Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-06-30
|DO|NGS THROUGH THE week
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
An Interesting Collection OF Items nom
the Two Hemispheres Presented In
Condensed FOrm-Culled from the Tel
elRraph Reports.

Ex-United States Senator Benjamin
E. Harding of Oregon, is dead.
The German derby in Berlin was
won by Baron Springer's Galifard.
Rev. DR.. Wood, of London, former
president of the Wesleyan conference,
is dead.
Lawrence Townsend, the new United
States minister to Belgium, has been
received by King Leopold.
Nicol (2:08A) the fastest trotter
bred in New England and owned by j.
Malsolm Forbes, of Milton. is dead.
Howard Blackburn of Gloucester,
Mass, set sail in his little sloop-rigged
four-ton boat, the Great Western, to
cross the Atlantic.
In a collision off Frederickshaven be-
tween the German steamer Arthusof
and the British steamer Mauritius, the
Arthusof was sunk, ten of her crew be-
ing drowned.
Johnson's island, Lake Erie, which
was famous as a prison for rebel sol
diers during the civil war, has been
sold at auction for $4,000.
Blase Patri, of Cleveland, railroad
section hand, has proved himself hero
and was fatally injured in an attempt
to save woman from death.
An eastbound freight train from
Portland collided with an excursion
train returning from Astoria east of
Linton station. One man was killed
and five injured.
The trials of the Occur d'Alene strik-
ers are likely to extend over period
of months. The defendants will insist
on a separate trial each, and will make
every effort to prolong the hearings.
1t is announced semi-officially that
any increase in the tax on American
bicycles in Germany is impossible be-
cause commercial treaties with Austria,
Russia and Italy exclude such thing.
Eli J. Stubblefeld, connected with
the robbery of a Missouri Pacific train
near Sedalia in November last, was
| found guilty and his punishment to be
| 10 years Imprisonment in the state
! penitentiary.
Exports from the United States to
Canada continue to increase, despite
the legislation of two years ago intend
ed to give special advantages to i'm
| ports into Canada from the United
Kingdom over those from the United
States.
The building occupied by Allen Bros.
wholesale grocery of Omaha was de-
stroyed by fire. During the progress
of the fire magazine filled with DOW
der which the firemen were moving to
a place of safety exploded. Eleven fire
men, including the chief, were injured,
two seriously.
New York Tammany is going to ar
ray itself against the trusts. It's
Fourth of July celebration this year
will be mainly devoted to sounding the
antitrust war-cry for the campaign of
next year. The principal speakers
will devote their eloquence to marking
the lines of battle in the national fight.
The KOlniSche Zeting, of Berlin,
Germany, announces "the complete
failure" of the disarmament committee
OF the peace conference at The Hague.
A well developed case of smallpox in
barn a few rods from the bull pen,
where the strikers are imprisoned, has
complicated the situation at Wardner,
Idaho. The patient is a laborer named
Allen.
The wife of James Michaels, the bicycle
rider, has secured divorce from him,
Charles E. Littlefeld, republican, has
been elected to congress to succeed the late
Nelson Dingley.
Captain Lorenzo Danforth, serving his
sixth term as congressman from the Six
teenth Ohio district, is dead.
Enoch Ewvankis' young wife, Emma,
and his infant daughter, Emma, were
burned to death in Pittsburg, the result Of
an explosion of an oil can with which the
woman attempted to start fire at their
home. The husband was also badly burned.
Captain Archibald A. Cabaniss, Co. G,
Twenty fourth infantry, U. S. A., is the
new commander of the Spokane army post.
Professor F. S. Strong of New Haven,
Conn, has been elected president of the
University of Oregon to succeed c. H.
Chapman, resigned.
Inc steamer Danube, running between
Victoria, Vancouver and Alaskan ports, is
a wreck at Union, l35 miles north of Vic
Michael Comford, a Waterman of the
Mountain Consolidated mine in Butte, fell
from an eight-foot scaffolding and crushed
his breastbone. He died from the injury.
toria. Passengers and crew were saved,
Julius Grotzke, aged "a, John Robinson.
aged Is, and Minnie Schieffelbe1n, aged II.
were drowned in the Wisconsin river eight
mile below Portage by the boat capsizing.
Seven prostrations were caused by the
heat in Chicago Monday, and one of them,
Alexander Caldwell, a laboring man, will
die. The mercury touched 90 at 8 o'clock.
A movement is on foot to erect $4,000
monument to the memory of the late Rich
ard P. Bland. William j. Bryan has sub
scribed 5000, and, with other amounts. in
all about $4,000 has been raised.
Official notification has been received
that the new postoffice building in Butte
will be located on the corner of Main and
Copper streets. The appropriation for the
building will be 100000.
The 3-year-old daughter of j. P. Har-
ington of Butte fell into tub of boiling
water and was scalded to death.
Antoine Heneaken, a well known min
ng man, was killed in Seattle h1, foll;u