Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-09-01

/ eReso&Gns
The executive council of western
Australia has passed bin enfranchis
ing women.
Mrs. Ada Shaver, of Spokane, aget
[50 years, threw herself into HangmaI
: creek and was drowned.
Major Russell Harrison, inspector
> general, Is critically ill with yellow
fever at Santiago de Cuba.
> Five lives were lost Sunday by thu
capsizing off Pointe Au Barque, Mich.
of the schooner Hunter Savidge.
Paris was the scene of the most ser
. ious disturbance Sunday, recalling
/, some Of the aspects of the commune.
The transport Garonne has sailed fol
Manila from Seattle. She had 40(
, horses belonging to the Third cavalry
on board.
:, Preparations continue actively in the
matter of arranging for the speedy
transportation of the troops to the
Philippines.
Puerto Rican sufferers were placed or
board the transport Panther at Phila
delphia last Sunday.
4 Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Sham
rock, challenger for Americas cup, has
reached New York port, accompanied
by her tender, the steam yacht Erin
i An explosion of oil in the f1ve-story
brick building at 1929 Dearborn street
Chicago, gave the fire department the
hardest fight it has had in three
months.
Frank W. Funk, accused of the muir.
der of William Brooks at Washington,
d. c., was captured at Columbia, Mo.
A strict blockade has been establish
ed in the Rue de Chabron and the au-
thorities have begun regular siege of
the building in which M. Guerin and
his anti-Semite colleagues have en-
trenched themselves.
General Mercier, who was minister
OF war when Captain Dreyfus was con-
demned, and who in the present trial
Is the virtual prosecutor, says the cap
tain will be convicted.
A head-on collision between two troll.
ley cars occurred on the Norristown,
Chestnut Hill 6 Rockborough railway
In Plymouth township. Thirty persons
were injured, three fatally.
James P. Young, of Chicago, a pri-
vate in Company D. Third infantry
volunteers, was killed by a freight
train at Evanston while on his way to
Fort Sheridan to report after a days
absence.
Jack Mccormack of Philadelphia
knocked out kid" Mccoy in the first
round at Chicago. The bout was to
have been for six rounds, and it was
generally thought Mccormack stood no
show at ALL
An incendiary fire destroyed an en-
tire block in the heart of Sydney, Mo-.
inf1icting loss of not less than $4O,-
600, with no insurance. 1t was with
great difficulty that the rest of the
town was saved.
Two of the boilers at the Pittsburg
Vitrif1ed Brick Works at Pittsburg.
Kas., exploded and the engineer, fire.
man and a yardman were instantly
killed and four other employees were in
jured. The engine and boiler houses
were demolished.
Intelligence has been received from
the French Soudan, indicating that
Lieutenant Klopp and Lieutenant
Mounier, who were sent to take COM
mand of column Of troops there, have
both been assassinated.
One of Henry j. Baumgartner's hom.
ing birds of Milwaukee, Wis, won the
15O mile race under the auspices of
Milwaukee district, National Fedora.
ton of American Homing Pigeon Fan
ciers, from Winona, ILL.,, to that city.
The bird not only defeated a field of
Ill contestants but broke the United
States record for that distance. The
winners flight was made at the rate of
l,651.19 yards a minute.
General Merritt says: $50 far as I
know there will be no immediate
change in military commanders in the
philippines. General Otis, whom re-
gard as one of the most capable and eff.
1
Gent officers in the service, will con.
tinue in charge of the American forces
Passengers Of the steamer City of To-
peka, which have arrived from Skag.
way, Alaska, bring news of the first
egal execution in the Klondike. A
triple hanging occurred at Dawson
August 4. The parties hanged were
'wo Indians. Dawson Nantuck and Jim
Nantuck and one white man. Edward
Henderson. Henderson was convicted
II numbering his partner named Peter.
ION.
Admiral Dewey is in excellent health.
lie will stay at Nice for some time.
Martial law has been proclaimed at Hill
ersum, l5 miles from Amsterdam.
Isaac H. Congdon, for many years SUI. i
erintendent of motive power and ma
hinery of the Union Pacific railroad, is
cad.
Thirty-fve shipwrecked seamen who had :
othing in the world but a few tattered =
nd torn clothes on their backs, some in =
Ired and all miserable, arrived from Hat u
eras.
Major Percy Willis, late of the Second v
RECON volunteers, has been appointed cap r
ain in the Forthwith regiment of vol | Y