Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-12-15
NEWS SUMMARY.

Great destitution prevails among the
laboring classes in Havana.
General John h. Brooke will be
made the military governor of Cuba.
The Missouri Pacific paid its floating
debt of 81 300, 900 to Russell Sage De-
cember s.
A body of soldiers has been ordered
to be in readiness TO escort Dreyfus to
Paris for trial
The pope has decided that the Span
ish policy of the Vatican shall be anti
Carlist and not neutral
Sir Thomas Upington, premier of
Cape Colony from 1884 to 1856, died at
Cape Town, in his 54th year.
The Ninth, Thirteenth and Twenty
first regiments of regular infantry
have been ordered to Manila.
Secretary Long has cabled to orders
to Rear-Admiral Dewey to send the
cruiser Raleigh to the United States.
Sir William Anderson, director gen
eral of the royal ordinance factories
and part inventor of cordite, died at
London.
Captain Samuel Mckee, exmember
of congress and one of Kentuclsy's most
promising Republicans, died at Louis
vile of paralysis.
The thermometer at Denver on the
9th registered 10 degrees below zero;
at Valentine, Neb., on the same day,
20 degrees below,
The widow of David BlalIely has OBJ
tanned decision involving 500, 900
from John Phillip Sousa, leader of the
famous Marine band.
Reports regarding the health of the
troops at Santiago are encouraging,
and in the Philippines the conditions
have materially improved.
The senate in executive session has
ratified the treaty for the extension OF
the time for the completion of the
Mexican boundary one year.
James Shaw, the only surviving
member of the Michigan legislature of
1s47, when Detroit was the capital of
Michigan, died at Niles, aged Sc.
The auxiliary cruiser Buffalo, which
sailed from New York with 900 troops
| for Manila, broke down soon after
starting for sea and put in at Newport
! News.
Henry Mortimer Platt is dead at his
home in New York aged 76 years.
Fifty years ago he established the first
gold and silver refinery in the United
States.
Three hundred men of the New York
regiment and a number of sailors and
officers of Admiral Dewey's fleet arrived
in San Francisco December 8, en- route
home.
Among Bedford's population of 2, SOC
there are about 1000 cases of what is
called genuine smallpox. Other Penn,
sylvania towns are excited over the
affair.
| hC LlIC III LllN NOlho Ot WIZ CS'AAN'
ard Oil company at Los Angeles has
burned itself out, the entire property
being consumed. The total loss Ii
estimated at 1925, 900.
The Ohio commandery of the mill
tary order of the Loyal Legion, has de
eded to elect President Mckinley com
...,da,, ,F tba or1ar ~ tho naxt elap
ton which takes place in May.
Sam Smith, the train robber, hai
been found guilty of murder in th'
first degree at Eldorado, Kan. He viii
receive death sentence, which il
Kansas means life Imprisonment.
I A report submitted to congress b.
g the commission of fish and tisherie
shows an expenditure of S1s7, 800 fo
the propagation of food fisheries dur
the fiscal year ended June Both last.
, John Barrett, formerly United State
g minister to Siam, after visiting Pekin
SAYS the situation in China is one o
the most critical nature, and that Man
churia is no longer Chinese, but Rus
9 sian territory,
The session of the Canadian Join
High Commission yesterday was agai
$ devoted to the reciprocity clause, BIT
q there is no official intimation of ho'
I far or how amicably this diseussio
i had proceeded.
Secretary Long, at the instigation {
Senator Hale, has submitted bill a
: propriating $40. 900 for the erection
y a monument and fence at Colon cer
etery, Havana, where the dead of tt
Maine are buried.
:, Three men were killed and eigl
were injured, three of them probab
|. fatally, by the explosion of pre-
u mill and four grinding mills in Il
Haggley yard of the Dupont Powd
, works at Wilmington, Del.
y The New England Shoe and Leath
n association yesterday announced t
d assignment of the Nudge Shoe COZ
is pany, with headquarters at Bost'
y and factories at tNewburyport and Ell
70 Rochester, N. IL, Liabilities will rea
$3.50
Senator Mitchell has introduced
bill amending the existing law in
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