Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-02-14
NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD.
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week--National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Terscly Expounded.

Historical, Political and Personal
Events Terscly Expounded.
Fire at Elberton, Ca, recently de
stroyed nearly all of the business sec
ton. doing damage estimated at
100000.
Tommy Ryan has announced that he
had signed articles to fight Charles
Golf of Spokane, Wash, at Rossland
B. c., for purse of $4,000 early in
March.
At Los Angeles, CAL, Nine. Schell,
lion tanner at the Chutes, was dragged
out of cage, torn and bleeding, in
the middle of the performance, re-
Gently.
President Roosevelt has accepted an
invitation of the Potomac post, G. A..
r., which is to give a dinner in Wash
ington to Gen. Torrance, the command
er in chief, on February II.
Senior Lerema, the newly elected
governor of Bataan province, in the
Philippines, fed after his election,
when he was called upon to account
for $4,000 insurgent funds. He is still
missing.
Captain Crossman, of Vienna, who
started to walk down the Danube from
Linz to Vienna, distance of 100 miles,
with his newly invented walking shoes
has covered 20 miles of the distance.
He is towing his wife in small boat.
At Manila the American merchants
complain of the action of the consular
purchasing agent in making the ma
jority of his purchases at Hong Kong.
where materials are cheaper, on &C
count of Hong Kong being a free
port.
According to the Calcutta CORE.
spondent of the London Daily Mail the
Indian Medical Gazette announces
that DR.. Rost of the Indian medical
service has successfully cultivated
cancer and has infected a guinea pig
with his culture.
Safeblowers forced the vaults of the
Lemon Banking company, at Ack-
worth, Ca, recently, securing $4,000
in gold, a $4,000 Georgia state bond
and large amount of stock certifi-
Gates. Between $4,000 and $4,000
in notes, stock certificates and bonds
were hopelessly mutilated.
Captains Boiler and Bulger of San
Francisco, United States inspectors of
steam vessels, have filed their report
in the matter of the loss of the steam
ship Walla Walla. The blame is placed
on the faulty lookout Kept on the
Walla Walla by the officer in charge Of
the bridge, who was in the charthouse,
and the men on the lookout, one of
whom, Wilson, was not at his post of
duty. Captain Hall and Second Officer
Lupp are exonerated.
T. F. Healey for many years resi-
dent of Carson, New, committed sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head recently. Judge Healey, as he
was known, was prominent in politi-
cal circles for years. He was private
secretary to Governor Adams in 1884
and during Adams term. Lately he
has occupied position as United
States examiner in a number of water
cases being tried before the United
States court. He was Respondent for
the past ten days and threatened to
take his life.
An early morning fire destroyed the
Empire hotel, large three story
dwelling house at 2700 and 27O2 Olive
street, st. Louis, occupied by men ex-
clusively, and caused the death of
eleven persons-ten men and one wo-
man-and dangerously injured seven
others. A dozen or more who had
narrow escapes from death received
less serious injuries or were frost
bitten. 1t is estimated that there were
between thirty-five and forty persons
in the building, and it is believed all
have been accounted for. The finan-
cial loss is nominal. 1t is thought that
$4,000 will cover the damage to the
building and contents, which were to.
tally destroyed.
A north bound freight train from
Seattle, Wash, ran into a huge land
slide at Lake station, fifteen miles
north. Charles Fietz, the firman, was
caught between the boiler of the en-
CINE and one of the five box cars
which had piled on top of it, and was
burned to death. He begged the crew
to cut off his arm, by which he was
held, but before he could be released
he was dead. 1t is believed that the
Earring of the train started the slide.
which buried the train under thous-
ands of tons of dirt and rock. The
train ran into it and the engine was
precipitated into Lake Washington.
Fietz was the only one of the crew
injured.