Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-09-22
DO|NGS THROUGH THE week
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week in This and Foreign
Understandable From the Lat
est Dispatches.

The Dreyfus verdict. caused FEELING
of almost stupefaction in Berlin.
Spokane people raised $1,5OO.Oo by
Sept. /, to bring home her volunteers.
A patent for barrel tons has been is
sued to Daniel B. lie Van of Caldwell
Idaho.
Twenty-three new cases and thret
deaths from yellow fever nave been re
ported at Key West, Fla.
The United States cruiser Olympia
with Admiral Dewey on board, has
sailed from Gibraltar for New York.
A strong gale took place Sunday al
Kits and Antigua, and it is feared the
storm is coming in the direction OF st
Thomas, d. w. l.
H. Y. Halves of Johnstown, Pa, has
sold the famous racer, Joe Patchen, tc
Senator Mccarthy, of Goshen, N. Y
Halves sold for more than $4,000.
The two-year-old child of Louie
Deiles, living near Pennington, Wash.
while playing at we'll with other chill
dren, accidentally fell in and was
drowned.
Fewer pensions were granted to sol
diers in the Spanish war than was ex
pected, the number being 295. There
are now 991, 519 names of pensioners on
the rolls.
The surplus reserve of the New York
clearing house banks to all intents and
purposes was practically wiped out by
the operations of the week ending Sep
TENDER 8.
The foundation has been laid for a
long contest over the four million dol
lar estate left by the late Wilson Wad
bingham, who died in New York about
three months ago.
Express train No. 10 on the Southern
Pacific was robbed near Cochise, Ariz
by four masked men, who blew the safe
open and took everything in sight. The
amount of their booty is said to be
small.
The First Colorado regiment of vol.
unteers have been mustered out, paid
and discharged. The rolls carried 989
men, all told, and the amount disbursed
was about 100000. The regiment has
left for home.
A movement is on foot against send
ing exhibits to the Paris exposition in
1900. Many intending exhibitors have
| withdrawn their notices of participa-
ton, on the ground that the present
state of things in France renders it I'M
safe to send exhibits.
1t is understood that General Sir
William Redvers Butler of London will
start for Cape Town Saturday. The
Indian authorities are chartering
steamers to transport troops to South
Africa as rapidly as possible.
Patrolman Jack Martin of Tacoma
was shot and wounded by two men
whom he was attempting to arrest. He
wounded and captured Tom Moore of
Butte, Mont, one Of his asailants, but
the other made his escape.
In single week one-half of the pecan
crop in Texas was killed by the pest
known as the web worm, and commonly
called the caterpillar. Reports are still
coming in to the effect that the worms
nave invaded the remaining counties.
~ 6ONClhOA VI 1uduO says u6 LAS
every reason to believe that the Idaho
regiment would be brought from San
Francisco to Boise in body The plan
is to bring them over the Shasta route
of the Southern Pacific to Portland, and
from there over the o. r. & N. and Ore
gon Short Line.
The navy department expects to be-
gin the manufacture of smokeless pow
der at its powder mill few miles back
from the Potomac river near Indian
Head, within the next two or three
months. Work ON the mills has been
pushed theoretically, and at present
about 1900 men are employed.
Two hundred feet of trestle on the
Columbia, Newberry & Laurens road,
over Broad river, near Columbia, S. c..
gave way under trainload of granite.
Several cars and an engine fell so feet
into the water. The following were
killed: Engineer Dick Weatherby,
Fireman Silas Rennick, Stewart Mar
tin, a negro, Unidentified man, with
head severed from body. William
Bates, an extra fireman, went down
with the wreck, but was dug out from
tons of granite without a scratch.
Deputy Marshal Joseph Pinkham re-
turned to Boise, Idaho, from Owyhee
county with John Jensen in custody.
The prisoner is one of two desperate
men who attacked Blackaby G Parks
store at Jordan Valley, on the evening
OF August %, his partner, Joseph Law.
son, being killed at the time.
An epidemic of typhoid fever has
broken out in the Moabite quarter, Berlin.
DIR. Pozzi, the physician attending Can.
tain Dreyfus, says that the condemned
man is hopelessly i'll.
The queen regent of Spain has signed
decree proclaiming martial law in the
province of Vizcaya.
John Blanchard, for nine years editor in
chief of the Minneapolis Times, is dead.
after an illness OF several months, aged 81,
The London solicitors of the French
have resigned as a protest
against the verdict of the Dreyfus court
martial.
Four Guatemala banks have agreed to
loan the government $2,5OO,OOO, and will
increase their paper currency a correspond.
ng amount.
Chief Justice Chambers of Samoa has
handed his resignation to the president. to
axe elect as soon as the powers can aorse !