Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-12-29
NEWS SUMMARY.

that American coal has come into the
river Plat in active competition with
the Welsh coal.
Secretary Alger is authority for the
statement that there is no truth in the
report of change in the head of the
navy department.
General Merritt the first of the year
will take charge of the department of
the east, relieving General Shafter,
now in command.
The directors of the Bell Telephone
company have declared dividend of
per cent. An extra dividend of y per
cent was also declared.
Prof. John Bell Hatcher of Princeton
has gone back TO Patagonia to continue
his search for rare fossils and explore
the interior of the country,
The state department has instructed
Vice-Counsul-General Springer to pro-
ceed to Havana and close up the affairs
of the United States consulate general
there
General Weyler is going to Madrid
to confer with the Premier, who is ex-
pected to accept also the advances of
Senior Rometory Robcldo and Senior
Jose Canalejas.
Mike Hennessy, a mine-owner, who
lives with his family, at Lead, $. D.,
and John 0'Connell, employed by Hem
messy, were burned to death in their
cabin at Crown Hill.
s. A. Sylvester who was formerly
agent of the Equitable Life Insurance
company at Hillboro, n. d., has been
arrested in Seattle on a warrant charg-
ing him with embezzlemet.
The jury in the case of w. S. Jewett,
formerly president of the Lake Ma
tional Bank of Wolfboro, n. H.,
charged with embezzlement Of S25 900,
returned verdict of guilty.
The preferential tariff in favor of
Great Britain has not. worked partic-
ularly well in Canada, according to
figures transmitted by United States
Commercial Agent Hunt at Palmer
ston.
In Washington marshal's jury de-
clared Joseph w. Pearson to be insane.
Pearson is the man who created a SEN
sation by hurling missiles through the
door and windows of the British en-
bassy.
The state department as yet has
taken no steps toward reopening the
American consulates in Spain, and this
probably will be allowed to await the
exchange of ratifcations of the peace
treaty.
Frederick Won Hartmann, aged 27,
son of Baron Won Hartmann of Cologne,
Germany, has been sentenced to five
years ia the state prison by Judge
Ruck of Kalamazoo u-Lnty, Mich, for
burglary.
Secretary Alger said yesterday after
noon that Major-G General Otis had rem
dered most satisfactory service in COM
mand of the military forces in the
Philippines and would be retained In
that position.
Hereafter brooms will cost Q cents
more apiece. Members of the Broom
Manufacturers association of the
United States met in Chicago and de-
cided to advance the price of brooms 25
cents a dozen.
Three moonshiners, Jacob Lambert,
Greer, and an unknown man, were
killed and several of their comrades
wounded in a battle with revenue Off
GERS in Knox county, Ky. The officers
were not hurt
Senator Morgan has secured the pas
sage by the senate of resolution au-
thorizing the Nicaraguan Canal com
mittee to investigate the alleged ef-
forts to obstruct the construction of
the Nicaragua canal.
Among a network of wires twenty
feet above the ground, Roderick CHS
holm, an electrician, was slowly burned
to death in sight of several hundred
spectators at the corner of Fifty-ffth
and State streets, Chicago.
In Syracuse, N. Y, Arthur r. Hall,
a well-knowu bicycle trick rider, was
instantly killed recently by being
struck on the head by timber which
fell six stories, crushing his skull. He
was at work on the building.
The Attorney General has trans
mitted to congress the report of the
commission appointed to prepare a
code of civil laws for the territory of
Alaska. The laws of Oregon are taken
as the basis for the new code.
An issue of some Importance has been
raised by the civil service commission
as to the right of Comptroller Trace
well of the treasury TO refuse to audit
the accounts of persons appointed to
positions 'in contravention of the civil
service law"
The work of completing the hi.
nation of the pottery companies of the
United States, TO be known as the
American Pottery company, with q
capital of s27, 900, 600, is expected to be
consummated in New York within the
next ten days.
The directors of the Atchinson, To,