Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-12-31
'PO|NTS IN GENERAL NEWS
HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK
Accidents and Crimes All over the
worId-Business Affairs ana TO-
ut,caI ConsideratiOns-Naiety Oh
Items.

Sioux City, Iowa, Christian Scientists
have dedicated new church the hrst OIL
that faith ever built in Iowa. IL costs
AZ 600. all of which was fully paid when
the trustees accepted the building from
t the contractors.
Secretary Kopalowitz of the executive
board of the United Brotherhood OF CLOAK.
akers announces that membership II
$4,000 will be formed before the hrst OF
the year. The unions of Chicago, Bos'
ton, Baltimore, Philadelphia, st. Louis
and Cincinnati favor it.
James Cave, printer, living at rat
terson, N. j., has been notified that he
has fallen heir to fortune OF S3O,ooo by
the death of his grandfather, James Cave,
which occurred in western Missouri on
Thanksgiving day. A few months ago
Cave started for the Klondikc with a com
panion named William White, but the lat
ter eft him in Chicago after his money
was gone and he had to work his way
back to patterson.
A statement issued by the American
+, Bible Society concerning its work in for
eign lands during the last year shows that
it involved an expenditure of $l92,292,3Z
and the circulation of 767 ,52S volumes #
the HOLY Scriptures. OF these more than
half 405,000 volumes, were distributed
in China $4,000 in Japan; $1,000 in the
Levant; 10000 in South America; $4,000
in Central America and Mexico; $4,000
in Siam and Laos; 10000 in Russia; 90
900 in France; 10000 in Spain and Aus
tria; 10000 in India; besides smaller
numbers in Africa, Arabia and Corea.
According to special dispatch from
y Shanghai the German government con
templates colonizng the province of Shan
Tung with German families and making
Kiao Chau an open port.
II Louis and John Bonner, negroes, who
n have been attending the United States
y court at Nashville, Tenn, as witnesses
n against white-cappers, were murdered in
!. foul manner near Kennedy, in Lamar
county.
&c Cuban insurgents dynamited the rail
Il road between Canarils and Dagene, prov
T. ince of Pinar del Rio, destroying the track
70 and wrecking the engine of a freight
70 train. A force Of troops with a repairing
# gang was sent to the scene of the out
, rage, where they found dynamite bomt
!. and arrested the men who caused the eX
10 plosion. The line was repaired.
70 Charles c. Brown of Sacramento, Cal,
,r veteran sport, has fallen heir to an es
o tate in New Orleans valued at 100000.
: William Henry Theodore Durrant, tn,
L condemned murderer of Blanche Lamont
n,s been sentenced by Superior Judg
Il Bahrs at San Francisco for the fourtl
At time, TO suffer the extreme penalty of tn
ID law, the date for his execution being Sc
ar for January next.
The following nominations have beel
sent to the senate by President McKin
: ley: Court of private land claims: Josepl
- Reed to be chief justice, William NJ. Ma.
m of Tennessee, Thos. +. Fuller of Mort
Carolina, Henry G. Strauss of Kansa,
Wilbur F. Stone of Colorado, to be assc
st ciate justices, reappointments, their term
e expiring December 81, 1897.
n A bill has been introduced by Sens
IN tor Wilson in the senate granting to tin
he Spokane Falls & Northern railway rigli
As of way through the Colvile Indian re,
e- ervation and also for any branch lin
as commencing at point in Stevens count,
he crossing the Columbia river and runnin
ne northwest by the most feasible rout
an through the northern part of said reserv:
it ton to connect at the international bour
v. dairy line with any road which may /
se built from British Columbia.
on President Mckinley has decided to pu
u a quietus on the protests formulating O
,il the Pacific coast against Attorney Gener.
IL Mckenna of California as Judge of I'll
h supreme court, and sent in his nomini
ng ton. The president is determined (
stand by his attorney general to the en-
OF the fight it is said. He will insist,
is said, that McKenna continue as alto
ney general until the senate confirms h
ch nomination as associate justice.
One, on possible two, lives were To-
and $4,000 worth of property destroye
er, IN disastrous FIRE at Durica, Pa, whic
tn almost ruined the business portion of Il
in town.
i'm William Terriss, the we'll known actc
rts was assassinated, being stabbed with
I'D knife as he was entering the stage do,
zee OF the Adelphi theater in London.
as Senator Frye has introduced a hill
I'd. congress providing for the purchase {
Ike construction of vessel for the reven,
nix cutter service on the Yukon, and apr
Ill priating $4,000 for this purpose.
on There were no services Sunday in Il
he old Catholic church of Green Bay, Wi
'p- Rev. A. A. Miller, the priest of the paris
mas resigned his charge and accepted IL
Protestant faith.
l. The death is reported at Tacoma
-, Jonas Stanup, one of the best known 7,
dams in western Washington, aged
years. In the Indian war of 1850 he foo
he an active part in defense of his people
ed the Puyallups-and at its termina ton r
no fused to surrender his gun to the COVER,
- ment