Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-01-10
WORLDS NEWS BR|EFLYTOLD
cUIIED FROM DISPATCHES.
a Review of Happenings I'm Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past week--NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.

Il. W. Curran, better known throug
out the Black Hills country as s'Maio,
Curran, is dead at Newcastle, Wyo.
President Castro OF Venezuela has wri
ten an open letter, copies of which hay
been received by officials at Washington
IN which he defends the general polio
he has pursued and throws considerabl
light on his aspirations.
1t is reported among the Chinese off
Gals that M. Lessar declared that unles
the treaty was concluded by the Russia
New Year Russia would break off negc
tiations with China and maintain her oe
cupation of Manchuria.
The Chicago river is to be widened {
200 foot channel between Lake and Val
Buren, streets. A strip of land varyin.
from Is to 60 feet is to be condemned OF
the west bank Of the stream. The lon.
disputed question of which side of tn,
river would be cut away has been finally
settled by officials of the board of sanitary
trustees. The approximate cost of thi,
long desired Improvement will be 81, $780,
900.
While standing but few feet from his
s year old daughter Floy, George vro-
man, postmaster at Wayside, Wash, de-
iiberately shot her through the breast, the
wound resulting in her death a few mo
ments later. Then turning his Smith &
Wesson revolver on himself, Vroman fired
two more shots, one of them entering his
body over the heart. He fell to the
ground and when found was groaning,
dying few minutes later without being
able to make any statement.
1t is understood that Helena and
Butte had been admitted to the Pacific
Northwest league.
BY the decisive score of 40 to 0 the
Michigan university football team to-
day defeated Stanford university.
Hon. James ". Reed, of Lewiston,
Idaho, died recently at his apartments
OF paresis. with which he had been
stricken since last February.
At Havana the indications are that
the entire Palma ticket will be elect
ed and that Tomas Estrada Palma,
the nationalist candidate for the presi-
dency Of Cuba, will receive the unani-
nous vote Of the ELECTORAL college.
President Roosevelt's first annual
reception was attended more largely
than any other New Years reception
In a number of years. In all 300 per-
sons flled through the White House
and shook hands with the president.
The Philadelphia Press says an in
crease OF from to IL per cent in the
wages of about $4,000 trainmen will
be announced soon by the Pennsyl-
Vania Railroad company to take effect
1. 1t will apply to all the
trainmen on the lines owned by or
operated by the company. The cleri-
al force Is not included in the plan.
The Beers ambushed a party of the
Scots Greys last Sunday near Bronx
hortspruit (about 40 miles east Of Pre-
toria ON the railroad). The British cas-
ualties were six men killed and cen
Gen. j. Franklin Bell Is conducting
vigorous campaign in Batangas pro-
Vince. Every available soldier Is In
the field. The columns under the COM
mand of Colonels Whit and Dougherty
are doing excellent work and driving
the Filipinos In every direction.
A cold blooded attempt at murder
was made on Eugene A. Marsh, cat
tie dealer, while in his shack, Spokane,
last Sunday evening. 1t is supposed
by the police that the attempt at muir
der was made to rob him of $500 he
lieved to be in his shack. Mr.. Marsh
was shot in the head, but was not seri-
pusly wounded.
Admiral SIMPSONS malady pro-
crosses slowly but very steadily toward
the end. Medical science cannot check
It. Symptoms OF arterial degeneration
have appeared, such as are incident to
his malady, injecting great uncertainty
INTO the case. Moreover. the patient
s becoming less tractable and respons-
We to treatment.
The total reduction Of Great Britain's
military forces in South Africa from
he beginning Of the war to December,
including deaths from disease, men re.
ported missing, etc, amounts to "a, 299
men. OF this number 19.430 were ac-