Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-03-10

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Jockey Club have indefinitely suspended
two Jockeys Cash Sloan and w. Ii. Mar
fin. the former being brother ~ Tod
| Sloan.
The directory of the Greater American
exposition has just elected these officers:
DR.. George l.. Miller, president; Frank
Murphy, treasurer and Dudley Smith.
secretary.
According to reports received by the
steamer Miowera, the situation in the
New Hebrides is serious.
The annual meeting of the Compression.
al Temperance Society at the Vermont
Avenue Christian church, Washington.
was a memorable one, in honor of the late
Representative Dingley of Maine, who
was for IS years president of the organ.
ization.
/. d. Broughton, Jr., received letter
from the universities of Oxford and
Cambridge on the matter of a chess
match by cable with the American uni
yersities of Columbia, Harvard, Yale and
Princeton.
P. s. Carr, ate captain of Company l.,
First Kentucky regiment, was shot
through the left arm at the elbow by
Harry Price young lawyer of Cattle
burg, who was Il private in Carrs com.
pany.
Eugcnio Casselli, the South American
racquet and bandball player, played a
series of racquet games with Instructor
H. Boakes of the Chicago Athletic club
and for the first time since coming to the
United States Casselli met defeat.
The conferees on the census bill have
agreed and will make their report in the
week. The census will be nominally un.
der the direction OF the secretary of the
interior, but all appointments in the cen.
sus bureau will be made by the director
OF the census
At Crawford, Neb, three miles from
Fort Robinson, City Marshal Frank D.
Mooney was probably fatally wounded by
Louis Grossman, late trumpeter OF Com.
pany C, First U. S. cavalry.
tornado passed over Evansville, Ind,
last week The Evansville Brick com.
panys plant, the Diamond Commercial
companys building and one residence
were destroyed and many private homes
unroofed. Other minor casualties were
reported. The loss will be heavy.
Texas is passing through an alarming
epidemic of meningitis. Many schools
have been closed on account of the ray.
ages of the disease.
There are 80 cases of typhoid fever in
the Second division hospital in Major
General Lees camp at Havana.
David Holland, who is receiving bids
for the contest between Bob Fitzsimmons
and Jim Jeffries, today received an offer
of $2l 900 from the Triangle cub, located
on Stoney Island avenue, Chicago.
The club offers to pay all expenses of
the principals and their trainers to the
battle-ground and deposit the purse 10
days prior to the day of the fight or
earlier, if desired, when the articles of
agreement are signed.
misrepresentation Levi Maish, of Penn.
sylvania, is dead.
An appeal has been received by the
chamber of commerce of San Francisco ON
behalf of the flood sufferers of the Shan
lung province in China.
President Zelaya's army has captured
Gill mountain and Aguas Calientes, thus
virtually terminating the Bluefields revo-
luton
The transport Sherman, New York for
Manila, has arrived at Port Said.
Two iceboats going at a high rate of
speed came together on Hamilton bay.
Ontario. VIM. Holtham was killed and
several Others severely injured.
Thirty Spaniards arrived ON the Gun.
ara liner Umbria, at New York recently.
Most OF them are laborers and are able to
read and write. All of them are going to
ulnerent mining towns of the west.
The bodies of letter carrier Fred Marty,
MS wife and two-year-old child, who 10
DAYS ago persisted in the fire at the Ar
ihgton HAT building, in Chicago, were
found under pile of debris.
1t is learned that ex-President Cleve-
iand has signifed his intention of attend.
ing the dinner to be given at Delmonieo's
vi March Ind in honor of Carl Schurz.
representative Grosvenor of Ohio has
introduced a bill directing that govern.
ment publications bear the imprint of the
International Typographical Union