Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-11-08
WORLD SNENSBREFLY TOLD
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES
Complete Review of Happenings In
Both Eastern and Western Hemis-
pheres for the Past Week-Natfon-
nj, Historical, Political and Per-
sOnaI Events TerseIy Expounded
General Grants widow is i'll.

mittee.
John Segrist, center rush of the Ohio
state university football team, died re-
Gently from injuries received last Satur-
day afternoon in the game with the
Western Reserves.
AT Clarinda, Iowa, Judge Wheeler in
the district court declared unconstitu-
tional the law passed by the twenty
eighth assembly. prohibiting the sale of
liquor shipped into Iowa from other
states in original packages
The non-union furniture for the new
Montana capitol has been rejected. The
supreme court holds the advertisement
for bids was illegal, but that had it been
legal the furnishing board could have
accepted furniture made by non-union
labor
The battleship Oregon is now on the
drydock at the Puget Sound navy yard
Australian Jimmy Ryan was
knocked out by Jack Root of Chicago in
the second round of twenty-round
contest at Louisville, KY, recently.
Idaho flax is superior to any other
grown In this country, and deserves a
grade Of its own above No. 1 North
western. Such is the official informa-
tion from the Chicago board of trade.
Seventy-five families lost their homes
and $4,000 worth of property was de-
stroyed by the fire that started in Pc
terson & Co.'S picture frame factory at
Union street and Austin avenue, Chica-
go.
News was received at San Antonio
that at Purandi. Mexico, October 2S, a
bread riot occurred in which twenty
persons were wounded, many of them
fatally. The cause of the riot is said
to have been the action of SPECTATORS
in cornerlng the supply of corn.
In New York recently, as Henri Four
nier, the French chauffeur, was cross
ing the tracks in an automobile in
which other men were seated, the ma
chine came into collision with loco
motive and disastrous results followed.
All six men were hur. and the ma
chine smashed.
AS the result of domestic difficulty
with her husband, Mrs. John A. EN-
mitt, IL years old, of Halsey, Linn
county, committed suicide recently by
swallowing carbolic acid at the st.
Charles hotel, Portland. She had been
married two days, and was spending
her honeymoon in th'ls city.
President Roosevelt has granted full
and unconditional pardon TO Gunner
Charles Morgan, United States navy,
who some years ago was found guilty
by court martial of being absent from
station and duty on the cruiser New
York without leave and sentenced to
be reduced several numbers in his
grade.
Justice White has ordered the com
pulsory liquidation of the London and
Globe Finance corporation, which fos-
tered a group of mining companies at
Rossland. In view of the serious allie
cations of fraud made from time to
time. counsel for the directors, Lord
Dufferin, Lord Edward Pelham Clin-
ton. Whitaker Wright and Lemon, de
clared chat they courted the fulles. in
vestigation.
Miss Becera, the daughter of Rodero
Becera, who was Columbia minister to
Washington several years ago, has at
last succeeded in escaping from Vene-
zuela, where she was kept by order of
President Castro, says the Port of
Spain correspondent of the Herald,
where her father. who is now blind,
has resided since his expulsion from
Venezuela. She has reached New York
CITY. Miss Becera. who was educated
In the United States, has been trying to
escape for several months.
Little Ethel Plumb, aged 2 years, is
lead ait the home of her grandmother,
Mrs. H. Parke, at Virginia CITY, Mont,
rs the result of duel fought with re-
nolvers by Mr.. and Mrs. Plumb. Mrs.
Plumb has a bullet wound in the hip,
Mrs. Parke was shot through the right |
shoulder and Mr.. Plumb is in Jail with
powder burned face. AT the first shot
lred by the husband the child fell dead
With a bullet through its head Many
hots were exchanged before help came,
md the Infatuated man was carried off
o jail. The women will recover.
Frank H. Smiley, of Chicago, who
urned states evidence in the Defen-
ZACH insurance case, has been given his
liberty. He relinquished all right to
he $4,000 insurance on Marie Defen-
ach's life. This ends ehe criminal pro
eedings in the case. as Mr.. August M
niger is In the penitentiary and Way
and Brown was previously let off with
fine. The insurance money, it Is
aid. will probably go to the unfortun-
tie girls relatives.
The building inspector of Butte has
Investigated thoroughly large crack
4 The ground for distance of 800 feet |
4 the eastern part of the city, and |
avs that the slit in the earth's surface !
J six inches in width and that no bot !
I'm can be found to the opening. The 4
rack runs north and south, bearing to \
ne east about degrees. Upon a por- +
on OF this new crack dwelling is q
,cated at the corner of Galena and Y
Lercury streets, and the house will
ave to be moved from its present site. 7
his is the third crack of considerable a
re which has within the past year n
dghtened the residents of East Butte. a
II have caused the removal of several
ouses.
The condition of Ii Hung Chang, $
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