Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1896-05-20

iater ON the sidewalk in front of hi,
place. The robber escaped, after firms
several shots to intimidate the people
In the street. He wounded two othe,
persons.
In Birmingham, Ala, Reddon viii.
liams, prominent white farmer, was
lyncAed by mob of forty masked
white men. Williams was arrested on
the charge of making criminal as.
sault upon his 16-year- old daughter.
At the preliminary examination the
evidence indicated his guilt and he was
taken from the sheriff and hanged to
the nearest tree.
Renters and owners of land in the
Umatilla reservation met in Pendleton,
Or, and organized a vigilance COM
mittee, to shoot down cattle strayinp
upon grain lands. The movement is
caused by the Indians tearing down
fences and turning stock loose. 1t is
expected this action will provoke a test
law case to more clearly define to what
extent the Umatilla Indian is citizen.
As an indication of the unprecedent.
ed mining activity in the state of
Washington. the records in the office of
the secretary of state at Olympia show
that there have been filed for record in
the last three months articles for
eighty three mining corporations
These, in connection with others, have
netted to the state an amount for re.
cording fees little short of the running
expenses of the secretary of states office
for the same time.
T. A. Phillips, a merchant at La
than, Mo, on returning home from
his place of business, was shot from
ambush by a neighbor's youth, aged IA
years, named Stout. The young rob-
sber was hid behind a tree, and, as
Phillips passed by, he shot him, the
ball taking effect in the arm. Phillips
ran for his home, but was overtaken
by his assailsnt and struck over the
head with the weapon and felled to
the ground. In the encounter, Phillips
seized Stout by the throat and choked
him to death.
DIR. Salmon, the oldest Freemason in
the world, died in London. He was
10S years old.
According to the monthly crop report
j.st issued, the average condition of
winter wheat is s2.9 in May, 1895.
The last clean up of the Apollo
mine, at Unga, Alaska, was $87, 500,
the product of three months run.
missionary riots have broken
out in Kiang Yin. The British mis-
sion was looted and burned. The mis-
sionary escaped.
The docker's strike in Rotterdam
has assumed an ugly aspect. The
civic guard, police and marines have
been called out to protect the workers.
William Deering, the reaper manu-
facturer. has made donation to the
Northwestern university amounting to
$215,000. The gift is in real estate
and bonds.
Miss Maize Todd, aged 90, daughter
of DIR. Lyman p. Todd, was killed in
Lexington, KY, by trolley car while
she was bicycling. She was cousin
Of Robert Lincoln.
The president has approved the act
making provisions for the deportation
to Canada of the Cree Indians from
Montana, and their delivery to the
Canadian authorities.
The Abyssinians in Massowah have
liberated the Italians who were made
prisoners at Agama. and it is said that
Ras Mangascia will liberate the re.
mainder within week.
Matthias Jensen, of Astoria, has in
vented a machine for the manufacture
of gillnets which, he claims, will knit
500 fathoms of net in ten hours. He
intends to apply for patent.
Jack B. Alexander, great nephew
of jeff Davis, was shot and mortally
wounded at his saloon in Paris, KY.
by John Steers, brakeman. He had re
fused to trust Steers for drink.
Henry Cuyler Bunner, editor O
Puck, died at his residence in Nutley
N. j., from tubercular consumption
Mrs. Bunner and three children wer
at his bedside when death came.
Carl Albrecht. the man who brutal,
murdered his wife upon the streets o
! Marshfeld, Or, February l8. has beel
sentenced by Judge Fullerton to b
hanged June 26, 1896, at Empire City
, A cave.in of the Standard mine q
Burke, Idaho, instantly killed mine
: named Schofield Axtel. The decease
J was about 80, and single. He ha
, been in the Occur d'Alene sewers
J years.
The Spanish caravels which can
over during the worlds fair have bee
r given to the Field museum, in Chici
: 90. and will hereafter float in the Il
a COON directly in front of the museu
! building.
: The senate passed Mitchell's bi
pensioning the veterans of Indian war
! This bill will pension all who serv'
!. in the early Indian wars in Washingtt
and Oregon, their widows and oepen
" emit survivors.
= The increase in the price of bol
and nuts in the iron trade the pa
!. three weeks is the evidence of a j
: ported gigantic pool of manufacture
: in these goods, the organization
4 which is now in progress in Boston.
Ewpalica Goptaiu Edward r q;