Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-04-12
NO. As.
NEWS SUMMARY.

Recent rains in New South Wales in
sure a good wheat crop.
Up to date the Beers have captured
twenty.three guns and lost seven.
Two thousand coal miners are out in
the western Kentucky coal fields.
Frank Wood was killed at Seattle,
Wash, by falling telegraph pole.
All the coal mines at Linton, Ind,
have been closed and / 100 men are idle.
General Cronie, Colonel Shiel and
1,o00 Roers are prisoners at st. Helena.
signor Colombo has been reelected
president OF the Italian chamber of
deputies
Allen Brooks, colored, was lynched
Mt Bloomingdale, Ga, for assaulting a
white woman
The legislative council OF Trinidad
has ratified the reciprocity with the
United States,
Complete returns from Tacoma show
the election of Louis d. Campbell, Re-
publican, for mayor by II majority.
The condition of the Boer prisoners
at Simonstown is deplorable, typhoid
fever having become prevalent.
AT Winfield, Kans., robbers shot the
operator and looted the depot, securing
only a few cents. The operator is dead.
In Athens o., Hon. F. A. Moore,
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congressman from the Fifteenth Ohio
district
The revolutionary General Herman
| dez has been obliged to retreat to ths
decisive defeat.
Mr.. Charles II. Pepper, who was re-
Gently proffered the position Of secre-
tary to the Philippine commission, has
declined the place.
The permanent bridge at the Modder
river station destroyed by the Boers
early in the war has been repaired and
trains are running over it,
An exchange of opinions between the
powers is now going on respecting the
latest note of the Ottoman government
as to the raising of the tariff in Turkey.
The prospects of the cotton crop in
Egypt have greatly improved, owing to
the progress made in cutting the Sud.
thus securing a greater flow of water.
Twelve Indians have been held for
trial at Skaguay for the murder of
prospectors. They admit their guilt
and have waived preliminary examln-
alton.
Both political parties of Alaska hold
conventions in May, the Republicans
on the 18th and the Democrats on the
2sth, to name national convention del
egates.
Mrs. Aida Lawrence is dead at her
home in Quincy. Ill. She was one of
the oldest actresses in the country she
having played leading parts with Edwin
Booth.
Secretary Root announces that the
department will grant no franchises or
licenses in the islands of Porto Rico
until the establishment of civil govern
ment there.
The south polar expedition under
} Borchgrevinck reached the furthest
point south with sledge Of which there
is any record, namely, latitude rs deg.
| so min, south.
Ex-Chief Justice Frank Judd of Ha-
waii is in San Francisco on his way to
Honolulu. Several months ago he was
stricken with paralysis and is now a
5 helpless invalid.
Minister Morry of the United States.
has been successful in the use OF his
good offices in averting war between
two South American republics-Costa
Rica and Nicaragua.
a Full returns of the election in Kan.
Q sas City give James A. Rood, Democrat
j. for mayor majority of 2,127 over P
t s. Brown, Jr., Republican, supported
O by the present administration.
The election for city officers in ths
town of Beattie, Kans., was confess
J. between men and women, and the mer
won A ticket composed entirely o.
women was elected a year ago.
70 The citizens of Dublin regard thu
y visit of the queen as an act of womanl'
/. grace designed to express appreciation
Vt of the work of the Irish generals ant
g. the loyalty and ability of the Irisl
r. soldiers.
10 There is no foundation whatever TO
a. the report circulated in this countr
that King Humbert of Italy has lei
es the Quirinal and gone to Ciyila Vecchi
ie upon the advice of Queen Margherit
of in order to avoid possible Socialis
le attack
'h A test is to be made by the treasur
NC department in the case of Archibald
&c. buchanan. who was arrested by go'
ernment officers in Chicago on tn
ci- charge of having in his possessio
IN plates and dies and counterfeit STAMP
of foreign countries
Government officials of Mexico a.
las taking an interest in the newtv-o
ers gauized temperance movement, al
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