Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-07-19
summary TELEGRAPH NEWS
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.

LUG PocOoihce db Wdllulds wash, Wds
broken open by robbers recently. Tht
safe was blown open with dynamite
and the money, stamps, papers AND
records stolen.
Frederick d. White, son of Andrew
ID. White, United States ambassador te
Germany, committed suicide at his
home in Syracuse, N. Y. Prolonged
Ill health and exhausting nervous dis
ease Is given as the only possible ex
PLANTATION of his act.
The town of Forsythe, Mont, was
visited by terrible fire recently, by
which two lives were lost and eleven
persons badly injured. The fire started
in the Occidentaly hotel, run by Mrs
Mcclure. Two men, names unknown
were suffocated and their bodies
burned to crisp. One was a section
employee and the other, a young man
about IL years of age, who had come
to the town only the day before from
North Dakota. The origin of the fire
Wednesday was the hottest ever re-
corded in Chicago, the mercury in the wea-
Their tower showing l0l l-2 degrees, while
thermometers on the streets were from
two to four degrees hotter.
The Minnesota state pardon board has
approved the parole of Cole and James
Younger, who have been in the Saltwater
penitentiary for the past rs years for COM
plicity in the robbery and murder at the
time of the raid on the Mortified, Mimi,
bank.
The town of Port La Vica, Calhoun
county, Texas, was swept away recently
by storm. Nearly all the houses were
blown away and large number of boats
were wrecked. No lives are reported lost.
Port La Vica is on the Gulf of Mexico, on
La Yica bay.
Glasgow, Mont. July 1l.-Sheriff Griffith
has arrived for reinforcements and brought
the first authentic news of the where
abouts of the bandits who held up the
Great Northern express near Malta. He is
confident that he has the outlaws cornered
90 miles south of the railroad on the north
side of the Missouri river and between
the river and the Little Rockies.
The state department has received the
amount of the American idemnity claims
against Turkey 500, OO0-through the
American legation at Constantinople. The
money was paid by the Turkish govern
ment to Mr.. Leishman, our minister al
Constantinople, and was by him placed in
the Ottoman Imperial bank and drafts re
mitted for the amount These drafts have
just reached Washington.
Fire destroyed the OBrien boiler
works at st. Joseph, Mo. Loss esti.
mated at 100000.
Kansas grain Is burning up in the
worst heated spell since the summer of |
1860. Corn also Is a failure.
Sunday was the hottest day of the |
season in southern Kansas, the Their |
mometer registering as high as 11S in
the sun.
p. H. Conger, United States minister
to China, will sail Wednesday from
on the steamer Nippon Maru, en- route
20 PekiA. -sSA
Six persons were drowned while surf
bathing at picnic of the Hebrew Ga
mahl Hazad, at DaufskIe beach, near
Savannah, Ga.
Nine. Melba Is suffering from an at
tack of laryngitis and her physicians
have advised her not to sing at Covent
Garden for a week.
Coleman and James Younger. who
were granted a conditional parole by
The board of pardons on Wednesday,
asst, have been released from the Still
water penitentiary.
AT Springfield, o., Paul Hague
Known as Prof. Zeno, an aeronaut. was
'atally injured Sunday afternoon at
Island Park, falling 200 feet. His para,
;hnte failed to open.
With capitalization OF between 81.
100000 and 100000, IL of the chief
Vaudeville theaters between Chicago
md the Pacific coast are about to be
Merged into single property.
AT Dennison, Texas, the worst drouth
yer experienced was broken Sunday
fternoon by terrific rainfall of over
wo hours duration, the volume of rain
eing almost equal to cloudburst.
At Niagara Falls, N. Y, Carlisle Ora.
am Sunday afternoon made his fifth
uccessful voyage through the Whirl-
DOL rapids in barrel. The start was
1ade from the Maid of the Mist land
ng, below the falls.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
opes that the corn crop Of the western
tates has not yet been ruined by the {
rought. He is disposed to believe the I
eports as to the damage have been ex.
ggerated. s
The steamer John s. Kimball, July 9
from Nome, has arrived in Seattle I
18th 20 passengers and $4,000 in gold a
ON the district, consigned principally I
a local bank. She reports that st. r
lichael. as regards the discharge of d
eight from steamers, was still Ice t
locked July 8. p
M. Santos Dumoit's cigar shaped bal 6
'on, driven by motor, had a trial re- y
'ntly from st. Cloud, across Paris,
round the Eiffel tower and back to st. il
loud. The papers say the trip was y
lite successful and that the balloon y
'cended and descended apparently at
le will OF the aeronaut.
In all parts of France Sunday the
ltional fete day, the anniversary of pi
e fall of the Bastile. was celebrated in
lth much enthusiasm and without a
sorder. There were reviews at all m
wal and military stations, followed to
1lluminatiOna firaworbs a1d ho1Io ~