Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-05-19

"A biscuit, cracker and candy trust OF
this coast has finally been perfected.
Six masked burglars entered the Bava
rian Brewery at Wilmington, Del, ant
blew open the safe, securing $l406.
The Hamburg American steamer Bra
lillian has arrived with l400 immigrants
all bound to the Canadian northwest
Jim X. Wheeler, who claimed to be g
half brother of the famous desperate
Hank Vaughn, killed himself in Pendle-
ton Tuesday.
Attempted cures by incantations and
the mysterious ministrations Of Christian
Science healers will no longer be tolerated
in and about New York.
The United States and Great Britain
will stand together in the advocacy OF the
adoption of scheme for the settlement
of international disputes by arbitration.
A gigantic combination, gathering in
all the -four milling corporations at the
head of the lakes, in New York city,
Buffalo and Syracuse, has been effected.
The grain crop statistics whI,h supple
ment the recent winter grain report of the
secretary of agriculture, show the grain
conditions almost everywhere in Europe
are favorable.
Postmaster George A. Mclaughlin, OF
jamestown, o., with some boy friends,
was putting stick tack" on window at
the home of his friend, E. E. Giun. Mr..
CHM fired a shot through the window,
killing Mr.. Mclaughlin instantly.
| "A h. .,,
was sold for $4,000, the highest sum ever
paid.
President Mckinley proposes to make
tour of the west during his coming sum-
mer vacation.
An attempt is being made to effect
combination of the various glue compan-
les in the country.
veterans attended the annual reunion of
the Confederate Veterans Society at
Charleston, S. G.
The insurgents have assassinated Du-
marais, Frenchman who entered their
lines for the purpose of negotiating for the
release of the Spanish prisoners.
The big five-story warehouse of the
Newly Transfer & Storage Company,
Kansas City, Mo-, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday. Loss, over 100000.
The director of the Egyptian museum
has discovered the mummy of Thothmes I
of the eighteenth dynasty, B. c., 1888,
and three other mummies in gilt collins at
Cairo.
Alf. Stanford, steeple chase jockey,
and A. Nichols, horse trainer and owner,
have been banished from the turf for life
by the board of stewards of the Pacific
Coast Jockey Club.
Andrew Carnegie offers to contribute
the last $250,0OO which Chamberlain is
trying to raise for the university of Bir-
mingham, provided the scientific school
be made the principal department in the
institution.
Under a decision given by Judge But
Ter in the district court depositors of the
Peoples Savings bank, which failed in
1893, will recover all the money they hid
on deposit at the time of the banks fail
ure. The stockholders will have to pay it.
Montevideo announces the arrival
there of the cruiser Newark.
"A half-blo of business houses were
destroyed by fire at Palestine, Tex, re-
Gently.
Edward Smith, colored, was hanged in
the district Jail at Washington. He re-
fused to the last to make any confession.
Claude Branton of Eugene, Or, was
hanged for the murder of John Linn.
Branton walked upon the scaffold I'M
assisted.
"Kid" Mccoy has forwarded to Tom
my Ryan formal challenge to fight in
Denver for the middleweight champion
ship of the world.
Forty mules are to be sent to the Fiji
islands from San Francisco on the next
outgoing steamer. They are to be used
on large sugar plantation.
The Hondo coal mine, 100 miles south
of Eagle Pass, Tex, in Mexico, was Wis
tied Tuesday by terrific tornado deal
ing death and destruction in its path.
Samuel L. Findley, the Ascending tax
collector of San Luis Obispo county, Cal
ifornia, has waived extradition proceed
ings at Lima, Peru, and declares that he
will return to California voluntarily.
Firemen at work in the ruins of the
American Company's plant at the foot
of Cross street, Baltimore, which was de-
stroyed by fire, discovered the body of
Robert F. Hudson, an employee of the
company.
The defenses of San Francisco harbor
are rapidly being strengthened. The
work under way now is the mounting
of the second battery of l6 mortars on
the bluffs above and back of old Fort
Winfield Scott. Eight huge pieces of ord
nance are already in position and the
others are being mounted by men from
the Third artillery.