Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-12-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

damage to the French provinces.
Seven hundred government troops
have been killed at Panama by tho
revolutionists.
The British Columbia law making
any one employing japanese respon-
sible for their taxes, has been sus-
tanned.
Three Chinese mandarins, who were
instigators Of the massacre of converts
at Tsi Ming, and twenty-three Boxers
have been executed.
notification appears to the effect
that all able-bodied British subjecta
are liable to be conscripted for service
In the Pand Rifles.
The secretary Of the treasury has d.
rected that the interest due on January
! on per cent 1907 bonds and per
cent 1890 bonds be paid without rebate.
On account of the scarcity of raw fiax
In Germany prices have advanced 10 or
IL per cent. and number Of the mills
have closed their doors.
| Inc reelection OF President Nc
Rinley has been accepted by ito
Nicaraguan people as favorable to tho
progress Of that country.
This years coffee crop in Panama il
expected to aggregate about zoo, 900
luintals. being the heaviest crop re-
corded in that country's history.
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killed by coming in contact with elec-
tric wires that had been broken from
poles by the storm Tuesday night.
According to the London Daily Ex-
press, no more infantry drafts will be
sent to South Africa. The only troops
to 60 to the front hereafter will ba
mounted men.
Martin Stickel, one of the assassins
of Cornelius Knapp and his wife, near
Castle Rock, Wash, who was arrested
and brought to Tacoma Friday, has
made confession.
To prevent general GENERALIZATION
in the price of shingles. full three
fourths of the shingle mills in Wash
ington state have closed down for
period Of sixty days.
Mrs. Washington Mclean, mother OF
John R. Mclean, proprietor Of the
Cincinnati Enquirer, and of Mrs.
Dewey, wife Of Admiral Dewey, died
at Washington Sunday.
A fire ut the arsenal at Cherbourg,
France, Friday, destroyed number OF
historic relics, including Napoleon's
launch. The damage done is estim.
ated at 1000, 900 francs.
Dawson is overrun with idle men
who are willing to work for their
board. Some skilled laborers are still
paid 81 an hour, but prevailing wages
are SO per day and board.
The demands of the German minister
to Morocco for the payment of three
claims of injured Germans and the
punishment - .;ie offenders have been
yielded to by the sultan.
The battleship Iowa" flagship of
the Pacific station, in company with
the "Philadelphia, has been ordered
to leave San Francisco for the usual
winter cruise southwark.
The resignation Of the Bulgarian
Cabinet, presided over by NJ. leans
choff and Radoslevoff, is regarded In
political circles in Vienna as q very
serious and a very important event.
The secretary of war has sent to the
house Of representatives plan for the
permanent improvement of the Arkan-
SAT river, the total estimated cost for
opening navigation being 3a5, ,263, 400.
Representative Burleigh of Maine
has introduced bill authorizing the
appointment of Representative Bou-
telle OF Maine, now a confirmed invalid,
10 the rank of captain on the retired
list of the navy.
United States Consul Hughes at Co
burg has rerorted to the state depart
ment the news of the recent discovery
of large deposit of coal, estimated to
contain at least 1000, ,o0o, 900 tons, a.
Barmocz, Hungary.
When Lord Roberts arrived at Dur
, ban he was accorded tumultuous
reception. Members of the Irish as
sociation dragged his carriage to the
town hall. The streets were profusely
decorated and crowded to suffocation.
Numerous addresses were presented to
the Field Marshal.
A report is current at Patterson, N.
j., that former Assembly, man Robert
A. Carroll of that place lost his life BY
drowning recently in the Rnondike re-
, gion. where he went to seek his for
tune during the gold fever few years
. ago.
/ A rich strike is reported on the Yel
, low river, 800 miles from Holy Gross
! Mission on the Yukon. Two Swedes
8 are said TO have brought out s34 200.
e There are only twelve men in the
| district and all are said.to have done
we'll "a
The transport Rosencrans left Naga'
saki Friday morning for Manila,
, with the Fifteenth infantry. This
. regiment is the last of the American
a troops to leave China. with the excep'
: ton of those forming the legation
! guard