Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-11-29
NEWS SUMMARY.

The receipts for the war revenue act
for the first four months of the present
fiscal year was S3s, 39s, $50.
The population of West Virginia is
9Ss, 800, as against ,794 in 1890, an
increase Of 1877, ,o06, or 25.6 per cent.
Substapti tial help will be given to the
public schools at Galveston, Texas, by
the teachers and pupils of New York
city.
A. c. Sefert & Co., wholesale tobacco
merchants of Detroit, Mich, have
made an assignment Liabilities, slo4,-
900; assets, S35, 900.
Catholics in Germany have raised
erected in the Holyland on the site
presented to Emperor William.
News has been received in Honolulu
that about 200 white laborers have
been engaged in Massachusetts for
sugar plantation work in the islands,
No treaties will be negotiated with
any of the Central American govern
ments for any right OF way until the
senate disposes of the Hay-Pauneefote
treaty.
John L. Fegan, secretary of mines
and agriculture of New South Wales,
asserts that the recent downpour Of
rain has largely improved the pros
poets OF the wheat crop.
The burning of the negro Porter ut
the stake by the citizens OF Limon,
Colo, will be brought to the attention
of President Mckinley by the Metho-
dist ministers of Chicago.
The town of Wren, o., was almost
wiped out of existence by fire last
week. The entire business district
and half the residence portion of the
town was burned. Loss 800, 600.
Labor troubles that have been
smoldering for some time at the Plano
Harvester Manufacturing company S
plant at West Pullman, H., eliminated
Wednesday in lockout of 900 work.
men.
The best information obtaina BILE at
Washington is that the Nicaraguan
canal commission-certainly by vote
OF five to four, and possibly by six to
three--will recommend the Nicaraguan
route.
Chicago to Dawson City in eight and
half days is what a combination OF
transportation companies promises the
public by the middle of next summer.
The distance by the shortest route is
3704 miles.
The salmon combine, which last sea
son controlled the output of forty-eight
canneries on the Fraser river, has col
lapsed through the expiration of its
time limit and the refusal of Gamers
to renew the agreement.
Maurice BRENNAN, arrested for dyn-
amiting property of the st. Louis
Transit company during the recent
street railway strike, was found guilty
by the jury and sentenced to serve ten
years in the penitentiary.
A. II. McGregor, humble farmer
near Geneva, o., has been informed
that he has been made a millionaire
by the will of his brother, A. r. Nc
Gregor of Cleveland The news came
to him as a complete surprise.
The total amount of duties liquidated
at the port of Havana during the
month of October was S1.061 ,045. A
total OF 5,272 passengers landed at Ha-
vana from points outside of the island,
| 4,077 Of whom were from Spain.
The countries that have ratified the
second international treaty for the pro-
lection of the natives of Central Africa
against intoxicants, are Germany, Bel
| gium, Spain, Congo Free State, French
republic, Great Britain, Italy. Holland,
Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Norway and
Turkey.
The Grain Dealers National associa.
tion held its second session in Indian.
apolis Wednesday. II. S. Grimes OF
Portsmouth, o., spoke on the subjects
Reliable Government Crop Reports. >
He said the present system of govern.
ment reports is inadequate and un-
satisfactory. and outlined a plan oi
collecting statistics.
/ ia
Gently arrested in Sweden and trans.
ported to the Italian frontier, where
he was delivered to the Italian police
turns out to have been at one time in.
innate with Bresci, the assassin oi
King Humble
The reported death of General
Schalkburger, acting president of the
Transvaal since Mr.. Krugers depar,
ture, is discredlted in London. There
is mere rumor that he died at Johan.
nesburg, November o, but the report
lacks confirmation.
A string of empty cars broke loose
and ran away in the Sloss ore mines
near Bessemer, Ala, Wednesday. Nape
Thompson, the superintendent, Charles
Kelley and Andrew Hart we're struck
by the cars which jumped the track
and crushed to death.
A check for $50. 900 was mailed Tues
day night to Governor Joseph D.
Sayers of Texas, to be applied to the
aid of the children who lost their par,