Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-05-11
NEWS SUMMARY.

health.
A treaty has been entered into be-
tween Great Britain and the Friendly
Islands.
The great steel combination, which
has practically been completed, will
have capital of SIC, 900, 600.
The local branch of the Canadian
Bank of Commerce at Dresden, Ont,
has been robbed OF an amount esti
mated at $4,000,
The London Times comments
on the Philippine situation, stating
that the United States is making sat
isfactory progress.
The entire plant of the California
powder works near Pinole, Cal, was
more or less damaged by an explosion
One man was slightly injured.
Governor-General Brooke has signed
the commissions of the president and
the associate justices of the recently
constituted supreme court of Cuba.
Receipts in the Havana custom house
for April justify, it is said the pre-
diction that the collection at that port
for 1899 will reach fully $40, 900, 900.
The German government has tele-
graphed orders to the German consul
at Manila to give pecuniary aid to dis
tressed Germans in the Philippines
The Duke d'Arcos, the newly APP
pointed Spanish minister to the United
States has started upon his journey to
his new post at Washington by way of
Paris
j. M. johnson, chief clerk of the
railway mail service at Los Angles,
has been detailed to go to Honolulu to
take charge of the transfer Of mails at
that port.
No new cases of smallpox have APP
peared among the soldiers at the
Preside or on board the transport, and
1t is believed the disease has been
stamped out.
General Henry at San Juan is maxi
ing fair progress in the plan of enlist
ment of 400 Porto Ricans in the Unit
ed States army for service in their ma
tive country.
United States Minister to Nicara-
qua William L. Merry, has agreed to
settlement of the claims OF United
States citizens there against the Nioa-
raguan government.
acting Secretary of War Meikleiohn
by direction of the president has made
a number of amendments to the tariff
schedules and port regulations in
Porto Rico and Cuba.
The death of Miss Lille Cunning
ham at Kirksville, Mo, makes the
thirtyfourth death resulting from
the tornado of April 27. Others are
in a critical condition.
United States Consul General Os-
borne at Apia has refused to pay King
Tanu's salary for the month of Janu-
airy. Proceedings have been taken
against him in the supreme court.
General Charles p. Egan, prominent
j: the army beef scandal, has sailed
from San Francisco for Honolulu on
the steamer Australia. General Eagan
and his fumily will spend several
months there.
General Ramon Cara, formerly Ven
ezuelan minister of war and marine,
who started the revolution last Feb.
ruary and was finally severely defeat
ed by the government, has escaped
into Colombia.
Eight Chilkat Indians who were OBJ.
structing the construction of trail by
white men from Haine's mission to
Klukwan up the Chilkat river have
day imprisonment.
Spain is collecting evidence at Hong.
kong with a view of claiming a cession
of land in China as indemnity from the
Chinese government for permitting the
steamer Abbey to leave Canton last Au-
gust with arms for the Philippine in
surgents.
The Russian government has ad-
dressed friendly protest to the Ger
man government regarding the ap-
pointment as one of Germany's dele
gates to the peace conference at The
Hague of Prof. Won Stengel of Munich
university.
John G. Wagner, who has carried a
bullet in his head since the Custer
massacre in 1870, committed suicide at
Saltwater, Mimi, last week He was
chief of General Clusters pack train
and was at the massacre of the Little
Big Horn.
A syndicate of eight-six aliens who
were excluded from Atlin, Alaska, has
been formed to bring suit against the
Canadian government for Sl5, 900, 600.
Damages are claimed for property lost
by the exclusion of the plaintiffs from
the famous district.
Postmaster General Smith has made
a ruling that the sign United States
mail" or other signs indicating the
carriage of the mails, must be carried
only by such cars on street railway
lines as actually at the time are trans