Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-04-28

Ing on their race $4,000 names, 500
commissioned officers and $4,000 nor
commissioned officers and privates
The whole regiment is In orderly al
rangement Of corps, regiments, battal
ions and company rosters.
Secretary long has instructed tn,
commandant at the Mare Island nav,
yard to procure two metallic casketl
and send them to Apia to receive tn.
remains of Lieutenant Lansdale ant
Ensign Monaghan, which will be re
turned to the United States for burial
The driver of the Coulee City and
Brewster stage line reports that last
week the town of Ruby City, in Okan
ogan county. was entirely wiped out BY
fire, except livery stable.
Another old-time river captain, r. A
Dor t, of st. Louis, is dead.
Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, president, and
Miss Anna A. Gordon, vice-president
at large of the national w. c. T. u.
have started on a western trip in the
interest Of the organization.
The secretary of state has directed
the return to their posts in Spain of
the united States consuls who were
obliged to leave on account of the war.
George M. Stroud, the pioneer rail-
way conductor of Oregon, is dead.
Sam Washington, negro, was
hanged at Yazoo City, Miss, last week
for the murder of plantation mana
ger named Coker last November.
Governor Rogers new book, Look
ing Forward, or the Story of an Afri-
can Farm" has been printed and the
governor has received an advance COPY.
Manuel Chavez was hanged in San
Quentin last week for the murder of
woman in southern California two
years ago. He died bravely.
The trial of Lon Edwards for the
murder of his mining partner, G. 1.
Evans, at Fairview mining claim.
near Ashland, Ore, March Sth last, re-
suited in verdict of acquittal by the
jury. Both Edwards and Evans re-
sided in Los Angeles before going to
Ashland.
The National Federation of Miners
has issued call for an immediate
strike for 2 per cent increase In
wages in all the four great coal basins
of Belgium.
Philip Walker. young married man.
was shot and killed In cowardly man.
ner last week at Kamloops, B. c., by
an Indian named Casimir,
The celebration attending the return
of the United States cruiser Raleigh
from Manila occurred last week in New
York. The Raleigh, accompanied by
two small war vessels captured from
the Spaniards last summer and a fleet
OF about rs excursion steamers and
tugboats, paraded from Tompkins
vile to Grants tomb and from there
back to anchorage in the North river |
off Thirty-fourth street
A case of hydrophobia has developed |
in Colville, Wash, the victim being |
Miss Nettie Fogg. When fed the lady
apped her water and used her hands
md teeth to tear the meat given her.
For two hours she kept up continual
like dog. 1t took four men
o hold her down. When quite young
he lady was bitten by dog, the name
II which she calls Garfield In her de-
irium.
A verdict of $4,000 damages against
I. J. Carson, prominent race horse
breeder, in favor of w. F. Singleton,
photographer, who was shot by Car
on, was returned at Lexington, Ky.
singleton sued for $4,000.
The president has appointed Lawr-
nee Townsend of Pennsylvania to sue
eed Mr.. Bellamy Storer as United
tates minister to Brussels. Mr.. Town
end is at present United States min.
ster at Lisbon.
Duke d'Arcos, the late Spanish min.
ster to Mexico, who married Miss Vir-
1nia Lowry of Washington, has been
esignated Spanish minister at Wash.
ngton.
A cablegram at the state department
rom the United States legation at Bo-
ota states that the Colombian gov
has. mailed a draft to New
'ork for the sum of $4,000 in satisfac-
lon OF the claim of the Panama Star
nd Herald for damages sustained
trough the suppression of that news
aper by the Colombian government.