Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-10-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

Companies X, l. and NJ of the Second
volunteer engineers, now at Honolulu,
will be the garrison left there.
The Russian imperial yacht pole
Star" having on board the Gar of
Russia, has arrived at Copenhagen.
The sultan has yielded to the de-
mands of the powers, and the Turkish
troops will be withdrawn from Crete.
The strike situation in Paris is inn
proving. Some of the strikers are re
turning to work at the exposition
grounds and other places.
Commodore Watson was slightly in.
jured in a railroad wreck near Colfax,
Cal, while en- route to his command of
the Mare Island naval station.
In a fire at Hankow, China, 1000
lives were lost, and one square mile OF
the city was destroyed, including the
government buildings and temple.
Thirty persons were killed and eaten
at a barbaic feast given by the Head
Hunters, a canibal faction of Rendova,
Australia. in honor of their victory.
William Ogilvie, Yukon, administra-
tor, has been appointed by the Cana
dian government to inquire into and
report upon the alleged scandals
among government officials at Dawson.
Joseph Simon of Portland has been
elected by the Republicans to the
United States senate, to fill the vacan-
cy which has existed since March 4,
1897.
FL. II. Lowry, president of the Amer
lean university in China, denies the
truth of all the recent stories as to the
suicide sr assassination of the En-
peror.
General Grants brigade, consisting
of the Fourth Ohio and the Third Illi-
nois regiments, has been ordered to
sail for home from Puerto Rico about
October 16.
Joseph Murray, United States agent
In charge of the Pribyloff islands, is
dead at Fort Collins, Colo. Mr.. Muir
ray was noted in the west as a cam
paign speaker.
Bishop Whipple of Minnesota, who
is In Washington in attendance upon
the Episcopal council, places the blame
of the Indian uprising at Bear island
upon whisky.
The Chinese foreign Office has pro-
tested against the excessive Russian
escort, pointing out that it is twice
the strength of the detachments OF the
other powers.
The English troops who have re-
turned from Khartoum are dying like
flies from enteric disorders, supposed
to be due to canned beef and indul-
gence in cheap spirits.
Chen Paochen, governor of the prov
ince of Hu Nan, who is the most en-
hghtened governor in China, and has
been active In introducing improve
ments, has just been cashiered.
The steamer Reina de Los Angels
has arrived at Manzanillo, Cuba, with
Colonel Henry Ray and 400 United
States troops, and the United States
flag now floats over one more Cuban
city.
Lieutenant Morgan, Twenty second
Kansas, charged with participating in
the desecration of Confederate graves
at Manassas last August, has been ac
Quilted by court martial and restored
to service.
United States secret service officers
have discovered that large numbers of
counterfeit 800 silver certificates have
been produced in San Francisco The
operators are reported to be under
police surveillance.
The depot quartermas ter at Phila
delphia has been authorized to pur
chase 400, 900 yards of kersey, 150,o0C
yards of flannel, o,0oO yards Of cloth
1900 sibley stoves and $4,000 joints OF
sibley stove pipe.
B. Mallen, an eighteen-year-o boz
who enlisted In the First Washington
volunteers without permission of hi
parents, has been discharged on habea
corpus by United States District Judg
Hawley In San Francisco
Major g. r. Doxey's 5000, 900 hold
ings In the American Plate Glass com
pany, the great antitrust concern
have been transferred to the Pinsbur
parties, who had acquired the othe
$500, 900 of the capital stock. The neV
owners have planned additions to tn
Alexandria plant which will make
the largest of it's kind in the world
Queen Victoria, 1t is reported, ha
invited Emperor Nicholas to Balmora
after the funeral of Queen Louis c
) Denmark, with a view of a persona
discussion of the far Eastern situation
bat IL is said the Gear is not likely I
accept.
]. j. Kunkie, wealthy merchan
: tailor of Lawrence, Kans., has bee
5 arrested, charged with poisoning b
r wife and daughter, both of whom hay
/ died. Before his wife died she declare
' her husband had poisoned her and Ia
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