Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-11-09
NO. %.
NEWS SUMMARY.

hoSpltal Tor the Boer ana Brltlsh wound
ed who will be treated alike.
GOV, Scofeld OF Wisconsin has written
letter on the Philippine question, in
which he said it would be dangerous to
the Republic to keep the Philippines
Imports Of wheat into Liverpool dur
ing past week: From Atlantic ports,
900 quarters; from Pacific ports,
none; from other ports 900 quarters.
Census officials have been appointed
for all the districts of Porto Rico, and
the first enumeration will be taken
between the 10th inst and December
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Telegraphic communication by Sig
nor Marconi's wireless system is to be
established between five Of the Ha-
waiian islands by company OF Ameri
cans
William @. Smith, formerly Attor-
ney-General OF Hawaii has been selected
to represent the Hawaiian islands at
session.
Honolulu is on the eve of coal
famine, caused by the large number of
transports calling there, which have
made serious inroads on the supply
of army coal
So far as can be learned nothing is
known in Washington of the reported
offer by Great Britain to cede the Gil
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the Pacific to Germany.
Orders heve been sent to the Forty
ninth volunteers, colored organization
to start from Jefferson Barracks, Mo-,
on the 18th for San Francisco where
they will take ship for Manila.
A party of students from the Univer-
mountains where the recent feuds have
occurred, TO study simple frontier life
as retained by the mountaineers.
One million eggs of the Chinook sal
mon are to be sent by the United States
fish commission to New Zealand on the
steamer Moana from San Francisco.
They are from "A hatchery in Oregon.
Transport Glanegle, 295 officers 71e
men of Thirty-second volunteers, have
arrived in good condidtisn at Manila
There was one casualty. Private Ed
ward h. McCandless. company X, died
at sea.
Owning TO the present low price OF
sugar aud the poor prospects many
Cuban planters have decided not to
grind their present crop, but to use 1t
in replanting and in increasing their
acreage.
The Berlin Tageblatt says Count
Bothmer president of the German Peace
society, has telegraphed to Queen
Victoria praying her TO accept the med
iation of the United States in the war
with the Transvaal
Dwight l.. Townsend died suddenly
Sunday night at his home in New York
city, age 73 years. He was the asso-
cate of John Maekay and Robert g.
lngersoll in the formation of the Postal
Telegraph company.
Mrs. Ernestina Schaedlieh, who was
tried for being an accessory to the
murder of Senator Hampton Wall at
stanton, III during the summer OF
1898, has been acquitted in the Macou.
pin county circuit court.
, President Mckinley is expected to
; renew in his forthcoming message his
: recommendation that an appropriation
be made for a commission to investigate
the commercial and industrial cond
, tion of the Chinese empire.
George Bartle. the oldest clerk of the
, State department, Keeper ofthe Great
Seal and close friend of Daniel
: Webster. died at his residence in Wash.
! ington last week. He was appointed
by Secretary Buchanan in 1s45.
An eleyen-year old school girl named
Owens, returning from school at Morton
O., had some trouble with playmates and
ran TO her home, secured a muslxet and
fired into group of children and fatally
wounded boy named Bewbow.
The army is now recruited to within
1000 of its authorized strength of 1Oo, ,00G
. men. 1t is estimated that vacancies
: will occur in the Philippines by reason
of casualties and expiration Of terms Of
service at the rate of 500 a month
t Enactment of the gold standard into
/ law and reform of the banking cur.
Y rency laws, so as to give the country
;, more elastic banknote currency will it
;. is said, be the leading recommendation
t of Secretary Cages annual report.
d Commissioner Will of the internal
v revenue bureau has held that an express
( company which buys and sells foreign
e exchange is subject to the specia
l. foreign tax of $50 year, as basis oil
j. which it transacts such business.
n Berlin Neuste Nachrichten in tn,
course of an article evidently inspires
says; Germany has no intention o
o playing into the hands of France b.
A. intervening in the Transvaal. She in
Is tens to pursue a course of absolut'
Y, neutrality
Of The islands in the Philippine grou
ut referred to in the Madrid dispatch a
re- not having been included in the treat,