Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1897-06-18
NEWS ABOUT THE WORLD
FROM ALL PARTS OF THE NEW
AND OLD WORLD.
Comprehensive Review of the I'M
pOrtant Happenings of the
Current Week.

Mayor Olmsted of Spokane mas VII
ten a letter to President Hill OF the
Great Northern, urging more eQuita
BILE freight rates for Spokane.
The bonded debt of Boston has STEAD
lily increased, now amounting 10 S49'-
993, 1926. The annual interest is S2,0SZ,-
900.
A fire in the Standard Biscuit Com
pany's factory at San Francisco caused
a loss of 100000 in property and the
lives of three firemen.
Thomas w. Booth, ex-president of the
Merchants Exchange of st. Louis, was
found dead in a bath tub. lie lad
been suffering from complication of
diseases
Fire at Cairo, ILL.,, has destroyed $780,
900 worth of property, including the
new Baptist church, Glynn's transfer
stables with &c head of horses, and sew
eral dwellings,
Frank A. Leach of California has
been nominated to be superintendent
of the mint at San Francisco, and Will
lam M. Lynch of Louisiana to be as
sayer of the mint at New Orleans.
Joseph Richardson, an eccentric
millionaire, is dead. He made fortune
in railroad building, and was closely
associated with the Vanderbilts and
Goulds. He constructed large sections
of the Union Pacific and other roads.
Jerome Smeathers, his wife and seven
children were poisoned at Yelvington,
KY, with Paris green, which accidently
fell in a bucket of water. One child
| is reported dead, two are dying and
| possibly none will recover
| Wheat advanced at Chicago two and
quarter cents Tuesday and the pit
was the scene of more activity than
| has been seen witnessed in several
| weeks The advance was caused by
! reports of damage to crops.
| Governor Budd of California has
/ granted a reprieVe to Durrant until
July 8.
The czarina has been delivered of d
daughter at the Petershoff.
James Hughes Taylor, the veteran
| tragedian, is dead, of dropsy, at Down.
| ington, Penn.
Commander J. C. Green has been or
dered to the Puget sound naval sta
| ton.
Bank clearings of Spokane during
the past week were $650,54S. This is an
| increase of q per cent over the same
week last year.
Boston has just witnessed the grand
est wedding in it's history, Larz Ander-
son, until recently a member of the
United States diplomatic corps at
Rome, Italy, and Miss Isabelle Per-
kins of Boston, heiress to $17,O00OO0.
becoming husband and wife.
Floods are doing considerable DAM
age along the Connecticut river in New
England. A boom containing 100000
feet of logs, north of Bellows Falls, VT,
was carried away. The boom at Tur-
ner's Falls, Mass, also broke There
| were about 5000 900 feet of logs. The
dam of the Warner Manufacturing
Company at Greenfield broke. 1t was
built of solid rock and was so feet long
and II feet high.
Alvin G. Clark the famous telescope
lens manufacturer, is dead.
News is just received of a terrible
gale off the coast of China May 6, over
taking several hundred fishing boats
of Cha San Archipelago, 500 men los
ing their lives.
Claude D. Harrington, superintendent
of the National Academy of Design,
has been arrested in New York on a
charge of having embezZled $4,000 of
the academy's funds.
While trying to arrest three burglars
at Omaha, Neb., Police Officers Tiede-
mann and Glover were shot, the for
mer perhaps fatally. The burglars es-
capped.
Governor Tanner of Illinois has sign
ed the famous Allen street railway
bill 1t authorizes a 50-year extension
of the existing railway franchise, al
lows five-cent fares, permits conSolida-
, ton of companies and makes no provi-
j. sion for compensation to municipali-
ties.
William Andrews, colored, was tax
en- from the officers at the door of the
court house at Princess Anne, Md, and
killed by a mob. Andrews had been
tried, convicted and sentenced to death
J for feloniously assaulting Mrs. Benja.
I min T. Kelly on May 5.
Prof. Fesenius, the well-known chem
ist at Wiesbaden, Germany, is dead.
t A London cable says that j. w
4 Stocks has ridden 32A miles in an houl
on a bicycle at the Crystal palace.
James French was hanged Friday il
at fnI
the cold-blooded murder of his wifi
last July. Two hundred persons wit
e messed the execution.
, A dispatch from Simla announces Sc
riouS trouble on the northern frontier
of India and the massacre of a mum
: Der of British officers and native sol
diers in the government employ.
While canVaSmen were working OF
the tent of Ringing Bros circus a
J, Wahpeton, N. D., the centerpole wa
e struck by lightning. Charles Walter
= and Charles Smith were killed an,
: four others shocked.
The grand jury has returned indict
: ments against President A. c. Huger
8 Cashier ]. H. Field and Directors f
q T. Johnson and Olaf Searle, of tn
: failed Washington state bank, at Min
8 neapolis, MINI.
J, 1t is alleged at Athens that the Ger
n man government seeks to overthrow
!, the Greek dynasty ana TO establish
u rigorous control of Greek finances Il
: order to attain this double object Ger
8 many wants a continuance of the wa
a and to have the terms of peace finall
= dictated at Athens.
i Bradstreet's reports business bette
e than it was a year ago.
! By the falling of a cage in a collier
= in Wales 10 miners were killed
e Indianapolis reports that two pei
sons seeking shelter under a tree wer
killed by lightning.
A treaty of alliance is said to hay
u been completed between France an
|. Russia.
e The governments gold reserve is re
ported at about $144 ,0000 900.
The Paine Shoe Company, one of tn
)" largest in Holbrook, Mass, has assign
al ed.
The senate has agreed to the amend
ment to the tariff bill making the dut
II on sugar lbs cents, or nearly cents
lie pound.
h Difference of opinion regarding tn
wearing of a black gown has cause
trouble in the Reform Episcopal churc
and Bishop Cheney of Chicago has RI
n signed.
f. Gas companies of New York an
!, Brooklyn have consolidated, having
total capital stock of over $50, 900. 90
and bonded Indebtedness of over s11
70 600, 900.
=, A correspondent of the London STAND
=. ard writing from Madrid SAYS ths
L everything shows that Spain is agai
drifting nj