Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-05-05
'DOINGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented in
Condensed Form-Oulled from the Tel
eigraph Reports.

Rt. Hon. Sir John Robert Mowbra.
Of London is dead.
The condition of Vice President He
bart continues to improve.
War is on between the ship owners
association and the seamen's union IL
San Francisco.
The navy department has authorized
the first payment to be made on thu
battleship Maine. 4.
President Rafael Iglesia, of Costa
RIGA, has arrived at New York on his
return from Europe.
A new first class theater to cost
with the land, $500, 1000, is to be erected
in San Francisco.
w. B. Storts, wanted in Saline coun
ty, Missouri, for embezzlement, has
been arrested in Los Angeles, Cal.
| Coast survey steamer Patterson is
being fitted out for survey work at the
mouth of the Yukon and in Boring
sea.
d. G. Corbin has withdrawn his ap-
plication pending before the Canadian
dominion parliament for the Kettle
Valley railway charter.
The steamship Glenogle of the North
American Mail Steamship Company's
Tacoma-Oriental line crashed into the
big steamer City Of Kingston about
o'clock Sunday at Tacoma off Browns
Point, cutting the City of Kingston in
two just abaft of the boilers. The IL
passengers and the Kingston's crew of
20 were saved through the prompt &C.
ton of officers of the Glenogle and
Kingston and ships lying in the harbor
which lowered boats and assisted the
people on the Kingston to reach the
Glenogle. The Kingston is total loss
and the Glenogle is damaged.
Internal revenue officers have seized
in Denver 100000 cigars bearing coun-
terfeit revenue stamps.
The large tannery and yards of the
United States Leather Company at Lin
coin, Maine, have been destroyed by
fire. The loss was $4,000.
The Army and Navy League of Chi
cago will close its affairs and disband
on May 1. This action was decided on
at a meeting of the executive commit
tee yesterday.
Katie Dibble Baker, aged Ia; Mamie
Braddick, aged Is, and Della Taylor,
aged z, inmates of an orphan home at
Berne, Adams county, Ind, were burn
ed to death.
Four spurious S. gold pieces were
passed on San Francisco barkeeper
last week. John Keogh, recent arrival
from Puget Sound, an associate of the
man who passed the money, is under
arrest.
Simon Hotonia, a Cherokee Indian,
confessed to the murder of a man and
two women at Cold Springs, 1. T., last
week. Sickness among the Indians
was ascribed to these supposed witches.
So he killed them.
Mrs. Catherine A. Gilbert, police ma
tron at Four Courts, st. Louis, is dead
from an overdose of morphine, taken
to relieve pain from a recently vaccin-
ated arm.
Sergeant Major Albrecht of the One |
Hundred and Twenty-ninth regiment,
who was arrested at Bromberg, Prus-
STA, and was being taken in chains to
Spandau, nine miles from Berlin,
where the state prison is situated, has
from his guards and has not
yet been recaptured.
kid" Lavelle, of Chester, Penn, is
to be dying at his home from
he effects of knockout blow deliver
I'D by John Cavanaugh during a prize
light last week.
The Third Georgia regiment has
'een mustered out at Camp Mckenzie.
The First North Carolina regiment
vas mustered out of the service last
week.
Mrs. r. H. Martins, of Colfax chose
. horrible but certain method of ending
Ter existence. Seating herself in a
hair beside the kitchen stove she plac-
d the muzzle of single barrel, breech
oading shotgun against the bridge of
Ter nose and pushing back the ham,
ner with her foot blew her brains into
he ceiling.
Rear Admiral Melville will shortly
ubmit to the board of construction a
roposition for fitting the proposed ar.
1ored cruisers with triple screws. and
is believed that the suggestion will
e adopted promptly.
Unusual interest Is attached to the
eturn of competition of Arthur A. {
zimmerman, in the bicycle races. who. I
lore than any other rider, possessed t
ne right to sign himself worlds cham. a
ion.
The North Atlantic squadron, the c
agship New York, the Brooklyn. the b
Indiana, the Massachusetts, and the v
exas have sailed from st. Lucia for v
t. Pierre. Martinique. The squadron n
now working slowly northward. h
Unusually elaborate preparation was e
lade for the reception and entertain t
ent Of the duke and duchess of York h
the different Welsh towns where the Il
'yal pair visited this week. G.
-Four young people were run down
st week by the Chicago G Northwest.
n fast mail at Crawford's crossing in
isconsin. Three were instantly kill re
!, as follows: Bonnie Tulibs, Kittie r
arshall, Nellie Welch. Injured, Frank n.
cDonald.
The Missouri river has reached three a,
ches above the danger line in Kan. A.
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