Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-03-09
NEWS SUMMARY.

signs Of reviving activity.
Aguinaldo's army is disheartened as
the result of the recent actions.
The queen of Belgium is gravely i'll.
Her majesty is suffering from bron-
chial pneumonia.
Germany is said to have renewed the
negotiations for the purchase OF the
Caroline islands.
President Alonzo's forces in Bolivia
have again been defeated by those
under General Pando.
Many companies Of the insurgents
have retired because their officers skulk
and won't lead their men.
The italian warships have landed
marines at San Nun bay, China, thus
virtually taking possession.
The Chilean war office and the mill
tary authorities have definitely decided
to reduce the army by 5000 men.
The Chilean government, it is said,
contemplates the sale of several cruis-
ers to the United States and Ecuador
Baron Bantfy, former president of
the Council of Ministers, has been APP
pointed high steward of the Hungarian
court.
Panic reigns in the department of
0ruro, Bolivia, and the province OF
Cochambamba has risen and joined the
revolutionists.
The latest news from Cebu is good
The natives are returning to the town.
The coolies are now willing to work at
reasonable wages.
The American military authorities
in Cuba are attempting to make the
American soldiers teetotalers by stop
ping the sale of beer at post exchanges.
The house, by II to 1902, has refused
to concur in the senate amendment to
the sundry civil bill, providing for the
construction of government cable to
| Hawaii.
/ The leaders of the rebels in the prov
lnce of An Aoul (Nagan- HooD, the no.
torious desperate Nui, has been cap
tured, fifty-two of his body guard being
killed.
AT Owsley KY. John Hutchinson and
his family were trying to cross a
4 stream, when their vehicle capsized.
| Mrs. Hutchinson and two children were
/ drowned.
A band of 200 deserters from the
Spanish army is now gathered near
the French frontier, refusing TO return
to Spain, although the men have been
pardoned.
The senate has ratified the extradi-
ton treaty with Mexico with a retroac-
tive clause to cover cases that were
unpunishable because of the lapse of
the old treaty.
Hobson's promotion is the greatest
material promotion as a recognition of
gallantry in the history of the naval
service 1t will make Hobson a captain
at the age of 30.
1t is the opinion of members of the
cabinet that the limitation placed on
the price to be paid for armor plate
will result in complete stoppage of
all new construction.
The bubonic plague is raging at Bonn
bay with unparalleled severity. Ac-
cording to official returns, there were
OLE deaths last week, but these quite
underrate the mortality.
The army bill as reported by the
senate committee increases the appro-
priation to the extent of 81 1902, 900,
making a total of S84, 400, 900. The in
crease is for pay to officers and men.
1t is rumored in Manila that steam
err with 80, 600 stands of arms and am
munition, which was bound for the
Philippines, has been seized in Japan
csc waters by the japanese authorities.
Reckoning on the basis of the Sep
TENDER reports of outputs, South AT.
TlCd Will produce III JDe current year
SIC, 657, 1875 of gold, which will place
South Africa ahead of all the gold
producing countries.
At Bradford, Pa, Thomas Nolan
aged IS years son of well known oil
producer, was shot and probably fatally
wounded while trying to effect an en-
trance into the house of former Senator
Lewis Emery. Man guarding property
did the shooting.
General Maxine Gomez has sent Gov
ernor-General Brooke statement o
the number of men in the army. 1t il
understood that the total reaches AS,
0OO-32, 900 privates, 10000 non-com
missioned officers and the rest com
handing officers.
The war department is inclined tC