Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-02-10
.DO|NGS through THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
An Interesting Collection Of Items from
the Two Hemisphere Presented IN o
Condensed Form-Called from the Tel
elgraph Reports.

The body found near Fort st. Philip
was identified as that of Captain Sturte-
want, the pilot of the launch Paul Jones.
Four men were badly burned, one per-
haps fatally by the explosion Of boiler
in the basement of the Chicago Tribune
building Sunday.
Bob Ntzsimmons is matched to meet
Jim Jeffries for side bet of $4,000 and
the largest purse offered. Jeffries has
covered Ntzsimmons forfeit posted in New
York.
Fourteen persons were killed Sunday by
an explosion of gas in the Palia mine
near Mazarron, Spain.
The loss of an entire family in Lake
Erie is reported in Toledo. On one Of
the islands in the Bass group lived a
family named Robson. The family con.
sisted of the father, mother, a daughter
of 20, son of 5, and hired man, Harry
M. Martel.
A pair of human legs sticking up
through the ice in one of the slips In the
harbor attracted the attention of the men
on the steamer Walter l.. Frost. The
body was chopped out and found to be
that of William Dormer, a deckhand on
the Frost.
1t was IS degrees below zero, the cold
est in recent years in Wisconsin Sunday
The Montauk Club of Brooklyn tend
cred banquet to Admiral I. Sampson
and the principal among the other guests
was Secretary of the Navy John Long.
Calvin Heilig has closed contract fol-
five years lease of the Marguam Grand
theater of Portland. Mr.. Heilig has also
just closed five years contract for the
Tacoma theater at Tacoma.
George White, cattleman of Mendo
cino county, filed petition in insolvency
His liabilities are placed at $lS5, 600, in
Guiding judgment of 100000 granted
his divorced wife. His assets are placed
at $4,000.
There was much commotion in Colon
Columbia, arising from the strike of the
doclmen and railway employees During
the demonstration several persons wert
wounded.
The district attorney at Philadelphia ha.
notified counsel for Senator Quay, his sor
Richard and ex-State Treasurer Haywood
that he had fixed Monday, February 20
as the date for trial of the three defend
ants on the charge of conspiracy in the
misuse of the money on deposit in the
Peoples bank.
Private advices received at Seattle
state that the government will send three
oh,,,,,. int fho NoDYoa,
river district of Alaska next spring to lay
out mail route to the Yukon river anC
establish ports.
1t is the, opinion of prominent nava
officers that the disabilities of the Topeka
will lead to an investigation by the sec
rotary of the navy.
Elk United States Senator James Fl
Slater of Oregon is dead. Deceased wa.
born in Illinois in 1926, went to California
in l840 and came to Oregon in 1850.
George w. Plummer, aged 48, beat hi.
head to a jelly near Baker City and ther
ran half mile to a ranch and securing
knife cut his throat from ear to ear, caus
ing death.
Great excitement exists on the mining
exchange in Colorado Springs over fab
ulously rich strike in the Isabella min'
at Cripple Creek. Assays from the strik'
run over $4,000 to 100000 to the ton.
Representative Payne of New York ha.
been appointed a member of the Canadian
commission to fill the vacancy caused By
the death of Mr.. Dingley.
WELLESLEY Moore, British vice consul il
San Francisco, has been advanced to tn,
consulship at Puerto Rico, w. l., to sue
coed George w. Crawford, who died a
Caen. France, recently.
The Bulgarian cabinet has resigned
owing, it is believed, to the disconten
aroused by the adherence of NJ. Stoileff
the premier, to the schemes for Macedon
ian autonomy which are considered to b.
antagonistic to the Bulgarian aspiration
for obtaining predominant influence il
Macedonia.
Billy Marsh, the professional jumper
is going to England early in the summe
to engage with Burroughs and Colquitt
the famous English jumpers in a series o
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