Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-06-13
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head of water for sluicing purposes.
and were accordingly happy.
Senator M. A. Hanna has been ap-
pointed colonel on the official stan
Of General Rassieur, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public.
| Those who have recently come from
japan confirm the reports of trained
observers there that the Japanese are
! generally preparing for early war with
| Russia.
William orland Bourne, who was
known as the "Pioneer of Uncondition-
al Abolition 2 is dead at the home Of
his daughter in Montclair, N. j., aged
| SO years.
The total number Of deaths from dis
ease and military operations among
the British troops in South Africa dur
ing the month OF May was 25 officers
and 7o9 men.
The postoffice at Rincon, N. M, was
| robbed by two masked men Friday,
| who forced the postmaster to open the
money drawer and hand out SlO0. The
men escaped.
New York Financial Chronicles ssti-
mate Of the cotton acreage for the
present year has just been published.
An increase of sos per cent for the
whole country is reported.
Il 10 he har - - Il
from Tien Tsin to Tuka during tho
siege, was married on May i4th 1t
Shanghai to Miss Middleton, daugh-
ter of well known Shanghai resident.
Congressman Theobald Often of
Milwaukee and his private secretary,
Nathaniel Green. were run down and
both seriously injured by an electric
car, while driving in buggy Thurs
day.
An order has been issued at the war
department directing the organization
of five batteries of field artillery and
three companies Of light artillery
in addition to those now in the SER
vice.
A cablegram was received at the
war department Friday from General
Macarthur at Manila, announcing
that all the volunteers have left the
Philippines en- route for the United
States.
Because OF the strike of the boiler
makers of Seattle and Tacoma. all work
on the United States army transport
Roseerans has been stopped, and she il
unable to start on her journey to
Alaska.
Miss Barbara Spinden, while kind
ling fire with gasoline at her home at
Wellston, Kan, Thursday, was burned
to death. The house was burned to
ashes and the body has not been re-
covered.
In many mills in Alabama and Gcor-
gia one-half of the operatives, it is said,
are children, and in some cases the per-
centage runs as low as 6 or 7. Their
ages range from to 12. and, of course
beyond.
BY direction of the president, Colonel
Chambers McKibben, Twelfth Infantry
has been relieved from command of the
department of Texas and ordered to
resume command of his regiment in
the Philippines.
tornado struck Prentice, Wis,
Wednesday night. Fences and tele-
graph poles were razed and the Swed-
ish church and a store were demolished
Many dwellings were damaged and the
property loss will be heavy
Affairs in China seem to show in a
remarkable way the solid influence
which America is there acquiring,
largely attributable to the favorable
impression made by General Chaffee
and the troops under his command.
1t is semi-officially announced in Ber-
lin that it has been decided that the
selection of Count Won Waldersee's
successor as commander of the inter-
national forces shall be left to tho
commanders of the international forces
in China.
Colonel j. j. Wiesenberger, COM
manding the First regiment, National
Guard of Washington, is dead in New
Whatcom, aged 26. Death resulted
from cerebral meningitis. The colonel
distinguished himself in the war in the
Philippines.
The officials of the Russian foreign
Office state that, contrary to certain
reports, Russia has never favored the
notion of all the constitutional powers
guaranteeing the Chinese loan. She
replied in terms similar to those of the
United States.
The battleship Oregon, which is due
before long at the Puget Sound naval
station, will undergo extensive over
hauling. The plan contemplates the
removal of the temporary work per-
formed in the Japanese navy yard after
she grounded.
The freight steamer Connemaugh
has sailed from Seattle for Nome with
$500 tons of freightfor Alaskan points.
This is the second largest cargo ever
shipped to the north. The freight
tariff amounted to s1o5.Ooo, and the