Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-02-24


Company have received a cablegram that
q fourth steamer has been secured at
Hong Kong, naIned the Han Tung, and
viii leave that port with full cargo Tor
San Diego, February 23rd.
Deputy Constable Welsh arrived at
Sacramento CAL, at midnight with
Chinese woman whom he was taking TO
Portland, Ore. The woman was taken
from him here on dispatch from San
Jose and will be returned there on
charge of larceny.
Alexander Phillips, sailor on the
barkentine Geneva, has been missing Tor
o week, and the ship sailed without him.
A fire ut Pueblo, Colo, destroyed the
Deremer theatre building, causing losses
aggregating $4,000. Frozen water plugs
interfered with the work of the FIRE de-
partment. 1t was 26 degrees below zero
when the fire was burning.
One of the attaches of the Chinese le-
cation In Paris, believing that he was be-
ing persecuted by the secretary Of the le-
cation, Lien Young, killed the latter by
shooting him with a revolver, and then
committed suicide.
Fire at vanwort, Ohio, destroyed
number of business blocks, causing to-
tai loss of $l75,OO0.
A mob took Cupid Redding and two
unknown negroes from jail near Atlanta,
Ca, and lynched them. The prisoners
were delivered after a short parley with
the sheriff and the mob entered the jail.
The Short Line Is having an unusual
experience between Payette and Wieser,
Idaho, The Snake river became jammed
with Ice and flooded the track, causing
bad washout, the track being weakened
for long distance.
The thirteenth annual convention Of
the Independent Order of Birth Abraham,
which has 10000 members throughout
the United States, took place Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday in Industrial Hall,
in Philadelphia.
The board Of experts on insular affairs
have established themselves in their quar-
ters In the Lemon building, Washington,
D. c., and are going over mass of pa
pers referred to them by the war depart
ment. f~i
Sixteen skaters living in the suburbs of
Rogers Park and Lake Forest, Chicago,
were carried out into Lake Michigan on
Ice foes Ten of them were rescued.
Mark Wentworth Durham, owner Of
the famous Oaklawn farm, the most ex-
tensive breeder of pure bred horses in the
world, is dead.
Bob Fitzsimmons and Jim Jeffries have
signed articles for a fight some time be-
tween April 4th and May goth.
kid" Mccoy has accepted an engage
ment to meet Joe Choynski. He says he
will fight any time after March goth.
On the steamer from Yokohama came
General" E. Riego De Dios and Senior
NJ. Rivera, who are "Aguinaldo's special
commissioners to Washington" They
were much disturbed when told of the
latest developments in the Philippines.
The peach and apricot crops of Vernon
and Cedar counties, Mo-, are reported
killed.
DR.. Pierce, United States charge at St
Petersburg, cabled the state department
that the conference proposed by the czal
looking to the disarmament of nations
will be held at The Hague.
Fire totally destroyed the building OF
Front street, Toronto, Ont, occupied by
Owens, Quent & Co., crockery and glass
ware DEALERS The loss is 100000.
The engagement is announced of Lis
penard Stewart of New York and Mis-
Romela Dahlgren, granddaughter of thu
lo&a A d,,a;,-a1 IL hln,,av,
The trial revision bill was adopted b,
q vote of 332 to 232 in the chamber o
deputies at Paris.
-Four mines placed In the harbor for It
protection from hostile attack during tn
war with Spain were torn from thei
moorings by the storm and drifted abou
the harbor until the waves cast them up
on the beach at the Marine park in Soutl
Boston. Each mine was charged with 20
pounds of guncotton, and if explode.
would have blown up any vessel unfort
innate enough to be in the vicinity. Luck
lily there was no such collision with tn
drifting terrors.
The stage running into Santa Barbar
was held up by lone highwaymsn VIII
was concealed behind fallen tree. II
was armed with shot gun, and after N
heveing ]. W. Armstrong and Williar
Paddock, commercial travellers, of 81
made his escape.
James Lenihan, the first Indian CON
missioner of the province of British Co
umbia, when the departments were II
organized under the council of 1874.
dead In San Francisco.
Thomas Hogan, miner who came I
San Francisco from Leadville. COL. wa
found dead In his room. He went to be
In an intoxicated condition and probabl
blew out the gas as the room was file
with gas witch killed him.
Aunt Dizzy Dibbs, aged so years, wa
found frozen to death in her home a
Shawnee, Kansas. where she had live
alone for years.
The most terrible and disastrous snow
Aide ever known in Clear Greek count
occurred at Silver Plume, Colorado Tn
aide started two miles away, and cam
with terrific force, carrying along hug
bouidsrs and Immense trees. A short di