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


Vice President Hobart is holding tn
gain shown last week. He ID able t
partake of more hearty food and sit
up about half an hour daily.
Reese Hutchinson, a young electric
ian graduate of Auburn college, Ala
bama, is exhibiting at Mobile, Ala, al
apparatus for making the deaf hear
He augments vibration and enables
deaf mutes to hear words spoken in or
binary tones. The apparatus is the
size of a pocket book and is connected
by wires with the audiphone. which, il
held to the ear. Two totally deaf meI
were experienced with. They stood
so feet from the piano and marked the
time of the music, laughing with de
light over the novel experience.
Thomas F. Kelly, aged 55, part own.
or Of the National theatre In Philadel
phia, is dead.
Lady Frances Ann Emily, duchess OF
Marlborough, daughter of the third
marquis Of Londonderry and widow OF
the seventh duke of Marlborough, is
dead.
Oscar Gardner and Tommy Hogan of
New York have been signed by the
Nonpareil Athletic Association of LOU
isville, KY, for a 2O-round bout, to be
pulled off May 4th.
The L. A. w. racing board announces
the appointment of Hosmer K. Arnold,
of Portland, Oregon, as Handicapped
for Oregon.
The S-year-old daughter of George
Tempero, farmer living near the foot
OF Kamiac butte, Wash, was burned to
death last week.
The Petit Bleu alleges that Lieuten-
ant Mijen, who died at Zanzibar on
March 23rd, while on the way to as
sumo the governorship of Ra Jubitil,
the French port and colony on the west
coast of the gulf of Alden. committed
suicide.
s. w. Grinstead, aged 81, cashier OF
the bank in Humboldt, Nebr., commit
ted suicide by blowing off the top of his
head with revolver. He admitted
that he was $4,000 short in his &C
counts.
In the California derby, which was
won last week by Corsine, there were
seven starters. The event took place
on the track at Oakland.
Joseph. Eichbaum, aged ~ years, the
head of lithographing and stationery
arm of Pittsburg, Pa. is dead.
Secretary Alger has put an effective
Quietus on the persistent reports that
he contemplated retiring from the cab
met by a positive and unequivocal
statement that the reports were abso-
lutely without foundation, and that un.
less some unforeseen and unlocked for
contingency arises, he proposes to re-
main secretary of war throughout the
administrator.
Spanish silver is now quoted at SO,
the highest figure reached in this de.
cade in Havana.
Under instructions from the presi- |
dent, lis staff officers were honorably
discharged from the volunteer army of |
the United States last week by the act |
ing secretary of war, to take effect
April 7th.
The promotion of the following |
named officers to the grade of rear ad- |
miral is announced at the navy de-
partment: ]. w. Philip, B. ]. Crom-
well, H. +. Picking, s. Casey, F. Rog-
ers, ]. G. Watson, G. w. Sumner, F. ].
Higginson and L. Kempff.
Representative Baird, of Louisiana,
Ia very sick in Washington. D. C.
Joe Cans, the veteran Baltimore
lightweight, went down before George
McFadden Of New York, in the 23rd
round of their fight at the New Broad.
way Athletic Club recently. Cans was
not completely knocked out, but fell
from exhaustion and was unable to re-
gain his feet in time.
The ex-queen dowager Kahioiani of
Hawaii. is seriously i'll. She had an
other stroke of apoplexy about q week
since and in place of becoming better
she failed from day to day. Not even
her most intimate friends are not al.
lowed to see her.
Major General Lawton. at Pate in
the Philippine islands, announces an
authorized statement, to the effect that
100000 troops will be required to put
down the instruction in the islands.
The United States transport Senator
has arrived In San Francisco from
Manila.
Ex-United States Senator Tabor was
honored with military funeral in
Denver last week.
The 26th annual meeting of the Ma
tional Conference of Charities and Cor
rections will be held in Cincinnati May
18th to 22nd.
Word has reached Cheyenne from !
Wyoming City that Goose creek has
swelled to an alarming condition, the !
bridges are all washed away and half ..
the town is under four feet Of water.
Orders have been published In three /
American camps in Cuba to muster out
men who enlisted as regulars for the
war. There are about 300 such men in
the Eighth Infantry and 500 In the
Second Artillery. v
The Cuban army muster rolls which Il
were delivered to Governor General Il,
Brooke through Senior Domingo Men. lin
doz Capote. are prepared in neat cleri- Id
cal style, the 1900 broad sheets show. b