Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-05-17
SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BR1EF.
a Complete Review of the Events of
the Past week-In This and For
eign Lands--Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

English miners have decided t,
await the operation of the new tax.
A steamer with smallpox on boart
was not allowed to land, and was sen
back from Juneau.
The Great Northern repair shops a
Great Falls have been ordered closed
on account Of the strike of 40 mer
for better wages. The company re
fused to grant the demand.
The treasury department is prepar
/, ing a letter to the postoffice depart
ment asking that fraud order be
issued against parties representing
themselves as interested in the Durkee
claim.
The board of overseers Of Harvard
university at the regular meeting here
have voted to grant the degree of Doc
tor OF Laws to President Mckinley.
The degree will be conferred at com
mencement in June.
Sebastian Martinelli, titular arch
bishop of Ephesus and cardinal elect
of the Church of Rome, has received,
at the hands of Cardinal Gibbons, the
red berretta and donned the robes
which will hereafter mark his rank
A search party which has returned
from New Guinea discovered the half
eaten remains Of the Rev. James Chal-
mers and the Rev. Oliver Tompkins
OF the London Missionary society and
their followers, who were massacred in
April by natives of Flytiver New
Guinea, after a tribal fight.
The Marshall block in Seattle
owned by w. L. Smith of Syracuse, N.
Y, and the Walker block were recently
Quilted by fire, which started in Mitch
ell, Lewis & Staver's implement store.
Cause unknown. Damage will amount
to about 100000, probably three-ffths
OF which is covered by insurance. The
Migliavacci Wine company's stock was
badly damaged.
The New York stock market was
utterly demoralized recently by the de-
velopments in Northern Pacific. What
were rumors became assertions Of fact
later, that the Hartman interests, in
retaliation for the recent attempt to
secure control of the Union Pacific,
had turned upon the Morgan-Hill in,
terests and wrested from them the con
troll OF the Northern Pacific.
Three persons are reported to have
been lost in the fire that totally de-
stroyed the FIVE story apartment build
ing at the southwest corner Of six
tieth street and Lexington avenue, in
New York city. Others were injured,
some so seriously that they may die.
The damage to property is placed
ut $4,000.
Moulton Needhan, secretary and
treasurer Of the Washington Baseball
Club. is dead.
At Nelson. B. O., last week, Jimmie
Burns and Charlie Cor fought twenty
rounds to a draw.
Omaha has resumed its normal wide |
open condition, Mayor Moore's blue law
enforcement having been abolished
The boiler at Reilly's sawmill, near
Stroud, 0. T., blew up recently, killing
Oscar Neatly, engineer, and fatally |
scalding Solomon Reilly.
Fully 10000 men and boys ran riot
n the streets of Detroit for more than
three hours one day last week and
continual running fight with police.
men, both mounted and on foot. caused
great excitement in the heart of the
,ity.
A set of boilers at the Highland hoist
operated by the Homestake Mining |,
company. at Lead. s. d. blew up with
errific force recently. The engineer
vas killed and two helpers seriously
INJURED. The Hohestake company will
% badly crippled until the hoist and
awmill can be repaired.
The passenger steamer Bon Voyage
aught fire in Lake Superior recently !
nd was beached near the portage ship
anal. A telephone message from Red
tidge, the village nearest the spot
Vhere the steamer was put ashore. saws
hat five passengers. all women, were
rowned In getting from the boat to
be shore &
Miss Dora Mcdonald of Detroit, 9
lich.. who apparently died several
avs ago, and whose condition was
UGH that her physician, Dr. George s.
lelds refused to pronounce her dead. \
rter 80 hours suspended animation. v
wing to uncertain signs of life about !
le body, died today after being in a +
ataleptic state for 4S hours. =
On a farm near BLOOMINGTON. Ill.
lerritt Chism killed his wife. AS she !,
as starting TO church in buggy with
re two little daughters of Chism. her 7
epdaughters, a quarrel arose. Chism a.
Imped into the buggy and with knife ?
II his wife's face and neck. He then u
rev her into the road, jumped on Il
Or and stabbed her repeatedly.
A strike involving directly 100000
achinists and indirectly 100000 men
the metal working trades is EXPECT, &C
to take place May 80. unless some ia
Management is effected in the mean to
me, This is the statement made by W
resident James O'Connell of the In. co
irrational Association of Machinists 90
no has his headquarters in Washing TT
q, d. G.
At Fairbury. N. j.. a horse doctor
med Zeigler and Frank Browner
re having fight back of Colby's
lizard hall when the Rock Plains a,
itch engine, pushing train of cars :"
t of the way. ran over the two men. -
tting off both Zeigler's feet and in III