Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1897-03-03
ELMORE BULLETIN.
o. M. PAYNE. MABEL L. PAYNE
PAYNE & PAYNE, Publishers.
Terms OF SubscrIptIon,
EVENTS OF THE DAY

hVe negro laborers and wounded as
many more.
house of i'll repute was burned near
Wheeling, W. Va, and two girls and
two men We're burned to death. A
number of others are reported seriously
injured.
A Calcutta dispatch says that cholera
has broken out among the people en-
ployed at the relief works among the
natives, in the state of Rewah. In
two days 160 deaths occurred.
Again an offer for the lie Roi gold
mine has been refused. This time the
would-be purchasers, the Royal Tinto
Company, of London, made an offer of
1900, 900, of which 800, 900 was to
be cash and the remainder in thirty
days.
Eighty-two passengers, more than
half of them outfitted with dogs, sleds
and other paraphernalia necessary for
the invasion of the Yukon country,
crowded the steamer Al-Ki on her last
trip to Alaska This is said to be only
beginning of the vast numbers who
will leave for that country the coming
spring.
Louis Mansfield, who was confined in
the county Jail in Baker City, Or,
awaiting the action of the grand Jury
on a charge of robbery, committed sui
eide. He told his fellow prisoners
some days before that he preferred to
be dead rather than 90 to the peniten-
tiary. Mansfield leaves wife and two
daughters.
The East has again been visited by
floods, resulting in great loss Of life
and property. Many plants at Pitts
burg are under water, and cloudburst
at the headwaters of the Monongahela
has caused great damage. More than
10000 men have been forced to quit
work in Pennsylvania on account OF the
rapidly rising waters.
AT the annual meeting of the Lum-
Der Manufacturers Association of the
Northwest, held in Tacoma, the secre-
tary was instructed to formulate an in
vitation to Eastern lumbermen to visit
the Pacific Northwest next July. An
executive committee was appointed to
make suitable arrangement for enter
tanning the excursionists, who are to
be shown the great forests and mills of
the Northwest.
A special from McMurray, Skagit
county, Wash, says that a sad accident
occurred there by which the 3-year-old
daughter of w. f. Merry was instantly
killed and his wife seriously injured.
Merry was engaged in falling a tree
which endangered his house. In fall
ing, the tree struck another, which
stood in its path, the latter falling in
the direction of the woman and child.
The child's neck and back were broken.
Mrs Merry now lies in critical condi-
tion.
A mail train on the Pennsylvania
railroad crashed into box car near
Ebensburg, Pa, and was badly wrecked.
Five persons were seriously hurt.
Charles F. Miller, sailor, brutally
murdered his wife at Port Blakely,
Wash Much excitement was OCCASION
ed, and lynching was prevented with
great difficulty.
Stephen Ringhoffer aged A. the son
of Joseph Ringhoffer, of Walla Walla,
was shot and killed by Charles Woody,
who is l6 years old. The boys were out
hunting when the accident occurred.
White settlers at Yerrington, in Ma
son valley, Nevada, have appealed for
help, fearing an outbreak of the Pluto
Indians in that neighborhood. One of
the Indians was killed in quarrel and
the Indians have begun gathering in
numbers. Governor Sadler has sent
Adjutant- General Galusha on a special
train to investigate
The Chesapeake & Ohio bound
passenger train encountered a washout
opposite Portsmouth, o. The engine,
baggage and express car, mail car and
one coach were derailed. A. G. Stout,
supervisor OF the G. & o., was killed.
The engineer, fireman, mail clerk and
express messenger were all injured, but
not seriously.
While making desperate effort to
avoid arrest for some trivial otfense,
Nicholas Mentgen lost his life under
the wheels of a train in Chicago Fol
lowed by an excited crowd and patrol
wagon containing officers, Mentgen ra1
to the tracks and did not see the train
approaching. The locomotive knocked
him thirty feet and the train passed
over him.
Charles Kreiner was drowned in the
Willamette river at the Altonas whar
in Salem. He was cook ON the steame
Ramona that plies between Portland
and independence. An effort was mad
to save the man with a small boat
without avail The river was dragge
and dynamite used, but the body ha
not been recovered. The unfortunat
man leaves widow and one child i
Portland.
The cornerstone of the new schoC
for the revival of the lost mysteries {
antiquity was laid in San Diego, Ca
The theosophical crusaders, who hay
Just returned from a trip around tn
world, were the central figures in ii
ceremony.
The postoffiee at Mount Angel Or
was entered by burglars. The safe WI
blown open and about 800 in staml
and S75 in money taken. The san
parties tried to gain entrance to tV
other places the same night, but we
frightened Off