Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-08-11
NEWS SUMMARY.

catch is nearly 100000 cases.
Samuel l.. Black, mayor of Columbia
o., has been elected president of the
League of American Municipalities.
Sam Smith and Tom Winn, the two
men who robbed the Frisco train at
Andover, o. T., have been captured.
Chief Isparhecher has refused TO
turn over to the Dawes commission
the citizenship rolls of the Creek Ma
tion.
Mrs. Emmons Blaine has presented
the University of Chicago SIS, 900 for
the higher education of teachers in
,hc public schools.
Judge f. O. Phillips of Medena has
been nominated for congress by the
Twentieth Ohio Congressional district
Republican convention.
The heutenant-governor of British
Columbia has called upon Robert
Beavon to form government. Beavon
will undertake the task.
lHS hawaii commissioners, VINO
will lay the foundation for new
government of the Sandwich island,
have sailed from San Francisco.
The paramount issue at the coming
Missouri Democratic state convention.
which meets at Springfield on August
10th, Will be territorial expansion.
Secretary Long is now devoting a
good part of his attention to reducing
the expenses of the navy department
which were SO vastly increased dur
ing the war.
Alexander Steele, cousin to the
late William Ewart Gladstone of Eng
land, is hopelessly i'll at his home at
Marshall, Mo-, where he has lived
for the past twelve years.
The queen regent and Senior Sagasta
are both desirous that the details of
the final draft of the treaty of peace
should, II possible, be conducted in
Paris by Senior Leon Castillo.
The Yukon is getting too low for
navigation, and the distress will be
very great this winter, it is said. un-
less the government takes some ener-
getic relief action.
Advices from st. Michaels states
that passengers who have been unable
to get up the river after paying their
fares to Dawson, talk of lynching
agents of steamers.
At Anadarka, Okla, negro named
enter the room of Miss Phoebe Stokes,
a school teacher. Miss Stokes fred six
shots, killing him instantly
The Dominion government granted
the request of section of the Grand
Army of the Republic to visit Hamil
ton, Ont, to attend a celebration,
carry ng their arms.
The Ninth Hlionois infantry has
received orders from Adjutant General
Corbin to go to Jacksonville, Florida,
where the regiment is to join Major
General Fitzhugh Lees corps.
In proportion TO population, Texas
has furnished more troops for the war
! than any other state. Texas pays
each enlisted man 81 month in ad-
iition to his government pay.
The dead body of a woman, apparent
y about 40 years of age, was found on
he government breakwater, Mil
waulee, Wis, by two fishermen. She
is believed to have been murdered.
There are now nineteen companies
on the Comstock which have given
notice of their intention to reduce the
par value of their stock from Slo0 to
amounts varying from 81 to SO a
share.
Announcement was made by the
American Sugar refining company of
the withdrawal of its thirty days
price guarantee and three grades of
soft sugar refined by the company were
advanced one-sixteenth of cent.
The hospital ship Bay State, sent To
/ Cuba by the Massachusetts Volunteer
Aid association, sailed from Boston
loaded with provisions and many
delicacies for the soldiers at the front
The continuous rain of the past ten
days at Camp Thomas has resulted in
general desire to change camps, aud
the regiments are, as rapidly as they
can get permission, moving to new
locations.
The miners at Lafayette, Colo, have
appealed to Sheriff Thompson to dis
arm the deputies brought there from
Denver by the Northern Coal COMPANY
: to guard the men working in III,
Mitchell mine.
1t is declared in Springfield, Mo.
that when the State Democratic con
vention meets the leaders viii be II
perfect accord on that plank of TIN
platform referring to the acquisition o
territory by the United States.
Admiral Sampson has written te
Secretary long denying that Schley
{ ever advised trying to force the bar
Dor at Santiago. Both he and Sehiey
! agreed that the attempt would be
J extra hazardous and ill-advised at any
time.
The Indians of the Indian Nation