Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-08-03
NO. 8.
NEWS SUMMARY.


According TO all accounts the expert
ment OF using native troops in Porto
Rico has been successful
Severe storms ragged off the Austria
liam coast during June and the early
days of the present month.
No more cases of rellow fever are
reported among the troops or govern
ment employees at Santiago.
Upon one scaffold and simultaneous
". four negroes were hanged in the
baltimore, Md. city Jail yard.
There were a53 cases and 12l deaths
from the plague at Poona, India, on
the 28th ult The cases include four
Europeans.
Officials of organized labor in Chi
cago state that the briclsmalsers' strike
is likely to precipitate general walk
out in the city.
The secretary OF agriculture has de-
cided to change regulations recently
issued for the free admission Of cattle
into Cuba next year.
At Bramwell, W. Va, Howard r.
Samson, an emissary seeking miners
for Missouri and Indian Territory coal
fields, was fatally stabbed in the coal
| fields.
f. l.. Stocking, assistant postmaster
at Tacoma. Wash, has been appointed
assistant director-general of posts at
Manila. He will be next in rank to
Director General Vaille.
A mortgage for SIT, ,ooo,o 600 given by
the writing paper trust required inter
nal revenue stamps TO the amount OF
So, 500, which were placed upon it and
cancelled.
Jeffords, the San Francisco heavy
weight pugilist, who is now In Port
land, Ore, has practically concluded
negotiations for fight with Peter jack
son, who is now in Victoria, b. q.
The anthracite companies announce
that all orders for coal at prices prior
to July /, not filed on July 81, will
be filed at an advance of 25 cents per
ton which will then go into effect.
Twelve Spanish gunboats recently
put on blockade duty have done re-
markably good service in cutting on
, supplies for insurgents between the
different islands of the Philippine
, group
1t is the intention of the war depart
ment to send all cavalry horses to tho
, Philippines by way of Unalaska and
, Nagasaki so that they may be taken
off the ships at both these places and
given rest
James NJ. Garlinton, alias Darling
ton, was hanged at Fort Worth. Tex.
Darlington was the leader of band
who on the night of July 81, 1898, rob-
bed a Santa Fe railroad train near
Sawinaw.
: By the assassination of President
: Heaureux of San Domingo, Cuba may
| lose one of it's central figures, as IL ID
! well known that General Maxine Co
. mez aspires to the presidency OF ths
black republic.
Albert Ballinger, who is in the re-
= eeiving hospital, San Francisco, await
A ing examination as to his sanity, is un
|. der confinement because of his wild
! wooing OF Blanche Bates, the Sar
:. Francisco actress.
e At Westchester, Pa, revolving muir
(. der has come to light. II Is alieget
d Mrs Fannie Stevenson, colored
e crushed her infants head with an a.
t and then threw the body to some hogs
~ which devoured it,
t. Charles Walfangle, of Brazil, Ind.
became suddenly violently insane an
with hatchet chopped his two daught
-. ers and wife to death while they wer
"a sleeping. He then took q knife an
=, cut his own throat.
lie General Roy Stone, director OF roa
e. inquiry of the department of Agricul
be ture at Washington, who 10 In Nes
On York, says that more activity Is beinl
e. displayed in road Improvement tina
ay has been shown for years.
The Privy council OF England ha
"a decided in the case of Briden VS.. tn
1t. Union Colliery company that the pre'
ince of British Columbia has not tn
power to prohibit Chinese worxin
II. underground in coal mines.
e. good deal of surprise has bee
n. caused in official circles in Washingto
by the unexpected opposition develop
ed ing in France to the ratification of tl
oi reciprocity treaty just negotiated
lie. Mr.. Kasson and NJ. Cambon.
nj Notice has been given in the sta
IN department at Harrisburg, Pa. that q
hi application for a charter for the Anne
,ht ican Iron and Steel Manufacturir
m. company will be made ON August
:" The capital will be $40, ,oo0, 900.
The dfth biennial convention of I
oei Worlds Woman's Christian Temp,
OF ance union, it is announced, will me
on. In Edinburg, Scotland, Monday, in
ny. 25. 1900. The executive commit
fin. meeting will be held on Friday, Ju
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