Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-03-13
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A Review Of Happenings IN 81!
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week--Natlo
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.


James ]. Hill. president OF the
Northern Securities company. has SAIL
ed ON the Celtic. His trip TO England
and the continent is for q rest and
recreation.
Angus B. Macdonald, aged as years,
mill, seven miles north OF Rossland.
b. q. He was prospector ana is said
to possess valuable mineral land in
EAST kootenay.
A strange case of infatuation, fol-
| lowed by a suicide, is reported at
Highwood, a small farming town near
Fort Benton. Mrs. Ames, a widow,
despairing Of the love Of William Gray,
a wealthy farmer, took her life with
strychnine.
At Pocatello, Idaho, James A. VIII.
son, a telegraph operator. recently at
tempted to commit suicide in the
dining room of the Pacific hotel by
shooting himself. The wound will
probably prove fatal. Wilson's home
is In Boise. His brother is general
agent of the New York Life Insur-
ance company at Spokane.
Mr.. Smoot has taken the oath and
his seat in the senate.
Fifty prisoners and an immense
quantity Of gambling apparatus were
captured recently in raids on two gam
bling houses in New York city.
Judge Frank A Hooker of Charlotte
Mich, has been renominated for JUS
tice of the supreme court for term Of
10 years.
The engagement of Miss Narcissa
COX of Chicago to Frank A. Vanderlip,
vice president of the National City
bank of New York, is announced.
The northeast arm of Upper Arrow
lake, B. c., extending from Arrowhead
inland to Comaplix and Beaton, was
the scene of most violent CONFUSION,
apparently Of volcanic character re-
Gently.
The official trial trip of the torpedo
boat destroyer Worden over the Cape
Henry course recently resulted in the
craft exceeding by good margin the
80 knots required of her in the build.
er's contract
The Newark, N. j., coroner's Jury
that has been investigating the trolley
accident In which nine school children
were killed returned a verdict finding
the North Jersey Street Railway com
pany, which operates the trolley line,
responsible for the accident.
President Roosevelt has consented
to be present at the international con-
ference of the railway Y. M. G. A.,
which will be held in Topeka, Kan,
from April 30 to May 8. He has not
designated the date of his visit, but
he will be there on one of the days
mentioned.
Miss Ella Lyde, aged 20, telephone
operator, was recently suffocated In
street car at Pittsburg, Pa. She was
forced to stand because of the crush
and after riding seven or eight blocks
tainted. After being carried into q
nearby store she expired in few mo.
ments.
Professor I. N. Hollis. chairman of
the athletic committee, in an article
written for the Harvard students, sug.
gests giving up the annual football
contests with Yale. He thinks Har-
ward would profit by emitting it.
Rev. ]. M. Caldwell, at one. time pre-
siding elder of the Methodist Episco-
pal church at Chicago, has been de-
clared insane by jury in Judge Car
ter's court. He probably will be taken
to private sanitarium. The hearing
was the outcome of an alleged attempt
by the revivalist to commit suicide aft
er having been arrested on a charge Of
disorderly conduct
A desperate attempt at highway rob-
berry in the center of johannesburg
was made recently. Two men attack
ed two customs officials conveying S.
900 to the bank and, throwing pepper
in their eyes, secured the bags, which
they threw to horseman, who galiop-
ed OFF. The horseman, in his fight.
knocked down man named Brandon.
who was killed. Subsequently the
horse bolted and unseated its rider.
who was then arrested and the money
recovered.