Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-11-22
NEWS SUMMARY.

suiciueo IN ballroom because his
sweetheart was waltzing with another
man.
Thirteen persons were killed and
fourteen others injured seriously in Z
lire damp explosion in the Pluto coal
mine at Wiosa, near Brux.
Private advices announce that Cath
Ole German missionary, Bishop Ham
mer, was first horribly tortured and
then burned alive in Tus Tsen.
Hampton jackson, a colored deputy
sheriff, who was shot in the election
riot In Denver. is dead. This Is the
third death resulting from the riot.
| Robert Fitzsimmons has rejected
Champion Jeffries proposition to take
him ON for another fight Immediately
or at the close OF the theatrical season.
! The allied forces razed several boxer
villages. The Germans took one At
Yang Tsung and shot all the boxers
captured after drumhead court-mar-
.ial.
The number OF pieces OF mail matter
received at the dead letter Office Last
wear from all sources was 7,536,15
against 6,s55,93s for the preceding
wear
The United States transport Sheri-
dan sailed Friday from San Francisco
for Manila with 2lO recruits She also
carries a large number of civilian pas.
,engers.
baroness Won Ketteler, whose hus.
band was murdered by the Chinese in
Pekin, is improving slowly at the resi-.
dence of her father, Henry b. Ledysrd
Of Detroit.
William Sullivan, the murderer Of
Spencer Gaylord, the watchman Of .
Tuolumne county gold mine, was
hanged at San Quentin, Friday. Sulli.
van died bravely.
simultaneously with the passing Of
the preferred stock dividend by the d.
rectors of the American Linseed COM
pany the company announced cut of
10 cents gallon in OIL
1t Is asserted in Shsnghai that the
Empress dowager has appointed Sir
Robert Hart, director of Chinese i'm.
periai customs, to arrange the iudem-
nifty question with the powers.
The gelatine mixing house of tho
Giant Powder company at Sobrants,
fifteen miles from San Francisco, blew
up Friday. John c. Hoffeimeier, fore.
man, and two Chinese were killed.
Zip Luck, the Chinese murderer OF
Chief of Police Main of Stevenson, b.
c., was hanged Friday morning in the
yard of the provincial Jail ut New
Westminster. He confessed his guilt
Miss Clara Barton and part Of the
Red Cross society, who have spent sew
eral weeks in Galveston managing the
distribution of relief among the storm
sufferers. have returned to their
homes.
An outbreak of bubonic plague il re-
ported among the natives of Szinyoka,
near King Williamstown, South Africa.
Precautions are being taken to prevent
the spread of the disease among the
whites
Persons about the Russian court say
of the Emperor's illness that 1t was
merely a mild case of influenza, caused
by his well-known carelessness in sit
ting about rooms with the windows
wide open.
Actual work has begun on the lay
ing of the keels to the mammoth iron
steamships to be built at the works of
the Eastern shipbuilding company at
Groton, opposite New London, Conn.
They will cost $4,000, 900.
Secretary Long will urge the estab-
lishment of a naval reserve to supplant
the existing naval militia which ID
supposed to have outlived its usefulness
as is shown by its rapid deterioration
since the war with Spain.
1t is unique testimony to the great
individuality of President Kruger, says
Paris special, that his voyage TO Eu-
rope is watched with more interest by
the continental press than is the pro-
gress of the war in China.
The woman who was found dead in
the Boulevard hotel, New York, with
DIR. Ahlstrom, was identified as Mrs.
Harry Gardner of 100 West One Hun
dred and First street, the wife Of
man who followed the races.
The new Japanese ministry is looked
upon with the greatest interest and
favor by foreigners, as it 10 without
doubt far more favorably disposed to-
ward the latter than apy which hes
been in power for some years past
Count Won Waldersee, the command
er of the allies, is considering the ad-
visibility of removing his winter head.
quarters to Shanghai, and this Is taken
to indicate that the allies will not en-
deavor to prolong operations In ths
north.
The Postmaster-Genera has Dc.
signatcd Postoffice Inspector join r.
Harris, now postmaster at Havana, a.
acting director-general of posts in
Cuba, pending the absence of Director
General Fosnes. who IL convalescins
in New York.
Naw. has ran rh al ia rtrr th.& ~~h~y.