Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-06-01
NEWS SUMMARY.

fOrty-elgnt locomotives nave oeen
ordered of the Schwartzkopf works,
Berlin, for the Russian railway in ST.
IBERIA.
S. jackson Close, an aged merchant
and postmaster at Stanwieh, Conn,
was attacked by robbers and beaten to
death.
The Grand Central railroad of Eng
land has placed an order for twenty
locomotives with the Baldwin works of
Philadelphia.
Harry Lasell and Richard Neal,
while digging for relics at the site of
old Fort Macl<inac, Michigan, unearth-
ed six complete skeletons.
Ten persons were drowned at Sim
lach, Bavaria, in the river Inn. one OF
the principal afliuents of the Danube,
by the capsizing of boat.
The London Truth, in spite of semi
official statements to the contrary, in
sists that an operation for cataract on
the queens eyes is inevitable.
England, on the completion of ships
now under construction for her navy,
will it is said, be in position to meet
the combined navies of any two pow
ers of the world.
Mrs. Emma L. French, wife of Alfred
A. French, one of the best known archi-
tects of Cleveland, committed suicide.
She had been i'll and feared that she
was becoming insane.
Speaking before the Colonial Aid So
ciety of New York, General Guy V.
Henry, late governor general of Porto
Rico, compared the Porto Ricans to the
North American Indians.
Benjamin Franklin Clark, consul at
Pernambuco, died on board the Lam
port & Holt line steamer Hevelius, on
May 10, of Bright's disease, and was
buried at sea the same evening.
Al the banquet of the Congregational
club at the Pamer house, Chicago, rep
resentatives of the colored race dis
cussed with their white brethren the
problem of the negro in the south.
A large portion of the government Ct
Astrakan, on the northwest coast or
the Caspian sea, has been submerged
by an overflow of the river Volga,
which divides it into nearly equal
parts.
There is great scarcity of meat on
the Hawaiian islands, due to the fact
that much pasturage land has been
planted with sugar, and the native
herds have consequently been much
reduced.
: Ten dock laborers at Buffalo, N. Y,
: were sent to the penitentiary for thirty
y DAYS. They were about to return to
New York and after drinking freely,
, wrecked a saloon near the Lehigh VAL
j; ley station.
. Charles Hutchinson was shot and
killed by his wife during family
V quarrel at Arcadia, Ind. The woman
l pleaded self-defense. She Is but 20
. years Of age and Hutchinson was her
fifth husband.
Sir Clarence Ross, representing an
American syndicate, has offered to pur-
a, chase the municipal electric light
plants of Shanghai, on condition that
g the purchaser is given the right to es-
n tablish tramways.
The lord lieutenant of Ireland, Earl
Cadogan, has released oHanlon, Null
"a let and James Fitz-Harris, alias Skin
es the Goat" the last three Irish political
~ prisoners who were sentenced to i'm
y. prisonment for life.
1. The Yukon & White Pass railway i.
a. now completed from Ska quay to the
Sc summit Of the pass, distance of abou
n eighteen miles, and for distance O
rs about twelve miles further the roadbet
~ is ready for the rails.
Chief Wilkie of the secret service ha
announced the arrest in Chicago o
Tar William Coleman, a silver teller in th'
sub treasury there, on charge of hav
en- ing distracted silver from bags re
'h' ceived from the banks.
I've
in. An American missionary has recent
We. created good deal of amusemen q
400 Simla, India, by beseeching the official
287 to buy his books and attempting TO st
45 cure the aid Of Lady Curzon, wife c
QUO QUO the vieeroy, in reforming Simla societ.
In San Francisco Judge Coffey issue
S0' an order directing the executors of Il
estate of the late Adolph Sutro to di
1as pose of much of the property of Il
! estate, and steps will be taken imm
,lu- diately to sell about 81 100000 wort
OF The estate is worth several millions.
lley Inthe case of the Westinghouse Ele
up trio & Manufacturing company again
due the General Electric company. for vi
the lation Of its contract, Judge Coke
red' the United States circuit court, Utic
was N. Y, filed his decision, allowing Il
10 demurrer of defendants, hled La
month.
1t is reported that Perry s. Heat
less assistant postmaster-general, and d
,v a brother, Fletcher Heath, have neg'
kim tiated for and practically acquired
os- controlling interest in the stock OF u
ived Seventh National oanK % 80"
: re- / city,