Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-05-05
NO. AZ.
NEWS SUMMARY.

ing ut Helena.
Wyoming's quota Of $50 men are en-
camped at Cheyenne.
The monitor Miantonomah has gone
to join the blockading fleet.
Utah's rough riders will furnish
troop for Torrey's regiment,
All the $50, ,ooo,ooo war appropria-
tion has either been expended or allot-
ted.
European papers speak of the naval
engagement as annihilation, not VIC
tory.
Another German warship has left
China for the Philippines, making
three In all
Colonel Cortijo, captured on the
mail steamer ArRonauta, is Weyler's
brother-in-law.
Judge Torrey's rough riders will be
equipped with ropes instead of sabres
If Torrey's request is granted.
The emperor of China is preparing
to flee from Peking, being afraid of
losing his head in possible uprising.
The Stock exchange at London in
terprets the news from various points
to mean that the war will not last
long.
In case troops are sent to the Phil
ippine islands, nthey will be sent in
ships now engaged in the Klondike
trade.
Commodore Dewey carried a large
store of war munitions, so large that
the battle at Manila scarcely dimin-
ished it.
The Don Juan Austria, the Spanish
ship blown up in the battle, carried
1913 men, most all of whom are sup
posed to have perished,
Two thousand Greeks have volun-
teered to enlist In the United States
navy, many declaring they would be
willing to pay their own fare to this
country.
The reply of the Spanish governor
general of the Philippines to Dewey's
demand to surrender the guns, torpe-
dos and war munitions was to "come
and face them"
The Yale, formerly the Paris, has
sailed from New York under sealed Or
ders, She carried full supply of mu-
nitions and 5000 tons of coal, enough
to last for long cruise.
The Mississippi valley was storm
swept Sunday night Several lives
were lost by drowning. At several
; places the storm almost developed in
to the velocity of tornado.
Armed men are guarding the Aetna
. powder mills at Miller station, Indi-
ana, to prevent the possibility of Its
: destruction by Spanish sympathizers.
: No new men will be employed.
i A second Spanish fleet, it is an
Q nounced, is about ready to sail from
Gadiz Included in this fleet is the
Pelayo, probably the most formidable
fighting machine Spain possesses.
The rough riders who are being en-
! Wood, will be sent to Western Cuba
to work with Gomez. The other
: forces are to be landed east of Havana.
!. The Southern Pacific transport ships
Y left New Orleans Tuesday for Tampa,
Il carrying horses and mules for the army
i, of invasion. They have imperative
h orders to reach Tampa by Friday morn
10 ing.
IS The formation Of a new Spanish
" ministry as the result of the two-round
" bout in the Philippines Is altogether
., probable The Spanish feel the de
a feat very lSeenly, aud blame the min
istry for It.
Commodore Dewey, according *
ambassador John Hay at the Court o
:. St. James, is very affable and one o
s the most pleasant of men to meet
: Admiral Montijo to the contrary not
a, withstanding
he Captain Cadarzo of the Spanisl
RI Cruiser Reina Maria Christina, VIII
was killed and whose vessel wa
lin among those destroyed at Manila, os
pe. longs to a Madrid family, who ar
nst proud of the manner of his death
The German papers do not comment ul
nee on the American victory at Manila
ar but the opinion prevails in politics
q is quarters that the United States hi
gained the prize she had in view, as
promised not to annex Cuba but ga
ent no promise in regard to the Philippine
five The town of Mobeetie, Texas, W
ach. visited by a cyclone Monday and dal
por- age to the amount of S35 900 WAS dor
five John stoeker, Mrs. r, Wright, Nj
of Rufus Kitchen, and Baby Matters
and were killed and Mrs. Exma, Mrs. A
Zach derson and Baby Palmer were fatal
hree injured. Fifteen others We're painful
ions injured. The town contained on
sade POO inhabitants.
's' inspired by the feeling that nothi
is too good for Admiral Dewey and
ited fighting bluejackets who won the
lerly tory over the Spanish fleet IN Man
has bay. movement has been started
will Chicago for great iolifcation m'
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