Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-09-28
NEWS SUMMARY.


as to take command of the troops
operating against Gen. Castro, the
revolutionary leader.
The war department has decided to
have the cable ship Hooker, which Is
on reef at Corregidor island saved
She is worth S2o0,0 900
In Lima, Peru, great fire almost
completely destroyed the famous and |
beautiful church of San Francisco,
founded 10y Pizarro in 1885.
General Otis has informed the war
department that the six or eight days
mail sent by the transport Morgan
City was lostin the wreck of the vessel.
Forterhouse, sirloin and tenderloin
steaks went up 2 cents pound in price
in Chicago last week, and rounds and
other cuts advanced from to Q cents.
The British battleship London was
launched successfully at Portsmouth
in the presence of large crowds Of peo-
pie. Her displacement is $4,000 tons.
A second operation was recently per-
fomed on Anson Phelps Strokes, who
was hurt in a riding accident the mid
die of August on his Lenox, Mass, es-
tate.
Three bodies have been taken from
the ruin of the hospital fire at Norfold,
Va. They have not been identified.
Fireman Baird who was in jured, is
dead.
senastion was sprung in the Chick
asaw Il. r. house by the introduction
of a bill proposing to raise the price OF
Chickasaw marriage licenses from $50
to $1,000.
Chicago Bohemians are incensed over
the circulars sent out by the bohemian
Brotherhood OF America, arraigning
their societies on the charge OF encour-
aging Suicide.
Within very short time the con-
struction of railroad will probably
be begun in Cuba which will make
every point of Importance In Cuba
easy of access.
Ulysses IIeureaux, son of the late
president of Santo Domingo, has organ
lied a body of several hundred troops
in the district Of San Juan, near the
| Haitian border.
Att mass meeting in Havana Sun
day, at which 5000 were present, in
| fiammatory speeches were made in
eight-hour day.
At Huntington, w. Va, the large
Dungess coal mines, which have been
idle for two years, have resumed The
general strike in the New River field
have brought this about.
A worlds record has been established
at the sawmill of the Berlin Mills com
pany plant, Pennington, Maine, wher
with single saw 1853, sol feet OF lum
Der was sawed out In eleven hours.
Congressman r. b. Hawley, repre-.
sentiug American capitalists, has pur
chased the Tinguraro sugar estate, on,
of the largest in Cuba, in the provinc'
of Matanzas. The estate includes
90, 600 acres.
The decision OF the Spanish cabine
that the interest on the Cuban bond
must be paid by the Cuban government
Is virtual announcement that Spail
will not pay the interest, and that tn
bonds are valueless.
During severe wind and rain storr
Sunday, the steam barge Cleveland
laden with 100, 900 feet of lumber, san
in the harbor near the mouth of tn
Chicago river. The crew were saved
Two yachts are missing.
San Juan de Porte Rico board c
charities tabulated statistics show tina
out Of a population of 916, ,s94 there ar
29l ,0s9 INDECENT and 1l,s5s sick Th
number OF deaths as a result of tn
recent hurricane was 2,6l9.
The Russian Abyssinnian expeditio
has discovered a new range of mouI
tains between 8. 80 and north latitud
and 36. 80 longitude. By permission {
the czar the mountains have bee
named Nicholas II range.
President Diaz will make his trip
Chicago in palatial style Besides ha
ing been granted twenty days leave
absence in order that he may atten
Chicago's festival. 500, 900 has bee
appropriated to defray his expenses.
Admiral Schley will go to New Yor
as private citizen to attend the Dew.
cele bration, and will return to Wasl
ington in time to be one of the CUES
. at the presidents dinner to Admir-
r Dewey on the night Of October 3r
Walter Jasper Beebe, his son, daug
ter and two grandchildren, were dri
ing across the Burlington railro,
tracks four miles east of Abba, low
. when a passenger train crashed in
. the vehicle, instantly killing four
the party.
The amount of gold certificates issu
$ by the treasury department In {
a change for gold coin to date is 500, OF
' 7sO There is said to be large a.
: increasing demand in New York
J. Ito order" IS, 600 and s1o,o gold c
4 tificates.