Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-11-13
NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLEp FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Nationa
Historical Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

Historical Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.
Secretary of War Root has arrived
home.
Yale defeated Syracuse at football
Saturday, 80 to 0.
Harvard defeated University of
Pennsylvania in their annual football
game.
Princeton defeated Lafayette, II
to 0.
Cornell and Lehigh played tie
game of football Saturday, neither
side scoring.
The Grange block, four story
brick building in olathe, Kan, was to.
tally destroyed by fire recently.
The negotiations between Russia
and Japan have so far advanced that
q settlement may be expected soon.
Mrs. Edgar e. Clark, wife of the
rand chief of the Order of Railway
Conductors of America, died recently.
The third mysterious death to occur
in the ranks of the demimonde of
Paris in the last few days has been
reported.
John K. Farwell one of the best
known wholesale drygoods merchants
in New York, is dead, at the age of
IS, from heart failure.
John Turner, the English anarchist,
must submit to deportation, accord
ing to decision by Judge Lacombe
in the United States court.
By vote of 264 to 1853 the en-
ployes of the Chicago City Railway
company have Endorsed strike if nee
essary to enforce the demands of the
union.
Jack Munroe, the Butte miner
stopped Peter Maher Saturday in the
fourth round of what was scheduled
to be a six round bout at Philadel-
phia.
Frank Keefe, the Rawlins merchant
who shot and killed Policeman John
Baxter and Lieutenant Thomas King
several years ago, has been found
guilty Of manslaughter.
The navy department has issued or.
ders to the gunboat Newport at Sa
vannah to coal and proceed to San
Domingo. The action follows advices
OF the serious condition of affairs
there.
Miss. Maud Miller, one of the most
accomplished young ladies in the nor
NAL college at Marion. Ind, is under
arrest on the charge of raising one
dollar bills to tens. The work was
done with pen and ink.
In the wrestling match at Jackson.
vile, Fla, between Tom Jenkins of
Cleveland and Tom Sharkey for the
championship of the world, jenkins
retained that title, throwing his an
tagonist the first two falls.
The money in circulation in this
country is nearly three times that at
the time of the resumption of specie
payments in 1879, an increase in the
past year of Sill, 200, 900, chiefly gold
certificates and national bank notes.
A bulletin issued by the census bu
reau on the cotton ginned from the
growth of the present year up to DC
tober 10, places the amount at 1929,
627 commercial bales, against 5,595,
1872 bales ginned up to the same date
last year.
One of the nerviest holdups in the
history of the West occurred recently
at Ogden, Utah, when a single masked
robber entered the Elite club rooms
lined up three men against the wal
and relieved them of about $4,000 IL
cash and certificates of deposit.
A receiver has been appointed fol-
d. Landreth & Sons, seed merchants
of Philadelphia. The liabilities arr
about $150,000 and the assets mucl
less. The house is one of the old
est in the country, having been found
ed in 1874 by David Landreth, wht
came from England.
In the probate court at New Havel
today William ]. Bryan was admitted
to act as executor of the will of Philt
S. Bennett, an objection to him mad
by Mrs. Benefits counsel being over
ruled. The amount of the bond wa
fixed at $350,000. Counsel on bot
sides indicated that an appeal will b
taken.
The secretary of the navy has sigr
ed the order for the dismissal of Mic
shipmen Joseph Drummond Littl,
John Henry Lofiand and Earl Wol
den Chaffee from the service. All @
the men were members of the frs
class at the naval academy. The
were convicted by courtmartial {
hazing. Little was appointed fror
Ohio, Lofland from Iowa and Chaffe
from Wisconsin, all in 1900.
When Congressman Robinson G
Fort Wayne left for Washington Their
was no commotion except among tn
mail clerks. They could not undel
stand why the eastbound mails wer
suddenly so heavy from Fort Wayn
until they discovered that severe
packages bore the congressional fran
of the congressman and were de-
tined for Washington. The tots
weight of the packages, which inclut
ed the congressman's personal effect