Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-03-17

Two armed highwaymen lay in ambush
on bicycle path two miles from Ia
coma last night and captured and rob-
beed seven men between and II o'clock,
securing several watches but less than
$40 in cash. After robbing them they tied
their hands and feet and laid them in a
row in the brush.
The Daily Graphic announces that the
British minister to China, Sir Claude Nc
Donald, acting upon Lord Salisbury's in
structions, had notified the Chinese for
eign office that Great Britain will hold
China to the terms of the contract in the
recent railway loan and will also support
her in resisting any aggression intended
to force her to repudiate her obligations
under the contract.
The first section of the fast paper train
at Huntington, Pa, was wrecked one mile
east of this place this noon by a land
slide which resulted from a heavy fall
of rain. Engineer Robert McCutcheon
and Fireman C. Troce, both OF Harris
burg, were instantly killed.
Last week a gale in Niagara, N. Y,
caused much damage. The wind came in
gusts, tearing signs from their fastenings
and stripping sections of roofing from
some buildings. Electric light wires were
torn down. The old elevator at the Bat
terry Whirlpool station was blown over.
A conspiracy among the convicts in the
state prison at San Quentin to murder
their guards and effect wholesale de-
livery of prisoners has been revealed to
Warden Hale through the faint hearted
ness of one of the conspirators.
The lower house of the Texas legisla.
ture has adopted a resolution thanking
the Indiana legislature for returning to
the Texas Terry Rangers the company
flag, captured by an Indiana regiment
from the Rangers during the civil war.
The mystery surrounding $4,000 worth
of deeds, bonds, and negotiable paper that
We're found in an alley recently in Chica-
go, was solved when it was Discovered
that the papers had been stolen from the
waiting room in the Dearborn street sta.
ton.
Thomas Nolan, aged IS years, son of a
well known oil producer, was shot and
probably fatally wounded while trying to
effect an entrance into the house of for.
mer Senator Lewis Emery at Bradford,
Pa. The shooting was done by j. NJ.
Houghton, who was guarding the house.
fremont, the thoroughbred stallion,
the property of General w. H. Jackson,
was found in thes table at Nashville,
Tenn, with his stifie joint broken. Moth
ing could be done and the stallion was
killed. He cost General Jackson ST. 900
some years ago at Swigert's sales.
The wages of all day laborers in the tin
plants of Newcastle district, Pa, have
been advanced from to 10 per cent.
During the week the Carpenter Steel
Company of Reading, Pa, shipped four
car loads of projectiles of various calibres
to the Norfolk navy yard.
The lives of nearly 100 persons were
jeopardized by fire which broke out in
the Lackawanna Valley House block,
Scranton, Pa, and communicated to the
second, third and fourth floors. The oc-
cupants were taken out safely, but clad
only in their night clothes.
Senator Turner has secured one of the
best of the committee places made vacant
by retiring senators. In the closing hours
OF the session Senator German announced
that Senator Whites place on the com
merce committee would soon be vacant
and in order to have the same representa-
ton for the Pacific coast on that commit
tee that it now enjoyed he asked the ap-
pointment of Senator Turner to the va
cancy. No one in the senate offered the
slightest objection.
The official statement of Representative
j. q. Cannon of Illinois, the chairman of
the house appropriations committee, sum-
ming up the appropriations of the Fifty
fifth Congress, shows an aggregate for
the entire congress of ST. $50, 800 200, and
for the session just closed a total of 1913.
65S,2OO, with authority for contracts sub
Ject to future appropriations amounting
to $5O,OOOO0O.
An imperial cabinet order has been is.
sued in Berlin, in which Emperor William
after referring to Certain regrettable at
fairs in which officers have recently been
involved" and to the Frequency with
which officers receive loans from profes.
slonal money lenders at usurious interest"
directs that hereafter every officer shall
Immediately communicate any and all Of
fers to his superiors.