Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-11-18
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canada, spoke eloquently III praise OF TIE
United States.
General Blanco will leave Cuba Novem-
Der 20, and Pando will be in command of
the Spanish forces.
| Inhabitants of Bellefontaine, o., are
alarmed over the rapid spread of small |
pox, and hundreds of people are being |
vaccinated daily.
A party of seven gold hunters from
California is reported to have been en-
quilted in quicksand recently near Lake
Bennett, Alaska.
A new republic was born on November
!, called the United States of Central
America, composed of Nicaragua, SALIVA
dor and Honduras.
Extraordinary activity prevails in
British naval and military circles in Hong
Kong. England is ready to fight all Eu-
rope, if necessary.
The abode of the Virgin Mary was CIV
en- by the sultan of Turkey to the en-
peror of Germany and by the latter to
the German Catholics.
Moonshiners in Gcburne county, Ark.
are making war on,informers and the law
abiding element and troops may be nee
essary to quell the trouble.
United States Consul Hanna at San
Juan, Puerto Rico, warns Americans TO
remain away from the island at present
There is no work for mechanics. clerks
or la orers
Rear Admiral Miller, who hoisted the
stars and stripes over Hawaii, advocates
the Nicaragua canal and the construc-
ton of large number of first class battle
ships of high speed.
party of boys playing Halloween
pranks in Toledo, O., frightened an aged
woman, Mrs. Sanger, so badly that she
died before the arrived of physician.
The first test of Krupp armor plate
was made at Bethlehem. Pa. Three shots
were fired from an Sinch gun, the pro-
jectie weighing 253 pounds, and the We
locity ranging from 1900 to 1000 feet per
second. The plate was not cracked.
The Grand Army of the Republic is
formulating plans for it's national en-
campment, which will be held in Philadel-
phia next summer At that meeting it
will be decided whether soldiers of the
Spanish-American war shall be admitted
to the association.
A dispatch from Topeka, Kas., says
that complaints are being received there
by the state board of railway commits
sioners regarding the scarcity of grain
cars at many Kansas points. The COM
plants say that it is impossible to get
cars to handle the grain.
A peculiar disease has broken out
- among the horses in the north part of Car
roll county, Ind, and several have died.
The animals Threats become infiamed so
that they cannot swallow, and conse-
quentIy they starve to death. There
seems to be no remedy for the disease.
The transport Peru has arrived at "a
Francisco from Manila. There were 1900
United States soldiers sick at Manila
when the Peru sailed and smallpox was
spreading rapidly among the troops. The
, filth poured into the canals by the Chi
I nese is prolific source of disease.
{ John Hubbard and William Lamont
: who are now serving time in the state
1 house of correction at iona, Mich, contid
Z. ed to three fellow prisoners that a veal
/. ago last September they murdered anc
e robbed Ludwig Herman, a veteran soldier
r They will be held and tried for the crime
l which has hitherto been a mystery.
r The remarkably small accumulation
o of wheat at the principal shipping points
8 lead experts to believe that farmers ar
!. about to unload their wheat on the mar
ket almost unanimously, demorlizins
e prices and creating a panic. The sharp
)! and gamblers are getting ready to ever
Q up with the farmers for holding back TO
better prices.
John Hays, who discovered the ricl
!. copper deposits along the south shore o
> Lake Superior, celebrated his Oath birth
D day in Cleveland. o.. the other day. II
the early forties he landed at Copper Har
Dor, and with two Indians as guides wen
on foot to Milwaukee, prospecting as h
- went. 1t was in lS47 that he opened tn
- first mines.
n The life insurance companies doing bus
I, 17 mess in Canada have agreed hereafter no
:, to accept risks on the lives OF Marie
a.. "a. women unless they happen to be tn
c., bread winners of the family; or, in othe
a' words, wholly Independent of their hu'
= bands The decision was arrived at wit
=! view of checking the crime of wife mul
It. der for insurance.
It. Nikola Tesla has invented an apparatu
ee by means of which electrical power a
IN high pressure can be conveyed thousand
or of miles through air and utilized con
- mercially. The system is to convey tn
ne current TO a great elevation, where tn
10 rarefied atmosphere is capable of conduc
,s. ing freely the particular current produce'
y, Then to maintain a second terminal. ais
o.. at a great elevation, where the currer
lot can be collected and conveyed to tt
earth.