Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-01-03
WORLD NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD
cUILED FROM DISPATCHES.
a Review OF Happenings In Both
Eastern and western Hemispheres
During the Past WeeIs--NationaI.
Historical. Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Expounded.

At Cheyenne. Wyo., so members 4
company F, Eighteenth infantry, wer
poisoned while eating breakfast Christ
mas and for time fully half of then
were in danger of death.
The north-bound Texas, Kansas &
Pacific flyer ran into burned bridg,
nve miles south Of Dallas, Tex. JUS
before midnight on Wednesday. Their,
was no loss Of life. but five person,
were injured. Five cars were des
troyed, only the Pullman being saved
The Pawnee Indians are on the war
path. An immense buffalo bull was Sc
injured In transferring from the Santa
re stockyards to Pawnee Bills ranch
south Of town that he had to be killed
The meat was given by Major Lille tc
the Indians for buffalo dance.
At Helena, Mont, the jury in the
United States court in the case al
Robert q. Lee and Samuel Garvin
charged with stealing 700 cattle from
the Indians on the Grow reservation,
returned a verdict late Christmas af-
ternoor finding both defendants guilty
after trial lasting two weeks.
A saloon near Preside gate was
wrecked during riot in which about
thousand soldiers took part. Six.
teen rioters were arrested by the po-
lice and 60 Of them were placed in the
guard house at the military post by
the provost guard, which was sent to
the scene about an hour after the dis
turbance first started.
At Seattle. Wash, Dolly Quahpe
took dose of carbolic acid and died
from its effects Christmas afternoon.
She loved Nell Pickerell, whom she
believed to be boy, The Pickerell
girl masquerades in mems clothing,
and has won the hearts of several sus-
ceptible girls. The Quahpe girl is q
waitress. She came to Seattle from
Portland, where her mother lives at
628 South Seventh street.
A race skirmish between whites and
blacks in Harlem, N. w. developed
serious proportions and kept the po-
lice busy for time The negroes, 100
strong, were armed with revolvers and
clubs, while equally as many whites
used stones and weapons. The negroes
had the advantage but were driven
back into their tenements by the po-
lice after they had charged on the
whites with pistols and razors. Fiji.
teen negroes were arrested. Four
whites, including a policeman, were
badly shot or cut.
Rear Admiral Francis Asbury Rec 7.
s. ~, retired, is dead
John Corbett, brother Of ex Champion
Corbett was found dead in Seattle re-
Gently.
The shoe shipments the past year have
been the largest in the history Of Brock
ton, Mass.
Senator and Mrs. Depew will sail for
New York on the st. Louis from Cher
bourg January A.
Yale won the intercollegiate chess tour
nament. Columbia was second, Harvard |
third and Princeton fourth.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Thebaud of Mad
lson avenue, New York City, were |
robbed Sunday of jewelry worth $780,
300.
The Bell-Nelson mill and the Everett
shipyard and the Bell-Nelson Logging
at Everett, Wash, have been
'old to the Weyerhauser syndicate for
B2SO,OOO.
Tom LeMack, alias Joseph LeMack, an
indian, who has been hunted all through
he northwest as the murderer of three
men in Canadas was arrested at Butte
ecently.
The strife now going on in Ohio
'etween the respective forces of
senator Foraker and Hanna for con-
roi OF the legislature has extended to
fractional circles over the entire state.
Captain Lucien Young and Mrs.
'oung have sailed from Havana for the
United States. They held farewell re-
option, at which 5000 persons were pres
Mt, including prominent Cuban and
parish families. |,
According to the New York World
here is an excellent prospect that Rob
IT Fitzsimmons will once more recon- /
der his determination to retire from the ,
ugilistic ring and win make match {
18th James j. Jeffries. Is
The most daring robbery that has |
appened in Spokane for years oc- G
lrred Saturday night, when thieves s
ole furs worth $500 from the windows f
the Spokane Cloak and Suit house, la
1891 Riverside avenue.
John Pinover, a young wholesale
quor dealer of Middleton, N. Y, Sun
~ jumped from the Brooklyn bridge. O
g is still alive at a hospital. Pinover
I'D the doctor he simply wanted to q
'e if he could make the jump and live. n
Victoria and Vancouver island are q
implicitly cut off from telegraphic v
all cables to the island '
aving been broken by the numerous "
9ssels which dragged anchor during a,
Ie Christmas night storm, and it will G,
} some time before the cables can be v
paired H.
AT La Crosse, Wis, Mrs. Elsie Gle e,
oft, daughter of the late millionaire h
mberman, Abner Gle, was secretly d.
reed from her husband, Robert Scott,
Gently. Incompatibility of temper is
e charge. Mrs. Scott is reputed to be s,
birth a million, and is prominent club h,
ars,orn Mr. CookA 4. -