Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-02-07
NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD
cUIIED FROM DISPATCHES
A Review of happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.


Lieutenant Commander Henry Nc
Crea, has sailed for Colon.
The fleet of Rear Admiral Higgin
son, commander in chief of the Nortl
Atlantic squadron, has left Culebrs
island.
After lying nearly four months il
the waters of the Sound, the body Of
Robert Lewis, who was drowned last
fall, was recovered at Seattle Sunday
The body of Stephen Striebel was
found lying beside the road two miles
west of Bossburg, Wash, Sunday. A
cut in the forehead indicated foul play
Albert Griffith, the Australian prize
fighter, best known as Young Critic,
was found recently nearly frozen to
death in Chicago. He may lose his
hands.
w. G. Whitney, financier and ex-
secretary of the navy, after about %
years of far-reaching activity in the
world of affairs, has decided to retire
from business life.
Judge Tuley of Chicago, has ordered
q receivership for the Zion lace indus
tries and entered decree appointing
Elmer Washburn to The position OF re-
ceiver, under bond of 100000.
Spokane's beet seed is to be tested
by government plant experts, as it is
claimed 1t is the only sugar beet seed
grown in the United States to equal
the product imported from Germany.
r. B. Blankenship, wealthy mer-
chant of Dolorme, small lumber sta
! ton near Mattewan, w. Va, shot and
instantly killed Robert Browning, a
timber dealer Blankenships plea is
seif-defense.
Tommy Ryan of Kansas City, Mo-,
who claims the middle-weight cham
pionship of the world, knocked out
George Green, of San Francisco, in the
seventh round of what was scheduled
as ten-round contest.
Four officers and seven men of the
detachment of 210 Japanese infantry,
previously reported to have been fro
zen to death on the northern end of
Hondo island, have been found in vari-
GUS stages of exhaustion.
At Tampa, Fla, at a. conference be-
tween committee of the striking
cigarmakers and the officers of the
American Cigar company here an
agreement was reached by all the men,
and they will return to work.
Rev. VIM. Hastings, of Toronto,
Ohio, the man to whom Abraham Lin,
coin presented jacknife because his
face was homlier than his own, is dead.
Mr.. Hastings was a powerful and dis
tinguished preacher.
In the seventh round of what was
to have been a 20-round encounter be-
tween George Gardner of Lowell, Mass.
and Jack Root of Chicago, at San Fran
cisco last week, the latter was awarded
q decision upon the claim of foul.
The Hague correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says that Holland
intends to remodel her offer concern
ing peace in South Africa and renew
diplomatic representations to Great
Britain. DR.. Kuyper, the Dutch pre-
mier, says the correspondent, has
strong continental backing and the
negotiations are likely to be prolonged.
The only evidence against McCarty
when he was arrested by Sheriff Ken
nedy and Deputy George Twible was
his suspicious actions. When the de,
tectives arrived on the scene they fol-
lowed the same clue and the confes-
sion of the robbery was due TO the
pressure brought to bear on McCarty.
who was confined in the county 3ail
on 30 days sentence for vagrancy.
Manila is intensely interested as to
what action congress will take con-
corning the Philippine islands. Ordi-
nary local politics have been forgotten
and two parties have been formed, the
optimists and the pessimists. Some
think that life and property are I'M
safe outside of the towns of the
islands, while others rIdicuIe such
ideas and consider the safety of life
and property to be assured.
The war secretary of England. Mr..
Frederick, in introducing supple
mental army estimate of 5000 900
pounds in the house of commons. said |
this brought the total of the cost of the
war for the fiscal year up to IS, O0O, 900
pounds. On January LIST, Mr.. Broder.
ok, said there were still PIT 800 Brit.
sh troops in South Africa. The ex-
penses of the war have now been re-
duced to about 100000 pounds per
The Amalgamated Association of
ron, Steel and Tinworkers has Just
aiken radical step that may have a
wholesome effect in avoiding strikes.
The organization has made an agree
nent with the American Steel Hoop
company and the Republic Iron and
Steel company, that the mills of these
companies shall not be shut down
lext summer pending the wage adjust
nent. In other words there is to be
10 stop even if a disagreement on
wages results.
The president has issued the follow
ng executive order: "All EMPLOYEES
4 every description, serving in or un-
Ter any OF the executive departments.
md whether so serving in or out of
washington, are hereby forbidden.
ither directly or indirectly, indiyidu-
lily or through associations, to solicit
n increase of pay or to influence or
tempt to influence in their own in.