Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-10-01
NEWS OF THE WORLD
BRIEF MENTION OF EVENTS At
HOME AND ABROAD.
record OF Misfortunes, Mishaps and
Grimes, ms Well as of Indus-
trial Progress.

a Thousand persons have fled from Mo
bile, Ala, to st. Louis, until frost kills
| the yellow fever germ.
Two cases of leprosy are repo.ted in
Walsh county, N. d. The victims are
Scandinavians.
A Hood has swept over Armada, Tex.
ABOUT so miles south of Ell Paso. People
were driven from their beds, taking ref
uge on the high ground.
Regents Windus and Powell have re.
signed as regents Of the Washington ag.
ricultural college and school of science.
The president has appointed Archibald
j. Simpson of Arizona to be minister to
Ecuador, and e. c. Kennedy of South Da-
kota to be United States marshal for
South Dakota.
Comptroller Eckels has declared a Sec
ond dividend of per cent in favor of the
creditors of the Merchants National bank
OF Seattle, Wash, making in all So per
cent on claims proved, amounting to
1892, 959.56.
VIM. j. Bryan, and #. e. White, DEM
ocratic candidate for governor, were the
principal figures in free silver rally at
Des Moines, Iowa. MIR. Bryan spoke in
the afternoon to 5000 people.
New York and Seattle men have sub
scribed the capital necessary to build a
narrow gauge railway from Skaguay over
the White pass to Lake Bennett. In the
syndicate are ex-United states Senator
Watson G. Squire of Seattle, Senator
John P. Jones of Nevada, and James r,
Mcknight, formerly general counsel OF
the Northern Pacific railroad.
The Japanese government has taken up
100000 out of the remaining 100000
shares of the Formosan railway and has
persuaded Formosans to take up the bal
ancc. Locomotives and ears are expect
ed shortly from America. The work
will be proceeded with Immediately.
Sheriff Martin and deputies have been
held for trial at Wilkesbarre, Pa, for
shooting and killing certain persons dur
ing the strike.
The weather is severely cold in Paris
and there have been heavy snow falls in
Auvergne, lower Burgundy, and other
places.
Korea has joined the international tel
egraphic convention.
The Hawaiian senate by unanimous
vote has ratified the treaty of annexation
to the United States.
Major Ballame, private secretary of
Governor Rogers, has been appointed ad-
jutant general of the state of Washing
ton.
Reports from all parts of Japan indi-
cate that the rice crop this year will be
exceptionally good, in fact, it is predicted
that it will exceed anything seen during
the past 10 years.
United States Consul OHara at San
Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, reports to the
state department that the peso is worth
but $3.50 in gold, drop of SO cents in
six months. On the other hand, provis-
ions have advanced.
The preliminary treaty of peace be-
Tween Turkey and Greece which was
signed on Saturday by the representa-
ives of the sultan and of the powers has
been ratified by the sultan.
The plague is increasing in Bombay
of British India.
The coal miners of Belleville, ILL.,, and
vicinity have declared the strike off, so
far as it affects the owners who are will
ling to pay the scale.
w. F. Karron, now imprisoned in the
county Jail at San Francisco. charged
with ENLIGHTENMENT. has fallen heir to a
quarter of million dollars.