Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-01-18
NEWS SUMMARY.

Governor Tanner of Illinois is cun-
didate for United States senator against
Senator Cullom.
The Kansas supreme court has de-
taxing judgments
The gold yield for Victoria colony,
Australia, in 1899, was s54 500 ounces,
an increase of l7,24a ounces.
The plan OF having mail registered
by carriers when collected, will be put
in practical operation January Is in
sixty cities
Representative Shaforth Of Colorado,
has introduced resolution presenting
woman suffrage amendment to the
constitution.
In Philadelphia 1t is reported that
the British government has purchased
several shiploads of oats for the use of
the army in South Africa.
The rebellion in central China has
become formidable, and advices from
Chang Sha state that the iusurrection
in Hengshand district is spreading
rapidly.
William w. Gage, cousin of the
secretary Of the treasury, penniless and
depending upon charity for medical at
tendance is dying at boarding house
in Toledo, O.
Senator Allen has introduced bill
In the senate granting pension of $40
month to every soldier and sailor who
served In the civil war for three
months or more.
Representative Levy of New York
has introduced in the house bill to
pay interest on all internal revenue
receipts now on deposit or hereafter to
be deposited in national banks.
The McGinnis bank at Owensville,
Ind, was entered last week and the
safe blown open, the explosion COM
pletely wrecking the building. Fifteen
thousand dollars was obtained.
Elizabeth Gladstone, aged 63 years.
has secured judgment in the superior
court, San Francisco, against Joseph
Boardman, aged 10 years, for breach
of promise of marriage. She sued for
$500, 900.
The state of anarchy in south China
and more particularly in the province
of Kwang Tung, is causing no little
anxiety to the British authorities and
to all having an interest in the integ-
rity of the Chinese empire.
The three delegations recently ap.
pointed to lay before the government
au Washington the special needs of
| Porto Rico, have sailed from San Juan
for the United States by the steamer
Philadelphia.
Special Plenipotentiary Kasson, for
the United States, and Senor Duarte,
for Portugal, have signed protocol
intended to make operative the reci-
procity arrangement entered into last
spring between the two countries.
If Secretary Long, according to a
Washington special, approves the rec
ommendation of the board officers en-
gagged in revising the naval regulations,
Admiral Dewey will continue to be
available for sea duty.
First Lieutenant Daniel I. bowman
Of the Thirty-seventh infantry. while
temporarily deranged, committed sui
eide in Manila by shooting himself.
He served as private in the First Mon
tana volunteer infantry in the Philip
pines from July, 1898, until July, 1890,
when he was appointed first lieuten-
ant.
The Transvaal government has in.
formed the United States that w
Stanley Hollis, American consul al
Pretoria, will not be permitted to rep
resent British interests in the republic
during the war.
Alfred Morrison, who shot and killed
one of his wives with whom he was
living in Mt. Vernon, N. Y, is under
arrest, charged with murder. He
claimed to have shot her while dream
ing of burglars. 1t has been discovered
that he is bigamist.
big feet of pelagic sealers is of
the Pacific coast, and in a very short
time there promises to be at least forty
vessels engaged in the traffic. The
entire feet is composed of British
schooners, manned by Indian hunters
Speaking of Senator Beveridge'
speech on the Philippine question
Senator Gear of Iowa says: ut is
, great speech and just such one as
expected he would make. As to tn
substance of the speech | agree witt
him. His point as to the importanc
of the Asiatic trade was not overdrawn
At Victoria, B. c.. indefinite charge
a of pro-Boer sympathy have resulted i
! the boycotting and serious embarrass
ment to large number of Belgian an
Swedish Boer citizens, who vigorousl
!. repudiate any reasonable connec
tion.
The statement of the gross postal r.
ceipts for December, 1899, as compare
5 with the receipts for the same mont
during the preceding year, show M
!, increase of s199,s35, or per cent. I'll
total receipts for last December wei
l. o. 100 noo