Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-11-12
[NS FROM ALL QUARTERS
CORD OF CRIME AND MlsHAP.
vress of Business at Home and
t.-oad-Fire Losses and Acciden-
,.I Deaths - Political Appoint
ments.

W
l;lauthropist and ex-senator, is dead of
lmonary disease.
An English syndicate has purchased
gold mines in Alaska of Frank b. Pts
Tor of Benton Harbor, Mich, paying ST.
OOOO for three claims-No. 81 on Bear
eek and two rich claims on Eldorado.
70 syndicate paid $4,000 down and the
lance is to be paid in year.
The W. C. T. u at Buffalo has reflect
tbe old officers, as follows President,
ISIS Frances e. Willard; vice president
large Miss Lillian Stevens of Massa.
usetts; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Uterine Stevenson Of Massachusetts,
cordng secretary, Miss Clara G. Hoff-
nm of Missouri treasurer, Miss Helen
arber of Illinois.
Five powers of the Latin union, on the
itiative of Switzerland, have signed
invention to increase the number Of
nall silver coins by a franc per head of
,er population, using the existing five.
anc pieces to supply the necessary silver.
The report of General Merriam, COM
landing the department of the Columbia
las made public today. The abandon.
lent of Forts Spokane and Walla Walla
nd Sherman and Boise barracks, in Ida.
}, are recommended, in view of the fact
hat the military post at Spokane will fill
h requirements, although Walla Walla
nd Boise might be used for adminstra-
Ion and instruction.
Fire has destroyed the Grand Central
btel and Carey block at Marlboro, Mass;
bss, $l50000
General Thomas L. Clingman, ex
United States senator, died at Morgan
bwn insane asylum. Aged, poor and in
nm, North Carolina gave him home
here
Rev. Dr. Charles A. Gerry, pastor of
DE Queen street church, Wolverhampton.
london, and chairman of the Congrega-
ional union in England, has reached New
York on his visit to the United States in
he interests of Anglo,American arbitra,
bon.
Particulars of the terrible casualty
yhich occurred in the village church at
khiloff, Kizoloff district, Russia, October
g. state that "A persons were killed and
go injured in the stampede which fol
owed the false alarm of fire.
The Chesapeake & Ohio's vestibuled ex-
Press, known as the "F. F. w." from Gin
innati to Washington, was wrecked near
I'D Shawdell, five miles east of Charlottes.
lille, Va. Four persons We're killed. The
'reck was caused by the breaking of an
xle on the forward truck of the locomo-
i've
Thomas Davis of Boise, Idaho, has for
Tarded to President Mckinley, through
enator Shoup, box of fine large apples
md pears produced on Idaho soil. This
rnit has attracted great deal of atten-
ion from members of the cabinet and
heir families and from others who have
been visitors at the White house, on ac.
ount of its size, flavor and fine appear.
nce.
q. d. Mclean, the Grass Valley (Cal.)
millionaire miner, is dead.
report has reached Chicago that the
Operators at Carbon Hill, ILL.,, will import
chinese to take the place of the striking
miners.
by an explosion at the Illinois Steel
orks, Milwaukee, Thursday night, five
men We're injured, two-Peter Hundt and
'eorge Enthusiastically
George s. Shaw, the pioneer lumber
man of Cloquet, Mimi, one of the best
known lumbermen in the northwest, is
dead.
Ihere Is every indication that from l2,-
"o to $4,000 cloak makers will strike in
view York, owing to violation by con.
factors OF the agreement entered into six
weeks ago
CHARLES l.. Fair, son of the late Senator
fair OF California, has announced his in.
IGNITION of selling his racing stable and re.
trng from the turf having met with
"o ~, but bad luck for years.
lhe Upsala college, Lutheran institu,
oioh, supported by the state church OF
sweden, OF Brooklyn, has agreed to move
s 90 New Orange, N. Y, on condition of a
eioo'ooo endowment from town-boom
ing real estate firm.
owng to labor organizations obiectinp
70 tne famous Washington marine band.
pIayihg at the Chicago horse show, the
navy department has decided the organi
1".ioh Shall not perform at any more pri
"'e engagements. This may ruin the
o" "ae' IL having depended largely upon
lhere are 232 business failures reported
throughout the United States last week
as compared with 2lS the previous week
900 IN the week year ago, 26O two year,
ago, IA three years ago, and as compared
1893. '' "eeN Vi No'e'noe'
no Inc New York Herald prints re
mai, m"rkaDle letter from Hannis Taylor, for
mt. United States minister to Spain, il
t Snch, after telling of his strenuous eff
, ,o,s 10 prevent rupture of diplomat,
;u ".,ohs between the two countries dur
'ne dark days of the Competitor case
aro assert" s that the ruling classes of Spail
WV determined to refuse any concessions
Tt would be accepted by the Cubans
an "e president has selected Frank Mon
o ~rm OF Newcastle, Wyo., to be assistant
w n"'i'iSsloner of the land office. Mondel
inv representative-at-large from Wyom
~, s IN The last house and will be 81 year
No. 'ohiorrow He has lived in severa
Int