Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-06-25
CIRCL|NG THE GLOBE
FROM ALL PARTS OF THE NEW
AND OLD WORLD.
Comprehensive Review of the Inn
DOrtant Happenings of the
Current Week,

While Respondent over hard times
William Hunter, an Albany, Or, farm
er, jumped into 63-foot we'll last week
and was drowned.
coal mine near Clinton, burned last
week. causing a $4,000 loss. The 15
men working in the mine escaped.
During a friendly wrestling match
in Brooklyn between Albert Benson and
T. Olsen last week the formers neck
was broken.
During a hail and wind storm at
Caldwell, Ohio, last week many build
ings were unroofed and hail stones as
large as hens eggs broke hundreds
of windows.
Governor Rogers has appointed Dan
Stewart of Walla Walla, T. B. Gum,
J. M. Baxter. William Lee, North va
kima, ana F. d. Schnebly, Ellensburg.
state fais commissioners.
Last week Edward 8. Edwards, a
Welsh rider of the Century Wheelmen
of New York city, raised the Ameri-
can record for "a hours road riding to
349 2-5 miles. The next best previous
record, 314 miles, was made by Smith
of Baltimore several weeks ago.
A new volcano recently broke out
near Tehuantepec, Mexico. In the ac-
companying seismic disturbances the
village of Mistequilla was destroyed,
but no fatalities are reported.
ne report Oh ~. Z. LAIN, WHO
has been at work on the books of King
county, Wash, shows shortage in the
accounts of County Treasurer w. Cor
don of nearly $4,000.
A degree of LII. d. has been con-
ferred on ex-President Cleveland by
Princeton university.
A consignment of opium, valued at
about $4,000, 900, and the duty upon
which amounts to 1921, 400, has just
reached San Francisco.
DR.. ]. M. Semple has resigned as SUI
perintendent Of the eastern'W ashington
hospital for the insane at Medical
Lake. His resignation has not yet
been accepted.
A Turkish imperial trade raises the
army footing to 100000 men, while l.
900, 900 Mauser rifles have been pur-
chased.
The Reading. Pa. iron works has
closed indefinitely, throwing 1000 men
men in the departments supplying the
iron are on a strike and the supply has
run down.
Harry Whallen, the human ostrich"
died at Kansas City from the effects of
a surgical operation to relieve him. Two
pocket knives, three knife blades, three
ounces of fine glass, tacks, nails,
screws and staples, to the number of
20, were taken from his stomach.
Word from Washington states that
the missing papers in the case of Nc
Bride VS.. the state of Washington have
been found, having been in the hands
OF special agent who failed to turn
them over to the department.
Farmer d. Estes and Ray Estes of
Leavenworth, WASH, charged with as
saulting George Briskey with intent to
xii, have been bound over for trial be-
fore the Kittitas county superior court
in $500 bonds. 1t Is doubtful If they
can secure bonds.
Fully 10000 blackberry pickers have
assembled at Liberty, Mo-, to gather this
years crop, estimated at 10000 crates,
the largest on record.
On recommendation of the coal mine
examiners, r. H. Norton of Roslyn has
been appointed coal mine inspector for
Washington.
Roselle, village IS miles west of Lar
ned, Kas., has been almost wiped out of
existence by a cyclone.
Governor Rogers has appointed Nelson
w. Durham, editor of The Spokesman
Review, delegate from Washington to
the international gold mining congress
which meets in Denver July 6, and 8.
A cyclone struck Asneris, France last
week during the progress of fair, up
rooted 200 trees, blew off the roof of a
fireworks factory, blew down chimneya,
caused boiler to explode and kill seven
persons and wound Is and killed num-
Der dining in cafe.
Nicholas Ford, ex-congressman and for
two years a leading merchant of st. Jo-
seph, Mo-, once a leader of national prom
inence in the greenback movement, died
at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Nc
Donald, at Miltonville, Mass.
The Iowa State University at Iowa
City, was struck by lightning and burn
ed the other day entailing loss of $780,
900 in books, $4,000 in aparpatus and
$4,000 to the building.
James HI. Smith and Samuel H. Hick-
man, two Taylor Station, Mo-, farmers
were killed by lightning in a barn, the
flash also setting fire to the barn and
roasting Hickman to crisp.
"The buying of 10000 balls of Austral-
ian wool by one Boston house and 100 OOO
tons of pig iron by Wall street broker
and advancing prices for stocks are proof
that the actual conditions are understood
by some capable men," says r. G. Dunn's
weekly review of trade. "There is proof
of gradually charging business in every
important department. More establish
ments have been set to work and more
hands employed, and while prudence
still finds speculative excuses, the prog
ress towards better things is unchecked y
A glucose trust, comprising every big
factory in the United States but two, was
formed last week, and since then prices
have steadily been trying to reach the
sky.
A severe storm raging through the gulf
states Saturday morning leveled all iel-
egraph wires between Memphis and New
Orleans, and lightning set fire to the
Western Union telegraph building in
Montgomery, Ala, entailing loss of $780,
600.
After three postponments the attempt
to hold a meeting in North Yakima to
select delegates from Washington to the
national poulpist convention meeting in
Nashville, July 4, has been declared fu-
tile.