Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1901-05-24
SUMMARY Of WORLDS NEWS
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF.
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Fast Week-In This and For
eign Lands-TaIxen From tine
Latest Dispatches.

j.. Pierpont Morgan has gone Il
Paris and will not return to Americs
before next June.
Adjutant General Hoffman of the
New York national guard dropped
dead recently while in consultation
with Major General Roe.
OF 100 cases of bubonic plague IL
Hong Kong since January 1, 112 have
died, including one victim bitten by
rat, who expired in IL hours.
The steamer greensboro, a towboat
owned by the Green River Coal Trans
portation company of Evansville, Ind.
was burned to the waters edge al
Calhoun, KY, recently and four lives
were lost.
1t is now definitely known that not
more than FIVE lives were lost in the
wreck OF the steamer City of Paducah
at Brunkhorst Landing, ILL.,, Sunday
night, and even this number may be
reduced to four.
Edward Rice, the Shoshone county,
Idaho, murderer who was sentenced
to death for the killing of Matt Malley
at Wallace, and who now has an ap-
peal pending in the supreme court,
has developed symptoms of insanity.
After lying unconscious for 10 hours
from the effect of blow received
during an alteration with Charles
Anderson, Charles c. Elms, proprietor
Of the Chicago saloon died in Seattle
Tuesday. Anderson is under arrest
and will be tried for murder.
A combination of outside steel CON
Germs with capital of 100000, 900,
Is said to be in progress of promotion
by John w. Gates, John Lambert and
Isaac L. Ellwood. the promoters and
organizers of the American Steel &
Wire company.
There is report from Tientsin
that 10000 insurgents have assembled
at Lang-liu-tsang and that they are
indulging in all kinds Of excuses, VIC
lating women, robbing houses and
plundering tax collectors and declar-
Ing their intention Of setting up a
new emperor.
The works at East Helena Of the
American Smelling & Refining com
pany. which were closed down re-
Gently owing to the differences be-
tween the employees and management
growing out Of q new wage scale, in.
cident to the eight hour law, will be
reopened at once. The men have
agreed to 60 to work at the new
schedule, which is a little lower than
the old.
philin Gobumabar r,,,,.. an.
the Teutonia bank, state institution
OF New Orleans, was shot in the calf
Of the leg while at work in the bank
counting cash previous to meeting
OF the finance committee. An exam.
nation OF the banks books seems to
point to a shortage Of $4,000. AL.
though the wound Of Schumacher is
not dangerous, he is delirious tonight
and his doctor said he spoke Of being
attacked.
Every gambling house In Montana
was closed last Tuesday, Attorney
General Donovan having instructed
every county attorney to see that they
were closed. 1t is the most radical
reform step ever taken in Montana
and the first time since the discovery
OF gold that faro has not been dealt |
in the state. The attorney general |
threatened to proceed against county
attorneys who failed to enforce the
law.
A double suicide occurred at La
conner. Skagit county. recently. John
Fay was employed by the Seattle |
Bridge company. and his Is year old |
son assisted him in his duties. The
boy committed some trivial offense,
for which his father corrected him.
This wounded the boys feelings SO
deeply that he stole out Of the room,
secured gun and shot himself In
the head. Hearing the report the
father FASTENED to the scene and saw
his son writhing In the agonies of
death. He grabbed the gun and blew
out his own brains.
The Anaconda Mining company and
the Great Northern railroad announce
that the mining company machine
shops at Anaconda and the railroad
machine shops at Great Falls, which
have been closed for some time on
account OF labor troubles, will remain
closed permanently and the machin-
cry transported elsewhere. The Great
Northern hereafter will have all its !
work done at Spokane or st. Paul. Il
According to the officials, frequent ef.
'orts to treat with the strikers at both Ii
places have proved unavailing, and as Ii
the trouble is constantly occurring. Ii
t is proposed in this way to put an
end to it.
The Chinese peace plenipotentiaries e
have agreed to the demands of the DOW a
srs for concessions to be used for lega-
lion sites. "a
General Mascardo. with 1928 men, has 5
surrendered to Captain O'Neil of the q
rwenty-fifth infantry at San Antonio,
zambales province.
At St John, N. B.. the chimney of
Iewett's sawmill collapsed today and t
'hree men were killed and others were v
injured. The dead: William ]. Price. +
John McCloskey. Charles Wilson. $
At Colorado Springs, Col, the Port \
and mine, employing 700 men. was s.
closed down indefinitely recently owing S