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

military post at Pyramld harDor IN
alaska.
General Charles P. Eagan, prominent
in the army beef scandal, has sailed for
Honolulu.
The final organization of the Rubber
Goods Manufacturing Company has been
completed.
"A terrific explosion took place Thurs
day in the mixing house of the California
Powder works.
Mrs. Augustus Styles shot and killed
her mother. Mrs Catherine Schultz Thurs
day in Chicago.
A violent windstorm swept through
the western part of st. Louis early
Sunday.
John R. Lochhead, of San Francisco,
one of the best known physicians of
the orient. is dead.
w. e. Brinckley was shot and in
stantly killed by William Wieland, at
Bayfield,, Col, Sunday.
General Otis has returned the Span
ish artillery and money captured in
Manila by the Americans.
The nitro glycerine house of the
California Powder Works exploded,
two killed, several wounded.
Edward Goodfellow, for many years
connected with the United States coast
and geodetic survey, is dead.
The powder mill plant of the Potts
vile, Pa, Water Company blew up, de-
stroying Is tons of powder.
Rudyard Kipling has been offered
and has agreed to accept the degree of
LII. d. from McGill university.
DR.. William Lambert Russell is dead
at Barre, Mass. of mumps. aged 80.
He was the oldest Harvard graduate.
A fire destroyed the Odd Fellows
building in Santa Cruz, Cal, causing a
loss of about $4,000, covered by insur-
ance.
Professor e. Benjamin Andrews, for
mer president of Brown university,
will be elected president of the Color
ado state agricultural college.
Nebraska was thoroughly drenched
with heavy rain storm Sunday.
Articles of incorporation of the Cen
eral Carriage Company with an au-
thorized capital of $20,0OO,000 have
been filed in New Jersey.
Cyrus Dolph, of Portland, has been
recommended by the examining board
at the Preside for a second lieuten-
ancy in the regular army.
Ex-Internal Revenue Collector Wei
born remains in the county Jail at San
Francisco, having been unable to Sc
cure bondsmen.
A mob of 1000 strikers and sympa-
thizers made it practically impossible
to operate street cars with safety in
West Duluth and they are abandoned.
The navy department has made an
allotment of the appropriation fund of
$4,000 for the assistance of the naval
militia of the states supporting such
organizations.
Jim Murphy, the comedian, is alarm
ingly sick in Wisconsin. The temper
AZURE is 1902 and his lungs are much
sorer. A Chicago physician has been
telegraphed for.
Captain Sir Herbert Scarisbrick
Naylor-Leyland, Bart, who had repre-
sented the Southport division of south
west Lancashire in the house of COM
mons in the liberal interests since last
August, is dead.
Governor Thomas, of Colorado, has
announced that within a few days, If
President Mckinley and the secretary
of war continue to ignore his communi-
cations on the subject of the return of
the Colorado regiment from the Philip
pines he will take steps with the view
of securing the immediate recall of the
troops.
The French minister, M. Tichon, has
demanded mining concessions to the
value of 100000 taols in the province
of SEE Chuan. as indemnity for the
recent Imprisonment of French mis-
sionary.
United States cruiser Buffalo, for
merly the Brazilian dynamite cruiser
Nictheroy, has arrived in New York
after record-breaking run from Ma
Mia. She brought 500 officers and men
from Dewey's feet, more than half of
whom participated in the battle of Ma
Mia bay. The men are those whose
terms of enlistment haye expired.
Fifteen cases of smallpox are reported
at Leclaire, Iowa.
Vice-President Hobart is reported to be
improving slowly.
Charles A. Young of Springfield, Ohio,
broke 2ll straight inanimate targets, I'M
known angles, thus breaking the worlds
record.
w. E. Gooding, well known rail-
road man, and for several years editor of
the Minneapolis Times, committed sui
eide in Walla Walla Monday.
The private funeral of former Governor
Richard Oglesby was held in the chapel
at Ogleshurst. The interment was made
in the cemetery near the chapel.
The foreign office has received news
from Unyoro that Colonel Evatt attacked
Chief Kabarega, on the east bank of the
Nile, on April 0, and completely defeated
him.
General Manning F. Force, commandant
OF the Ohio soldiers home, is dead. He
entered the army in 1861 as lieutenant
colonel, was promoted to brigadier in 1868
and breveted major general in 1854.
Admiral Won Diedrichs has been grant
ed leave of absence for six months.