Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-06-15
NEWS SUMMARY.

charge of numbering Mrs. Adams.
The United States may be called
upon to arbitrate the differences be-
tween Great Britain and the Transvaal.
Armed troops are invading the Andes
province, Venezuela, under the leader
ship of Ciprani Castro, The movements
is believed to be local.
Hundreds of people have been
driven from their homes along the
Colorado river and score of casual
ties have been recorded.
The town of Linz near Ottensheim,
Austria, has been totally burned. Four
women perished in the flames and
number of people were injured.
In Alexandria, Egypt, there have
been twenty-one cases of the plague
and seven deaths from that disease.
Two new cases have just been re-
ported.
The engagement between Prince
Macmillan of Baden and the Grand
Duchess Helen, daughter of the Grand
Duke Vladimir, has been definitely
broken off.
1t is rumored in Rome that Count
Nigra, head of the Italian delegation
at the peace conference, will propose
that the Pope have a permanent seat
on the arbitration tribunal.
DIR. |. N. Johnson, member of the
legislature from Easton, Pa, has been
arrested, charged with perjury before
the recent legislative bribery commit
tee. He was admitted to bail
Rear Admiral Charles Beresford,
Conservative member for York City in
the House of Commons, delivered
scathing criticism of the governments
policy on Drifting" in China
Princess Chimay, formerly Clara
Ward of Detroit, telegraphs from Cairo
that jamie Rego, the gypsy with whom
she eloped and later married, is not
dead, but is quite well in Cairo.
John j. Lalor, translator in the
Office of the director of the mint, lost
his balance and fell from the second
floor in the treasury department down
the shaft, receiving fatal injuries.
The Rev. Alfred Debarrit, who four
months ago founded the Congrega-
tional church in the city of Havana,
has returned to this country for aid in
his religions and educational work in
| Cuba.
The president has approved an
amendment to rule six of the civil SER
vice rules, excepting from examination
one assistant postmaster or chief as
sistant to the postmaster at each post
office.
Captain p. H. Bonus of the army
recruiting station in Chicago, has re-
ceived instructions from the war de-
partment to enlist an unlimited num-
Der of men for service in the Philippine
| islands.
North of Wichita, Kan, there is 100
feet of track on the Santa Fe washed
out and train is stalled. Five thou
sand acres of lowland are under water.
| The Arkansas river is the highest
since 1877.
1t is learned at the state department
that, while arrangements are making
toward a modus vivendi for the regu-
lation of the Alaskan boundary ques.
ton, conclusion has not yet been
reached.
Secretary Long has passed on the ar.
NOR bids recently submitted, deciding
to purchase a small quantity of armor
and to let the next congress decide
what shall be done toward securing
the remainder needed.
The Attorney General announces his
opinion that 1.-THE army reorganization
bill fixing the maximum strength OF
the army at 65, 900 did not include the
enlisted force of the hospital corps,
about $500 men, so that the enlisted
force can be increased by that num-
bern
The statement is made by a promi-
nent Cuban that certain Cubans have
entered into a compact that in the
event the United States does not turn
the government of the islands over to
them in a certain length of time they
will apply the torch to every building
in Cuba.
Morris Foley, of New York city, suf
fering from two bullet wounds anC
cuts in the head, accuses his wife ant
her daughter, Hannah Pool, of at
tempting his murder, and the tw,
women are in custody at Sheepshea'
Bay.
Maps and charts of Switzerland, lef
in the house in which Martin Meier o
Chicago was found murdered, have
according to the police, furnished
clue which they hope will result in tn
arrest of the murderers of the age
Swiss
The senate committee on fnanc
met in New York city Friday. Sens
tors Aldrich, Jones of Nevada. Allison
Platt of Connecticut and Burrows wer
present. The meeting was PRACTICAL
! a caucus of the Republican members
, the committee.
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