Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-08-31
NEWS SUMMARY.

and killed his wife and her mother.
There have been several cases of
bubonic plague recently at Palermo
and Naples, three or four ending
fatally.
The total number OF buildings de-
stroyed by the Victor Colo, fire is soo
Total loss about 81, 100000 insurance
$500, 900.
The number killed by the hurricane
in Porto Rico is 1878, missing ,o00
houses destroyed, 6,421, persons home
less 22,046.
st. Paul, Mimi, Globe advocates the
nomination of Admiral Dewey for
president by the next Democratic ma
tional convention.
Fourteen fishermen camping on Wan
island, near the mouth of the Neuse
river, N. c., during a recent storm
were drowned.
John and Jay Saunders, colored,
were killed ana four other negroes
wounded at Parsons camp ground,
Kentucky, in a fight.
The London Church Missionary So
ciety has received a report stating that
10000 persons have died of famine on
the east coast of Africa.
From most parts of England reports
state that the wheat crops are being
gathered in fine condition. 1t is con-
sidered the best crop for years past.
The steamship City of Columbia has
been abandoned at sea in a water
logged condition and her crew of
thirty-eight men are now in Honolulu.
Until quite recently man to hold
office in the Transvaal must have re-
sided there fourteen years and be at
the same time member of the
Dutch church.
At the Berkeley Oval, New York
! City, George Scheiber and Frank Kra-
mer lowered the quartermile tandem
bike record. They covered the dis
lance in 90 2-5 seconds.
In Havana the Masons have been
asking for an increase of wages.
About 4 1000 workers held conference
at which a strike was agreed upon.
Nine thousand are idle.
The Echo Agricolo, Paris, states that
several estimates of the wheat crop
have already been given varying from
10000, 900 to 100000, 900 hectols-3s,-
00o,0 to A, roo, 900 quarters.
1t is the quartermaster departments
intention to have not only the first ten
regiments atloat for the Philippines
by the last of October, but also those
| to be raised under the last order.
A mission of Russian engineers and
their escorts was recently attacked by
! Chinese brigands at Kirin, on the
/ China-Russian frontier, on the main
Manchuria railway. All were massa-
cred
A shooting affray growing out of the
old row between cattlemen and sheep
men occurred on the range southwest
of Chadron, Neb., when George Coil,
sheepherder, instantly killed Thomas
Ryan, cattleman.
Miss Viola Horlocker, who Is under
$25, 900 bonds to appear in Hastings,
Neb., next month to answer to the
charge of poisoning, is patient at
Oak Lawn sanitarium, Jacksonville,
Ill, under the name of Miss Allen.
cable dispatch has been received
at the war department from General
Davis, giving additional details of the
conditions in Porto Rico. He places
the number of killed at 900, and rit-
crates his estimate of 100, 900 destitute.
James Birch was shot and killed by
Patrolman G. M. Warren at Birch's
home. Indianapolis, Ind. Before he
was killed Birch shot the policeman
twice, making serious but not neces-
sarily fatal wounds. He resisted ar
rest
The bonds of Daniel Coughlin,
charged with -bribing in Chicago,
and at present fugitive, and those of
his co-conspirator, William Armstrong,
have been declared forfeited Cough
Inns bonds were $751; Armstrong;
SIS, 900.
Baron Won Heyking, the late Ger
man minister at Picking, who has
arrived at Berlin on leave of absence
for year, has declared in an inter-
view recently that Russia does not
intend to extend her possessions in
China
In consequence of the putrefication of
bodies, typhus fever has developed at
Arroyo, Porto Rico. The captains of
coastwise vessels complain that the
bad odors at the various ports have
caused them more suffering than the
hurricane.
Commissioner of Immigration Pew
derby, has ordered that Mrs. Todd, who
is a widow and British subject, now
in San Francisco pest house suffering
from leprosy, be sent back to the Ha-
waiian islands and confined in the
leper colony there.
London Times in an editorial on the
Venezuela boundary arbitration, COM