Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-05-06
THE NEWS RESUME
A DIGEST FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE WORLD.

ant Happenings Of the Past Week
CuiIed From the Telegraph Columns
AT Home and Abroad,
There was large increase in Berlin
during the past week of deaths from
influenza and pneumonia.
Russia has ordered seven ironolads
and ten cruisers for her Pacific feet. in
view of Japan's extensive naval prep
arations.
The conference for international ar
bitration held in Washington, which
has been a very harmonious one, has
just closed.
The battleship Massachusetts made
l6. Is knots ON her trial trip in Boston
harbor, and her builders win a bonus
of 500, 900.
A crap game on Grant avenue in
San Farncisco was held up by two men.
About $3.50 was taken. They were
captured by the police soon after.
Miss Laura White created a sensa.
tion in Ardmore, l. T., by publicly
horsewhipping Professor Linn, drug
gist, because he had charged her with
theft.
A dispatch from Panama says: Some
fears are entertained here that trouble
will occur when the elections for
deputies takes place. The members OF
the liberal party will vote for the first
time since 1885.
A serious conflict between Christians
and Turks has occurred at Episkopi,
Island of Crete. There were two days
fighting, and fifty persons were killed
and wounded. The Cretans have ap-
pealed to Greece for aid.
In Houghton, Mich, sixty trammers
have struck in Quincy mine to enforce
a demand for higher wages. The mine
id still in operation, but the trouble
will probably extend to the miners OF
the Quincy and other mines.
In Glasgow, Scotland, the steamer
Marsden collided with the British bark
Firth of Solway, near Kish lightship,
causing the latter to sink. Thirteen
of the crew and Captain Hendricks
wife and child were drowned.
The London Chronicle has dis
patch from Brussels, which SAYS that
the Baroness Herri lady 80 years
old, was strangled, her body mutilated
and her house robbed at Ixells, fash
ionable suburb. The murderer es-
capped.
The treasury deficit for the fiscal year
ending June so, 1896, will be approx
mately $25. 5.0O0,O00 This is the opin-
ion of officials and others best qualified
to make an intelligent estimate of the
result of the fiscal operations Of the
year.
A Louisville 81 Nashville fruit train
and the Evansville & Terre Haute pas
senger train collided at crossing near
Mount Vernon, Ind. Alexander Dris-
coll. a brakeman, was killed; James
Covington, an engineer, and +. Il.
Thompson, brakeman, were seriously
injured.
A Madrid dispatch says the minister
of finance, Senior Juan Navarro, has no.
titled the cabinet of the necessity OF re-
lief measures on account of the pro-
longed drought, which has caused
rapid rise in the price of cereals, also
injuring livestock.
A $40, 900, 600 bicycle trust is being
formed in New York. A prominen
member says the trust will cut thu
price of high.grade wheels from sl0'
to about $65, eliminating jobbers
profits and advertising expenses, ant
will make money at that.
Senator Warren, from the commit
tee on claims, has reported the amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill for the payment of the Frenc
spoilation claims. which have been al
lowed by the court of claims. 1t cal
riss an appropriation Of 81. .020, 600.
The two associations of manufas
turers Of wire and cut nails have close
a three days conference in Chicago
In consequence of the rise in the ste'
market, it was decided to raise tn
price Of both wire and cut nails l
C6ub5 per nuuuI0u WciBnbf w eon
effect May 1.
A mob of armed men, about fiftee
in number, entered the Jail at MoMini
vile, Tenn. dragged the jailer frol
his bed and forced him to give up IL
keys. William and Victor Hollis wei
taken from the Jail, carried on hors
back five miles from McMinnville an
hanged.
Senator Mcbride has secured pr
vision appropriating 5000 for col
tinuing the work at the Cascades, $40
600 of which shall be used for extent
ing the walls of the lock, so that it ma
be opened for commerce. The appr'
priation is intended to secure the buil'
ing Of another lock.
While leaving work at lock o, a ski
which contained nine men, upset al
three were drowned at Charleston, v
Va. The dead are: Henry Mahal
colored, of Gallipolis, o.; Richal
Dickinson, colored, former home N
known; Jordan, white, i6 years oil
The osher six swan ashore.
The crop bulletin for the northel
part Of Idaho indicates that In gene