Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-05-31
SUMMARIZE WORLDS NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For-
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

the president and his party will leave
San Francisco Saturday. They will
go direct to Washington, and no
stops will be made except those made
necessary by railroad arrangements.
Alaska may have a new governor
soon after President Mckinley re
turns to Washington. Governor John
G. Brady's term expired this month,
and he is now holding office through
that provision Of the law which keeps
him till his successor is appointed.
The president and Secretary of
State Hay have been in constant COM
munication with Washington during
all their Journey west. Dispatches
from our foreign embassies have been
continually arriving, and the Chi
nese situation has received special at
tention
The greatest flood in the history of
Elizabethtown, Tenn, swept through
there recently, drowning three per-
sons and wiping out 81 dwellings. The
names Of the victims are: Mrs.
Gregg, Mrs. Filley and negro named
Souchong. Others are missing and
are believed to have been drowned.
The cadets dismissed from the
West Point military academy as the
result of the recent disturbances
there are: Henry L. Bobby, Nebras-
ka; John A. Cleveland, Alabama;
Trangett +. Teller, New York; Ray
mond A. Lynton, Michigan; Birchie
o. Mahaffey, Texas. All these cadets
are Of the second class.
The following cadets have been
suspended: Olan Caleshire, ILL
nois; BENJAMIN F. Mcclellan, Mississ-
ippi; James A. Shannon, Minnesota;
Charles Telford, Utah, of the second
class; also Thomas N. Gimpering Of
Ohio and Henry Hawley of New York,
of the third class. These cadets are
suspended without pay until April l.,
1902.
Reports from Pekin are to the eff
feet that Marshal Won Waldersee has
informed the Chinese his troops will
not leave Pekin until the court re-
turns and he is himself received in
imperial audience. The French have
withdrawn from the Shan-si expedi-
tion and the English have refused to
take any part in it.
Captain Frederick J. Barrows, Thir-
teenth volunteer infantry, late depot
quartermaster of the department of
southern Luzon, who was charged with
embezzlement and selling government
property, to be dishonorably discharg.
ed and to undergo five years. impris-
onment. Both Barrows and Boyer
will eventually be removed to Leav-
enworth prison, Kansas.
According to advices from Dawson
of May 16. by the steamer Cottage
City, the Yukon river at Daw-
son is clear of ice. On the af.
ternoon of the 14th thousands OF peo-
pie were attracted to the river front
by the cracking ice. which was heard
for miles. The scene was awe in
spring and business of the Klondike
metropolis was suspended. Ice accu-
mulated in the river above the city
to a considerable height and SO great
became the pressure that the ice in
front Of the city gave way, and with
roar and rush 1t soon disappeared
and formed large jam about mile
below Dawson.
The United States revenue cutter
Grant has come off the rocks in Saan-
ich sound.
The village Of Esparagossa, province
of Badajos, has been almost destroyed
by a storm. One woman was killed.
The wooden steamer Baltimore foun-
dered recently In Lake Huron near Au
Sable and IL of her crew Of IA were
drowned.
H. H. Spyer's single mill was
burned recently. The fire started in
the boiler room. Loss. $4,000. fully
covered by insurance.
Marvin Hart of Louisville recently
knocked out Dan Creedon Of Australia
In the sixth round before the Southern
Athletic club of Louisville.
Thomas Morris Avery, founder of
the Elgin National Watch company,
died recently in Chicago, from stroke
OF paralysis. Mr.. Avery was past So
years of age.
La Union. large union soap factory
controlled by Serrano 6 Farias and
owned by various stockholders Of Tor
reon, Mexico, and surrounding neigh
borhood, has been destroyed by fire.
Loss. $685. 1000.
A superior force of Beers made a
determined tatack on a convoy between
Ventersdorp and Potschefstroom, May
rs. but were driven off. British loss
was four killed and 30 wounded. The
convoy arrived in safety.
Governor Aycock of Raleigh, N. c.,
says the food damage in the state
amounts to several million dollars
Last nights rainfall was very heavy
and more rain is falling. All streams
In that section are rising.
At Key West, Fla, as the result OF
an unexplained tragedy at cottage oc.
cupied by the D'Ormond-F Fuller com.
pany, a dramatic organization. Miss
1nez Leonard and T. Edgar Baucleigh,
two members Of the company, are dead
Another material cut in Alaska pas
senger rates has been made by the Pa
cific Coast Steamship company, which
advertised and placarded first class
tickets to juneau and LYNN canal norts