Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1902-05-09
Late new. Items.

Congressman Otey, virginian Of
wealth, is dead. He was veteran of
the confederate army.
Senator McLaurin will not again en-
ter the race for the senate in the
South Carolina primaries.
At Everett, Wash. the safe door of
the Great Northern ticket office was
blown open recently by burglars and
about 500 stolen.
All efforts to bring the Jeffries-Fitz-
simmons fight to Seattle in the sum-
mer have been called off because of
Governor McBride's opposition.
At Ellensburg, Wash, in saloon
as the termination of a quarrel be-
tween two well known gamblers, Jack
Ellis shot and killed Ben Stanley.
The jury in the Francis Glessing
Paine, alias Joe Malvern, murder case
at Everett, Wash, has returned a YER
dict of murder in the second degree,
DR., Thomas Wilson, curator of pre-
historic archaeology in the Smithson-
ian institution and the National mu-
scum for years, died in Washington,
D. c., Sunday, in his 10Th year
Two persons were killed and As in
jured, three fatally, in head on col
lision between an immigrant train and
fast freight near lockwood, Pa, on
the Baltimore & Ohio railway.
The fire at Mil Gamer, town on the
right bank of the Damiotta branch of
the Nile, in which number of lives
were lost and thousands of native res.
licences destroyed, burned three days,
Potter Palmer, one of Chicago's
most prominent business men, is dead.
Physicians who attended him are at
loss as to the ultimate cause of his
DEATH as he did not appear to have or
ganic troubles.
j. T. Robinson fell 80 feet down an
ore chute in the Tiger mine at Wallace
Sunday. He has a good chance of
recovery. Not bone was broken, but
he was badly bruised all over and in
jured internally.
One thousand molders, pressers and
laborers employed at the fire brick
and terra Gotta works at Cheltham
in the outskirts of st. Louis, are on
strike. The skilled men struck out of
sympathy for the laborers.
The Victoria, Vancouver & Eastern
railway grade across the Manly ranch
five miles below Grand Forks, has
been completed and track laying OPP
erations resumed. The rails will be
laid to Nelson, Wash, before Friday.
At Los Angeles, Cal, in fierce bat
tie with detectives Sunday afternoon
DR.. E. w. Aldrich of Chicago was
killed and City Detective Hawley seri
ously wounded. The fight occurred al
the offices of DR.. Aldrich in the Hotel
Savoy.
1t is reported at Jacmel Hayti, that
San Domingo, the capital of the Do
minican government, has surrendered
to the insurgent forces. President
Jiminez of the Dominican republic is
said to have taken refuge in the
French consulate.
Queen Wilhelmina is still alive
None of the doctors attending her
majesty left the palace Sunday night
and neither the queens mother mol
the prince consort went to bed The
confinement of the queen was long
and difficult and artificial means were
resorted to.
Advices from Jibout, French East
Africa, declare rumor is current that
battle has been fought between Turk
ish troops and the Imam tribe of Ar,
abs at Koffutidor, on the frontier of
Arabia, in which the Turks were de-
feated, losing 400 men in killed and
wounded. The Arabs are also said
to have lost heavily.