Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1898-06-16
NEWS SUMMARY.

STABILITY Of buying the Philippines
the islands are in market
dispatch from General Blanco at
Havana says the Spanish torpedo-boat
destroyer Terror is in Porto Rican
waters.
Congressman d. w. Mills was unan'
imously renominated by the Republic
can convention of the Fourth Illinois
district.
1t is reported that Germany will pro
pose meeting of the European con-
ference to discuss the question of the
Philippines.
Madrid newspapers are printing vio-
lent articles demanding that the re-
sponsibility for the political situation
be determined.
At Castle Rock, Wash, the swear
old son of J.. w. Scott secured loaded
gun and shot and instantly killed his
2-year-old sister.
Political circles in Madrid express
themselves as being quite satified that
the powers will not permit the United
States to hold the Philippines.
The: president has granted pardon
to Capt. John ID. Dart, now serving o
sentence of two years for engaging in
filibustering expedition to Cuba.
1t is asserted in Rome that the queen
regent of Spain has submitted to the
pope the question of her retirement In
order to allay the public discomfort.
Critics in Paris regard the occupa-
ton of Guam tananlo as master stroke
and the fact that 5000 Spanish allowed
the landing is omniously significant.
The prohibitionists have nominated
X. Y. Muir for governor of Nebraska,
and adopted II platform declaring the
party's opposition to the liquor traffic.
The bureau of internal revenue is
now busily engaged in preparations
for the enforcement of the war rev.
enue bill which is soon to become
law.
At st. Joseph the Missouri river is
higher than it has been for several
years, and it is cutting away consider
able good farming land north of the
city.
Advices from Hongkong report that
any serious resistance by the Span
iards, who are pressed by the insur-
gents and Americans, is out of the
question.
The war department has acceded to
the request of the owner of the steamer
Centennial, now on the Pacific coast,
that another examination shall be
made of her.
An American, it is reported, was ar
rest at Algeiras, on the bay of Gibral-
tar, Spain, June ID, charged with be-
ing in the possession of plans of the
Notifications at Cadiz.
San Francisco ship-owners strongly
deny the charges of hampering the
government in the work of securing
transports, which were made by Sena-
tor Carter in the senate.
A car containing soldiers from Iowa
caught fire on the desert near Reno,
New, and the soldiers lost their cloth
Ing. They passed through Reno, New,
clad in their underclothing
The Spanish minister of foreign af-
fairs, Duke Almodera de Rio, saws
there is no truth in the statement that
The &C. HE communication with Santa
go de Cuba has beer broken Off
Constable Lowan was killed by /
George Washington, a negro, at Vienna,
Tex. The negro tried to make his es-
cape, but was captured and hanged to
an electric-light pole by 500 people.
The total subscribed for the new g.
per cent government bonds at the First
National bank at San Francisco is
81, 900, 900. Subscriptions are beginning
to come in from interior cities and
towns
At Redding, CAL, as a result of a
strike in the iron mountains, 500 men
are idle. Feeling runs high between
the strikers and the management, and
trouble OF serious character is ex-
pected.
Horses and mules for the mountain
battery which John Jacob Astor has
to the government, and
which is now on the way west for SER
vice in Manila, are being purchased in
st. Louis.
The navy department has taken
steps to begin courtnartial against
Engineer G. White for neglect of DUTY
In the construction of the big dry dock
at Brooklyn, and has also taken meas
nres to have suit brought by the de-
partment of justice against the sureties
on the bond of the contractor who
built the dock.
Inc war department has ordered the
forty-ninth Iowa regiment to report
to General Lee at Jacksonville, Fla.
A tornado descended on Riddleville
small town so miles from San An
tonic Texas, and three people were
Killed outright. A boys skull was a..
crushed and he is fatally injured.
The largest clerical reduction in the
pension bureau for some wears ,vao 90