Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

Juneau, Alaska, mas Decn arrested on
the charge of criminal libel.
DR. Nancy Guilford the Bridg port
midwife charged with murder, is being
brought from England to stand trial.
Preparations have been completed for
the dry docking Of the second-class
battleship Texas at the brooklyn navy
yard,
There is very little serious sickness
among the troops at Santiago. Every
body is improving with the cooler
weather
The state of Texas has raised the
yellow fever quarantine and the quar-
antine inspectors and guards have
been withdrawn
The war department has established
permanent paymaster's office in
Huntsville, Ala, in charge of Major G.
NJ. Marsh and 5. H. Tyler.
Charles H. Thornton of Los Angeles
committed suicide in st. Louis hotel
by shooting himself in the mouth No
cause is known for the deed,
1t is estimated that no fewer than
$4,000 people in the section in and
around Santiago are learning English,
in addition to the school children.
Wilmington, n G., city authorities
are bending every energy toward per-
suading the refugee negroes, who are
in the woods, to return to their homes.
Orders have been issued to push
work on the monitors Puritan and Ter
ror at Norfolk navy yard, SO that they
will be available for service at short
notice.
The miners employed in the vicinity
of Silverton. B. c., have rounded up all
the Chinese laborers in the various
camps and shipped them out of the
district
Advices from members of the Eighth
Illinois volunteers, colored, now il
Santiago province, cuba, state that
fully 80 per cent of the regiment is in
the hospitals.
The Cubans around Guantanamo are
going to work on the plantations.
Colonel Ray refuses to issue rations tc
those who decline to work at 40 cents .
a day, the regular rate
1t is learned that the war with Spain |
has not delayed the surveys of the |
Nicaragua canal to any appreciable
extent, and practically all parties have
sent in their notes 70 be plated,
Edward Zola, resident of Kansas
City, and a cousin of Emile Zola, the |
champion of Dreyfus, says that the re.
port that the French author is coming
to this country shortly is untrue,
Owing to the great i'll health of the
New York volunteers now eneamped |
at Honolulu, that regiment win be sent |
home as soon as the method of its
transportation can be decided upon.
The board of ordance and fortifica-
tions has decided to institute an in. |
vestigation of the possibilities Of flying
machines for reconnoitering purposes I
and as engines for destruction in time
of war
The winter plans for the postal SER
yicein the Yukon region are completed .
and will consist of twice a. month SER |
vice via Juneau that is, the regular .
route through Dawson to Circle City /
and Weare,
Mr. Chong ki Ye, connected with the /
household of the Crown Prince Of
Korea, and eldest son Of Chin Pom Ye,
the minister from Korea to this coun.
try, has been appointed an attache OF
the Korean legation
The United States last year com
manded more of the Samoan trade
import and eXport-than any European
nation, and in the matter of exports to |
the islands stood second only to the /
nearby Australian colonies The rec
ord for the coming year will be watch.
ed with interest
The deaths at IIolguin Cuba, from
smallpox average thirty day for the
army and as many in the poorer quar-.
ters. Every hut is infected, and wo.
men, children and men lie literally
rotting to death without the care of
even one doctor. The poverty of the
inhabitants is beyond description
The Italian anarchist. Luigi Iue
cheni, who stabbed and killed Empress
Elizabeth of Australia, on September
10. last, has been sentenced to life i'm
prisonment, the full penalty allowed
by the Swiss law for murder Upon
receiving his sentence, he laughed and
cried loudly: Long live anarchy.
death to the aristocracy.
British naval construction program
for 1899 includes two battleships o.
1l,5oo tons each, with very powerful
armament and protection; two cruisers
Of 1000 tons each, two large torpedo
boat destroyers and eleven torpedo
boats,
Richard Guenther of Wisconsin has
been appointed by President Mckinley
to be eonsul-geueral Of the United
States at Frankfort, Germany. and
Frank H. Mason Of Ohio to be consul
general of the United States at Berlin,
Germany.