Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1898-12-30
!DO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
the Two Hemisphere Presented In q
Condensed Form-Culled from the Tel
elgraph Reports.

the stage.
Admiral Schley, who is living with his
family in New York, is suffering from On
attack of la grippe.
The transport Mobile has left Savannah
for Havana with Indiana, Illinois and
Virginia troops.
Nine. Schumann Heink, the famous
contralto singer, has given birth to her
eighth child. son.
California is being visited by general
rainstorm, which is most welcome, on &C.
count of fears of drouth.
Miss Catherine Campbell, the actress,
who is charged with theft at st. Louis, is
believed to be of unsound mind.
Lord Strathcon has announced his in
tention of endowing the new Victoria col.
lege for women, at Montreal, with $780,
600.
The United States government, since
the cessation of hostilities, has spent
about 100000 in feeding the starving
Cubans.
The steamer Aurora, the finest wooden
vessel on the lakes, was scuttled on Lake
Efie to prevent total destruction by fire.
Five deaths have recently occurred in
Butte, caused, it is claimed, by the dread
ful sulphur and arsenic fumes from the
smelters.
A smooth gang of counterfeiters are at
work in the Mississippi valley. 1t is be-
lieved 100000 silver dollars have gained
circulation.
The Santa Fe railroad has purchased
water front property in San Francisco,
paying $3S7.750 for the same.
A special meeting of the Western Pas
senger Association will be held January
10 to consider the draft of new asso-
citation agreement.
The resignation of Andrew ]. Smith,
governor of the Soldiers Home at Santa
Monica, CAL, has been accepted, to take
effect March l. 1899.
Sherry Burke, an oldtimer at Butte,
Mont, fell down fight of stairs, receiv-
ing injuries from which he died.
Prof John Bell Hatcher, of Princeton,
has gone back to Patagonia to continue
his search for rare fossils and explore the
interior of the country.
Assurances have been given that Col
ombia will grant an extension of six
years to the Panama Canal Company for
the construction of the canal.
Rev. Horatio Stebbins, pastor of the
First Unitarian church, of San Francisco,
and one of the regents of the University
of California, is critically ill.
Stories of the effect of the recent big
storm on the New England coast continue
to come in, the pranks of the gale and big
sea being everywhere evident.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
has given orders for the construction of
Francisco and Yokohama and Hongkong.
Frederick Won Hartmann, son of Baron
Won Hartmann, of Cologne, Germany, was
sentenced to five years in the state pen
itentiary of Indiana for burglary.
John A. Stevens, superintendent of the
D. M. Ferry Seed Company, at Detroit.
Mich, committed suicide at his residence
last week. Insanity is assigned as the
cause.
Thirty railroads were represented at a
meeting held at the Grand Pacific hotel
Chicago, to consider plan proposed by
Charles B. Mangham for a joint exhibit at
the Paris exposition in 1900.
While attempting to arrest Thomas
Crosby, l3-year-old son of a wealthy
Chicago widow, Deputy Sheriff Frank
Nye was shot and instantly killed by
the youthful prisoner.
w. G. Spaulding, cashier of the Ger.
man American bank at Port Clinton, o..
and Mrs. Martha Jameson, of Toledo
have been arrested for killing Miss Amy
Meeker by performing criminal opera.
ton.
DR.. Howard Agnew johnson, formerly
of Iowa and now pastor of the Forty-first
Street Presbyterian church of Chicago
has been formally called to the passionate
of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
church of New York city.
The evacuation of Mariana province in
Cuba was gloriously celebrated last week
Rev. DR.. Theodore N. Morrison, of Chi
cago, has accepted the office of bishop Of
the Iowa diocese.
Captain Borchgrevink's expedition has
started from Haleait, Tasmania, for the
Antarctic regions.
Ambassador Jules Cambon will sail
from Havre for New York January 7 to
resume his duties at Washington.
Charles w. Davis, commander of the
Loyal Legion, and one of the best known
veterans in Chicago. is dead.
An explosion on the steamer Fanita at
Havana killed one man and fatally scald.
ed three others.
All of the prominent six-day bicycle
racers, including Miller and Waller, will
soon appear in a race at San Francisco
Ray Burnett, Joseph Faragher and W.
E. Selling were killed recently in the Co.
lumbus mine, located in La Plata, Col.
Owing to recently discovered weakness.
es, the United States training ship Adams
will not go to Samoa or any other for
eign port.
The Midland Railway Company, Of
London, has ordered twenty-eight freight
engines built in Philadelphia and New
York.
John d. McCullis of Carthage, Mo-,
shot and mortally wounded w. G. Gillen
yesterday. Gillen was charged with ruin
ing his home.
A dispatch from the Lloyds' agent at
Skibberreen, Ireland, denies the rumor
la