Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-12-03

president, Miss Frances L. Willard of Ev-
anston, ILL.,; vice Large, Lady
Henry Somerset of England; secretary,
Miss Agnes e. Slack of England; assist
ant secretary, Miss Anna Gordon of Ev-
anston, ILL.,; treasurer, Miss Mary San
derson of Danville, Que.
From four to II feet of snow fell over
western Kansas during the blizzard We'd
nesday.
A special from Springfield, Ohio, says
Henry Galloway, a farmer living nine
miles south of town was halted by mask
ed men and, because he did not deliver
his money speedily enough, was probably
fatally shot.
Thomas Flannelly of Redwood, Cal,
shot and killed his aged father because
the old gentleman had ordered him from
the ranch for disobeying his wishes A
posse was organized to apprehend the
murderer and when located he fired upon
the sheriff, shooting the latter through
the arm. The fire was returned and the
assassin was wounded. The man is in
the hospital.
There were 80 new cases and s deaths
from yellow fever at New Orleans We'd
nesday.
Flags are half-masted all over England
because of the death of the duchess of
Teck, a daughter of the duke of Cumber-
land, seventh son of George III.
Judge Thayer of the United States cir
omit nf lS hoe
the Kansas legislature has the right to
fix the charges at the Kansas City (Kan.)
stock yards.
A dispatch to Minneapolis paper from
New York says Mr.. Mellen will leave the
presidency of the Northern Pacific with
in three months and will be succeeded by
Dan Lamont.
William Carr, the inhuman father who
drowned his child because there was one
too many in the family, begs the Kansas
City officials to let him be tried and
hung, thus paying the natural result, he
says.
An attempt was made Wednesday
night to hold up the Rock Island pas
senger train near Boyd, Tex, by piling
crossties on the track, but beyond the
presence of two men with Winchesters no
farther attempt occurred.
Twenty-eight hundred men are report
ed to be at work on the construction of
the Crows Nest Pass railway. Camps
dot the Belly river bottoms as if an army
had possession of the country. The work
is being pushed with all speed in antici-
patton of a heavy fall of snow. To the
end of an early completion contracts have
been sublet and grade work is well under
way along the entire $50 miles.
A fire loss of 100000 is reported at
Warren, Mass
John Fl. Hall has been appointed
United States attorney for Oregon.
An official dispatch from Havana an
nounces that Blanco, the new captain
general, has arrived there and has taken
command of the island from General
Weyler.
Searchlight is king of pacing three
year-olds. His time, made on the track
Saturday at Santa Ana, in an exhibition
mile and an eighth, eclipses all previous
records and puts him at the head of pac-
ers for his age. With running mate he
was driven by Tom Heating and establish
ed as his record 2:053.
The German postoffice is experimenting
with an invention of an electric typewrit-
Ell apparatus, which, at cost of $l25, can
De connected with a telegraph wire which
types message off on a keyboard and
which is reproduced at the other end.
Prof. w. w. Campbell of the Lick OBJ
servatory, accompanied by his wife and
Miss Rowena Beans, young society lady
OF San Jose. has sailed from San Fran
cisco for Hong Kong en- route to India for
the purpose of observing the total eclipse
OF the sun which takes place early next
year. His expedition has been made pos
sible through the generosity of the late
Colonel c. F. Croker. Prof. Campbell
takes with him two tons of scientific
freight.
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