Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-05-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

j. Bryan's old regiment, has been mus
tered out at Augusta, Ga.
Leading German professors express
the belief that the peace conference
will be without practical Importance.
At Bitterfield eleven persons were
drowned in attempting to cross the
river Nude. The rains still continue.
More than 700 Cuban stevedores are
out on strike and the work on ships In
Havana harbor is being done by Chi
nese under police guard.
In Rome, altough the composition of
the reconstruction cabinet has not yet
been officially announced, it is con-
sidered the ministerial crisis is passed.
C. Z. Littlefeld of Rockland, was
nominated by acclamation by the Re-
publicans of the Second Maine dis
trict, to succeed the late Nelson Ding
ley.
Three men were seriously and two
probably fatally injured by the ex-
plosion of a boiler at the works of
the New Jersey Iron and Steel COM
pany, Trenton.
The insurrection in Yemen Is gain
ing ground. The Turkish commander,
Abdullah Pasha, has been forced to
retreat to Sana, the capital of the
province of Yemen.
DR.. Clifford Mitchell of the Chicago
Homeopathic Medical college staff has
sons who committed suicide in 1898 did
SO by drinking carbolic acid.
Secretary Long has received cable
gram from Admiral Dewey, asking
permission to keep the cruiser Boston,
on the Asiatic station for a short time.
The request will be granted.
An extraordinary movement is on
foot looking to the consolidation of
Presbyterian congregations In New
York City, some of them among the
richest in the United States.
The London Daily Mail declares that
q group of American and English liter
ary agents has formed syndicate for
the purpose Of controlling the future
productions of Rudyard Kipling.
cabinet member is authority for
the statement that the president has
practically made up his mind to call
congress- together in extraordinary
session about the Goth of October.
In great fire in the town Of Graue
Humora, province of Dukowina. Aus
tria, 200 buildings, including the prin-
cipal church, the town han and other
public edifices and all the school houses
were destroyed.
Major-General Otis has virtually de-
cided against the legality of claims for
indemnity filed by residents Of
lloilo, whose property was destroyed
during the operations incident to the
: capture of that city on February II.
The Seminole burning and kidnap
ping cases, in which there are thirty
defendants for kidnapping and after
ward burning at the stake Lincolr
: McGeisey and Palmer Sampson, Semi
!, mole Indians, are on trial at Musco
gee.
n Representatives of the chief iroi
manufacturing houses of Scotland de
a ny that a scheme has been submitte'
,r to them by an American syndicate
~ headed by Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, t
absorb the iron and steel interests Q
Great Britain.
At Auburn, New York, the bodies c
:. Mr.. and Mrs Henry Tincknall wer
found In their room. The man wa
a. dead without mark upon him. TIL
a. woman was unconscious, with the sic
or of her head battered In and the brnl
re protruding.
all After a confinement of about g
he years in political prison In the r
s public of Colombia, Archie McCarte
IRE a civil engineer and contractor prom
ee- nent in Fort Scott, Kansas, until lsa
es- when he left for Yucatan, has ju
de- been liberated.
as An association of heirs, with Geor
iue Mills, manager of the United Stat
70 Touring mill, as president, has be
sd formed in Chicago to recover an ests
Ner consisting of sixty acres of property
the heart OF New York and Brookly
valued at 5000, 900, 600
de. BY an understanding arrived at
,ral the American and Spanish minist
lia, accredited respectively to Madrid a
ave Washington, both of whom are now
t is Paris, it is arranged that their arri
hat in the two capitals shall be as nea
on as possible Simultaneous.
ten- The Pacific coast seal herds are
arts be reduced without interference by
eral government. The treasury depa
1tis ment has indorsed the movement 9
hat instructions have been issued to Cc
rts. mander sebree of the twelfth lig
house district on the subject.
,een The good feeling in this country
cen. ward France is shown In three disth
CO.. projects for erecting statues In Frai
,,,,t. during the Paris exposition. Inc P
N. posed statues are Rochambeau, "a'
erts ington and Lafayette
Near Howard City, Mich, joss
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