Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-06-03
THE NEWS RESUME
A DIGEST FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE WORLD.

ant Happenings of the Past Week
Cuiled From the Telegraph Columns
At Home and Abroad,
New York has the first daily paper
devoted to wheeling published in the
English language. 1t is called the
Daily American wheelman.
The North German Gazette says.
The government is desirous Of the total
abolition of the sugar import bounties,
provided the other states enter an
agreement to take similar action.
A cloudburst occurred near Perry,
o. T.. eight TO twelve inches of rain
falling. Residences and business build
ings on high, level ground were food
ed, while houses along Cow creek were
washed away.
Lieutenant Luther B. Baker, who,
as an officer in the government detective
service, had charge of the party which
captured j. Wilkes Booth, the assassin
OF President Lincoln, died in Lansing,
Mich, aged 66 years.
The boiler in Davidson Bros. saw
mill, near Marietta, Ind, exploded
with terrific force, fatally injuring
Eunice Davidson, Thomas Davidson
and Frank Battran. Six others were
more or less injured.
John Taggart, of Big Stone Gap.
KY, was killed, and twelve others
dangerously wounded in q gas explo-
sion III the mines near Big Stone Gap.
Part of the mine caved in. Lit Is be-
lieved six of the injured will die.
Henry Walker, residing near Broken
Bow, Neb., murdered his wife, his ex-
euse being that she had attempted &c
poison him, and he killed her as mat,
ter of self protection. He purchased a
revolver and deliberately arranged all
the details. The murderer is a
wealthy farmer, prominent and well
known.
The coal product of the United
States, for the calendar year 1895,
shows the output of the Northwest
states to be: Oregon, 1855 short
tons product, valued at $247, 90l;
Washington, 1,19t,4 410 short tons, with
a valuation of $2,577,9 958; Montana,
1,4S9, 1913 short tons, valued at ~, Si5,'
906.
A dispatch from Basse Terre. Islanc
of Guadloupe, West Indies, says: Jap
anese Immigrants are again In rebel
lion. The uprising has become so for
midable as TO cause planters grave anx
iery, The colonial government il
adpoting drastic measures to suppress
the insurrection. Notwithstanding th'
stipulations of the treaty.
The London Chronicles Rome cor
respondent says: News has been re
ceived from Valparaiso that on the in
itiatlye of Chile, it has been decided q
esta biIsh between Brazil, Chile AM
Argentina another commercial agree
ment applying the principles OF tn
Monroe doctrine TO south America.
General Lucius Fairchild, command
er-in-chief of the Loyal Legion and ex
commander III chief of the q. A. X.
died at his residence in Madison, Wis
Genearl Fairchild had suffered iron
the effects of the grippe for severa
weeks, and a month ago the allmen
was complicated by kidney trouble
Until five days ago it was thought h
would recover.
The senate committee on interstat
commerce has authorized the report
ing of bill for uniform classificatio
of railroad freight rates framed on tn
lines recommended by the nations
board of trade. 1t will require
interstate commerce commission TO PR
pare and publish classification whic
shall apply to all sections OF tf
GSountry.
James Dewitt was hanged in Ora.
son, KY, in the presence of over 500
people, for the murder of his wifi
whom he choked TO death, hiding I'll
body in the woods. He did not wal
the sentence eommuted, he said, a
sleeping or awake, his wife's glarir
ewes and screams haunted him. Devil
shed tears on tho scaffold. Death can
slowly by strangulation.
A plan for the proposed Easter
Oregon branch insane asylum n
beer, submitted to the board
trustees by A. Richley, of Pol
land. Mr.. R,chley's prelimina
drawings are on exhibition in the sta
house in Salem. According to !
plans, building may be erected with
the appropriation, the structure ben
so arranged that additions thereto M
be added as necessity requires and 9
preparations are forthcoming.
Ernest Brownell, high school st
dent, II years old, was shot and kill
in Greeley, Colo, by Bode Fost'
Rrownell had attended rehears
after which he went to Fosters houi
having arranged with Mrs. Foster
aleep there. Foster did not know tn
and when he heard the noise at /
door he fred at the intruder, supposl
i burglar was trying to enter.
Personal payment of pensions
been revoked by congress, and ne
after, pension checks must be tral
mitted by mail direct TO the address
the pensioner, The authority OF p
sion agents and their clerks TO adm
later oaths in the execution Of pens
vouchers has also been revoked. l