Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-05-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

Jim Jeffries knocked out James j.
corbett in the twenty-third round Of a
very game contest.
capt. X. L. Montfort of Cincinnati
has been elected commander of the
Ohio department G. A. R.
Consul-General Long at Cairo. Egypt,
cables the secretary of state that the
plague has appeared in Alexandria.
W. J. Bryan has returned to Lincoln
Neb., for stay of two months, most
OF which win be spent on his farm near r
that city.
Forest fires caused the loss of
three lives and the destruction of much
property near Raunton, Pa. Three
children were burned to death.
In Fresno Cal, j. w. Shanklin, ex-
City Clerk was acquitted OF the charge
of embezzling public money. Shanklin
was brought back from Hillsboro, Ore. +,
for trial
Notwithstanding the solicitations of
the anti-taxation press in Spain, there
was complete absence of the labor
element in the recent manifestations
at Barcelona.
A statement Of the gross receits at
fifty OF the principal postofflces for
April of this year as compared with "a
similar period Of 1899, shows an in
crease of S955, ,655.
Favorable progress In the construc-
tion of naval vessels is shown in a
statement just prepared by Admiral
Hichborn, chief of the bureau of con-
struction and repair.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation OF y. b. Dole to be Governor
of, and Henry E. Cooper, to be Score
tary Of Hawaii; also j. NJ oat, to be
postmaster at Honolulu.
Joseph Cham berlain declares that the
British government is not prepared to
recognize the independence OF the Boer
republics, and is determined that the
republics shall be finally Incorporated
under the British flag.
The six chief emigration com
panies in Japan, at their recent annu-
al meeting, reported business in good
condition and took measures to con-
tinue sending Japanese laborers to the
United States and Hatyaii
Bishop Thomas O'Gorman Just re-
turned to Sioux Falls, 8. D., from the
Rosebud Indian agency baptized into
the Catholic faith the fierce old Sioux
chief, Two Strikes. He Is 81 years of
age.
Kingston, Jamaica, military au-
thorities have received a cable dispatch
from the British War Office ordering
all the available officers of the West
Indian regiment to proceed immediate
ly by the shortest route to Cape Coast
Castle to join the expedition against
the Ashantis.
The government of Spain is serious
ly concerned in regard to the opposi-
tion developed to its financial projects.
The feeling at Catalonia, especially is
running high and has taken the form
of hostile demonstrations against the
Minister of the Interior He was
stoned by mob at Tarraza
Gov. John Brandy of Alaska was tn,
guest of honor at dinner recently ct
the Waldorf, New York, at which y
bust of William II. Seward the gift of
Francis L. Loring, was presented to
the people of Alaska through Governor
Brady.
A detailed statement sent to the
Senate of the cost of the Harris exposi-
tion commission from the date Of it's
organization to December 81. 1899 shows
that the total amount paid for salaries
was Sl67, 76s and for travelling expenses
$50, ,397.
Mrs. Nettie r. Craven has been iu-
dicted by San Francisco grand jury
on charge OF felony, namely, perjury
for her testimony given before that
body in relation TO her claim for
widows share of the estate of James q.
Fair.
Further investigation into the pos.
tai frauds in Cuba show it to be al
most impossible that Neeley could
have committed them alone 1t is now
believed that sufficient evidence will
soon be Forthcoming to warrant other
arrests.
From 81, 900, 900 to So, 900, 900 year
is the amount Commissioner of Pensions
Evans roughly estimates will be added
to the pension expenditures Of the
by the action of the House
of Representatives in amending the
pension law of 1890.
Colonel Leander Dyer, prominent
member of the G. A. r., died at Bloom.
ington, ILL.,, aged So years He was
Consul at Odessa, Russia, for twelve
years, being appointed to that position
by President Grant and was postmas-
ter at Memphis under Harrison
From well informed circles in Con.
stantinople comes the report that the
Turkish minister in Washington, Ali
Ferrouth Bey, has given assurances Of
the settlement of the indemnity claims
against Turkey, but asks for short