Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-05-10
NEWS SUMMARY.

Sooie irpih berkun lslanu, IN the North
Sea, has begun
1t Is charged that the secret police of
Havana is demoralized body, and the
municipal police not much better.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has appointed Emperor William field
marshal-general of the Austrian army
Indiana Prohibitonists have nomi-
mated full state ticket Charles Eck-
hart of Auburn was named for gov
ernor.
There is no truth in the report that
the American vice-consul at Alexan-
dretta, Turkey, was maltreated by the
police,
The Brazos river is over the bottoms
at Hampstead, Tex, and below there.
The river continues to rise steadily
and the flats are rapidly being GOV.
cred
Reports received at Calcutta from
the tea districts show the prospects are
generally unfavorable Hail and rain
storms have done much damage TO the
crops.
Twenty-Five thousand men employed
by the Standard Oil company, as me-
chanics and laborers all over the coun-
try, 1t is stated, have had their wages
raised 10 per cent.
George w. Click, the Fusionist can
didatc and the only Democrat ever
elected governor of Kansas, has boen
nominated for congress by the Demo
Gratis of the First Kansas district.
In Chicago true bill has been voted
against George 7. Gubbins, president
of the Bricklayers and Stonemasons
union, by the grand jury, the specific
charge being conspiracy to incite riot.
Michigan forest fires are abating.
The danger of Fisher being burned is
past. Several camps of the Wisconsin
Land & Lumber company near Herk.
Evansville and valuable timber has been
burned
The negotiations between Denmarls
and the United States relative to the
purchase of the Danish West Indies,
according to the Copenhagen cores
pondent of the Daily Mail, have been
definitely broken off.
The war department has issued orders
granting Major-General Wesley Mer-
ritt, commanding the department of
the east leave of absence from the
10th inst, with permission to leave the
United States
The sundry civil appropriation bill.
the most important of the general sup
ply bills and the last on the list, has
been completed and reported to the
house. 1t carries Sol, $50, 7l5, being
s,4s5, ,9o2 less than the estimates.
The strike of the carpenters at Bos-
ton and vicinity for the establishment
OF an eight-hour work day and min
imum rate of wages of So so a day, has
practically ended by nearly all firms
signing the new schedule.
Calls have been issued for the nomi-
mating conventions of the Democratic
and Silver Republican parties in Ne.
braska, to be held at Lincoln July llth.
The Populsts will meet there on the
same day 1t is probable a fusion plan
for the state tickets will be agreed
upon.
United States District Judge Lochren
in st. Louis has decided that the ratifi.
cation of the treaty of peace between
the United States and Spain made
Porto Rico American territory and
subject to the constitution of the
United States, without any further act
of congress.
Andrew Carnegie, who refused te
contribute to the Dewey arch fund, ha.
given 81, 600 to the fund for the widow
of Sergeant Douglas, who was killed a
Croton Dam during the recent strike
In sending the check Mr.. CaInegi,
wrote; Sergeant Douglas fought no,
for foreign conquest, but for peace anG
order at home.
Among the many letters received BY
Chief of Police Mclaughlin at Port
land, Or, in regard to the identity O.
the man found drowned in the river
recently is one from Contra Costa
CAL, describing Captain Samuel l.
Williams, who is supposed to have left
San Francisco for Portland in March
last
The sundry civil appropriation bill
appropriates S22, 500 for surveying and
marking the boundary line between
Utah and Arizona, and SIS, 900 for sur.
veYing private land claims in Colorado,
Nevada, Wyoming, Utah, Arizona and
New Mexico.
The California state committee of the
"Middle-of-the- Road" Populists has
named thirty-six delegates to the Gin.
cinnati national convention and in.
strueted them to vote solidly for E. V.
Debs for president. Fusion with
Social Democracy was favored.
The president has selected William
Glover Gage of Michigan to be COM
missioner for the United States on the
new Chilean claims commission, and
William NJ. Hunt of Montana to be
agent for the United States before the
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