Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-05-12
NEWS SUMMARY.

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surgents
Charles H. Allen of Massachusetts,
has been appointed assistant secretary
of the navy.
The dynamite cruiser Versuvins has
left Schley's squadron for Havana to
join in the blockade.
The Spaniards are trying to provis-
ion the forts of eastern Cuba before
the blockade begins.
Sampson is lying in wait for the
Cape de Verde feet at Porto Rico, but
has not found it yet.
Admiral Miller, stationed at Hawaii,
has been ordered to San Francisco,
there to await orders.
Difficulty is being experienced in OBJ
tanning transports to carry troops from
San Francisco to Manila
Judge Torrey's rough riders will be
equipped with ropes instead of sabres
If Torrey's request is granted
Seven transport boats are now at
Port Tampa and will soon be in readi-
ness for the loading of the troops.
Governor Budd of California has
been warned of what is alleged to be
plot against his life by Spaniards.
The Roman Catholic church is the
official church of Spain, and is as pow
erful in temporal as in spiritual affairs.
Karditza and Gorgeous, tho two men
who attempted to assassipate King
George of Greece, were executed Mon
day.
Theodore Roosevelt has been mus
tered in as Northumberland, Adju-
tant- General Corbin administering the
oath.
Cable communication is to be re-
stored between Manila and Hong Kong
but one end of it will be on Deweys
feet.
All United States consuls in Spain
and Cuba are still on the payrolls.
They were simply given sixty days
leave.
! 1t is announced that the floating debt
of Spain was increased during the
month of April last by 12,244, 1891
pesetas.
The Oceanic Steamship company's
steamer Moana carries 500, 600 sover-
eigns (s2, 500, OOo) from Sydney to San
| Francisco.
Spain is divided into sixty-two do
ceses, over each Of which a bishop
rules for the church and all supported
by the state.
Brigadier General Willard Young of
Utah has arrived in Washington and
will be placed in charge of regiment
| of volunteers.
The battleship Oregon arrived at
Bahia, Brazil, on the 10th. She is act
ing under orders received from the
navy department
Unconfrmed rumors of severe ZEN
gagements with insurgents by Spanish
troops come from Cuba, but they are
generally discredited.
Admiral Dewey has recommended
that Manila be occupied by American
troops, and provisional government
be established to conduct affairs.
"A Spaniard in Paris declares that the
American squadron could not have en-
tered the bay at Manila without Sc
cret understanding with the insur-
gents.
Navigation will open between Daw-
son and St. Michael about June /, or
two weeks earlier than usual, owing to
the warm weather that prevails on the
Yukon.
Thirty-six thousand priests, 1854
monks and IA, 592 nuns carry on the
religious work of Spain, there being
only about 1000 Protestants in popu-
lation of II, 565, 639.
Preparations for the embarkation of
the United States troops at Tampa are
rapidly being completed. Seven of the
transports to be used in carrying the
soldiers are now there.
Major General James f. Wade is now
in command of the army of Cuban in
yasion, by his right of senior officer,
displacing Major General w. r. Shat
ter, heretofore in command
The complete victory of Dewey can
be accounted for only in one way. He
must have captured the Spanish press
censor at Manila and put him to work
writing official dispatches.
The steamer Roman arrived at Bos-
ton and the captain reports that he
had been held up by Spanish ship
300 miles out from Boston. No fur
Their particulars are known.
Commodore Dewey, according to
/ ambassador John Hay at the Court of
St. James, is very affable and one of
the most pleasant of men to meet,
Admiral Montijo to the contrary not
withstanding
Lieutenant Rowan, who visited Caba
as an emisary of the government, has
returned, having visited the insur-
gents and fulfilled his mission. He
left Cuba May in an open boat
The Cleveland Rubber works has
just received a rush order from the
United states government to furnish
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