Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-04-26
THE telegraph SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

the purchase OF the Danish West Indies
the United States.
Funeral Of Apostle George Q. Cannon
Salt Lake was one of the largest ever see
in the intermountain country. 1t W,
simple but solemn services.
AT GAINESVILLE, Ohio, j. X. Lambsley
Lowell drowned himself in the Muskingul
river recently. 1t was alleged that he wa
short in his accounts as township treasu
er, and his bondsmen notified him tina
they would no longer be responsible.
Frank B. Loomis, United States mini;
ter to Venezuela, has arrived at New Yor
on the Red I'D" liner Caracas, on which tn
came from Porto Rico. Mr.. LOOMS goe
to Washington to report to the state de
partment and President Mckinley imme
diately.
To the Associated Press reporter VIII,
met him at quarantine Mr.. Loomis said
II did not say any of the unpleasant thing
that have been attributed to me abou
President Castro during my stop at San
Juan or anywhere else. The fact is, l like
Mr.. Castro very much. l was interviewed
at San Juan, but it was more of pleasant
chat than anything else"
A Kansas special from Memphis says
Two men with drawn revolvers robbed
Ben Marshs gambling house. back Of the
Peabody hotel, recently. The robbers
spent three minutes in the place and got
away with $4,000 The police have so far
failed to get any clue as to the identity or
whereabouts of the men. They were evil
IDENTIFY experts in the holdup business,
working quietly and rapidly.
At Shamokin 1000 men and bows have
gone on strike at the Natalie colliery be-
cause the Shamokin Coal company would
not accede to their demands The colliery
is completely tied up. The men ask that
James Bateman, inside foreman, and Con-
ductor John Yeager of the miners train
be discharged: that trainmen running on
the company's road between Natalie and
Locust SUMMIT be granted 10 per cent
increase over the present wages.
Former Captain Oberlin Carter, u. S. E.,
and associates swindled the government
out Of $2,l69,l59 on army contracts at
Savannah. Carter has been tried and con-
victed by four courts. Yet he wants to be
leased on bail, perhaps to fly the country
with his ill gotten gains. The foregoing is
the substance Of the statements made by
Solicitor General Richards. Mr.. Richards
has filed with the supreme court a brief in
opposition to the application for bail filed
some time ago.
The Lemars National bank at Lemars,
Iowa, has failed. Thomas j. Ward, vice
president and general manager of the in
stitution, is self confessed embezzler to
the amount Of $4,000 to $4,000. He
also absconded.
The great British rival to the isthmian
canal is a railway which is being built
across Mexico's narrowest point. This |
will be mainly an extension of the Te-
huantepec line, built by the Mexican gov
eminent to connect the gulf Of Mexico
with the Pacific, which has no terminal
facilities.
At Butte, Mont, AL Davidson, mining
man operating at White Sulphur Springs,
but living in Butte, committed suicide re-
Gently by shooting himself in the head.
He had been in a row with another man
and went home to get his gun to kill his
adversary. His wife persuaded him not
70 leave the house any more, and he Law
down. Shortly after this his wife went
into the room and found him dying, with
bullet in his brain and pistol by his side.
BY the exploson of the boiler on the river
steamer Pomona recently four persons were
Silled outright and six others seriously in
ured. The dead include two women. who
we're passengers on the steamer, and two
leck hands. OF the injured the purser and
he mate will probably die.
The dead-Mrs. III. Morrison of Fort
.angley, B. c.; Mrs. Baillie of Mount
lehman, b. c.; John Mack, deckhand;
ienry Phipps, deckhand.
The injured-Richard Powers. purser.
robahly burned fatally; James Maynard,
iate, probably burned fatally; George
novel;, fireman, badly burned; three /
indians, seriously burned. 8
The boiler explosion occurred n mid !
Lream, while the steamer was en- route I
ON New Westminster to Fort Langley. r
ne latter being farming settlement
bout 25 miles from Vancouver, B. c. I
The New York Evening Post saws, Z
ne summary of the United States treas O
rvs report shows that the governments o
sgregate gold holdings for the first time t
history have passed the half billion G
'llar mark. The actual total was $780, b
's,5O6 of which $252,07s,s59 was held b
sainst certificates in the hands of the h
Inside public, and $l5O,0O0,OOO as a re- T
rye against outstanding United States a.
ties, the balance being free assets. b
An attempt of three convicts at the /,
nitentiary at Santa Fe, N. NJ, to effect 81
cir escape resulted in the killing
Convict George Stephenson, the mortal 81
'unding of Convict Simmons, the serious h,
'unding of Convict Jose Monica Sena, tn
plain OF the Guard Felipe Armiio and ia
lard Pedro Sandoval. George Stephen Gu
2, convicted of murder, had in some til
inner armed himself with revolver. DC
llllam Simmons, sentenced for cattle ca
aling, and Frank Carper, sentenced for to
tile theft, were in the conspiracy to w,
ak Jail. 81
Final arrangements have been made III
the Russell house for the building no
q steel and iron nIant 81 Ca,lt Ga.