Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-06-06
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is said, will prooobly be Frenchman.
In cape Colony, near Colesberg,
Beers are reported to have captured
| 500 horses.
Havana merchants seen confident
that the United States will make Q
reciprocity treaty with Cuba.
The Chilean Government has granted
an exequatur to Robert E. Mansfield,
the new American Consul at Iquigue.
The prosecution against ID. M. Car
man, Senior Carraiza and others, ac-
cused of trading with the insurgents,
has heen abandoned.
Arbuckle Bros have reduced the
price on all grades of refined sugar Is
points The American Sugar Refining
company made no changes.
AS result of the advices from the
Marseilles police, two anarchists have
been arrested in Madrid, one q Spani-
ard and the other an Italian.
The London Daily Mail says that
King Edward has decided to reduce his
ecclesiastical establishment from
thirty-six paid chaplains to twelve.
The resignation is gazetted of the
Marquis of Headfort as q Lieutenant
in the First Life guards presumably
because he married Rosy Roote, the
actress.
The international Miners conference
in session in London, 10 attended by
many continental delegates, passed .
resolution in favor of universal eight
hour day.
The balances from the French banks
indicate that the Russian loan was
oversubscribed ten times. English
critics predict another Russian loan
within six months
Postmaster Lowry and son of Carter,
Washita county, Okla. were shot and
killed by man named Fowler last
Thursday. The shooting was the re-
suit of an old feud.
Eight hundred Porto Ricans were
embarked on board the steamship Colon
at Port Los Angeles Sunday morning.
They are destined to work on the sugar
plantations of Hawaii.
The monument erected by the State
of South Carolina on the battlefield of
Chickamauga was dedicated last week.
Gov McSweeney OF South Carolina
made an eloquent speech.
M. A. Hanna g. Co. have secured op-
tions on almost the entire Massillion
(0.) coal district The output Of the
properties included in the deal
amounts to over 1,000,o00 tons per
year.
Rear-Admiral Remy was recently au-
thorized to enlist 500 Filipinos, and
Commander Tilley of the Tutuila naval
station reports that he has enlisted
sixty natives of Tutuila for service as
| policemen.
In Philadelphia the end of the frst
week of the machinists' strike shows
that sixty.seven firms have agreed to
the nine-hour workday, with compensa
tion for ten hours. Two thousand men
are still out.
The treasury statement of the bal
ances In the general fund, June 1, ex-
elusive of the $3.50. .ooo, 900 gold reserve
in the division of redemption, shows:
Available cash balance. s1ea, ,765. s62:
gold, 500, ,016, ,140.
The progress of the bubonic plague
in Hongkong, Is becoming serious. The
death rate is over thirty daily. The
epidemic is the worst known since
1895. The colony requires drastic
sanitary legislation.
Negotiations have been in progress
for some time for the abrogation Of
two treaties between the United States
and Tunis. The negotiations are based
upon the fact that Tunis is now a
dependency Of France.
The state department has been
advised that the German Government
regards the present time as opportune
for the withdrawal of Field Marshal
Won Waldersee, commander of the
international forces in China.
Fifteen years ago whole cargoes of
Bosnian prunes were shipped to New
York. This export now not only has
been reduced to almost nothing, but
California prunes actually compete
with the Bosnian product in Europe.
1t has been ascertained that the two
anarchists, one Spaniard and the
other an Italian, who were arrested in
Madrid ON suspicion of being impli-
Gated in a regicide plot, arrived there
as steerage passengers from America.
May IL.
The negotiations of the Vickers
Sons & Maxim company of England.
for the purchase of the Bethlehem
Steel company, have been abandoned.
and according to one of the New
York bankers interested will never be
resumed
John D. Rockefeller has placed Ut
the disposal of body of prominent
medical men 5000, 900 to be available
for immediate expenditure by an asso-
citation incorporated under the name
of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical