Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-07-12
SUMMARY Of WORLDS 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.

AT Aberdeen, D ~, Senator James Kyle
died Monday afternoon at o'clock.
Fire recently totally destroyed the Ash
enfelter mill, corner First and Cedar street
Spokane. The loss is estimated at about
$4,000. About $4,000 insurance was car
ried.
Charlie Golf OF Spokane, middleweight
champion Of the northwest, knocked out
Bob Hodge, middleweight champion Of
Idaho, in the second round of boxing
contest at Grand Forks, B. C.
A statement prepared at the pension of
flee shows that for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 49,6l2 names were added to the
pension rolls, Of which 44,S6l were orig
inal issues and 475l were reservations.
Official announcement has been made of
the completion of an immense lead COM
bination having capitalization of about
$2O,OOO,000, which will control the out
put of the lead fields in southwestern Mis-
souri,.
A special from Rock Springs, Wyo,
says: The eastbound passenger train, No.
Q, crashed into freight train at Bairs-
town, mile west of Rock Springs, Sun
day afternoon. Twenty-eight persons were
injured, none fatally.
Little Whirlwind, the life prisoner whose
case was taken up by the Indian Rights
association and his pardon urged, is free
man. The Montana state board of par
dons has Endorsed the action of Governor
Toole in ordering him set at liberty.
Two dead, two severely If not fatally in
Jured and score more or less burt is the
result of fire which broke out at the
Pullman lodging house, la West Mer-
curry street, in Butte. The dead. Sam
Mix, waiter, Missoula, Mont; Ole Berg,
carpenter, Butte. Severely injured: Billy
Ryan better known as Australian RYAN"
pugilist.
Crowded together in little zinc lined
shanty, under north shore pier, 10 boys
and young men and one old man met in
slant death by lightning recently in Chi
cago. They had left their fish lines and
sought shelter from the fierce thunder
storm that deluged the north part of the
city. Ten minutes later their bodies Law
with twisted and tangled limbs, 'like
nest OF snakes" as the men who found
them said. There were IL who sought
shelter, and just one escaped. Twelve
year old Willie Anderson was uniniured.
but he lay many long minutes before he
could be drawn out from under the heap
OF dead bodies. The dead are all from the
families of comparatively poor people. |
They were fishing and seeking relief from
the heat Of the day, or had come to wade
or swim.
Constitution beat ColumblL in the sec.
ond trial race.
For a week the New York stock ok.
change will take vacation.
Dan Mcleod. the Scotch wrestler
won the match with Tom Sharkey.
the sailor pugilist at the Broadway
arsenal in Buffalo.
Cornell won two out of three events in
the intercollegiate regatta and lost but
one. Pennsylvania carried off the honors
in the freshmen race.
AT 1880 Thursday morning II was
estimated that the total number of
deaths from heat in the last six days
In Greater New York was 600.
Shamrock ii. was again defeated by
her predecessor by minute and half
Injunction is dissolved against Denver
saioonkeepers and they may sell liquor to
women in boxes now.
The freight handlers are on strike at
East st. Louis. Seventeen hundred men
are out and not wheel is moving in the
city.
In Globe, Ariz., recently IA buildings
were destroyed by fire Of an unknown
origin and 10 families of miners are home
less. Loss, $4,000
The Homestead hotel at Virginia Hot
Springs, in Bath county, Virginia. was
totally destroyed by fire recently. All the
occupants escaped, but many of the guests
lost their valuables. The origin OF the
Gre is unknown.
In San Francisco an early morning fire
IN the Italian quarters destroyed three
ramshackle lodging houses. A young .
lady is missing and an aged woman is
lying from burns received while irving
70 escape from one Of the destroyed build
ngs.
sumner Surrat, a lineman in the
employ OF the Seattle Electric COM
pany, while working on a pole came
n contact with live wire and was
killed before help could reach him.
t is estimated that 1000 volts passed
through his body.
E. Y. Judd, the wealthy milling man OF +
Pendleton, Ore, accompanied by few i
friends, has attempted the ascent of a
Mount Hood, l,225 feet, as far up in the !,
NOW line as an automobile can be driven. u
Mountain climbing with an automobile is :
! novel idea, that has never been tried in n
his or any other country.
Sixteen harvest hands returning home
rom the wheat fields of western Kansas
we're robbed by a gang of men near june
ion City recently while riding on a
reight train. They were compelled at the T
'oint of revolvers to surrender their y
money. One refused and was shot in the :
eg. The robbers escaped after securing =
rom $40 to $50 from each man.
No arrests have been made in con- Z
lection with the shortage of $4,000 in ~
he mint at San Francisco and specula-
ion as to the real culprit is of varied
ort.
To the disappointment of all the
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