Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1901-01-17
NEWS SUMMARY.

import coal for their own consumption
free Of duty has been extended until,
July, 1901.
BY vote of rs to AZ, the Missouri
House adopted resolution expressing
sympathy with the Filipinos in their
struggle for liberty.
After satisfactorily filing the pre-
liminary stages, Count Lamsdorf has
been definitely appointed minister Of
foreign affairs for Russia.
The legislative, executive and judi
cal appropriation bill has been reported
to the Senate, making the first regular
appropriation bill reported.
The only division commanders re-
naming in the South African 6eld out
Of dozen sent out year ago are Gen.
erals Rumble, French and Metheun.
General John Foster has been elected
president OF the American Bible society
by the board of managers of that or
ganization to succeed Enoch L. Fancher
deceased.
The Indians are growing moro trou-
blesone at Sitka. The troops are
watching them and they are not allow
ed to pass through the town after
nightfall.
NJ Luckals, former Hungarian min
lister of commerce, committed suicide
| Monday by drowning himself in tho
Danube. He had been suffering from .
nervous trouble.
Alejandero Bermudex, snb-secretary
Of public works, has been named as
secretary Of the Nicaraguan legation
in Washington and commissioner to
the Pan-American exposition in Buff
| falo.
W. Horace Wright, journalist, law
yer and leader among the forces of the
Royalist party in Hawaii, ended his
life with the end of the nineteeth
century by taking his life with carbolicl
acid.
Earl Roberts has been closely occupi-
ed at the British War Office and il is
believed that reinforcements will be
ordered on large scale for the moral
effect in the field that resistance is
futile.
1t is proposed that one Of the most
conspicuous figures of the forthcoming
inaugural parade shall be section
composed Of college men from all the
leading universities Of tho United
States.
The Escuadra gold mine. situated
near oactlan, State of Oaxaca, Mexico,
has just been sold to a New York
syndicate for SO, 500, 900. ]. sloat
Fassett is said to be one of the pur-
chasers.
Exports of gold and silver from New
York to all countries for last week ag-
gregated s1,224,3)4 silver bars and
coin and S112,00 gold. The imports
specie last week were $3.50, 1888 gold and
Sl2s, ,065 silver.
Moran Bros. of Seattle have told
Secretary Long that they will under
take to construct a battleship for
S3,511 900, with per cent added under
the law allowing that bonus on Pacific
coast construction.
Among the bank notes which the
Chinese paid to the foreign Consuls as
indemnity for the missions DESTROYED
at Sheklung were f5 notes that had
been raised to $50, and e10 notes that
had been raised to e1Oo.
The closing year of the nineteenth
century achieved record in Great
Britain's foreign trade, which aggre-
gated 9s7s, 600, 900, imports being R3s, :
600, 900 and exports a27, ,oOo, 900 better
than in any previous year.
Senator Hoar has introduced an
amendment to the army bill appointing
a committe of nine scientific experts
to investigate the effect of the army
canteen upon the health, discipline
and morality of the army.
Letters from Panama say the rela-
tions between Columbia and venezuela
are much strained in consequence of
the latter's connivance with and the
assistance being given to the revolu-.
tionists in the former country.
An explosion of gas in coal mine at
Honda, Cohuala, Mexico, caused the
death of four men and the injury of
more than twenty others, among the
latter being three brothers named Sui
livan, burned beyond recognition. :
The charges that members of Tam
many Hall and New York city officials
have been collecting "blood money"
from gambling-house and other dis
reputable places of the city is officially
denied by the Tammany committee of
five.
Mr.. T. w. Lewis, an;American citizen
and engineer on the Mexican Central
railway, who was arrested because his
train ran over and killed . Mexican
named Jesus Calderon, who had attsmp-
ted to make coupling, has been
released.
The New York grand jury has hnnd-
ed up indictments against Clinton
Marshall, j. R. Dean and Eugene Da-
Wis, Bellevue hospital nurses. for
manslaughter In the frst degree in the
killing of Louis Hilliard, patient in
the hospital.