Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-11-24
NEWS SUMMARY.

Dreyfus will be brought back, and the
most conflicting statement are current
Jesse l. Gates, of the Second United
States artillery, has been awarded the
first pension on account of tie Spanish
war.
Three thousand operators in the
cotton mills at Augusta, Ga, have
struck on account of reduction in
wages
All the job printing establishments
at Minneapolis closed owing to a strike
of the press feeders for shorter hours.
Two hundred men are involved.
The hurrying of work on warships
continues at the Norfolk navy yard
and the probability is that the night
work will proceed for some time.
The Alabama house of representa-
tives has passed bill providing for a
test of the constitutionality of the
federal 10 per cent tax on state bank
issues.
bishop of Porto Rico, has resigned the
diocese, alleging that it is impossible
for him to serve any other country
than Spain.
The French line steamer La Nor
mandie, which arrived at New York
from llarve, is detained at quarantine,
owing to smallpox among her steerage
passengers
Comte Esterhazy's "L'Affaire Drey-
| fus, is believed in Paris to be an at
tempt to throw mystery on the Ester
hazy case rather than enlighten the
Dreyfus affair,
Lieutenant Lucien Young of the
Hist, reports it is practicable to raise
the former Spanish cruiser Reina Mer-
cedes, sunk on June 6 near the en-
trance of Santiago harbor.
Word has been received from Col.
Wood of the evacuation commission of
Holguin. He has taken possession of
the city and appointed Col. Rodriguez,
well-luown Cuban as acalde.
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Assistant Secretary Vanderlip has
sailed for Puerto Rico, to familiarize
himself with the financial conditions
of the island, its possibilities of reve-
nues, and its requirements of expeudi-
lures
Mr.. kemper, United States postal
agent for the military department of
Santiago, has arrived with materials
for establishing post offices at all points
in the island occupied by United States
troops.
+. A. HauXhurst, agent of the Pan
American Express company of Brook
I lyn, attempted suicide yesterday morn
ing in Havana, by cutting his throat
in the Hotel Inglaterra. His condition
is serious.
The Royal Geographical society has
issued formal appeal for funds to fit
out an Antartic expedition. Alfred
Harmsworth, proprietor of the London
Daily Mail and the Evening News, has
offered $4,000.
Havana is oyerrun with Americans
who have arrived there quite without
means of support, but in hopes of get
ting lucrative employment. There is
no inducement whatever for outsiders
in Havana at present
At Shanghai, Prince Henry of Prus-
sia unveiled the monument To the Off
GERS and sailors of the German third
class cruiser Hts which was lost in a
typhoon on July 20, 1896, north of the
Shan Tung promotory.
Dispatches from Perpignan, capital
of Pyrenees- Oriental, on the right bank
of the river Tet, report that the region
has been visited by severe storms.
Many villages have been flooded and
traffic has been interrupted.
Reno Goblet, former premier and
member of the French Chamber OF
Deputies for the First ACCOMPLISHMENT
Of the Department of the Seine, an
nounces that he will soon definitely
withdraw from the political arena.
TIE town of Macomb, Mo-, reported
threatened by forest fires, has not
been reached by the flames, which
have undoubtedly been quenched, as a
heavy rainstorm is said to have pre-
vailed in that section of the Ozarks.
George Ferguson, a Portsmouth
J Ohio, quaryman, and two of his chill
dred are dead, his wife and anothe
child dis6gured for life, as the resul
r of an accidental explosion. Ferguson
? poured the contents of can of blast
ing powder into the stove, thinking i
! was coal.
e The United States Supreme eour
p has affirmed the judgement of tn
e Supreme court of Washington, enjoin
t ing the city of Walls Walla from build
4 ing water works, on the ground tha
i this violated stipulation by which
the water franchise was given to I
private company.
The identity of the train robbel
: killed by Express Guard Blakeley II
the holdup at Daggett, Colo, on Fri
"a day night, has been fully established.
a The dead man is Ignatius F1sler.
). There were only two men in the hold
n up.