Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-04-16

Martin, who died at Baltimore, April 4,
about a million dollars is bequeathed to
various Catholic churches and charities
in Maryland and California.
The next steamer from Tacoma to Jap
an will take 100000 cigarettes.
Ex-Governor w. j. Mcconnell of Idaho,
will go into the dry goods business at
Spokane.
C. p. Huntington has been reelected
president of the Southern Pacific.
Colonel William Rufus Shafter, First
infantry, has been nominated to be brig
adler general
John T. Bresler of Nebraska, has been
appointed a government director of the
Union Pacific
President Dole of Hawaii, has sent
special commissioner to the United States
to urge annexation.
C. A. Spreckles, the sugar king, has
discharged all but two of the white men
on his Hawaiian plantation and put ORR
entails in their places.
In replying to an inquiry from the sec
rotary of war, Morgan johnson of Fargo,
N. D., says $4,000 is needed for the i'm
mediate relief of flood sufferers.
BY the suspension of the Globe Savings
bank in Chicago, over $500,000 in cash
and bonds OF the University of Illinois
are missing. The president OF the bank
cannot be found.
The senate committee is working on the
line of cutting down the Dingley bill tar
ifs
Ten lives were lost and a block of
buildings burned at Buenos Ayres by
the explosion of a car loaded with fire.
works.
The burning of the Lancaster House at
Rossland B. c., caused loss of $4,000.
The boarders also lost their effects
The trotting stallion Ashland Wilkes,
Is years old, and sire of John r. Gentry,
2:001a, has just been sold for $500
Secretary Bliss has re-instated Captain
Henry c. Potter of Ohio as chief of the
mineral division of the land office at
Washington.
War preparations throughout the Turk
ish empire continue to be steadily press
ed.
News comes of a cyclone passing over
a portion of Saale county Alabama, de-
molishing many houses. One woman was
caught by the falling timbers of her
home and died before she could be res
cued.
Notwithstanding the fact that the floods
along the Red River of the North caus-
ed loss of quarter of a million dollars
at Fargo. N. D., and inundated 50 miles
of fertile territory, the people in that sec
ton have declined the government aid
voted them.
The Kaslo & Lardo, the Duncan rail-
VI,
railway; Victoria, Vancouver & Eastern;
Vancouver & Lulu Island bills have been
passed by the British Columbia legisla-
ture.
The Poughkeepsie, N. Y, glass works,
have been completely destroyed by fire
today. The loss Is approximately $780,
600; insurance $50. 000
Members of the theatrical profession
throughout the country are interesting
themselves in the case of James b. Gen
try the actor who is under sentence of
death in Pennsylvania for the murder OF
Madge York.
The Honduras congress has decided to
grant a concession to a Honduras syn
dictate acting in conjunction with a party
of New York capitalists for an inter-
oceanic railroad from Puerto Costes on
the Atlantic to Amalapa on the Pacific.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has taken out
81, 600 900 insurance for the benefit of
Stanford university. Should she live 10
years and continue her annual payment
of $4,000 the university will receive at
her death 1900, 900 instead of $1000,000.
Advices from Tahiti state that Queen
Mamae, who for seven years, as ruler OF
the island of Raiatea, has defied the
French, has surrendered, and that the
long standing rebellion on the islands of
Raiatea and .Hauheine has been put
down.
Representative Simpson of Kansas has
declared that he will carry into effect his
threat to block any business which the
national house of representatives may at
tempt to do by unanimous consent be-
fore the speaker has appointed commit
tees.
Information has been received from
Pretoria, South Africa, that the British
have secured Inyack island at the en-
trance to Delagoa bay, and a squadron OF
warships will proceed there to take pos
session and proclaim British territory.
Daniel Wolsey Voorhees,, ex-United
States senator from Indiana, is dead. He
was born In Butler county, Ohio in 1927,
and while an infant was carried by his
parents to their pioneer home in the Wa
bash valley of Indiana. He was gradual
ed from the Indiana Asbury (now De
PAW university in 1919; studied law and
commenced the practice of his profession
in 1851. He served several terms in the
national house of representatives before
entering the senate.
Rev. Dr. Henry Stauffer has resigned
as pastor of the First Methodist Episco-
pal church of Spokane. and will take
charge of the First Methodist church of
Sedalia, Mo. Rev. p. A. Cool, ex-president
of the University of Sedaha, succeeds DR..
Stauffer at Spokane.