Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-02-14
NEWS SUMMARY.

been two years in Manila on provost
duty, has sailed for Vigan on Held SER
vice.
Hundreds of teachers in the United
States are applying for positions in the
Philippines. 1t would be easy to se-
cure 1000.
An authorized delegation of Bontoc
Igorrotes are returning to the province
from Manila with school books, flags,
and high opinions of the Americans.
The steps taken by the Government
to complete it's title to the Bashee and
other islands to the north of Luzon
1t is said were due to reprssen tations
made by Japan.
Baroness Won Ketteler. widow OF
Baron Won Ketteler, the Germrn minis
ter to China, who was assassinated In
Pekin during the Boxer outbreak, has
departed for Germany.
Eighty-seven members of the Thrift
eth regiment have died of wounds and
diseases, and $50 have been discharged
because of sickness. Remainder sail
for homo February 18th.
Many Japanese and native workmen
on the island OF Maui, Hawaii, have
formed an association, on the lines OF
some American unions, and they have
started series of strikes.
The recumbent statue OF the late
Queen Victoria, chiseled thirty years
ago, is being prepared for it's place on
top OF the sarcophagus by the side OF
the Prince Consort's statue.
The Confederate Veteran association
of Savannah has passed resolutions
against the invitation to President
Mckinley to attend the reunion of Con-
federate veterans In Memphis.
On account of noncompliance with
government regulations concessions
have been revoked on Sixty-Mile.
Ten-MIle. Slate creek. Stewart river,
Fifty-Mile, Ottawa and Billiard creeks.
The UnitedStates transport McPher-
son ran about half her length on a
u.
Cuba, in fog Tuesday morning while
on her way from New York to Mant.
anzas.
Rev. Martin Hansen, former pastor
of Norwegian Lutheran churches OF
La Crosse, Wis, and Houston, Mimi,
has been sentenced to the county Jail
for three months for deserving his
family.
Sydney b. Everret, secretary and
Charge d'Affaires of the United States
legation at Guatemala City, committed
suicide Tuesday by shooting himself
In the mouth. He had suffered long
illness.
Dispatches from Baku say all the
available hospitals are filed with peo-
pie injured by the naphtha fire, while
the sheds on the fair grounds are filled
by those made homeless by the contla.
grafton.
Pat Gay shot aud killed NJ Nc.
Namara, proprietor of the American
hotel and at Crescent City, CAL,
Sunday evening Gay had been barred
from playing cards by Mcnamara.
Gay surrendered
ENORMOUS snowfalls are reported
throughout the Sudelain and Hartz
mountains in the West Prussia and In
the Black Forest. In some places the
snow lies eight meters deep, rendering
communication impossible.
Rear-Admiral F. Rogers has been de.
tached from duty as president of the
board of inspection and survey prepare.
tory to going to China on the cruiser
New York to command one of the two
divisions of the Asiatic fleet.
Serious embarrassment prevails in
the navy because of the inability of the
medical corps to obtain competeni
young physicians willing to accept ap
pointmsnts as assistant surgeons.
There are now fifteen vacancies.
Five mem bers of the w. C. T. U. at
tackled two blind tigers in true Nation
fashion at Dalton, Ark. Wednesday
All the bottles of liquor were smashed
the contents of kegs poured into tn.
the streets and fixtures demolished.
The House Committee on Banking
and Currency has tabled the bill repeal
ing the ten-per-cent tax on State banl
issues and the bill requiring nationa
bank repositories to pay interest tt
the Government on public deposits.
Charles A. Hickey, alias C. M
Morris, was lured across the British
Columbia line and is now in Jail in Con
conully N. Y, on the charge of stealth,
S97, 900 from the west Side bank, New
York, of which he had been the teller
In view of the recent Boer activity
in various divisions, the British Gov
ernment has decided in addition t,
, the large forces recently equippe,
locally in South Africa to reinfore,
Lord Kitchener by 10000 mounte,
troops beyond those already landed il
Cape Colony.
In Madrid 1t is asserted that the nes
Spanish ambassador at the Vatican
charged to inquire into the complaint
;. of the priests expelled from tine Phi
ippines who are seeking to obtain tn
/ Pope's support for their propert
!. claims.