Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-04-24
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cvLLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
a Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week--NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

Former Congressman Abner Taylor
OF Chicago is dead, aged IA years.
AS a result of the recent decision
the Northern Securities slumped near
ly 10 points last Monday.
Harry Forbes of Chicago, the ban
tam weight champion, recently knock
ed out Jimmie Devine of Philadelphia.
A great fire has broken out at Rome,
N. Y. Two blocks are now gone, in
GLIDING the theater, the Arlington
hotel and many stores.
In Manchester, England, w. F. Cody
(Buffalo BilD, met with an accident at
the first appearance Of his show. His
horse reared and fell on him.
David Gordon Of Anaconda, Mont,
a miner and wealthy bachelor, aged
IS years, Is missing and supposed 20
have been murdered for his money.
Five men were killed and two Sc
verely burned recently by a gas ex.
plosion in mine No. of the Kansas &
Texas Coal company at Carbon, l. T.
Before the Salt Lake Athletic club
Caesar Attel was knocked out by
George Baker of California in the ninth
round of a scheduled 20 round contest.
Sir Chentung Laing Cheng, the new
Chinese minister, has arrived in Wash
ington with big suite, including a
number of young men OF aristocratic
families, who come TO America for an
education.
The warship Reina Christina, flag
ship of Admiral Montejo, which was
sunk by Admiral Dewey, was fioated
and beached last Monday. The skele-
tons OF about 80 OF her crew we're
found In the hulk.
John De Falco, an Italian convict,
who was serving a life sentence at the
Oregon penitentiary for killing his wife
in Portland on February 26, commit
ted suicide by cutting his throat and
severing his windpipe.
The schooner Margaret L. Ward was
rammed and sunk by the Southern Pa
cific steamer Ell Rio % miles east of
Galveston bar recently. Two children
OF Captain McKown of the schooner
were lost and one seaman of the same
vessel.
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Illinois Central. is organizing party
to go into the mountains to search for
the remains of his brother, benjamin.
Eagan, formerly superintendent Of the
Great Northern, who became lost and
persisted In the region about Bolton,
Mont, while hunting deer last Decem-
Der.
The Omaha police are looking for
man named Frank e. knight, whose
wife they believe was poisoned and
then buried secretly. Mrs. Lucy Stiles
and her son, Malvin Dusenbery, are
under arrest ana charged with the al
legged crime. knight was traced west
ward to North Platte, and is believed
to be making his way to Wyoming.
William Slime of Walla Walla,
Wash, died of heart trouble recently
after brief Illness.
The opening game of the Inland
Empire league will be played April 80
with Dayton in Walla Walla and Col
fax at Pendleton.
Government experts will come to
western Montana this spring to inves-
tigate the spotted fever scourge which
for dozen or more years has made It's
appearance each season in the Bitter
Root valley, the seat of the late Mar
Gus Days stock and grazing farm.
Rev. j. Barr Harris minister of
the Methodist Episcopal church, South,
at Bohemian. Mont, has been arrested
on the charge of seduction under a
promise of marriage and on the charge |
OF intimacy. The complaining witness |
is Miss Abbie Hardenbrook, a men, |
Der of his congregation.
Fire at Nelson, B. c., recently de-
stroyed the factory of the Kootenay |
River Lumber company.
The steel trust is satisfied with the |
ore properties already acquired in the
Mesaba district, except what it may
secure from Hill.
The typhoid fever epidemic contin-
ues to spread among the students of
the university campus and the resi-
dents of Palo Alto, Cal.
Stanford won the 18th intercollegi-
ate field try by narrow margin. The
final score stood: Stanford university
W 80 OhANSAoity VI SdluOTHld, 90 20.
Sam Martin. the first to be tried of
the band of negro grave robbers under
arrest at indianapolis, was found
guilty.
The strike of the iron workers
against the American Bridge company
is settled
Premier Balfour, in letter to an in
luirer, emphatically repudiates any in
Lention on the part of the government
Of giving home rule to Ireland.
In battle following an unsuccess-
iul attempt to rob the First National
bank of Wampum. Pa. one robber was
killed and a citizen seriously wounded.
Every window glass factory in the
United States is out of blost, and 90
300 skilled laborers leave the factories
with no idea when they will return to
work.
Mrs. Robert Fitzsimmons, wife of
the heavyweight pugilist, died at her
home in Brooklyn recently. Mrs.
Fitzsimmons had been ill with typhoid