Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-04-07

A petition to Queen Victoria signed
by $1,000 British subjects in the Trans
vaal has been handed to the British
agent at Pretoria praying her majesty
to secure reform of the abuses from
which the Uitlanders are suffering and
claiming their position is intolerable
With a superiority in cleverness
quickness and ring generalship which
was apparent from the first round, Kid
Mccoy was very properly awarded the
decision over Jo3 Choynski at the end
Of 20-round contest before the Ma
tional Athletic Club in Mechanics pa
vilion in San Francisco last week.
Paris is suffering from the scourge
of influenza. The deaths during the
last seven days have been 238 above
the average.
General Greeley has received cable
dispatches from Cuba announcing that
the military telegraph lines have chen
completed between Sancti Spiritus and
Ciege D'Avila in the centre of the is
land and between Holguin and Vic.
toria de Las Tunas, department of San.
tiago.
Jules Cambon, French ambassador
to the United States, will soon be ap.
pointed ambassador to Italy. to sue.
coed M. Niscard. who is about to re.
sign.
Chris Bosser, a carpenter, shot and
killed his mother-in-law, Mrs. Brehm,
and then fatally wounded his wife last
al
Montezuma University, at Besse.
mer, Alabama, was destroyed by fire
last week.
The organization of the American
School Furniture Company, capital
stock $1,500,000, has been completed.
The little town of Liberty, in De
Kalb county, Tenn, is almost wiped
of the map. A furious tornado swept
over it.
Tom Broderick, of Yonkers, knock.
ed out Mike Farrager, of Youngstown,
Ohio, last week.
The newspapers of st. Petersburg
publish pitiable accounts of the condi-
ton Of the so-called famine districts
of Russia, especially Samaria in the
eastern part of European Russia.
Michael Munkascy, the famous Hun
garian painter who has been secluded
in a hospital for the insane at Bonn
for more than two years, is dying.
Colonel M. ]. Payne, ex-mayor of
Kansas City, has fled petition in vol
untary bankruptcy in the federal court
there.
John Butter, said to have been the
Oldest bachelor In the United States, is
dead at Huntington, L. l., in his 1O1st
year.
Archbishop Hennessey is seriously
Ill at the archepiscopate residence at
Dubuque, Iowa.
Joe Goddard, the famous Australian
pugilist, better known in fistic circles
as the Barrier champion" has decid-
ed to retire from the ring.
When the will of Rev. Edmund Dru.
ry Copper, rector of the church of the
Redeemer at Astona, L. l., was filed
for probate, it was found that it be-
queathed the bulk of the estate of $685.
900 to his wife who died several years
ago. The will would have been mop
eratiye but that it bequeathed his Ii.
brary to the University of the South
at Suwanee, Tenn.
Marquis Salvage Raggi, who sue
ceeds Signor MARITIME as Italian minis
ter to China, is expected to reach Pekin
about the end of next month. He will
open negotiations with the Tsung Lii
Yamen concerning Italy's request for
concession at San Nun bay.
John Gilbert, who slew his wife and
four children with a Ratchet on Feb
ruary 2Sth last on his farm near Indus
try, Kan, pleaded guilty when put up
on trial at Clay Centre, Kan, and was
sentenced to death.
1t is reported that Mohammedan
rebellion has broken out in the prov
ince of Kan-Su, the most northwestern
province of China.
The Danish government will ask
parliament to vote credit to send the
cruiser Fyon to China in connection
with Denmark's movements there.
John Webb and Will Toney, two ne
gro boys IS years old, were killed and
two of the comrades seriously wounded
last week at Edgefield, s. c., by four
white employees of the Edgefeld cotton
factory.
The German battleship Oldenburg
broke her anchor and went aground
near Kiel during heavy snowstorm.
The popular actress Lola Banzolla,
exclaiming "'Tis love that kills." shot
herself with revolver on the stage in
full sight of the audience during per.
Torrance at Gill, Syria, and was re-
moved in dying condition.
Mr.. Davitt, nationalist member Of
parliament for South Mayo, was ston-
ed and several of his supporters were
badly injured at political meeting in
ChaHeyville, county Cork, last week.
Flint glass bottle manufacturers of
the United States, acting in concert,
have withdrawn all price quotations
preparatory to putting into effect the
new ard advanced price list which is
to be decided upon by the trust.
Arrangements are being made for
reunion to be held at Guthrie, o. T., In
June next, Of the Rough Riders who