Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-02-21
NEWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and western Hemispberes
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Expounded.

Rev. George Carter Needham, the
noted evangelism, is dead.
The queen regent of Spain has
signed the treaty of friendship with
the United States.
Mrs. Virginia Suret, aged 55, was
burned to death Sunday evening in her
apartments. Her apron caught fire
from the kitchen stove.
At San Francisco a heavy south
wester, which sprung up Sunday af-
ternoon, gave vessels at anchor in the
harbor severe shaking up.
Four lives were lost in a head-on col
lision on the Iowa Central railroad
near Clifford, Iowa, a light engine
crashing into passenger train.
Albert OKlein OF Chicago, student
of the University of Michigan, COM
mitted suicide at Ann Arbor, Mich, by
taking prussic acid. No reason for
O'Klein's act is known.
Thirteen young men have been con-
victed Of the murder of Jack Osborne,
in Russell county, Virginia, last Christ
mas, and sentenced to the penitentiary
for from to Is years each.
Pittsburg will get the new school
for the education of engineers to be
established by the French government.
The French school of political science
will be located in New York city.
General ]. Franklin Bell has prac-
tically cleaned up the insurrection in
Batangas province, in Philippines, the
troops under his command having
made clean sweep of the district
Santos-Dumont, the aeronaut, met
with disaster at Monaco recently and
had narrow escape from death. His
airship Is total wreck, while tonight
his motor lies at the bottom of the bay
at Monaco.
The Hindoo twin named Dordica,
which was separated from Radica by
an operation February 9, died sudden
ly in commissions due to the advanced
stage of tuberculosis from when she
suffered.
It is reported from Bal1u, trans-C eau
casia, that thousands Of persons were
killed by the earthquake in the Shama-
ka district and that the towns and vii
liages for 20 versts around Shamaka
suffered severely.
The first annual memorial service
for those who lost their lives on the
battleship Maine in Havana harbor,
was held In Boston Sunday evening un-
der the direction of the League OF
Spanish War Veterans.
The London News dispatch from
st. Petersburg announces that the
large town Of Shamaka, Trans-C au-
casia, has been destroyed by an earth
quake and che earthquake was attend.
ed by great loss of life.
At late hour Sunday, Annie Ander.
son, Swedish girl employed as a
domestic at 204 Ashbury street, San
Francisco, was shot and probably ia
tally wounded by a masked footpad,
who made his escape and is still at
large.
Bad news for the Venezuelan gov
eminent has been received from the
interior of the country. There have
been new and numerous uprisings in
the state of Carabobo, whittier the
government has sent number of sol
diers.
Seven men were killed and at least
IA seriously injured by huge boulder,
weighing Is tons, crashing into the
caboose of a work train on the Choc.
taw, Oklahoma & Gulf railway, 20
miles west Of little Rock, Ark, re
Gently.
Cabling from Constantinople, the
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Chronicle declares the Bulgarians are
planning rising In Macedonia during
the coming spring and that they are
endeavoring to persuade the Greeks to
join them.
party OF seven women and men
coasting down hill at Cleveland, o.,
lost control Of their sled and dashed
into stone abutment Of the Erie
bridge at the bottom of the hill. All
received injuries and Patrick Fallon's
skull was fractured.
Henry Wilson and Julius Goodwin,
notorious negro outlaws, escaped from
jail at Sumpterville, Fla, Sunday after
killing Lee Graham, one of the most
prominent young men in town, and
wounding George Stafford and Willie
Porter. who tried to corral them.
Mrs. p. ]. Mcdonald was frightfully
burned at her home in Seattle last
week while trying to kindle q fire with.