Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-09-24
NEWS OF THE WORLD
BRIEF MENTION OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
Record of MisfOrtunes, Mishaps and
Crimes, as Well as of Indus
trial Progress.

ers of New York, have assigned, with
nearly 100000 in liabilities. Heavy
dealings in wheat are assigned as the
cause of the failure.
The coal miners strike as far as the
Pittsburg district is concerned is off and
the 1000 diggers have resumed work at
the 65-cent rate.
H. S. Blandford, president of the board
of regents of the agricultural college at
Pullman, has sent his resignation to the
governor. The policy of reducing the sal
aries of capable men at the college he be-
lieves to be q mistake.
Returns from the presidential elections
in the various states in the republic of
Venezuela show overwhelming majorities
for General Andrade, the former Venez-
uelan minister to the United States.
Plans for eight big railroad bridges to
be built on the line of the Nippon rail
way of Japan have been completed and
are now in the Office of a Kansas City
man, under whose direction the struc-
lures are to be built.
Commissioner Powderly of the immi-
grafton bureau has directed the deporta-
ton of l6 contract laborers recently ar
rived at San Francisco from Japan by
way of Victoria. These laborers arrived
at Victoria on August % by the steamer
Columbia.
DIR. T. B. Carter of Kaufman and Chas.
Prussell of Abbott, Tex, two of the most
prominent men of that section, who had
hitherto been friends and business as
sociates, shot and killed each other as
the result of quarrel in a land trans
action.
Yazoo City, Miss, has issued orders for
shotgun quarantine to be enforced
against yellow fever. No trains are al
lowed to stop except to exchange mails
at the quarantine stations. No passen-
gers are allowed to leave the train at all,
and all mail and express must be fumi-
gated. Guards armed to the teeth are
placed all along the county boundaries.
The wheat crop of 1897 is moving sea-
ward at a rate that is breaking all prev
ious records. Within the past seven days
five cargoes, totaling 4Sl,737 bushels,
value about $43l ,5l2, have cleared from
Portland and are now on the way to
England.
A wreck on the Wabash at Keytes-
vile, Mo-, resulted in the death of four
men-W. A. Geness, postal clerk, of St.
Louis; w. Smith, fireman, of Moberly,
Mo-; William Clark and Paul Street of
Salisbury, Mo. Nine others were more
or less painfully injured.
Upon advices from United States Con-
sui Pringle at Guatemala City to the
effect that the revolutionists had captur-
ed the town of Ocas, on the west coast
of Guatemala, the state department has
called upon the navy department to send
a warship there to watch over American
interests, and the Alert, at Mare Island,
CAL, has been ordered to the scene of the
trouble.
The democratic state committee of New
York has refused to accede to the demand
of the free silverites that the principles
of the Chicago platform be reaffirmed
The committee met by authorization OF
the democratic state convention of last
year to nominate candidate for chief
judge of the court of appeals. Alton B.
Parker, of Kingston, was the choice of
the committee. The nominee is said to
De acceptable to Tammany hall and II
ex-senator David b. Hill and his follow
ing.
Domestic exports for August were the
10 r0oet IF AM OF IS ,,,b.a oh h.,
reau of statistics of the treasury depart
ment has any record. They were valued
at 5,497 800, as against 6,6S9,9Sl in
August, 1896, an increase of $l2,S07 $780,
For the eight months ended August 81,
1897, they amounted to $629, ABA 7l, an
The amount of imports during August
amounted to $39,s76,64O. This is the
smallest value since June, 1879, when
they amounted to $3S,S9O,451.
1t is estimated that the recent strike
cost the people of Pittsburg district from
100000 to 100000. Of this amount
the miners lost about So, 25O,OOO in wages.
William L. Wilson, ex-postmaster gen.
eral, has been installed in the office of
president of the Washington and Lee
university at Lexington, Va, in the
presence of Governor Charles T. OFFER
rell and other distinguished guests.
President Diaz opened the Mexican con-
gress Thursday, reading his semi-annual
message, covering the period since April
He said the country was at peace with
all civilized nations and was gradually
making more intimate ties with them. He
noted the decision of the court of claims
of Washington adversely to the La Abra
claim, which had been pronounced fraud
ulent, and went on to consider the ques-
ton of the proposed international dam.
The business portion of Joplin, KY,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000,
insurance about one-half that amount
NJ. F. Dwyer has sold his stallion
Kingston to j. R. Keene for $4,000.
The treaty of peace between Turkey
and Greece was signed at Constantinople
Saturday.
The duchess of Marlborough, formerly
Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, has given
birth TO son at Spencer house, the ducal
London residence.
The treaty of peace between the gov
eminent and the insurgents was signed
in Uruguay yesterday.