attempt was made to burn An
derson, Cal, by saturating number
of buildings with coal oil. The plot
was frustrated by the discovery OF the
fire five minutes after it was started,
when it was soon extinguished.
An explosion, by which 100 persons
are believed to have perished, has oc-
Cured at Micklefield, Yorkshire, Eng
land. The explosion took place in a
colliery, and twenty injured persons
have been rescued from the shaft.
IAN "X,' ray will kill the bacteria
of diptheria. The electrical depart
ment of the university of Missouri, at
Columbia, announces that, after exten-
sive experiments, diphtheria germs had
been killed by the Roentgen light.
Seven hundred men were thrown out
of work by strike of the employees IN
Sherman & Company's iron mines In
Port Henry, N. Y, whose demand FOL
an increase of forty cents day was re-
fused. The mines were shut down.
In Woodland, Cal, two armed mer
stood up Jailer Labrie in the jailyard
and relieved him of $l87 in cash and
watch chain. The official had occasion
to go into the jailyard for moment
and left his pistol and hat in the office
M. Coubertin, president of the inter
national committee Of the Olympic
games. writes to the London Times tina
the games in 1900 will be held u
Paris, and for 1904 the committee viii
choose between New York, Berlin ant
Stockholm.
William A. Holcomb, one Of the bes
known business men of the Pacii
coast, president of the San Francisc
Produce & Merchants Exchange, die
at his residence in Oakland. Mr.. Hol
comb had been i'll for some six month
with an affection of the kidneys.
The little 2-year-old son of Mr.. Ford
a trainman ON the Sumpter Valley rail
road, Baker City, Or, walked on tn
track as the engine and two cars cam
along. He was unobserved and th
train passed over him. His skull wa
badly fractured, and the child will die
James Beals, stove dealer, of Iron
ton, O., shot and fatally wounded hi
wife. The couple had been out walk
ing. and Immediately upon their re
turn home he drew revolver and fire
four shots at his wife, three of ther
taking effect. The deed was actuate
by jealousy. Beals escaped.
Three hundred structural ironwork
ers employed on the various elevate
railroads in course of construction /
Chicago struck for an increase c
wages. The structural ironworkers /
Chicago are completely tied up and
is feared that a general strike Of th
building trades will follow.
The public debt statement just issued
shows that on April 80. the debt, lei
cash in the treasury, was $948, 1887 ,67t
an increase for the month Of 80, 945, Al
This IL accounted for in part by ds
crease of 1881 ,o67 in the amount