Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-12-22
NEWS SUMMARY.

gon anu iowa, which arrived at Nalpa-
raiso on Saturday, has left for Callao
Madrid newspaper representing Senior
Gamazo and the dissenting Liberals,
declares for cabinet headed by Seno<
Montero Rios,
The General commanding the north
ern army of Spain has proclaimed the
closure of all Carlist clubs and societies
in his district
Jake Still and IL. b. Ray engaged in
duel at Clarendon, Texas, in which
Still was killed The trouble arose
over a woman.
James G.. Jeffries, the Los Angeles
heavyweight, has agreed to meet James
j. Corbett some time in February in
San Francisco.
A dispatchs from Utica, N. V, an
nounces the suicide of Leroy z. Mid
lam, the last Democratic postmaster of
Marquette, Mich.
The steamer Werra, which sailed
from Havana on December 9th with
about 20OO Spanish soldiers, has ar
rived at Malaga.
Phineas T. Barnum's widow, his sec
ond wife, has taken third husband.
She has married Baron Alex Orengiana,
a French nobleman, in Paris.
Cuban forces have entered the evacu-
ated towns of Calabazar and Santiago
de las Vegas, Havana province, and
have hoisted the Cuban flag.
The United States cruiser Cincinnati
is now in deep water. Apparently she
is not much damaged by running on
the reef while leaving Santiago
Representative S. w. Smith of Mich
igan has introduced bin for a national
military reserve, consisting of one
regiment for each congressional dis
trict.
In Buffalo, N. Y, about S700 in
spurious coin was captured in an 1tal-
ian tenement house in Scott street.
The supposed counterfeiters are under
arrest.
At a meeting of the general officers
of the Women's Christian Temperance
union the dates for the next annual
meeting, at Seattle, Wash, We're fixed
at October 20 to 25, 1899.
Most encouraging reports concerning
the health of the American troops gar
risoned in Porto Rico continue to reach
the war department. There has been
no fatalities for four days.
James Christensen and wife of
Neenah, Wis, while crossing the
| Northwestern railroad tracks, We're
struck by train and killed. They
leave family of eight children.
Commander Mori of the Japanese
navy places Admiral Dewey in the
same class with Admirals Ito and Mel
son. He is not only great naval
officer" said he, "but a general and a
statesman
In Munich duel with pistols took
place between Major Seitz and Lieu
tenant Pfeiffer, growing out of the for
mer's misconduct with the the latter's
wife. Major Seitz was killed.
The Midland Railway company of
England has ordered twenty freight
engines in Philadelphia and New York.
As a consequence of the engineers
strike the English firms are only able
to cope with arrears of work.
The first train from Merv, Russian
Turkestan, 400 miles southeast oil
Lahiva, arrived on Friday last at Kusl1
in the Jamshidi province of Afghan
istan, the line thus being completed tc
within ninety-fve miles of Herat.
Ex-President Grover Cleveland has
decided to abandon the "school farm
for homeless boys, which he, in com
pany with others, undertook early in
the summer. In practice the scheme
failed, and the ex-president has decided
to return to the original method O
farming.
The agricultural appropriation bill
contains a retaliatory clause authoriz
ing the secretary of agriculture to in
spect articles dangerous to health, ant
also authorizing the secretary of tn,
treasury to exclude such articles. Th'
restriction is designated to apply to
large number of articles importe,
from foreign countries.
Charles Nelson and H. X. Sprin,
have just reached Los Angeles fror
the United States of Columbia, where
for two years they were held unde
surveillance without being granted
trial on a charge of having killed Jaso
Hubbard on August 81, 1896. Their
was no evidence to connect them wit
the crime.
Prince Victor Napoleon's recent sc
journ in Paris was of more serious in
port than was at first surmised. Hi
presence was known, but the govern
ment did not arrest him because y
Dupuy, the premier, believed that tt
arrest would be the signal for cou
d'etat.
Regarding the attitude of the Roma
Catholic church in the Philippine
! Archbishop Ireland says: THE churc
in the Philippines will, l have no doub
accustom itself to the conditions und,
} the new regime, as it did under I'll
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