Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1899-06-23
ed and a number of houses burned ant
eavaraI lives lost

ed and NUMBER OF houses Duh"0~ -
several lives lost.
The man who murderously assaulted l
II. Belden in San Francisco is still at large
Oliver Lee and James Gilliland were &C
Quilted of the murder OF Henry Fountain
the son of Colonel A J. Fountain, at Hills
boro, N. NJ.
; Thomas Sadler, miner, was convlcte'
of assault in the first degree on Patrlcl
OConner and the punishment fixed at nv
years imprisonment.
Harry Fisher of Brooklyn stood l
rounds before Joe Walcott, the welter
weight champion, in Baltimore recent!
and then threw up the sponge.
I. C. Shaughnessy has been elected pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific, vice VIM
Van Horne, resigned. Van Horne becomes
adviser to the board of directors.
Admiral Westminster of the Russian
navy has reached New York. He is OIL
private business and will return to Russia
via San Francisco and the Pacific.
The six-day walk in New York appears
to have suddenly collapsed. The walker;
have all left the track. 1t is understood
the affair has proved a financial failure.
The factory of the Marietta Torpedo
Company blew up, and Cal Harte, aged 45
married, and Clyde Porter, single, aged FL
were killed. Two horses and wagon
were blown to atoms.
The members of the Buffalo and Kan
sas City baseball teams, who were arrested
at the close of Sundays game in Buffalo,
for violating the Sunday law, were ac-
quilted.
Tom Messor, one of the Lee faction, was
shot down near his home in Middeboro.
KY, by unknown parties. This is the
second murder within two weeks in con-
nection with the feud between the Taylors
and Lees.
Two negroes were lynched at Dunnellon,
Fla, recently by mob of their own color.
The municipality of Havana has pre-
sented to General Maxine Gomez a GER
tifcate naming him as an adopted son of
the city.
Admiral Dewey landed at Singapore
from his flagship to pay visit to the
governor of the Straits Settlement, Sir G.
II. B. Mitchell, at the government house.
He was received with military honors. On
his return to the Olympia he was visited
by the governor.
The arbitration treaty between the Ar
gentine Republic and Uruguay has been
signed.
The copper miners at Iron Mountain,
to the number of 800 are on strike at
Redding, Cal.
Gustave Frey, gambler of San Fran
cisco, dragged his wife into the street and
shot her dead. He then killed himself.
Pinkerton detectives, armed and in uni
form, have been ordered by the chief nf
police to keep off the streets of Portland.
Admiral Dewey is DESTROYS that the
money collected for him be used for the
establishment of soldiers and sailors
home.
The Old Dominion steamship Hamilton
ran into the German steamship Macedo- |
MIA off Long Branch and it is supposed
hat the Macedonia subsequently sank.
The responsibility for the riots of April
20 in the Occur d'Alenes and the murder
II Smith and Cheyne has been placed by
he coroners jury upon the miners
inions as organizations.
j. Frank Davis, chief deputy collector
VI internal revenue for the district of Or
gon, Washington and Alaska, has been
uspended pending the decision of the de-
'artment at Washington, D. c.
Senator c. w. Fairbanks of Indiana.
,aptain Terry of the battleship Iowa and
ames j. Hill, president of the Great
'orthern, were guests of honor at ban
uet at the Rainier Club in Seattle. Pres
lent Hill acted as POSTMASTER.
The turnout in Butte, Mont, on Min.
rs Union day was the largest in the his
Dry OF the organization. Fully 5000
liners and smeltermen and other work.
lgmen were in line. Edward Boyce,
resident OF the Western Federation of
liners, was the orator of the day. {
Samuel Simpson of Portland, poet and 1
is dead.
Douglas Martin, the l0-year-old son of
ouls l. Martin of Spokane, was drowned t
'ednesday. e
Ialks with cabinet officers bring the c
lief almost to certainty that the pres !
ent VIII upon his return from his east
n trip issue call for volunteers of at f
lst $4,000 men. q
Inc Masonic grand lodge at Washing Il
has passed resolutions modifying their b
ton OF last year in extending recogni. Q
N to negro lodges. The effect of the t
solutions is to leave recognition of ne.
Masons with each subordinate lodoe n
wilbur Boyce of Butte, Mont, commit. c
suicide by taking an overdose of NOR. v
Inc. lie was sergeant of Roupb Rid. c
IN Captain Stivers' troop, Grigsby's II
and a son of James R. Bovce "
merly a prominent merchant of that
Y. c.
cloudburst occurred in the mountain. g
tn OF Spofford junction, Texas, The +
mems volume OF water rushed down the o.
side sweeping everything be. ~
:, It and converting dry arroyas and is
all creeks and rivers into raging tor.
Is and completely flooding the valley 81
level country below. At the sbooD II
en- OF M. L. Butler every living thine W
swept away, and the entire Butler el
My were drowned. pl