Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1899-04-06
NEWS SUMMARY.


1t is now believed that eighty lives
were lost when the steamer Stella went
down.
Major General Otis thinks the insur-
gents can be subdued within three
months.
During the month of March $4,000
troops were landed in the United States
from Cuba.
Germany is said to be concentrating
fleet at Annoy, with the intention Of
selling Futsien, China.
News of the massa De of twenty nine
farmers by aborigines at Byorsetsu,
Japan, has been received.
AtSparta, Mich, Leon Cram, aged IS,
during quarrel, killed Falma Nelson,
comrade, by a blow with his fist
The war department is perfecting a
plan to use native troops if possible in
fighting Aguinaldo during the rainy
season.
Foreign business houses lost over
81, 900, 900 by the destruction of Iloilo by
the Filipinos before General Miller cap
tured the city.
Mr.. Robert p. Porter, before leaving
Berlin, discovered that German beet
sugar cannot be manufactured under
2 cents pound.
Dispatches from Toxic to Japanese
coast papers charge Americans with
shooting down men, women and child
rem in the Philippines.
The congress Of Ecuador has just
enacted law which within two years
will place the monetary system of that
country on a gold basis.
The monthly statement of the treas
ury shows exceptionally heavy receipts
and a material decrease in the expen-
ditures for the month of March.
The Norwegian government has is
sued an order prohibiting Swedish
officers from inspecting forts or wit
Messing the drill of troops in Norway.
Judges of the supreme court of Ha-
waii in a decision declare that private
corporations have not the authority to
! condemn government land for their
own use.
Ostriches may yet be raised in Brit
founded little colony of Manitobians
at Peachland, in the Okanagan valley,
will attempt it.
Oscar Straus, the United States min
lister to Turkey, had an audience with
the Sultan Saturday. The interview,
| VOL ~ 81 81 nnak
cordial character.
1t is announced that the Paris Fig,
arc, which is publishing daily the evi.
dence before the criminal chamber OF
the court of cessation in the Dreyfus
affair, will be prosecuted.
The fearful ravages of the Yellow
river flood have caused terrible misery
and great discomfort in the province OF
! Shantung, and the native officials have
been unable to maintain order.
The April report of the Orange-Judd
Farmer makes the general winter
wheat average 82.1 compared with 80
last year. 1t is the lowest average
since the beginning of service in 1894.
|
solved to send note to W. L. Buchan-
an, the American Minister, thanking
him for his cooperation in the settle
ment of the Puma de Atacama question.
! The Hongkong auth orr ties are press
ing for an extension of territory coded
to Great Britain by the treaties of Can
ton and Marking, on the ground that
more land is needed for government
buildings.
Official circles in Rome say that Italy
and Great Britain have arrived at an
agreement, which will result in an
italian occupation of San Nun bay,
province of Chikiang, China, before
April IS.
The marriage law of Porto Rico have
been modified so that authority is given
to ministers of all faiths to perform
marriages, and the fees have beer
abolished where the ceremony is be
fore a civil magistrate.
Dispatches from Rasjiboulit, on the
Red Sea, say the Marchand expedition
from Fashoda, arrived all we'll at AID.
disabeba, the capital of Abyssinia, on
March 81, and met with warm recep
ton from Abyssinians.
The London Daily Graphic announce,
that the Marquis of Salisbury approved
the draft of the convention dealing with
the British and Russian spheres Of IN
fuenee in China and that the conven
tion awaits signatures.
Attorney General Davis of Arkansas
has filed 126 suits against the sixty
three fire insurance companies doing
business in Arkansas, and as a conse
quence every foreign company has sus
pended business in that state.
In Bolivia, the Federalists, or iusur
gents, have occupied the city of Cocha
banda. capital of the department Of
the same name, and General Alonzo
the president has returned with tht