Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-06-27
WORLDS news SUMMARY
cuLlED FROM DISPATCHES.
A Review Of Happenings In Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres Dur
ing the Past Week-NationaI, His
torical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.

.Abeilles' bay colt Macdonald
AT Dallas, Texas, the st. James hotel
collapsed recently. No deaths.
Rucker Rogers, convict. made a
clever break away from the Washing
ton state penitentiary last Sunday.
Reports received from all the black
soil grain producing regions of south
ern Russia indicate that an abundant
harvest is assured
A violent shock of earthquake is re-
ported from Cassano Atomic, in the
department of Calabria, Italy. No
damage was done.
At Milan, Italy, forty-nine persons
were injured recently. several of them
seriously, as result of collision of
two trains on an electric line.
4. 1t Is reported that f. Augustus
Heinze, the Montana copper magnate,
has been elected a director Of the Cen
trail Alaska Railway company.
Hon. Leo w. Pepperman, member
Of the Philippines civil service COM
mission, is in Washington, D. G., hav-
ing just arrived on leave of absence
from Manila.
Moral Mereene. manager of the
Western Union Telegraph company at
Washington. D. O., for twenty years,
died recently, aged about so, Of nerv-
GUS prostration.
The mutilated remains of Otis
Bunch, aged is, an electrician en-
ployed in the steel mills at Ensley
Ala, were found in the smoking ruins
OF a boarding house destroyed by fire.
Six hundred bituminous miners who
since April have been on strike at
the Sonneman shaft to force the op-
orators to recognize their union have
succeeded in obtaining recognition
and will resume work at once.
A. Blefgen, the 16 year old son Of
Al BIefgen ST.. of Cheney, was found
beside the Medical Lake road with an
ugly wound in his temple and the blood
gurgling from his mouth A discharg-
ed revolver was by his side, indicat-
ing suicidal intent.
Edwin Austin Abbey, r. A., has re-
ceived the royal commission to paint
the Official picture Of the coronation.
Mr.. Abbey being an American, born
and bred, this great distinction con
ferred upon him is Of unusual interest
ito the people Of this country.
A dispatch from Shanghai SAYS that
the Chinese cruiser Kai Chi was
wrecked by a terrific explosion while
lying In the Yangtse river. The Kai
Chi sank in 80 seconds, and $50 Of
ficers and men on board were killed
or drowned. Only two men on board
the cruiser escaped DEATH
News has reached Boise, Idaho Of
the death Of a 31-2. year old son of
Oscar Brunsell, at Reynolds, from TAX
ing strychnine. Some visitors to the
house had left a bottle containing a
solution Of the poison standing on a
dresser. The little lad drank some
Of It and died shortly afterward
Five killed and 20 injured are given
in the list Of casualties in the wreck
near Staples. Mimi, recently in the
reports to the general officers of the
Northern Pacific railway in this City.
The dead: Engineer Walter Scott,
body not found, supposed to be in
wreckage; Express Messenger Miller,
Fireman George Rasmussen, Conduc-
tor John Noble, Dan Kennedy, section
laborer. Gladstone. N. d.
Miss Helen Stratton and Miss EN-
ma Ramstead were Instantly killed by
a Northern Pacific passenger train at
O'Brien, Is miles south Of Seattle.
Sunday evening, and James Miller was
so seriously injured that he died three
hours later. The three, with Benja-
min o. Winkler, were in buggy cross
ing the rails when the train came upon
them. From the road the track was
obscured by the station building and
a string OF freight cars. The drivers
attention was further diverted by a
herd of cattle obstructing the way.
Fire caught in the engine room of
the Kellogg Mill company at Ballard
early Sunday morning and before 1t
could be placed under control de-
stroyed the entire plant and $4,000
worth Of property of the Stimson Mill
company, adjoining it. At one time
the entire town was endangered, as
the flames got far beyond control Of
the town volunteer fire department
Several pieces of apparatus went out
form Seattle. however. and after 70
hours work got the flame sunder con-
troll. The total loss amounts to APP
proximately $4,000.
Millions of grasshoppers have made
their appearance in Modesto, CAL, the
principal section being affected. is La
Grange, 80 miles east of their district,
in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Anton
J. Cardoza says the leaves in his or
ange and lemon orchard have been
stripped from the trees. Others re-
port like performances. On the north
ern outskirts of town H. A. Bates last
evening discovered swarms of grass
hoppers in his alfalfa fields, devour-
ing all the green leaves. The grass
hoppers are apparently quite young, as
they have the appearance Of having
Just been Matched.
The steamer Nome City has arrived,
with the record of being the first
steamer to reach Nome and also the
first one to return from there out of a
fleet Of 40 vaeaeIa Tho chin haa nc