Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-07-26
SUMMARY TELEGRAPH NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Weelx-In This and FOr-
eIgn Lands-Talen From the
Latest Dispatches.


june %, state the gold shipments to the
outside this year have amounted to So
100000 to date.
A terrible storm struck the Pleasant
Point district on Carberry plains, near
Winnipeg recently, doing 100000 dam
age to crops and farm buildings.
A special from Big Sandy, in northern
Montana, tells of the lynching of three
horsethieves by a posse of Infatuated
ranchers on the Missouri river just below
Judith.
Word reached Hereford, Tex, of reg
ular pitched battle and wholesale killing
between Mexicans and negroes, who are
working on the new Rock Island extension
in Mexico, 100 miles west of that place.
Deputy Game Warden F. A. McI1aney
! of Deta, CAL, halfbreed Indian, shot and
killed w. A. Womack and fatally wound
ed A. L. Hinchman, who, it is claimed,
resisted arrest while illegally fishing in
Grandmesa lake.
The Idaho state board of pardons unan-
imously decided to commute the sentence
of "Diamondfeld Jack" Davis to imprison-
ment for life. Davis was under sentence
to hang on next Wednesday for the muir
der of two sheepmen in Cassia county in
February, 1896.
General Butterfield is dead. HI passed
away at his home near Poughkeepsie,
NY.
The pension roll is rapidly growing. 1t
amounts to nearly $l40,OO0,00O ior the fis-
cal year.
Shamrock III. sails for New York July
rs. Mr.. Thomas Upton thinks she is the
fastest racing yacht afoat.
Marshall, Mo-, town of 5000 people, on
the Chicago & Alton road, 80 miles east
of Kansas City, is reported burned,
There is an almost complete cessation of
mining operations in the Lackawanna val
ley because of the strike of stationary fire
men.
The strike in the National Steel COM
pany's furnace at Niles, Ohio, has been
settled, and $50 men have returned to
work.
With threatening curses and at the point
of guns two masked men held up @. b.
Clemmer and Con Reagan on the east
bridge across the Umatilla at Pendleton.
An explosion occurred recently at the
Gyttorp Powder works at Nora, province
of Orebro, wrecking seven buildings. Foul
persons were killed and number injured
Leigh S. j. Hunt, the Korean million
aire, is very i'll at Nagasaki, and has beer
compelled to give up his project OF starting
an opposition paper to the Post Intelligen
Ger Of Seattle.
The steel strike in America is attracting
much attention in England generally, and
while long articles are being printed il
the newspapers on the subject, no com
ment is made in the editorial columns.
The contract for the construction of al
electric railroad between Seattle and Ia
coma, distance of % miles, has been LEI
to Hale & Smith of Portland. The con
tract price is not given out.
The mobilization of two fleets at Ports
mouth and Davenport, England, for nava
maneuvers of exceptional interest serve.
to divert public attention from the inglor
ious and protracted war in South Africa
During operations with military bal
loon near Schlusselburg, on an island il
the Neva, 81 miles east of St. Petersburg
the balloon exploded. One person wa
killed and 20 were injured, several fatally
BILLY Madden, manager of Gus Rubin
the heavyweight pugilist, who was il
Butte, states that he had been offered ,
purse of $4,000 for a meeting between
Rubin and Jeffries by the Olympic elul
of Butte.
Official announcement has been made
by j. Pierpont Morgan that he had select
ed James j. Hill, E. H. Hartman, William
Rockefeller, H. Mex. Twombley and Sam
uel Rea to fill vacancies to be created il
the directorate Of the Northern Pacific rail
road.
At Rochester, N. Y, after nearly MIN
weeks idleness, the striking laborers en-
gagged in the municipal contract work hav
resumed work. The men are granted 2
cents an hour for an eight hour day an,
time and half for overtime and doubl
time on holidays.
Twelve miles south of Glenwood, Iowa
the chaned bodies found in the ruins of tn
residence of Fred Fourhelm with shot
gun and razor by their side mutely tell tn
tale of a tragedy. Appearances indicates
that Fourhelm had cut the threats of hi
wife and child with the razor, set fire t
the house and then shot himself.
At Vienna Deputy Bakman has beel
commissioned by the representatives of tn
boot and shoe trade to question the staath
alter in the lower Austrian house as t
what that body intends to do with regar'
to the threatened invasion of the Vienn
market by an American syndicate. Loca
boot and shoe men consider that American
competition menaees the very existence o
the local industry.
The ministry won in the recent cleo
tions for the councils general in prov
inces OF France.
Brigadier General Samuel T. Cush
ing, U. s. A., retired, formerly com
missary general of subsistence, is dead
Captain Charles Botha, son of Phili
Botha, and Field Comets Human an,
Oliver have been killed in the Orang
River Colony.
]. d. Groy, switchman for tn
Northern Pacific, was killed recent,
in Tacoma by falling from the gravit,
bunkers to the deck Of collier.