Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-08-09
TELEGRAPH NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD In BRIEF.
Complete Review of the Events of
the Past weelS--In This and For-
eIsn Lands-Taken from the
--latest Dispatches.

/ At Buenos Ayres the chamber of deputie;
has approved the bill suspending martial
law. President Roca will promulgate the
bill today.
Edward II. Teneyek, the worlds cham
pion amateur scuiler, announced that he
had retired from racing forever. He re-
tires champion who has never been beat
en- in a race.
According to o widespread rumor in cir
eles of organized labor general strike Of
all unions, which will be as fatal to bust
ness interests as has been the San Francisco
walkout, is imminent in Seattle.
Mark L. Wilson, theatrical manager,
aged about 40 years, committed suicide in
Philadelphia by inhaling Illuminating gas.
In one of Wilson's pockets was badge OF
the Order Of Elks, issued by lodge ia. of
Tacoma.
Maria Pia, queen dowager of Portugal
and mother of the present King Carlos,
had narrow escape from assassination
recently. Her majesty was taking course
Of baths at AK, but was so perturbed by
the attack upon her that she left hastily
for Rome.
Nj. Demars, a Frenchman working a
claim in the Canadian Forty Mile, has paid
royalty showing his cleanup to be $4,000.
1t was taken from claim on Miller. This
is the only claim ON Miller which has paid
royalty. The Forty Mile district is very
quiet this season.
Lieutenant Croft of the Nineteenth in
fantry, with mounted detachment of
Cebu scouts, has had an encounter with 60
insurgents. Seven of the rebels were killed
and IL taken prisoners. OF Lieutenant
Croft's force two were killed and three
slightly wounded.
A boom across the mouth of convenient
slough at the Patterson logging camp, four
miles above Selkirk, gave way, liberating
100000 feet of logs, which are now sailing
toward the mouth Of the Yukon. The
amount lost was about equal to four big
RATS, and was valued at $4,000.
A pet cat overturned kerosene lamp
in the home of James Mccoy, in Brooklyn.
In the fire that resulted James Mccoy and
his two children William, aged Is, and
Edna, aged l4-were burned to death, and
Mrs. Mary Mccoy, the mother, was prob
ably fatally hurt by falling from win
dow to the ground.
Mrs. r. B. Price, aged 38, leaped from the
Proctor street bridge, in Tacoma, and was
dashed to death against the rocks in the
gulch 50 feet below. She was well known
in social circles and had been ill for several
months. 1t is believed dependency, result
ing from the condition OF her health, was
for her act.
4 A lively tornado around Kilmer, 10 miles
northeast of Topeka, did much damage re-
Gently. Several buildings were unroofed,
destroyed and one farmers bug
yy was carried through the air 200 yards
and landed upside down ON wire fence.
Orchards and crops suffered. People in the
path OF the storm fled to their cellars and
caves and escaped injury. After the wind
two and one half inches of rain fell.
The decision of the umpires with regard
10 the sham naval action off the Scilly
sizes, near London, indicates that the en-
counter used up cruisers at such rate
hat it was feared the maneuvers might
come to an untimely end for want of ships.
)f the Is cruisers knocked out nine have
been released to continue the proceedings.
The bulletin issued from Naples regard
ng Signor Crispi announces that he has
uttered relapse and is weaker. His ter
1ble struggle for breath can be heard even
n the roadway of the street where hls
esidence stands. The members of his fam
ly and his two secretaries surround the
1t is said that the family have
efused priestly offices. The last words
by Signor Crispi before he be-
anne SO feeble were. ON hearing the tele-
rams from King Victor Emmanuel and
)owager Queen Margharita: "Oh, good
ing, good queen"
The Baltimore q Ohio passenger train
rom the east, which was due to arrive in
he Grand Central station, Chicago. at
clock Wednesday night, was held up by
We masked men between Edgemere and
rand Calumet Heights, Ind, 81 miles out
rom Chicago. One of the mail cars, which
obtained no money, was dynamited and
'recked. The attempt at robbery was
lade after the two mail cars had been de- ;
iched from the train and run quarter of I
mile ahead. The failure of the robbers /
make rich haul was due to the fact
nat the express car, which contained the {
AIMS treasure, was in an unusual place. G
was the fourth car in the train. After 2
rocking the mail car and obtaining no
ooty, the men disappeared in the dark T
ess without attempting to rectify their 5
istake. The only loot that they carried
way with them as a result of their adj
'nture was the gold watch of the en-.
neer. 7
Cadillac of Detroit has been oficially
elected to defend the Canada's cup h
sainst the Canadian challenger. n
According to a Seattle newspaper. a v
BOD deal of money is being invested n
Seattle real estate by Butte men. f,
At Seattle Ralph L. Ross, deputy col ct
ctor of United States internal reye- h
ne, Is short in his accounts nearly 10
1000. II
Cresceus added more laurels to his ci
me recently by trotting mile in
O214, reducing by half a second his
eek old record Of 2:02sz.
w. s. Cooper of Sherman county. in