Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1900-03-23
ITEMS FROM AL AROUND
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
4 CompIete review Of the nvenss for
the Past Week in This and For
eign Lands-summarised FroA the
Latest Dispatches.

OH 1uutildS 1APtou Will Oua1leIBo tuS
America for race in 1901.
Taylor will act as governor Of Kentucky
until the courts pass upon his case.
In the house of commons at London
the war loan bill passed its third reading.
Two Japanese were killed recently by
q train running down their handcar near
Baker City.
England has refused to accept the good
offices of America looking TO deelara-
ton OF peace in South Africa.
The oath annual convention Of the Tex
a. Cattle Raisers' association, the men,
bership Of which has property valued at
ever $500, 000, 600, met in Fort Worth for
two days session.
The body of Captain Nichols of the
monitor Monadnock, who died from sun
stroke at Manila, has been buried with
naval and Masonic honors in Mountain
View cemetery at Oakland, Cal.
Adjutant General Fox of Washington
telegraphs from San Francisco that he has
started for Olympia with nine bodies of
unclaimed Washington soldiers. The in
terment win take place at the capital next
Sunday.
The quartermaster general is informed
that the sea trial of the transport Sumner
which has just been completed by navel
officers at Norfolk was complete sue
cess, and that the vessel will be in reaIi-
ness for the use of the army on the 22d
instant. She is to take 1000 recruits from
New York to Manila.
The United States government has pur-
chased the steamer Columbia from the
North Pacific Steamship company. The
vessel will make several trips between
Gan Francisco and st. Michael, and will
then go on the regular Manila run for
the remainder Of the year.
Senator Sewell has introduced bill
changing the name of the Paris of the
American line to the Philadelphia. Three
ships of the international Navigation
company, constituting the transatlantic
service, already bear names Of American
cities--the st. Paul, the st. Louis, and
the New York.
Turkey may call halt to Russia's
aggressiveness in Asia Minor.
Professor D. G. Worcester rendered his
resignation to go to the Philippines.
Rebellion and anarchy are threatened
in China because of the open door policy.
France expected news of the fall of
Bloemfontein and it caused no excite
ment.
Many national banks are organizing
taking advantage of the provisions of the
new bill.
Opinions of public men do not agree
as to how the Puerto Rican question will
affect the election.
Revenue cutter Bear has been undergo
ing repairs at San Francisco and is
again ready for service.
The rapidly increasing interest in the
breeding and raising of Angora goats in
the southwest has resulted in the forma-
tion of the American Angora Goat Breed
ers' association, which will have its head
quarters in Kansas City.
The form of government for Cuba will
soon be decided. One more month and
then the question of citizenship of the isl
and win be settled.
Flores, Aguinaldo's secretary of war,
has surrendered to General Macarthur,
Aguinaldo's infant son, who was cap
tured in November and who has been
suffering from smallpox, is dead.
In diplomatic circles at Washington an
unpleasant suggestion has been thrown
out to the effect that The Hague confer
ence has resulted in complete failure and
that even the limited program agreed
upon is never to be perfected.
Funds for home for Schley are rap
idly pouring in to Washington.
Nine persons were injured in an acct
dent to Ninth avenue elevated rail-
road train near Rector street, New
York.
Kansas will have big exposition in
1904 in celebration of the 50th ami
versary Of the organization of the ter
ritory of Kansas.
A military commission at Bayom-
bong has sentenced to be hanged 80 ma
tives, who have been found guilty of
numbering their countrymen.
Thomas Pooley, saloon keeper of
Butte, Mont, shot his son-in-law, Thos.
and the latter's wife, Lydia,
uuIluS ulInculIy on the street IN the
upper town Sunday.
Mrs. Ida Greycroft, the largest wo-
man in Indiana, died at her home near
Kokomo, falling from her chair while |
playing dominoes. She weighed about |
$50 pounds and was 80 years old.
Louis Billow has been found guilty |
Of murder in the first degree at Ere |
mont, Neb., for killing Jacob Hess, the |
father Of his sweetheart, several years |
ago. He was arrested in the state of |
last fall
Two cons of Eugene Ferrin of Alfred, |
N. Y, aged 8 and years, were burned
to death In the Ferrin farmhouse. Mr..
Perrin rescued his wife and two of |
the children, but was driven back in
the flames and badly burned in a vain
attempt to save the two that persisted.
Frank Cass. aged IS, was killed at
Levin, CAL, in friendly boxing bout
K Whidden. In the eighth
Iep stuck cass with q six
de Of the neck.