Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-12-08
|DNN6S THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
Z Complete Review Of the Events for
the Past Week i'm This and Foreign
Lands-summariHed From the Lat
est Dispatches.

est Dispatches.
| A rapid rise in Trinity river, Tex,
causing serious damage.
i Nearly half of the business portion o
Weston, O., was burned recently.
Kansas City offers nearly 100000 for tn
next democratic national convention.
Gen. Otis will come home soon, as h
needs rest, and the war is nearly ended
Cubans are vexed at the idea of an Am
erican civil governor, and protests ar
coming fast.
Existing differences between the Detroi
street railway employees and employees viii
be settled by arbitration.
Baron Paul Vietinghoff, Representative,
of the Russian government, is in Chicago
buying horses for the cars army.
The first train through from Talien War
on the new Chwang & Munkden railway
has left with engineers for Port Arthur.
William F. Miller and his secretary and
chief boomer, Cecil Leslie, of the Franklin
syndicate, the l0per-cent-a-week concern
of Brooklyn, have not yet been arrested.
Farmburg, Ind, was the scene of ter.
riffs explosion. Some unknown person OF
persons placed dynamite beneath the un.
dertaking establishment of w. j. Wood
of that place, and the explosion wrecked
the building and broke window glass
throughout the town.
Sir Francis Wingate, in a battle with
the khalifa's force, near Gedid, captured
5000 men, women and children. Osman
Digna. the principal general of the khalifa,
is still at large.
Ii Hung Chang's appointment as minis
ter of commerce is regarded as distinctly
step in the right direction, and as likely
to improve greatly foreign commercial re-
lations with China.
A passenger train on the o. r. & N. was
wrecked one mile from Rooster Rock. al
miles east of Portland by a landslide. En-.
gineer Robert Hunter was instantly killed
Fireman Milor was thrown under the
wreck and killed.
Gen. Miles says the coast needs more
soldiers.
The war tax swells and is now averag.
ing VI per year per capita.
Gen. Leonard Wood, governor of San
tiago de Cuba, has arrived home.
The Harpers' magazines have passed in.
to control of New York trust company.
The finances of the publishing company
became so entangled that transfer was
made
Dewey is not in the presidential race.
but says he should like to see Mckinley
elected.
James Wood, paroled convict Of
Washington, has gone, and now has
'enitentiary term threatening.
Col. Bell has defeated and scattered the
nsurgent brigades of Gems Alejandrino
nd San Miguel north of Manila.
1t will be gratifying to the friends of
drs. Mckinley to know that her health
8 so much improved that she will be en-
bled to take an active part in the social
estivities of the Washington season this
inter.
A fire destroyed four-story brick ten
ment building at 40 Houston street.
lew York. William Helmboldt, so wears
Id, civil war veteran, and his wife,
iatilda, aged 65, were burned to death.
A train of six cars on the Great Falls &
anada railroad, in Montana, one mile
est of Shelby junction, was blown from
ne track. Peter McCaskey, laborer,
as killed, and three others injured, in
uding Sam Griffith, foreman of the work
'ew.
Bayombong has surrendered and
18th 1t 800 insurgents, several Ameri-
ms and 70 Spaniards freed.
Khalifa was game to the last. He sat
his sheepskin, emirs around him,
i'd awaited death.
L. A. Root of Port Huron, until re-
ntly the chief clerk of the Knights of
accabees, committed suicide by swal-
wing carbolic acid.
The entire business portion of Oman
Ike, Va, was destroyed by fire recent
The loss is estimated at 100000 ]
It'll $4,000 insurance.
The policy as to pensions is the feat I
e of interior department report. A !
commentator that payment date {
ON time of filing application. ii
In peace prepare for sudden war is
nat Secretary Elihu Root gives to {
G. country, his deductions from les !
MS of campaigns past and present.
The steamer Weeott lies a total h
eek on the south jetty of Humboldt
y, having struck the rocks there, and 9
the "a souls on board all are safe :
two. =
Hanna is out. He cannot head the o
lnagement of the next republican a
as his health forbids it. He 4
II probably act on the executive com-
ttee and lend weight of counsel. h
One of the main buildings of the Laf- n
Rand Powder Works, located four :,
les north of Columbus, Kan, was 9,
wn up. William Cushman, a work a
n, who was the only person in the N
lding, was killed. =.
Roberts path will be thorny and he n
st fight for admission to the house. ~
publican majority has decided that a,
eligibility of the representative
ct from Utah must be determined ha-