Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-08-26
EVENTS OF THE DAY

l.. f. Sanger, of Summit, Wash.
near Olympia, left his home to go hunt.
ing and has not since been seen or
heard of. 1t is feared he has acci.
dentally shot himself.
Peter Ryan, foreman of the st. Law
renee mine, the property of the Ana
conda company, Jack Campbell and
John Manning, two miners, were killed
by the fall of a cage in a shaft.
1t is stated that measures will be
taken by the New York exchange to
secure the importation Of large
amount of gold, variously estimated at
from 5000, 900, 900 to $40, 600, 900.
The president has appointed Colonel
Charles q. SSwtelle quartermaster-g gen.
eral of the army, vice General Batch.
elder. retired Colonel Sawtelle ia
now stationed at Governors island,
N. Y.
An 81, 100 gold brick was brought to
Baker City recently from the Baisley-
Elkhorn mine, it being the result of a
ten days run. The average yield Of
the ore taken from this mine is about
$50 per ton.
Six cars of Rock Island stock train
were derailed five miles west of To.
peka, Kan, and four white men, rid
ing in the feed box, were crushed to
death. The head and limbs were COM
pletely torn from one body
Mr.. Harrison, the owner of the Santo
Domingo gold mines in the province of
Carabaya, department of Puno, and
other rich gold mines in Peru, has dis
covered a whole hill in the Andes
mountains, extending at least two
leagues and full of veins Of rich quartz.
In consequence of frontier disputes
beween Bulgaria and Turkey, the Bul.
garian government has notified the
Turkish government that unless the
latter appoints delegates to the frontier
commission by certain date, Bull
gaIia troops will be ordered TO re-
occupy the positions recently occupied
by the Turkish soldiers on the territory
Bulgaria claims.
Miss Matte Overman, of San Fran.
ciso, of the celebrated Brown case fame,
has at last confessed to the intimacy
with the ex-Congregational minister
that finally caused his downfall and re.
tirement from the church. The con.
fessiop is in her own handwriting, GOV.
ering many sheets of legal cap, and for
the present is in the safe keeping oi
Rev. W. w. Soudder. of Alameda,
chairman of the Congregational com.
mittee on credentials.
movement is on foot among promi
nent olubmen of Chicago to extend ar
invitation to Ii Hung Chang, the
Chinese vioeroy, to have him stop over
a couple of days in Chicago while er
route to the Pacific coast.
Eugene Burt, wanted at Austin
Tex, for the murder of his wife anG
two children, about month ago, wal
arrested in Chicago. The dirk with
which the crime was committed wa.
found on his person, and blood stainl
were visible on his straw hat.
A threshing engine, together will
its driver and team of horses, Wen
through a bridge over kriese creek
about nine miles west of Oregon City
The driver was slightly injured anc
Ii was found necessary to kill it.
John J. Brough, a well known mer
chant of Manchester, Conn, has re
turned from trip around the worlt
which consumed exactly q year. Mr.
Brough travelled on a bicycle whereye
possible. OF the 80, 600 miles covered
by him, 10000 were by water; 70, ool
on his wheel and the rest by railroad
in the different countries.
Advices have been received by th
war department from General Wheatol
stating that three prisoners, supposet
to be Yaqui Indians, were brough
from Tubac, Ariz., to Eogales. The.
will be taken before the United State
commissioner on charge of violating
the neutrality laws. They are be
lieved to be members OF the raidinI
party that attempted to loot the Mexi
can custom house.
According to private adyices receiye
In Philadelphia ten of the crew G
twenty one of the British bark Flor
Stafford, burned at sea several week
ago, perished. Captain Oscar smit
took one boat with ten men, and th
mate with nine other men got in tn
second boat. Captain Smith and te
men were saved, but nothing has eve
been heard from the others The Sc
was rough and probably the boat caI
sized.
By collision between the yacht
Meteor and Isolde during the race fo
the vice'commodore's cup, at Southses
Baron Won Zedwitz. the owner {
Isolde, was SO badly injured that h
died before he could be taken to hol
pital. All the members of the ore'
of the Isolde were swept overboar
when the yachts eollided, but were re-
oued from the water by boats from I'll
other yachts.
There appears TO be no immediat
prospect of settlement of the strik
of the Adams Express Company en-
ployes in New York. General Ager
MoWilliams Gays he has received MOI
than forty applications for each plac
vacated by the strikers The strike
say delegates have been sent 20 Phil
delphia Pittsburg and Baltimore
urge the men employed by the eompan
in the cities mentioned to join Il
strikers Some of the new men el
gagged by the company have quit wol
at the request Of the strikers