Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-12-29
|IIEhS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
4 Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week 4. TAis ana For
eign Lands-summarisea Fren the
Latest Dispatches.

from Virginia.
Hanna gave Christmas gifts to men VIII
; recently refused to strike at Cleveland.
Thomas Jones plunged to death from
railroad trestle at Spokane Wednesday.
PowerfE. factors on Wall street prevent
ed panic recently. Ten to twenty mi
lions were turned loose to bolster tn
market.
A big fire at N7orence, S. c., destroye
a hotel, city hall, bank and other build
ings.
DR.. Z. Benjamin Andrews of Chicago
may lose his job for taking sides with tn
British.
Thousands Of men are rushing to vol
unteer in England, eager to ayenge tn
recent defeats.
SIMPSONS pay has been cut down, as h
must hold grade before the salary at
taches to the position.
Corporal STRIVING of the Northwes
mounted police and two comrades ar,
missing on the Edmonton trail.
The Illinois supreme court has held tn,
anti-department law, passed by the las
legislature, to be unconstitutional.
Brig. Gen. Edward S. Kellogg, recent,
pr&ssoted from colonel of the Sixth in
fantry, has been placed on the retired list
"A member of the Universal Netherlands
union has arrived in this country with an
appeal to end the war between England
and Transvaal.
The transports Hancock and City Of
Puebla have arrived at Manila with the
Forty-fourth and portion of the Forty.
third infantry aboard.
Plans ON an elaborate scale are being
made for the big convention of live stock
raisers and dealers, to be held in Fort
Worth, Tex, early next month.
Robbers recently went through a Pull
man coach in Missouri and forced their
victims, under threats of shooting, to sur.
render their watches and money. When
the train slowed up the thugs escaped.
Hugo Hunfalvy, a lawyer of New York,
says there is no possible question that two
electricians in Chicago, f. P. and G. S.
k.aroly, are heirs to an estate in Hungary
worth 100000 forms, or about "a 500.
600. p'0'
Sanford White of Dunbar, Pa, was shot
and killed by David Pierce, colored EN-
ploye. Pierce Immediately ran, with more
than 200 persons in pursuit. He was
chased for two miles, when his pursuers
came within shooting distance, and he
fen' rlddled by bullets, and died in a
short time.
Chicago junk dealers are accused of
stealing miles of copper wire.
In Manila cemetery Gen. Lawton's re-
mains are temporarily laid to rest.
Gold shipments to Europe last week
PROBABLY aggregated four millions.
Ice broke on a skating pond in Brus-
els and forty children were drowned.
General Miles thinks the Transyaal
'eople are well prepared for trouble.
Carnegie has raised the wages of all
at the steel works at Pitts |
urg.
Crown Timber Inspector Willison of |
ne klondike has resigned to engage in
mining.
proposed new classification of freight |
ates, 1t is said, will ruin the small |
hippers.
McGovern beat down and knocked
ut Harry Forbes of Chicago in the sec
nd round.
The cruiser New Orleans has ar
wed at Manila just two months out
rom New York.
A large order is said to have been
wen to continental firm for artil.
ry for Filipinos.
A plan to retit the historic old craft
institution and make her a training
Zip is being considered.
J. II. Sanders, a well known resident
Chicago, killed himself in a Mem
his, Tenn, hotel recently.
The large dry goods house of John
!. Conklin & Son of Brooklyn has
ade general assignment.
Sol Smith Russell will retire from
le stage for year or more at the con-
usion OF his interrupted engagement
Chicago.
Commission men and fruit dealers
New York report a scarcity OF BAN
las for the holiday trade almost with
1t precedent.
A wreck on the New Jersey Central
3iroad at Highbridge. N. j.. recently |
suited in one death and the injury
nNe persons.
oapestn B. w. Bjornsted. formerly Of
10 ihiNeenth Minnesota volunteers,
u Deen appointed captain of the
orty-secono infantry.
EDWARD Woistell, laborer, at Lewis !
n, Idaho, died from the effects of ex- ]
sure when for 81 hours the unfor- ,
nate man lay piuioned beneath an s
erturned wagon. I
The urgent deficiency appropriation q
II is now practically made up. The
tai will amount to 81. 900, 900. OF this G
er $4O.000,000 is asked for war and I
er 100000 for navy department. r
1t is officially announced that Gen. n
Il Young reports that he believes that b
American prisoners, including \
eutenant Gilmore, are now in the a
nds of the United States troops. i
President Mckinley has informed A
nator Perkins Of California that he q
uld accompany the Ohio delegation I
San Francisco next fall to witness n
launching of the new battleship a
ioody is dead. The famous +,
naaead AWAY at his hnma :,