Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-03-10
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE
A Complete Review of the Events ,Oa
the Past. Week In This and FOrelsn
Lands-summariEed From the LATEST
Dispatches.

ern and President A. l.. Mohler OIL 'ne
q r. & N. held conference in Seattle
recently. 1t is thought that the confer
ence was based upon the question Oh cor ,
structing a railroad into the hepuoii'
mining district. o,.
William Wayne Belvin is under arreS'
in the Waldorf Astoria, charged WIN
threatening the life OF the Denver mli
lionaire, David II. Motfat, and also WIZ tl
irving to defraud the hotel out OF S4z'
The United States gunboat Wheeling
has arrived in Vancouver, b. C., iron
Alaska.
Miss Ada Rehan, the leading lady Of
Augustin Days company, has been Ell
gagged, with Mr. Days permission and
approval, to create the part OF the hero
inc in the next Drury Lane drama.
The commissioners of Golden Gate park
San Francisco, have accepted an offer by
Claus Spreckels to erect marble OF
granite music stand, to cost not less than
100000.
At st. Louis in the trial of Campbell
Aligair on the charge OF murder, photo
graphs purporting to portray every stage
of the assault were brought forth by the
state and allowed as evidence. The entire
tragedy as the prosecution presents II
was acted out before a camera.
Orders have been issued for filling Ill
of the fifty-mile gap between Surf and
Elwood, on the coast division of the
Southern Pacific railroad. This will COM
plete new trunk line from San Francis
co to Los Angeles within year.
Frances Saville, the opera singer who
states that she is a citizen of California,
has brought suit against the Madison
Avenue hotel in New York to recover
$4,000, the value of casket OF jewels
which she alleges was stolen from her
apartments in the hotel December ., 1898.
Total receipts from customs and taxes
in Americas island possessions are: In
Cuba, from July Is, 1898, to January 81,
1899 (six ports not reporting for Janu-
ary), $l,3l2,372; in the Philippine isl
ands, from August 10, 1898, to December
81, $l,Sl9,Sl3; in Porto Rico, from Aug
nst Is. 1898, to December Is, 1898, 49,
f43,6O2.
Lieut.. Commander c. P. Rees, U. S. n,
who was the signal officer with Admiral
Dewey's fleet, and who stood upon the
bridge with the admiral during the bat
tie of Manila, has arrived in Topeka,
Kan, to visit relatives. The naval off
Ger was received by the governor and
both branches of the legislature, and
spoke briefly before both the house and
senate.
An appeal has been received by the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on
behalf of the flood sufferers of the Shan
tnng province of China. Those signing
the appeal are American anu English peo-
pie. The state that the Chinese of the
district have raised something like $70-
900, but this will go but short way, as
there are over 100000 people starving.
The transport Roanoke has sailed for
Manila with full cargo Of supplies for
the troops. She took away II recruits
Tor the Fourteenth infantry, II men of
the Twentieth infantry and two men and
81 recruits for the Twenty third infantry
The consummation of the $4,000 900
combine, the New York Gas, Light, Heat
4 Power Co., has been made possible
by the decision of the directors of the
Standard Underground Cable company TO
surrender to the combine $l46OO0 worth
OF bonds of the United Electric Light B.
Power company of New York held by it
as collateral.
Negotiations will probably be complet-
ed Tor the sale of the plant of King, Gil.
bert 4 Warner company of Columbus
ONO, to the Bessemer steel plants of the
national organization. The Plant is one
of the largest in the west.
Attorney General Monet of Ohio has
hled motion in the supreme court ask.
ing that +. b. Squire, secretary of the
Standard Oil Company, be cited for con.
tempt. Secretary Squire refused to nro.
duce certain books demanded by the at.
torney general during the taking of tes.
tmony in the cases against the Standard
Oil company, before the master commits,
sioner.
With regard to the reported Anolo-
German agreement, Prince Radziwill of
France remarked: IAN entente hatwoon
such serious commercial rivals as Croot
Britain and Germany is almost limos.
sible. 'H'Pos'
Emil Beme, cabin passenger on tbo
North German Lloyd steamship saaIe
was arrested in New York on a charro -;
% Vi
PRESIDENT Mckinley has notified tho
Moravian college for women that Il o;.ht
announce the fact that as far no o.
present outlook was concerned he woul1
De able to attend the exercises IN tha
iooth anniversary of the seminary 70 h.
held on June IA. President McKin,ev ~ D
sures the college he would be accomnan
led by Mrs. Mckinley. pan
Mrs. John A. Logan is seriously III ..
her home in Washington, D. c. sha -
suffering from second attack of ~.
She has been unable to leave bor SIP
TOT more than a week and her cond;t;n
causes much alarm. u''loh
o count .s Jean. Bernard Rocheburg Rotbeu
LoWen, the distinguished Austrian stataa
man, formerly minister of FOREIGN go:
and incumbent of other admin;stnn lan
posts under Emperor Francis ,Joson %''te
dead. 'osePh, Is
The Planters Cotton Oil seed mill .,
La, was almost DESTROYED bv az
together with seedhouses, stables :t IRE