Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-06-21
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.


early in August.
Northcott was reelected head consul O
the Modern Woodmen OF America.
Five bodies have been recovered and |,
are still in the burning mine at Yves
Newton.
Mrs, Mckinley is able to sit up and he
physicians report that she continues t,
show improvement.
The battleship Illinois made bette
speed than required. She averaged III
knots on her trial trip at Rockport, Mass
The Washington legislature has con
cluded its special session. The capita
punishment law has been amended in thu
manner agreed upon.
The woman whose headless body was
found in Chelmsford woods and whose
head was recently found, was identified as
Mrs Margaret Blondin of Boston.
Under the mandate of the supreme
court the death warrant of Eben L. Boyce,
the wife murderer, has been issued by
Judge Smell Of Tacoma The date of exc
cution was fixed for Friday, August o.
@. +. Peterson, Swedish author and
editor, is dead at his residence in Chicago
after an illness of seven weeks, cancer of
the liver being the cause of death. Mr..
Peterson ranked among the foremost
Swedish writer's of America.
London seldom had finer spectacle
than was witnessed at the Horse Guards
parade recently when King Edward pre-
sented medals to 5000 soldier participants
in the South African campaign. The
square was lined with guards drawn from
the various regiments.
The correspondent OF the Associated
Press is authoritatively informed that the
sending Of the special embassy by Prince
Chun to Berlin to formally express Em-
peror Kwang Su's regrets at the murder
OF Baron Won Ketteler was only definitely
settled upon recently between the Chinese
court and the German minister.
The convention of the National Metal
Trades association at New York has adj
journed. The closing hours of the con-
vention were devoted to the completion
OF organization and the final arrangement
OF plans to strengthen the hands of the
in their fight against the
striking machinists The sum of $500. 900
raised BY assessment is to be placed at the
disposition OF strike committee to be
used in behalf Of the employers.
1t Is reported that all Of the Cana
dian Pacific trackmen will go on strike
at 6 a. M. Monday.
General Knefter, colonel of the IA
nous Seventy-ninth Indiana regiment
In the civil war, Is dead.
The Improvement In Mrs. McKinley's
health continues and DR.. Rixey says
that he Is satisfied with her condition.
General William Montgomery Gard. |
ner, a veteran of the Mexican and civil |
wars, is dead. aged rs years. He was |
a graduate of West Point.
There were three deaths in Chicago
recently attributed to the heat: Frank /
buckley, from Peru, Ind. John Lang,
laborer; Carl Reise, laborer.
Sick, penniless and wandering. a
man said to be q. e. Bosworth. who
disappeared from Dayton Wash, the
middle OF April. has been found at
Forest Grove. Oregon.
rhe battleship Wisconsin makes some
'peedy runs and the Illinois will have
Q look to her laurels. The new boat
8 said to be capable Of making 1S
Inots per hour under forced draught.
News has been received from Grand
forks. N. D.. that the agents of the
Northern Pacific road are authorized
0 purchase cattle and sheep In Mon
ana and deliver them to farmers ON
share basis.
Attorney General Stratton of Wash
ngton has rendered an opinion hold,
ng that the laws passed over the gov
rnors veto will go into effect Septem-
er IL, or 80 days after the special ses-
lon adjourned.
The postoffice at Medical Lake {
Vash., was entered by two masked {
len between 1 and o'clock Monday
The safe was blown. but the
urglars were frightened away before '
scuring anything of value. a
Half dozen well mounted Umatilla a
ldians are securing the Blue noun
Inns to capture Black Horn Of the s
matilda reservation and a Yakima In v
-s "Ao ioS0hSIy JrleQ TO murder l.
risbow. chief Of the Indian police.
Charles Kampeter was found dead b
the railroad track one miles north [
North Yakima. Wash. He was run Il
'er by passenger train. The BODY
as mangled and the limbs were cut
ON the trunk. Foul play is sus-
'cted. 4
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At New York the jury in the case Of d
{. Kennedy, charged with the murder K
Dolly Adams in 1898. reported a dis 81
'rement. Attorney Moore, for Ken
'dy, win ask Prosecuting Attorney o.
lilbin to move the quashing of the
dictment. d,
John Alexander Dowie of Chicago {,
nounced at his meeting in Zion tab -
nacle that certain physicians of Chi. =
go had formed plot to kidnap him. :,
* him in detention hospital and 81
At him on the head and back till he "
ould lose all his reasoning powers :,
d become really insane. SSS
Fen persons were injured three per-
ps fatally, several houses were de- mr.
'lished, many cattle were killed and "A
len farm property was DESTROYED by h,
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