Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-11-02
NEWS SUMMARY.

hS MNAlNdH MiHiSbtE VI W&ts
Berrezabel, is seriously ill.,
The German protected cruiser C~> no
ran has been ordered z. remain at
Samoa.
Gen. Miles and party are making an
extended tour of inspection of the army
posts OF the West.
The firm Of Mitsui & Co. OF Japan 10
considering plan to establish new
trans Pacific steamship line.
Count Torranaz, governor Of the Bank
OF Spain, has been appointed minister
of justice in succession Of Senior Duran
The Rio Grand river is on boom,
and is threatening the buildings at
Fort Brown, Tex.
Colonel Pondo has been elected
President of Bolivia, in succession to
Senor Severe Fernandez Alonzo.
The President has appointed Edward
r. Kingsbury of Centralia, Wash. to
be surveyor-general at Olympia, vice
MacMicken, dead
Secretary Long will il is said, make
a recommendation for but limited in
crease of the new navy in his forthcom-
ing annual report.
Buckner Mckee, a prominent farmer,
and Mrs. John Wilson, a widow, were
found dead by the roadside near Law
renceburg. Ky, Saturday.
The engineers reports confirmed tho
previously reported discovery of extern
sive and commercially available coal
beds in the State OF Puebla, Mexico.
Gen Otis has notified the War de-
partment OF the arrival at Manila of
the transports Sheridan and Elder The
former carried the Thirtieth volunteers.
At Tucson, Ariz, Al Ezelsiels shot and
killed c. c. Rasmussen. well known
contractor, because the latter had
Ezekiels elected from house rented
from Rasmussen.
Brigadier-General Frederick Funston
is TO be breveted major-gensral and
Colonel Wilder Il H. Metcalf of the
Twentieth Kansas is TO be breveted
rigadier-general by the President
Maj. Gen. Miles, commanding the
army, has submitted to the secretary
of war his annual report on the con-
dition and needs of the army. The re-
port is very brief and rather formal.
The French Cabinet has approved the
text of bill granting trades unions the
same status as an individual citizen and
enacting privileges and penalties to
secure the free working Of such bodies.
The Alaska Territorial convention
adopted memorial to Congress, and Sc
lected John q. Price of Skaguay as q
representative to go to Washington, d.
q, in the intrest Of the people of Alaska.
The hospital at Sagua la Grande.
Cuba, collapsed Saturday, having been
undermined by floods from the recent
heavy rains. OF the fourty-two in mates 3
four were killed and twenty seven in
jured.
In Peoria, ILL.,, Saturday, Fred Patee,
president of the Patee Bicycle company
and ex-ehief consul OF the Illinois di-
vision of the l.. A. w, was sentenced
to five yeas in the penitentiary for
forgery.
Paris. Mo-, grand jury has returned
an indictment for murder. In the first
degree against Alexander Jester, ON the
charge of numbering Gilbert Gates, son
of Chicago millionaire, twenty-eight
', years ago.
1t is learned that owing to the tenn
porary character of the settlement OF
the Alaskan boundary question there
; will be no meeting of the Canadian
Joint High commission in the immedi-
ate future.
1t is positively stated at the war de.
partment that 40 decision has been
reached in reference to the vacant
) brig adler -generalship in the regnla,
establishment resulting from Genera
Skaters retirement.
Mrs. Mary Ruby sister of Kit Carson
. the famous scout, is dead at Warrens-
burg, Mo-, of apoplexy. She was borr
: in an Indian fort near Boonebore
: Howard county, and during the eighty
seven years of her life was never oui
OF the State of Missouri. Mrs. RUBY
was the last member of the Kit ssCarsor
family.
Colonel John E. Yates, who died ai
Amesburg, Ont, last week was SO year
old. He had fine record as colone
of the First Michigan engineers. TIL,
regiment was the main reliance o
General Sherman for bridge building
during his march from Atlanta to tn
sea
The annual report of the chief of en-
gineers of the army, Brig. Gen. Johl
NJ. Wilson, just made public, submit
estimates for rivers and harbor work
already authorized by Congress bu
not provided by continuing contract
amounting to S29, ,9o6, sci. In additio
/ ne asks for SIS, ,5s2, ,626 to carry on wor
already contracted.
Twenty-four million dollars is TO |
demanded through the courts fro
corporations in Cook county for viola
ing the Illinois statutes. State Atorne
Deenen will make the demand in q fe