Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-06-23
NEWS SUMMARY.

A dispatch from the Canaries dated
June 9, reports the presence OF IA
Spanish torpedo boats
Two new cases Of yellow fever haV.
broken out at McHenry, Miss, in the
same house where the first seven cases.
occurred.
Hereafter, while postal cards will
be sold, it will be lawful to use
cards with one cent stamps affixed for
the same purpose.
There is persistent rumor from
Madrid that the queen regent proposes
to abdicate because of the critical con-
dition other country.
The United States cruiser Columbia.
which has been undergoing repairs at
Brooklyn navy yard since Decoration
day, has left the yard and passed out
to sea.
All the coal mines in the Jellico dis
trict, covering a total acreage of 3D.
600 in Whitley and Campbell counties,
Tennessee, has been sold to an English
syndicate.
The men on the ships of the fleet at
Key West have been afflicted with dys-
entry and diarrhoea. The distilling
plant has not been able to furnish
pure water.
When about to go in bathing at Jack
souville, Florida, James L. Gatewood,
private stenographer to General Fitz-
hugh Lee, was struck by lightning
an instantly killed.
senator Rawlins and Senator Cam
non will both support the Hawaiian
annexation bill. Each expresses con-
fdence that Hawaii will become part
of the Union before congress adjourns.
The house passed the general defic.
iency bill, carrying 1924, 100000 The
bill oeeasioned little debate and it
passed practically as reported to the
house from the committee on appro-,
pTiations.
Lieutenant Hobson, the hero of the
Merrimac, will be transferred from
the construction corps to the line Of
of the navy and raised to the grade
of lieutenant commander probably
next week.
At Brunswick, Mo-, j. II. Heisel,
mayor of the town, shot and killed
Richard Ashby, the town marshal.
Heisel was also severely wounded by
Ashby. The fight was the result of a
family quarrel.
The conferees on the sundry civil
appropriations bill have agreed to the
provision for the Paris exposition 1t
is in practically the terms of the
original senate amendment, to limit
the cost to 100000.
A special dispatch from Belgrade,
Servia, says ex-Queen Natalie is or
4 ganizing an expedition to the seat of
the war between Spain and the United
States in order to nurse both Ameri
cans and Spaniards. /
The belief is expressed in govern
ment circles in Madrid that Captain
General August will ask the foreign
warships to land detachments to occu-
\ py Manila on the ground that he is no
longer able to esist the insurgents.
The French steamer Pictovia, from
New York, May 90 which has arrived
at Marseilles. reports she was "fired
at by the Brooklyn near New York
The owners of the steamer will make
protest to the French government.
Governor Leedy announces that the
two battalions allotted to Kansas un-
der the second call will be recruited
from the colored population. He has
been urged to officer both battalions
to this point.
Representative King of Utah has &C
cepted an invitation to speak at the
4 Tammany hall celebration of the
Fourth of July This is a fine compli-
ment to the Utah representative, as
the Tammany committee on speakers
always selects the leading congress-
ional orators for the Independence day
celebration.
W. Veron Booth OF the n. Booth
Packing company atfirms the reports
to the effect that the fishery interests
of the Great Lakes region and the al
lied canning trade will be combined
in gigantic corporation, sustained by
English capitalists. The association
will embrace nearly all the fisheries
of the United States.
Captain Palmer, of the Alger light
artillery, which was mustered into the
service of Uncle Sam Thursday has been
ordered to proceed to San Francisco
and report to General Merritt as soon
as transportation is furnished. 1t is
thought the battery. which consists of
three officers and l22 men, will leave
Cheyenne not later than Friday morn
Ing.
The jury in the Betsy Smith murder
trial at Des Moines, la, brought in
verdict of guilty, imposing SEN
tence of Imprisonment for life. The
defendant murdered her husband by
administering morphine and rough on
rats.
The Indian appropriation bill was
finally agreed on in conference and
will be reported to the senate with the