Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-01-24

i believed some movement Is afoot b.
tween British and the Transvaal exilel
| A Spanish village near Manresa wa
the scene of disastrous explosion
Mill hands and families were crushe
to death under flying timbers and dc
bris. Sixty dead and 100 injured
Work of extracting victims was diff
cult.
An attempt on the part of the Terr
Haute, Ind, Electric company to rul
its cars on the city lines after boy
colt was declared by the Central La
Dor Union resulted Sunday in severa
small riots in the business center.
Frederick Krainnardt, a Catholi,
priest, residing at Josephsville, Mo.
committed suicide Sunday by hanging
himself with bedspread. Rev. Krain
hardt was 81 years of age and had of
ficiated in clerical capacity at 10
sephsville for 30 years.
Mother Joseph of the order of the
Sisters of Charity of the House OF
Providence and founder Of the mother
house of that order in the northwest
located in Vancouver, Wn., died Sun
day at the convent which she erected
aged 80 years.
William Slaughter and Ralph John
son, colored musicians, were shot and
killed, and Powell Galloway, white, was
mortally wounded recently by Lillian
Williams at dance at Morris Creek,
w. Va, in the mining regions. She de-
manded ragtime and didn't get it, so
she shot them.
/. Solomon, a Syrian, living at Keo.
kuk, Iowa, was held up and robbed Of
money belt containing $500. Solo
mon had sold out his business in Keo.
kuk and was looking for a location.
Two fellow countrymen have been ar
rested charged with the robbery. Solo
mon says one of them held him while
the other cut the belt from his waist.
The money has not been recovered.
AT Ducktown, Tepn., another injunc.
ton has been granted against the sui
phur and copper companies on account
OF sulphur smoke and fumes emitted
from their plants. The president of
the Tennessee Copper company has
Issued notice that when the injunc-
ton is served on him the manager is
TO close down the entire works and
mines and pay off and discharge every
nan.
AT Cincinnati, Ohio, William Whit
aker, prominent attorney, and wife,
vent visiting Sunday and left their
'nly child, a S year old boy, with Annie
Aage, who has been with the family
My a short time. When they returned
he child was found dead, hanging to
! gaspipe in the cellar, and the servant
unconscious from asphyxiation. She
will die.
The census Office has divided the
country into the west. the north and
he south. The west comprises that
erritory from the Pacific to the east
IN boundaries of Montana. Wyoming,
colorado and New Mexico. The line
operating the north from the south is
ivers, and the southern boundaries of
ormed by the Potomac and Ohio
1issouri and Kansas.
Perhaps the most notable senatorial
lection this year is that of Senator AL
son OF Iowa. He is to be reelected
Or the sixth consecutive term, an hon
r never before conferred on an Ameri-
an citizen. Should he live out his
erm- something not improbable, for
g Is enjoying as good health as he did
Q years ago-he will have served SO
ears in the upper house of congress
nd eight in the lower.
AT Detroit, Mich, four buildings.
ach four stories high, located in the
cart OF the wholesale district, col
lpsed without any apparent cause and
II that now remains Is a smouldering
cap of ruins. The buildings were
coupled by five concerns. Their stocks
re total loss, which are estimated
$4,000, exclusive of the loss on
le buildings, which amounts to $780,
20. The buildings joined each other
the corner of jefferson avenue and
helby street.
At Victor, Col, John Warner and
us Peterson, lost their lives in. the
ay B. mine while being lowered in
bucket to the bottom of shaft They
ere overcome by gas. Both men were
bout 30 years of age and single. Re.
,rts from different parts of the dis
let show that the prevalence of gas
quite general, due to changes in the
A bulletin has been issued by the
apartment of mines which estimates
% total mineral production of the
'ovince during last year at $780, 49,
i, which is an increase of 25 per cent
Ter last year, although the duties on
I'D and charges of American reiineries
used a largely decreased production
lead. The increased production of
de mines was 81 per cent over last ,
ar The product of gold amounted
$5,600,O00, silver $2,6OO,O00, copper
100000, lead $2,0OO.OOO, and coal s4..
1880. The Kootenays contributed !
out $7,000,000 to the mineral pro- !
ction; Yale nearly $3.OOO.O 900 and the i
'ast districts about $5,OO0,OOO. 8
The boldest robbery yet recorded in
stern Montana took place recently a
tween l and s o'clock at the North. t
Pacific Railway company's depot, i
len two ironbound trunks belonging $
9. B. Clausen, travelling salesman i,
3. Clausen & Co., wholesale and q