Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-09-13
NEWS SUMMARY.

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for Pelsin.
AT the town OF Jaro, Panay, July II,
native was hanged by the authorities,
having been convicted OF murder, arson
and robbery.
General Rodriguez has received Off.
cial notification that municipal bonds
may be issued for the purpose of sew
ering Havana.
London Vanity Fair says it is not un.
likely that the Duke of Marlborough
will succeed Earl cadogan as Lord
Lieutenant OF Ireland
A terrific storm swept over the island
Of Jamaica Friday night. The rivers
are all flooded and great damage has
been done to the banana plantations.
About 1900 more British Indian
troops have beon landed at Shanghai
making altogether 1000 Of such troops
and 1000 camp followers at that port.
The yellow fever situation in Havana
10 improving, decrease in the number
OF deaths from eighty-nine to seventy
i've being reported since September /.
The rebek seized the town of Tur.
baco, Colombia, Monday. The next
day the Colombian warship Cordoba
arrived with 400 troops, and heavy
fighting ensued.
The Connecticut state Republican
convention finished it's work Wednes,
day by nominating state tickle,
headed by George p. Mclean OF Sills-
bury for governor.
The owners of the Pioneer woolen
mills at Dallas, Ore. have agreed to
move their plant, which employs 200
hands, to Santa Cruz, provided bonds
of $50, 900 be given.
The general belief in England is tina,
Lord Roberts is coming home to take
up the post of commander-in-chie OF
the British army, which Lord Wolseley
will vacate in October.
The steamer Umatilla has arrived al
San Francisco from the north, bring.
ing about $1,000, 900 in treasure from
the Klondike and Douglass island, and
a few nuggets from Nome.
Four prominent Boxers were exc.
cuted in Tien Tsin Wednesday. The
French shot two and the Japanese be,
headed the others. The executions
have had a good moral effect.
Mayor Quarrie of Eagle City, Alaska.
completely refutes the report of the
drowning of five prominent Dawson
men which was recently brought to
Seattle by the steamer Humboldt
The secretary of the treasury has re.
ceived a dispatch from Alaska con.
tirming the reports that most deplor-
able condition exists among the native
Indians along the coaat from Cape
Nome northward.
American energy promises to be re-
warded by securing orders for 300 large
coal trucks, involving el50,OOo, about
to be placed by gold mining companies
on the Rand, in which quick delivery
is vitality important.
Near North Yakima, Wash, Chief
Illowahe, an aged medicine man and
chief of the Yakima tribe, has been
brutally stoned to death in his tent by
an Indian named John The murdered
Indian was 80 years of age.
Immense forest fires are raging near
Buffalo, Wyo. Thirty-six sections of
fine timber have been destroyed SOUTH
west of there, between the two
branches of Ten Sleep, and with the
present high winds the fire will proba-
bly, destroy most OF the timber on the
Big mountain.
1t is asserted at the Austrian foreign
office, according to the Vienna corre-
spondent of the London Daily Mail,
that Russia has agreed to compro-
mise, leaving portion of the troops in
Pekin and sending the main body to
Tien Tsin, which will be the military
headquarters.
In st. Louis Coroner Lloyd has rem
dered verdict finding the Seckner
Contracting company responsible for
the death of Patrolman John p.
Looney and Nicholas Beckman. who
were killed several days ago by the
electric shocks while using the police
telephone.
Samuel Hayes, plumber of New
York, is under arrest for attempting to
take the life of his ten-year.old STEP
daughter, Margaret de Campbell.
While drunk he cut the childs throat
while asleep. Seventeen stitches were
taken to sew up the wound. She may
recover.
Thomas Moore Jackson, nephew of
Stonewall jackson aud the nominee for
of the Democrats of the
First West Virginia district, has de-
clined the honor and his successor will
be appointed by the congressional COM
mittee.
The chairman of the National Union
Reform party committee announces
that the official count of the referendum
vote shows the nomination of Seth
Ellis Of Ohio for president and Samuel
I. Nicholson of Pennsylvania for vice.
president.
Pittsburg aud other interests have