Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-12-17
N|I1s IN GENERAL NEWS
~ HOME AND FOREIGN OUTLOOK
.,,aents and Crimes All Over the
wor,d-Business Affairs and Po-
,,,,cal Considerations-ynriety of
Items.

President and Mrs. Mckinley arrived
!, Canton, Ohio, Tuesday, to find the
'a.a mother of the president still living.
~ diving woman rallied and for a mo-
nsnt plainly gave evidence of recognizing
,sr children about her bedside.
The old age pension bill of the New
Ysaland government provides for the pay
.ent Of a yearly pension of $lS out of the
consolidated fund to every person who
as attained the age of IS and whose in
Dme is under $36.
About $4,000 has been realized by the
hawaiian government from the public
ale of royalty chattels.
Rich strikes have been made at Kali
norlie, the new mining district in West
Australia.
An Englishman names Graves, who
has been inspecting the Penang gulf tele
uaph line about nine miles from Jaska
proyince of Herman, on the Aban sea
inst north of Cape Jaska, has been muir.
dered in his tent by tribesmen.
General Paul Vandervoort, at one time
Grand commander of the Grand Army Of
the Republic, and one of the promoters
Of the Grand Army colony in Texas, has
closed a deal with John E. ("Shanghai")
Pearce, the great cattle king, for land fol
1000 colonists, who will move immediate
" after the beginning of the new year
The undertaking is fashioned after that
at Fitzgerald, Ga. y
The defalcation of A. r. Spofford, Ii
brarian Of congress, will amount to $4,000
and the authorities are uncertain wheth
er the man is knave or fool. Seven
hundred dollars was found in an old desk
belonging to the librarian, much of it in
shn.plasters. Many postoffice orders
have never been cashed, and the entries
in the books are for less than the amount
received. Spofford will be removed.
United States Ambassador Hay and
Mrs. Hay have dined with Queen Victoria
at Windsor and slept at the castle.
The Washburn & Moen Manufacturing
Company state that several of the larger
|wire manufacturers are proposing to form
Ia new corporation, under the auspices Of
J. P. Morgan & Co. of New York.
General Agent Herman of Haverstraw
Of the Amoskeag corporation at Manches'
ter, N. H., is authority for the statement
that the cut in cotton mill wages in Fall
River will not be followed in that city;
that the Fall River action pertains only
ito the mills of that city, and it is not
probable that the example will be follow
ed in other New England cities.
According to startling report made to
The Boston Globe by a st. Louis man,
Mrs. Luetgert, the supposed victim OF the
sausage manufacturer murderer, so-called,
in Chicago, is alive and well. Mrs. Luet-
CERT was seen in Boston during the month
Of july and acknowledged her identity,
besides giving more or less explanation
relative to the reasons which caused her
/ to leave her husband, who is again being
/ tried for his life.
Lewis Soxon of Elizabethport, n. D.
is to build a stern-wheel steamboat spe'
eally designed for use on the Yukon
river, for the Philadelphia Exploration q
Mining Company, which is about to send
an expedition under charge of Prof. An
cello Heilprin of Philadelphia. The part!
will have eight members, who expect u
spend two years in Alaska.
The latest reports of late fights in Pima
del Rio province of Cuba show the span
ISL loss was more than claimed. The dea'
or wounded include one colonel, one ma
jor, seven captains, IL subordinate OIL
GERS and IA privates. Most of the wouno
ed will die. The rebel loss was IA. Id
rebels used explosive bullets.
Governor Black has pardoned Albert
Smith, who in 1890 was sentenced to oin
Sing for IL years. The convict was sci
fenced for a series of forgeries, by whic
he swindled his partners in the firm
Mills, Robertson & Smith, stock broker
out of over 100000, causing their ina
cial ruin.
Charles Fleischman of Cincinnati, Sc
ealtimes millionaire, is dead. lie w
born in Hungary in 1884 and came
America in 1866. The foundation OF |
great fortune was laid by the inventi
Of patent machinery for use in distiilerl
Until recently he was president oil
Cincinnati Commercial-1ribune Compal
lie was also president of .ne Market \
tional bank. He had an extensive INT
est in the turf, and was the employer
the famous hockey Tod Sloane.