Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-06-20
NEWS SUMMARY.

| arrest OF numerous prominent Poles
for political reasons.
Chicago capitalists are behind q
movement for the consolidation of all
the coal mining companies of Indiana.
Capital sis, 5,ooo,oO0.
Commandant Van Rensburg and his
commando have surrendered at Peters
burg. One hundred men have come in
and Others are following.
The island of Panay is being ravaged
by rinderpest, and so great is the havoc
caused by the disease that the natives
are hauling carts to Iloilo.
Imports of wheat into Liverpool last
week were $4,000 quarters from At
lantic ports; 1000 from Pacific ports
and $4,000 from other ports.
General Pulteney's division has cap
tured party of Beers, including
brother of Acting President Schalkber-
ger, on the Swaziland border
The leading industries of Great Brit
ain are with one or two exceptions,
more active now than they have been
since the beginning of the year.
The litigation between the Woolson
Spice company, owned by the sugar
trust,and the Arbuclsles, coffee dealers,
has been dismissed by agreement.
Two Beers have been court-martialed
and shot for trying to escape from Pre-
toria and rejoin their comrades after
having taken the oath of neutrality.
Three Indians were killed in the
mountains near Holbert, in northern
Arizona, by cowmen, who are said to
have discovered them stealing cattle.
IL certain statements emanating
from Amsterdam and Brussels are to
be trusted, Mr. Kruger still holds most
optimistic views with regard to the
Boer prospects.
Senator Tillman is still fighting,
but | am confident that shall win in
the end" says Senator McLaurin
The people cannot be blinded to their
own interests"
Speaking of Cuba, Senator EllSins
says: II always believed the Cubans
would accept. They have simply been
playing and dickering for the best
terms they could get"
Mexico's building on the Pan-Ameri-
can grounds was formally opened and
dedicated Friday. Addresses were made
by Manuel Aspiroz, the Mexican min
lister, Secretary Hay and others.
About o'clock Wednesday morning
storm struck Adrian, Mich, and
swept clear strip a half-mile wide.
A number of houses were badly dam
aged. No fatalities are reported.
A small tornado in Lyon county, Ia.
demolished number of houses. The
thee-year-old son of James A. Arm
strong was killed. Armstrong and
his wife were badly hurt and he will
likely die.
Chief Justice Charles B. Andrews of
the Connecticut Supreme court has
sent his resignation to Gov. Mclean.
lll-health is the reason for the resigna-
tion and the date fixed for retirement
is October 1st.
In st. Petersburg the impression pre-
walls in official circles that the mode
of paying the Chinese indemnity will
not be settled for long period, pos
! sibly not until the present Ministers
at Peking are replaced.
Lightning struck street car on
Bank street, Cleveland, O., Wednesday
tore hole in the roof and set the car
on fire. The passengers were panic
stricken and one of them, Gen. Isaac
R. Sherwood of Toledo, was stunned
by the shock.
In the United States District court at
San Francisco two suits for $50. 900
each have been filed against the Pilots
association of that port by relativessof
| two men who lost their lives in the
wrecl. of the Rio de Janeiro, just inside
the Golden Gate.
The officer named Lee who was
| killed, not wounded, in the recent
battle with the insurgents at Lipa,
| province of Batangas, Philippine
islands, was Lieut.. Lee of the en-
gineers, not Lieut.. Fitzhugh Lee, Jr.,
as previously cabled.
For the last three years the exchanges
of the New York clearinghouse were
very much in excess of those of the
London clearinghouse. The exchanges
at the London house for 1900 were
s43, SAG, 0oo, 900; at the New York house
they were $50, ,634, 9o1 ,s57.
The trade statement issued by the
customs department of Canada for the
eleven months ending May 81 last
shows that the aggregate trade of the
Dominion increased in that time by
ell ,00o,0 900 over the corresponding Pc
riod of the previous fiscal year.
Wooden dummies wearing chest pro.
teetors, and representing the crowned
despots of Europe, were set up in Lib
erty park, Ridgewood, L. l on Sunday
for anarchists to shoot at. This occas-
ion was the grand annual love feast OF