Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-07-21
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
4 Complete Review of the Events Tor
the Past Week I'm This and Foreign
Lands-summartzed From the Latest
Dtspatches.

The town of Montello, In Marquette
county, Wis, has been nearly destroyed
by fire.
The Volta electrical exhibition at Co
mo, Italy, was entirely destroyed py
fire. due to defective insulation.
The sixth national convention OF
deaf mutes will meet this week in st.
Paul, Mimi, for four days session.
Sam T. Hall, Jim Jeffries' advance
agent, announces that Jeffries will sail
from New York for Europe on July ~.
The navy is taking steps to establish
q reserve supply Of ammunition and TO
purchase reserve guns for auxiliary
cruisers.
The large steam bakery OF Henry
Wauklin, located at Roxborough, Penn,
was destroyed by fire recently, entail
ing loss of $4,000.
Miss Ydis Storke, of Santa Barbara,
CAL, must answer charge OF attempt
ing to murder Attorney Grant jackson
in a sensational manner.
The British survey steamer Egeria,
which mas been engaged in surveying
the cable route to Australia, has reach
ed San Francisco from Eskuimalt.
London, Ont, has been placed under
martial law and additional militiamen
ordered in fran the adjacent towns as
the result of recent street car strikes.
Mrs. Marguerite Dickinson, wife OF
Captain Dickinson of the navy, lost her
life by an explosion of gasoline at her
home recently at Washington, D. G.
Three cases of prostration from heat
are reported in Missoula, Mont. Yer
die Spurgin, rancher living near
town, had a genuine case of sunstroke.
At the Greenwood Athletic Club re-
Gently, in New York, Tommy Sullivan,
of Brooklyn, and Johnnie Richie, OF
Chicago, fought twenty fast rounds to
draw.
William Edwards was taken to Ross
land, B. c., and placed in the hospital.
He had passed through a remarkable
experience, having been lost in the
mountains for 18 days.
All but one of the seven members of
the family of William Reinhard of Col
umbus, Ohio, were killed and the re-
naming member was badly injured by
a Big Four passenger train Saturday.
G. r. Martin, formerly restaurant
keeper of Chico, Cal, lies at Spokane,
perhaps fatally wounded. He is the
victim of one of the most cold-blooded
and dastardly hold-ups that has been
perpetrated in Washington.
rauy M nj n a ro o1,, doci nhioAu
for the protection of mine fields, and a
novel, semi-automatic six-pounder for
the navy were successfully tested on
the proving grounds of the Driggs-Sea-
bury Company at Derby, Conn.
Lewis McElroy, exporter in the Ho-
tel Richelieu, San Francisco. who was
arrested in Chicago for stealing $4,000
worth of diamonds from the trunk of
Mrs. William G. Weld, guest at the
hotel in May last, has been freed.
DIR. Kinyoun, of the marine hospital
service, says that the report that the
two drowned sailors from the Nippon
Maru were afflicted with the bubonic
plague is untrue, and the scare was
manufactured by the San Francisco
board Of health.
kid" Mccoy has been signed by the
Westchester Athletic Club to meet any
two men during the month of Septem-
Der. His first fight will be with Joe
Choynski. who wired his acceptance of
the $500 purse offered by the West
chester IN. W club.
Relief work in the Brazos flooded dis.
trict, Texas, has been systematic, three
relief trains leaving Houston, Calves
ton and San Antonio daily. Probably
10000 negroes are now being fed and
will need to be sustained for some time
by the relief committees.
The Fairbanks-Fo Foster Alaska bound
airy party have returned from the north
and interviews with members of the
party indicate that the watershed on
White pass, back of Skagway and Dyea
will be accepted as the international
boundary line at that point.
Mike Sheridan, section boss on the
Central Pacific railroad near Elko.
Nebr., was riding along the track on a
railroad velocipede when he was struck
and instantly killed by special train
conveying teachers to the national edu.
cational convention at Los Angeles.
George Hinchcliffe, a Chicago brick
manufacturer, has brought suit for
100000 damages against the Chicago
Masons and Builders Association and
a number of the large brick manufac.
turers. His business was ruined. he
says, becaues he refused to Join the
trust.
1t is stated that arrangements have
about been completed to bring the
Washington volunteers to Seattle to be
mustered out. Upon their arrival at
San Francisco they will be put aboard
a special train. The train will have a
pay car attached and the troops will be
paid off en- route.
Friendly Filipinos in Manila have
been the medium of communication be- !
tween the American authorities and
military leaders of an instruction in
Cavite province, which for some time
promised to result in bringing over a
general and several hundred
OF his followers with their arms.
M. Daniel, an administrator of the
penal settlement on the Isle du Diable.
Ty n n In Nkra H.