Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-12-20
VORLD'SNEWSBR|EHYT TOLD.
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES
Complete Review of Happenings I'm
Both Eastern and Western Hemis-
pheres for the Past Week--NatfOn-
al, Historical, Political and Per-
sonaI Events Tersely Expounded.

The president has appointed Cornelius
Van Colt to be postmaster at New York
A work train with SO laborers, engaged
in laying track on the new Cincinnati
Richmond & Muncie railway, went dow
a Is foot embankment, undermined by
heavy rains, two miles east of Peru, Ind
Fifteen are reported injured.
Chief of Detectives Seymour is in re
ceipt of telegram from the chief of pc
lice of Los Angeles announcing that Henry
X. Feischman, cashier of the Farmers &
Merchants bank, absconded recently will
100000 in currency and no trace of hin
has been discovered.
AT Red Lodge, Mont. because hel
lover did not return, Fannie Hundley
swallowed whole bottle Of strychnine
dying in terrible agony twenty minutes
later. Her sweetheart was RumseJ
Chance.
The William Mckinley Memoria,
Arch association has determined to
change it's plan of operation and to ap
peal TO congress instead Of to the pub
lie for the erection of the proposed me
mortal arch at Washington.
Austin Craig, of Sumpter, Ore, gen
eral mine and real estate promoter, rep.
resentative of the Bank Of Sumpter,
stage agent. city recorder and postmas-
ter of the town of Whitney, was arrest
cd recently on the charge of larceny by
hailee for the alleged embezzlement OF
funds entrusted to him for another pur-
pose.
Had Admiral Van Reypen not been
reappointed Monday he would have re
tired Within a year In the grade of
captain. On December % next, how
ever, he will have served forty years in
the army and navy. and so may retire
as an admiral.
At Troy, Idaho, recently, w. H.
Mann, brakeman ON an extra train, was
run over by an engine and instantly
killed.
Mr.. Hanna ON ship subsidies, in a
speech before Bostonians at a banquet,
pointed out to the merchants that
America pays yearly into the pockets of
foreign ship owners $2OO:0oO,O0 Wat
terson of Kentucky also spoke.
A handcar containing three Italian
laborers was struck by Northern Pa
clfic freight train ON a curve near Shir-
ley, Montana. One of the men was
torn to fragments, but the other two es-
capped uninjured. sa4f
Jacob Schaefer holds championship
of world at billiards. In New York he
defeated George Slosson in 4OO-point
game by margin OF So points. The
contest was mediocre and brilliant by
turns. Schaefer also defeated Morn
ingstar ia5
Mr.. Lawson, of Boston, says that CON-
troll Of the United States Metal Selling
company had changed, and was now
owned jointly by the Amalgamated
Copper Company, the Rothschilds and
the Calumet & Hecla Mining company.
He declared THAT the Metal Selling COM
pamy had contracted to buy for i've
years from january / the product of
the Amalgamated, the Calumet & Hec-
Ia and the Rio Tintos mines.
The Democrats completely over
THE Republicans in the recent
Boston elections, Gen. Patrick A. Col
ains being elected mayor over Mayor
Hart by the largest plurality in quar-
ter OF century. The Democrats like
wise obtained control of both branches
of the city government, elected their
street commissioners and practically
all their candidates for the school COM
mission. As usual the city voted
strongly in favor of license.
John Hay has been selected as the
orator for the memorial service in
honor of the late President Mckinley,
to be held by both houses of congress.
The jury in the trial of Mrs. Lola
Ida BONNIE, accused of the murder OF
James Seymour Ayres, Jr., the young
census clerk killed in the Kenmore no
tel last spring, returned a verdict of
mot guilty" after being out about four
hours.
F. d. Elliott, representing the Great
Northern railroad, called at the Four
Courts, st. Louis, and announced that
one-third of the $4,000 offered by his
company would be awarded the six de-
tectives who arrested Fitzpatrick, the
Montana train robber suspect.
Members of the executive committee
Of the national council of the G. A. r.
1t meeting in Chicago decided to hold
he next annual encampment of the
organization at Washington, D. C. 1t
has been directed that the encampment
oe held Din the fall, although the exact
late will not be selected until tomor-
-ow.
Laura Bullion, the female companion
If Ben Fitzpatrick, the Montana train
-obber suspect, who was convicted Of
having in his possession forged ma
ional bank notes, was today sentenced
" United States District Judge Adams
o five years Imprisonment in the
ederal prison at Leavenworth, Kan. !
received sentence of If !
cen years Imprisonment at Jefferson
lily.
DOwager Empress Failing.
Pekin, Dec. l6.-Reports received here
rom Tho courf COW thaf fha doxpac,o, o,x,