Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1900-07-05

the United States for two months past
have sailed for Europe.
The Silesian coal operators have re
fused to renew their Austrian con
tracts at the former low prices.
The government Of Haiti has adopted
the gold standard and the unit of val
ue Is the American gold dollar.
Capetown reports that President
Kruger is still at Machadodorp, afraid
TO move for fear the bridges are under
mined.
Governor Thomas has issued proc
lamalion urging the people Of Colora
do to give aid 10 the famine sufferers
of India
Great Britain seems To have pretty
well settled down to the belief that the
ministers at Peting will not come to
much harm
The supreme court OF Indiana has
held in Il case from Grant county that
the pumping of natural gas from gas
wells is Illegal.
Robert Noaks been arrested at
Big stone, Va, charged with being
Implicated in the assassination of Gov
ernor Goebel.
Nine hundred mon have sailed with
General Chaifee on the Grant, and the
Ninth infantry is upon the water from
Manila to China.
There is threatening uprising Of
Indians on the Rainy river, Ont Three
thousand Indians are gathered near
the mouth of Rainy river
Fully 1000 window glass workers
will be idle during July and August
and longer unless the wage scale is ar
ranged before September L.
The Colombian government has
finally satisfied itself that Nicaragua
is responsible for the revolutionary
movements on the isthmus of Panama.
Rumors of Withdrawals of troops
from Cuoa are said to be the probable
basis for the persistent statements that
more soldiers have been ordered to
China
The prolonged drouth in Salt River
valley, Arizona, has done many thous-
ands Of dollars worth of damage and
threatens the grain and fruit crops not
now harvested
The Republican state convention of
Maine nominated DR., John T. Hill of
Augusta unanimously for governor.
Resolutions indorsing the national ad-
ministration were adopted.
Lieutenant j. S. Heron, who was in
command of the expedition supposed
to have been lost last fall while trying
10 find an all-American route to Yukon
river, has returned to Seattle.
The rumor in Havana that the Sec
0nd infantry will leave Cuba within
The next ten days as soon as trans
port IS available, and go directly to
China, is generally believed in Havana.
The Christian Reformed church syn.
od of America, in session in Grand
Rapids, adopted resolutions of sym.
pathy for the Beers in the fight with
Great Britain They will be sent to
president Kruger.
According to Iransvaal advices the
Beers are in ntrenched In considerable
numbers in the Middleburg hills. The
Irish, Hollander and Italian corps are
getting uncomfortable. They are loot
Ing stores and farms.
The inspection board headed by Rear
Admiral Rogers, which accompanied
the new battleship Kentucky" on her
final acceptance trial has returned to
Washington and reports the result of
the trial as satisfactory.
The Republicans of the Fifth Mis-
souri, congressional district, meeting
in Kansas City. nominated w. B. G.
Brown for congress. The nominee
was gold Democrat and left the Dem.
ocratic party in 1896.
y pOu llle NOVA. lOnuinaDcne ana
Cherokee lands trerpasscrs numbering
5000 exceed the Indian population. Or
ders have been issued TO compel the in.
truders to leave the land Military
may aid in moving them.
Seth Low, the president of Columbl
university, discovered that twenty
four men employed in the boiler-rooms
and electrical power departments Of
the university, were working "a twelve
hour shifts He gave orders ut once to
put the men on an eight hour shift,
without reducing their pay, aud to en-
ploy one-third more men at once.
The back bone of the great building
trades strike in Chicago is broken. 1t
is now only a question of hours when
the $4,000, workman who have been
idle for many months will be arrang-
ing agreements for their return to
work
Except for the boycott and 300 ex-
ira policemen on duty, but little re-
mains TO tell of the great strike on the
st. Louis Transit companys system in
May sth. Cars are in oper-
alton on all the lines without hind |
rance.
Seth sprague Terry, who is one of |
the beneficisries of the will of Jose w. |
sprague of Louisville says that it will |