Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-06-24
EVENTS OF THE DAY

President Cleveland will take no &C.
tion as to the Cuban rebellion.
John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, was
made permanent chairman of the Re.
publican national convention at st.
Louis.
Adolph Padelford is dead in Paris.
He was the the husband of Bettina
Girard, the actress, whom he paid
$4,000 to drop her name.
The pump house of the North End
Water Works, Tacoma. was burned
down, leaving that entire section OF
the city without water for day.
Sarah Blackburn obtained a verdict
at Oregon City from the Southern Pa
cific Railway Company for 90, 900 for
the killing of Mark Blackburn, by a
train at street crossing.
As result Of the recent warm
weather rivers and creeks in Idaho are
booming, and lands in many places
are overfowed. 1t is estimated that
damage to the amount of $4,000 has
been done to the road between Wallace
and Osborne.
Owing to poor attendance and bad
weather, the Portland baseball club of
the Pacific leauge, has been disbanded.
The Seattle club followed suit. Ia.
coma will make an effort to hold to-
gether. An effort will be made to
have desultory games throughout the
summer.
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three times in the head, in Chicago.
He then shot himself through the right
temple. He is dead. The girl is NOT
expected to live. The deed was COM
mitted because the girl would not
marry him. Connors is 45 years old,
and Miss Mulligan is 16.
The British steamer Drummond Gas.
tie, Captain N. M. Pierre, from Cape
Town, for London, collided with an
unknown steamer near Brest, France.
She sank in three minutes with 144
passengers and 103 officers and crew on
board. Two men were picked up by q
fishing boat. The fate of the steamer
with which she collided is not known.
News of terrible earthquake, in.
volving the loss of over thousand
lives, has reached Yokohama from the
island of Yesso, which contains the
northern provinces of Japan. The
subterraneous disturbance lasted about
twenty hours, and during that period
the utmost terror prevailed. Ground
rumblings are described as resembling
the roar of distant cannon. Shock fol.
lowed shock almost in uninterrupted
succession. In all 1t was estimated
that about 150 shocks occurred. The
whole town of Kumaishi is destroyed
by tidal wave, which accompanied
the earthquake. Many disasters tc
shipping are reported from the tidal
wave.
A yesr-old baby fell out Of fourth.
story window in Chicago the other day
and sustained no serious damage. He
lit in a mudhole.
The banks at Cheney, Wash, sus
pended payment and failed to open
their doors. Hard times and inability
TO make collections are the causes as
signed for the failures.
A young man named Conway, 9
brakeman on gravel train, fell be-
tween two cars of the moving trair
near Arlington, Or, and had hii
right leg crushed in two places.
The coroner's jury impaneled to in
vestigate the fatal shooting of Charles
Rice. near Roseburg, returned verdict
of willful murder against James Dix
on, the boy who fred the fatal shot
A 16-year. old boy named Charles
Wyatt accidentally shot and killed
himself with 22.caliber rife neal
.Centralia, Wash, while out huntirD
IN company with another lad Of sbou
his own age.
By fire at Hoquiam, Wash, this
mill of the Northwest Lumber Com
pany was destroyed. and the bsrkentint
North Bend, which was taking on q
cargo at the dock, was damaged to the
extent of $1,000. The amount Of thu
damage to the mill has not been eEti
mated.
The Goodrich reservoir, fifteen mile
from Baker City, broke. and grea
volume OF water rushed down the gulct
about four miles, where it jumpst
from Goodrich creek to Pine creek
About three miles further the foot
struck r. French's house and dashet
1t to pieces, drowning the family, con
sisting Of the parents and five child
rem. ages ranging from to 10 years
The bodies were found scattered alonI
the creek distance Of two miles. TIL
clothing was torn of and the bodie
mangled. Large pine trees were car
Tied miles down the stream and fence
and bridges were swept away. Grail
fields are badly damaged. The reser
voir was constructed in 1868 and ha
been used for mining purposes.
Indian War Veterans.
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