Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-03-24

The Bank of Paso Robes, CAL, has
failed.
Rollin M. Squire, formerly commission
er of public works of New York, If dead
Frank Guilfort, one of the Guilfort
Bros, well known circus gymnasts, ii
dead.
Rev. W. G. Dickinson, d. D., a vel
known Presbyterian minister of Chicago
is dead.
Fire at Chenoa, Ill, resulted in the
death of an unknown printer and the loss
of seven brick business blocks with theil
contents.
Captain Morton Levy Phillips, comman
der of the United States revenue cutter
Boutwell,, is dead.
Throughout the Wisconsin valley dis
trict the snow is from one to four feet
deep on the level.
A movement is on foot to form a com
bination Of plain and decorated lamp
chimney manufacturers.
NJ. Secretan, founder of the Society des
Metaux, and chief agent in the great cop
per ring of 1888 is dead.
Thomas Officer, a Council Bluffs bank
err, lost roll of bills containing $1,000 in
the streets OF Omaha, recently.
Johnny Griffin, the Braintree lad, In
his day one of the cleverest feather
weight fighters in the world, is dead
John Kelly and j. Burns have been ar.
rested on the suspicion of being implicit.
ed in the Amherst bank robber in Wis
consin.
Five persons were killed and forty in.
jured in a collision between two excur-
sion trains last week near Rakata, on
Rakata river.
The Rev. DIR. Byron Sunderland has
been appointed pastor of the First Pres
byterian church in Washington, to sue
coed Rev. t. De Witt Talmage.
Almost the entire plant of the Cum
mer Lumber Company, situated on the
st. Johns river, four miles north of Jack
sonville, Fla, was destroyed by fire.
Advices have just been received that
on February 10 half block of the bust
ness portion of Dawson, Alaska, was de-
stroyed by fire, the loss aggregating $780,
900.
The will of Herbert Stewart, wealthy
New York engineer and contractor, be-
queaths $4,000 to establish the Herbert
Stewart scientific fund at Yale univeri-
city.
Marquis Villamejor, who in the latter
part Of 1887 offered Senior Sagasta, then
premier, 10000 to start national sub
scriptiong for the increase of the fleet, is
dead.
The Union Club of Malta, gave lunch
con to the officers commanding the Amer
lean troops on board the United States
transport, Sheridan, on their arrival en-
route to Manila.
The American Missionary Association
has voted OF establish in Puerto Rico at
once Christian schools like those it has
established in this country for the ne
groes in the South.
William Abb, the italian murderer of
James Lacey is under arrest in Spokane.
The blizzard that swept over the coun-
try east of Omaha, Nebraska, last week,
was the worst ever experienced.
The committee of the Granite Manu-
facturer's Association and the Cutters
Union, reached an agreement and the
strike which has been in progress for two
weeks, has been declared off.
The demand of the foreign government
for a concession of San Nun bay init.
mates that stronger measures than the
ultimatum of Signor Martina, the Italian
minister at Pekin, will be necessary.
VIM. A. Douchette, % years OF age,
was arrested in st. Cecilia church, Boston,
on the charge of embezzling $4,000 from
the collection box. Marked bills placed
in the collection box were found in his
possession.
The following statement has been is
sued showing the total number of deaths
reported to the adjutant generals office
between May LIST, 1899, and February %,
1909: Killed in action 800; died of
wounds, l25; died of disease, SGT; total,
573l.
A six-story tenement at A Bayard st.
was destroyed last week in New York.
The report that the Italians have seiz-
ed San Nun, province of Che Kiang,
which the Italian minister, Signor Mar
tino has demanded as naval base and
coaling station, is officially declared un.
founded.
Mrs. Cornelia Poirier and Samuel Par
slow were hanged at st. Scholastique,
Que, last week. Life was declared ex.
tinct in eight minutes. The necks of
both were broken.
While searching in Alaska the means
of becoming rich, fortune of 100000
awaits Reginald Dawson, of Chicago, in
India
An explosion of several hundred pounds
of powder occurred last week in the Com
modore mine, at Creole, Colo, creating
great havoc and killing three men.
According to dispatch from Bombay,
severe fighting has taken place between
the Turkish troops and the Arab tribes
men near Shall, in the province of Yemen
Arabia.
The Rome correspondent says. The
Pope continues to improve, but his physi-
clans say he shows great weakness, which
is rather alarming to his encourage.
According to dispatch from Sydney,
N. s. W., no less than one hundred per-
sons persisted in hurricane that swept |