Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-02-27
WORLDS NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLEp FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
4 Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatlonaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

Venezuela has decreed a 80 per cent
increase of duties on all imports as a
war measure.
1t is reported Chicago is to have
the finest museum in the world, and
Marshall Field is to provide the funds
TO build it.
1t does not seem at all possible at
CHS time that Herbert w. Bowen. the
United States minister to Vehezucla,
will go to The Hague.
Frank Robinson, marshal of Rich
land, Baker county, Oregon, shot and
fatally wounded James Simonis. resi-
dent Of Eagle valley. Simonis came
into Richland to shoot up the own.
The so called beef trust" Case was
disposed of recently in Chicago by
Judge Grosseup in the United States
circuit court, the demurrer Of the
packers being overruled and a tenn
porary injunction granted.
The east and middle west are with
ing under the sting of cold. Fuel is
scarce in many sections. making
weather intolerable. There was biz
card in Indiana. 1t is the low record
of the winter in many Atlantic coast
states.
Seven hundred thousand acres along
the main line of the Great Northern
in Choteau and Valley counties, Mont,
have been withdrawn from entry in
connection with the governments st.
Mary's canal irrigation project.
At Miles City, Mont, in the absence
Of the fireman OF the Ursuline convent
one of the sisters undertook to look
after the fires of the heating plant.
rhe boiler blew up, badly damaging
the building. No one was hurt anu
there was no panic.
Fire recently broke out in the pump
house at the Minnie Moore mine, near
Bellevue. Idaho. The pumphouse, car
penter shop, change room and store
house were destroyed, and the mill ON
the property was damaged considerab.
ly. Thirty-six men were employed at
the mines and these will be thrown out
If work until the repairs are com
pleted. The loss is about 100000.
The Alaska Boundary Commission
meets in London in June.
At Connellsville Mary Kohland, aged
IL years, met horrible death.
Another six days go as you please
race has started in Philadelphia, Pa.
Near Tallahassee. Fla, three white
children and negro were drowned re-
Gently.
Estimates of the immigration which
will pass through st. Paul this season
go as high as 100000.
BY the burning of the residence OF
William Adams Of Hillsdale, l. T., dur.
ing the night three of his children
were killed.
At Schenectady, N. Y, Mrs. George
Stave, aged 81, and her daughter, Mrs.
Lemuel Davis, aged 81, are dead from
drinking wood alcohol.
Lewis B. Eveland, for more than IS
years travelling passenger agent of the
Denver & Rio Grande railway, died
suddenly at Kansas City recently.
Mrs. A. G. Frontier, landlady at the
Falace hotel at Burke, w. Va, recent
ly shot John Drownridge, local lum.
herman, who, on being ordered to leave
her inn, refused to do SO.
1t is reported that the Macedonian
leader Boris Sarafoff has had organ,
lied within the past fortnight several
bands of well-equipped Bulgarian ban
dts, consisting of about $50 men.
After holding half hundred blue
coats at bay for several hours, during
which a number of shots were ex..
changed. Lafayette Sims, a desperate
negro, was killed by the New Orleans
police.
In the report of the health depart
ment published recently 1t is estimated
that the present population Of Greater
New York is 3,732.092. an increase
since the United States census Of 1900
of 295,7O1.
Jacob Bassenella was recently hang
ed at Washington, N. d. for the muir
der of Anton Klinger. He left state.
ment admitting the crime of murder
ing Alexander Anderson at Grand
Forks several years ago.
At Cedar Rapids, Iowa, fire recently
destroyed the Clifton hotel, cremating
nine of the guests and causing injuries
to AZ other persons, who were scorch-
ed or forced to jump to the frozen
street from the second and third story
Definite announcement has been
made that G. e. Hamilton of st. Paul
is acting on behalf of the Northern
Pacific Railway company in making
application to the Manitoba legislature
Ter permission to build an extensive
system Of branch lines throughout the
province.
All the states In the Union have
their full quota Of senators except Del
aware, which has none. and Of the So
senator's all told, 81 Of them are law
yers. OF the rest, is a civil engineer,
2 are doctors, are journalists and the
others are bankers, miners, farmers.
business men and politicians.
Secretary Cortelyou has attended his
irst cabinet meeting as the head Of the
new department Of commerce and Ia
Dor. He was given q cordial welcome
by both the president and the other
members Of the cabinet and he was as