Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-05-16
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
! Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Weelx-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.

Jesse Stone, lieutenant governor OF
Wisconsin, is dead.
Thirteen persons were killed in a
landslide at Marcia, province of
Emilia, recently.
Lord Pauncefote, the British ambas-
sador, continues quite iii, and his i'll
ness is giving the family some alarm.
A longshoreman known as "Cockney
George" was shot and instantly killed
by James williams, at Portland last
Sunday.
Miss Alice Robertson, Washington
girl, has won the degree of doctor of
philosophy at the University of Cali
fornia. She is the third woman so
honored.
At ST. Martins, N B., George Ross,
aged Ill years, is dead. On the occa-
sion of his 10th birthday the munich
pal council of st. John county pre-
sented him with an easy chair.
Bressano at police headquarters &C.
knowledged the murder, and said he
felt better for having committed the
deed. 1t is believed that trouble over
woman led him to kill Tornish.
The extensive box factory and plan
Ing mill OF the Truckee Lumber COM
pany, around which the town of
Truckee. California, was originally
built, was totally destroyed recently.
Ida and Lola Vonderhyde, aged re-
spectively Is and IS years, daughters
of George Vonderhyde, harnes maker
of Carson, New, were drowned Sunday
afternoon at Gardeners dam, on the
Carson river, about six miles from
Carson.
The bulletins issued at Castle Loo
concerning the condition of Queen
Wilhelmina, have been reduced to one
a day and it is expected that they
will soon cease altogether The
marked improvement in her majesty's
condition continues, and the constant
attendance of her physicians is no
longer necessary.
Mark McIllvaine, aged II years,
of Somerset, Pa, while out hunting
with a boy named Bricker, aged Is,
accidentally shot his comrade in the
mouth with a target rifle. Realizing
what he had done McIllvaine hurried
home and shot himself in the fore
head, dying within a short time.
Bricker's wound is serious, but he will
probably recover
The cold weather of the past few
days having continued with it's accom-
panying frosts, much damage has been
done to fruit trees in New York. The
farmers think the cherry crop has
been ruined. In eastern New York
and western Massachusetts young
trees in general suffered, but many
buds were not far enough advanced
to be blasted.
At Bridgeport, Conn, Lawrence
Bressano, a fireman in the Atlantic
hotel, crent into the meat room Sun
day morning and split the skull of
Michael Tornish, the chef with a meat
cleaver. He then took large butcher
knife and slashed the body, cutting
off the nose and ears, gouging out the
eyes and cutting strip after strip of
the flesh off the victims body shrdla
the flesh off the victims face When
the upper part of the body was I'M
recognizable Bressano jumped on it
and danced from the head to the feet.
Upon the arrival of the police, who
were attracted by the frenzied yells
of the murderer Bressano turned his
attention to his would be captors. He
was not subdued until knocked sense
less.