Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-05-20
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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 A Abroad,

ant Happen1ngs Oh the Tast Weel
CuiIed From the Telegraph Column
AT Home and Abroad.
1t is said that the war costs Spail
800, 900, 600 annually and 10, 600 sol
diers every year
A fight between negroes and Hun
garians at Keystone, w. Va, resulted
In two negroes and one Hun beinl
killed. Wilson Worthington and Geo
Manard were also injured.
The railroad station in Florin, Cal
was entered by burglars. The bur
glars robbed the railroad station, thu
postoffice and Wells Fargo express
Office, which are all in the same build
ing. A small sum of money was taken
Crazed with drink and brooding ovel
trouble which he considered disgrace
to himself and relatives, Frank Wal
ton, aged 80, threw himself in front Of
an engine on the Rock Island track
near Lincoln, Neb. and was ground te
pulp.
In the Canadian prohibition case
the privy council has decided that par
lament cannot pass general prohibi
tory law, nor can the provinces abolish
the traffic in liquor, but they can pass
laws to regulate it by licenses, under
reasonable conditions.
Over 500 union carpenters in De-
troit, Mich, struck for eight hours a
day at 25 cents per hour. The bosses
are willing to make the minimum
wages 30 cents per hour and promise
to concede the eight hour day on Janu'
airy l next
Notice has been given by the 500 line
of its intention to put into effect a
round "trip rate of $50 from st. Paul
and Minneapolis to Kootenai points.
The tickets will have limits in both di-
rections of forty days and final return
limits of ninety days.
The city of L'Anse, at the head of
Kewana bay, Michigan, has been wiped
out by fire. The L'Anse company 8
lumber mill and nearly all the business
houses were bunred. Two hundred
persons are homeless The total loss is
$3.50. 900; insurance small.
A dispatch from Panama says;
Puerto WHO, the capital of Manabi,
with population Of 10000, has been
entirely destroyed by two earthquakes
The shocks were succeeded by floods,
inundating the city. Many lives are
supposed to have been lost.
In a boxing match between John
Houlihan and Pat Nolan, which came
off in Pennington, Conn, Houlihan
was knocked out in the eleventh round
and rendered unconscious. He was moi
resuscitated, and it is believed his In
juries will prove fatal.
Ii is stated in Kansas City that the
firm of Swift q Co. will shut dowr
their big packing plant at that poin
for an indefinite period. Their plan
gives employment to 1900 men. and IL
capacity ranks second among the pack
F.. ing establishments of Kansas City.
In Rome, N. Y, j. Watson Hill
dreth, the boy trainwrecker, receievd
life sentence. His companions, Plat
and Hibbard, who pleaded guilty o
manslaughter in the first degree, wer
sentenced to twenty years imprison
ment on two indictments, or forty year
in all.
Hank Bonkolkan, while fishing i
the lake at West Lake Park, near Lo
Angeles, brought to the surface tn
body of a we'll. dressed young woman
about 30 years of age. The body ha
evidently been in the water only
short time. The identity of the girl
not yet discovered.
William Laverone and Jack Roberts
highwaymen, captured few day
since, overpowered the jailer in Nj
dera, Cal. beating him severely ov'
the head with brick. They took b
keys and arms and escaped. They al
desperate characters and it is feare
will kill some of the posse before the
are captured.
News is received OF brutal murd
committed in Oconto, Wis, in di
pute between two farmers about
team of horses, in which man name
Olsen shot one named Lissot. I
tIl6u CdIIlNh bnO OOuJ w bl0 0bh IA
and set it on fire. A deputy sheriff a
rested Olsen and had him handcuff,
by one hand, but by desperate effo
the man escaped and hid in the wood
By vote of 425 TO 98, the Methods
general conference, in session in Clev
land, O., decided the four women del
gates might retain their seats. Th
does not mean that the women ha
won complete victory. The decisi,
was the result of coompromise, al
with the understanding that it shou
not prejudice the claims of women
tho future or establish precedent I
future conferences to follow.
The Vulcan iron works of San Fra
cisco were destroyed by fire, and t
loss is estimated at 500, 900. with i
surance at $31. 500. The fire spread
the third floor OF the Reliance machi
works, damaging the building slight
and destroying considerable stock. T
loss of the Reliance company is me
than covered by the $25, 900 insuarn'
While chasing robber from
store, T.J. Marshall. proprietor OF