Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-10-27
NEWS SUMMARY.

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Manila, has arrived at San Francisco.
Navigation of the yolea has been
partially suspended, but the Baltic
ports are still open.
Chinese and native thieves in Manila
nre legion and the officers and civil
ans arefrequeutly robbed
The Magato kaftirs in the Transvaal
have been repulsed by the force of
burghers sent against them.
John Anderson, colored, charged
with numbering prominent farmer,
was lynched at Lafayette, Ala.
The shipments of Spanish silver
specie at Havana, in anticipation of
the American regime, are very heavy.
The municipal authorities of Toulon,
France, have been notified that that
place will be the center of important
naval and military preparations.
j. J. Kunkle, the Lawrence, Kans.,
tailor charged with poisoning his wife
and daughter, has been remanded to
Jail for trial by the district court.
The Emperor of China is believed to
be afflicted with an incurable kidney
disease though it is probable that he
will linger for considerable time.
The contention of the American com
pany regarding its canal concession
from the government of Nicaragua has
been sustained by Nicaraguan com
mission.
A small skiff in which We're three
prominent citizens of Chicago, who
were engaged in duck hunting, cap
sized on Lake Michigan and all were
drowned.
General Whittier, the collector of
customs at Manila, has been ordered
to proceed to Paris for the purpose of
tessifying before the United States
peace commission there.
Lillian Russell, the actress, is again
free from matrimonial ties, Signor
Perugini, whose wife she has been
since January 81, 1894, having just re-
ceived a divorce.
General Wheeler has issued an order
directing rigadierGeneral Call to or
Ranize the First division of the Fourth
army corps and await the arrival of
Major-General Chaffee.
The seventh annual convention of
tho papIll1inan Ta11arra
league, postponed from May last on
account of the war, will be held in In
dianapolis, November 8.
One of the heaviest rainstorms in
years has fallen in the vicinity of
Havana, and all of the streams are
overlooking. The streets sof Havana
present the appearance of flowing
river.
The body of Lawrence True has been
taken from the Ohio river near Aurora,
Ind, with his throat cut. The two
gashes made in the throat are such that
the coroner declared they could not be
self-inficted.
There are rumors of crisis in the
Peruvian cabinet. The senate has
sanctioned the bill, previously APP
proved by the chamber of deputies,
providing scale of duties for rice,
lard and petroleum.
The Argentine government has pre-
sented proposition to the Chilean
i government to form an arbitration tri-
bunal, composed of high functionaries
of both countries, to settle the Puma de
/ Atacama question.
Peculiar conditions prevail in rail.
road matters just now, says Ghanncy
NJ. Depew. There is large amount OF
traffic, and in many instances railroad
companies cannot get cars enough tc
carry freight that is offered.
The Japanese governm ent has ap
pointed Mr.. Jutamro Kuramo, vice
minister of foreign affairs, to be minis
ter of Japan to the United States. Mr.
Kuramo was born in 1853 and studied
law at Harvard university.
The National Bank Examiner hal
only made a partial investigation o
the affairs of the First National bank
Lisbon, Ohio, but he finds that L A
Childs, the absconding cashier, wa
$50, 900 short IN his accounts.
At Clairyille, Plumas county, Cal.
new town at the terminus, fire de
stroyed hotel and five people los
their lives: p. Pedrini, Carson Bar
ney, Mrs. Cornado, Florence Roberts
years old, and woman whose nam
could not be ascertained. Several pee
pie were injured by jumping from tn
seeond-story window.
Count Muravieff, the Russian fol
eign minister, it is said, has recon
mended to the French government
peaceful settlement of the FashoS
, question, as Russia does not conside
that war will serve the interests o
France.
The OVERLOOKING of the Yellow rive
in shantung province has caused tn
most applling disaster of modern time
in central China. Villages were swep
; away by hundreds. Over 100000 peo
nile are homeless and destitutei 2,o0i