Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-09-08
NEWS SUMMARY.
General weyler has arrived in Mad


natl this week.
Ex-Secretary Thomas II. Bayard is
dangerously i'll at his home in Dedham,
Mass.
Frontier Day festivities at Cheyenne,
Monday, were attended by 10000
people.
In fire in tenement at Newark,
n. ]. fourteen persons were severely
injured
Gladstones will has been probated
His personal estate amounted to about
s275, 900.
Americas wheat crop is estimated at
roo, 900, 900 bushels for 1898. which is
the largest on record.
The Third Nebraska Volunteers. w.
]. Bryan. colonel, is not to be mustered
out of service at present.
Over 400 delegates were in attend.
! ance at the National Letter Carriers
Association convention at Toledo, o.
General Shafter was discharged from
the detention hospital at Camp Wikoff
Tuesday and assumed command of the
camp
General Lawton's health report shows
that conditions are improving at Santi-
ago as sanitary measures are intro
duced.
The Spanish government has decided
to pay the next coupon on the Cuban
debt, pending the settlement with the
United States.
The illness Of the Queen of Denmark
has taken a serious turn. She has suf-
fered hemorrhage and it is feared
she cannot recover.
Justice White has decided not to
serve as one of the peace commission
ers and another appointment will be
made in his place.
The Hawaiian commission is making
tour of the islands. There are some
300 of them, about 1900 miles inter
vening between the remotest points.
The United States consul at Kobe,
Japan, has caused the arrest of Seamen
Brady and Hine on suspicion that they
set fire to the American ship Barring
/ i,fJ>s,ilt,
Col Loper OF She Fifty-frst Iowa de-
clares that his men are eantented in
the service and that they are wiling to
remain in Frisco until Gen. Merriam
gets back.
The treasure department holds that
an article of agreement or contract for
the sale of real estate is not subject to
a stamp tax, unless it conveys some
right of title,
State Heath Officer Porter of Florida
has issued proclamation stating that
he believes no yellow fever exists in
Key West, nor has there been any
there this summer
On the recommendation of the Swed-
ish- Norwegian council, King Oscar has
notified the czar of his acceptance of
the invitation to send delegates to a
peace conference.
Ashbel Green, general counsel of the
New York Central and of all roads con-
trolled by the Vanderbilt system of
Buffalo, is dead at his home in Tenafy,
n. j., aged 20 years.
General Brooke, who was left in
command of the forces in Porto Rico
when General Miles left, has arrived
at San Juan from the southern part of
the island. Cordial relations in Porto
Rico are fast being restored.
Hon. Andrew ]. Falk is dead at Yank-
ton, S. d. MIR. Falk was the third
governor of Dakota territory, and it
was mainly through his persistent en-
a deavors that the opening of the Black
i. Hills to settlement was secured.
Indians reaching Dauphin, Manitoba,
: from the far north report meeting an
Eskimo who told of the appearance
). among them of strange man who de-
scended from the clouds on the shores
of Hudson bay The opinion among
the whites is that the man is Andree,
the Arctic explorer.
. General Guadens, who was relieved
: of the government of Manila by General
, Merritt, in reply to an inquiry from
4 Spain, asserts that it would require an
army of 60, 900 men for permanent oc-
v cupation, strong feet and endless
a quantities of war materials to restore
. Spanish sovereignty in the Philippines
;. were the United States to withdraw.
h The navy department has closed Q
It contract with Tiffany for Admiral
y Dewey's sword, the consideration be-
;. ing $1,000. The remaining $1,000 OF
Il the congressional appropriation will be
IS devoted to defray the expense of strik
IS ing medals for the officers and men
ie who participated in the battle of Ma
In nila bay May /. III proposed to have
- the work done as soon as possible at
the Philadelphia mint.
There is prospect that Dreyfus,
the Fren ch army officer who has been
N imprisoned on forged testimony for
v betraying army secrets, will be re-
leased without a new trial, as evidence
le damaging to the powers might be