Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-08-21
LATE TELEGRAPH BREVETEs
cuLLED FROM DISPATCHES or
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western HemIspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.


Owing to the curtailment in the cot
ton mills in Massachusetts IA mill
are idle and 5000 operatives affected
Recently a Denver & Rio Grandi
passenger train went through bridge
near Nathrop, Col, causing the injury
Of IA passengers.
Fire that started in the stables Of
the Armour Packing company at Kan
sas City threatened the entire PLAN
for time recently.
At the United States fishery a,
Baird. Cal, on the McCloud river, 20,
100000 salmon eggs have been takeI
from the early run Of fish.
Two freight trains on the Pennsyl
vania crashed together recently be
tween st. Davids and Ragnor, killing
two brakemen and injuring the en-
gineer of the second train.
There are unconfirmed reports that
King Peter of Servia has threatened
to abdicate. as he is virtually prison.
er In the hands of the military party
Traffic between the two Kansas Cit.
les is practically suspended, all the
temporary pile bridges erected after
the great food in June having been
endangered.
At the worlds bicycle congress re-
Gently 1t was decided to hold cham
pionship meeting at the St. Louis ex-
position. America was represented by
Victor Breyen.
A special from Sheridan, Wyo., says
Boomers POTTER, who escaped from the
Sheridan county Jail and who is want
ed in North Carolina for murder, has
been captured.
Reports received at Albany, Ca,
state that white man named Thomp-
son and King Wrightman, a negro,
were lynched at Hartsfield for assault
ing a white woman near Hartsfield.
The annual infantry competition Of
the department of the Missouri has
closed with Corporal w. A. vickery,
Twenty-second infantry, the winner.
Corporal Vickery will receive the gold
medal.
The jury in the case Of Curtis Jett
and Thomas White, charged with the
assassination of James B. Marcum, at
Jackson, KY, returned a verdict Of
guilty and fixed the punishment of
each at life Imprisonment.
Cardinal Gibbons has left Rome for
Switzerland, where he will remain
some time to recover from the heat
and his labors in Rome. The cardinal,
however, is suffering from slight lassi-
tude. otherwise being perfectly well.
A special from Valdez, Alaska, an
nounces the safe arrival there, eight
days behind its schedule, of the United
States senatorial party. The delay is
attributed to the failure of the boat
from the lower Yukon to arrive at
Dawson.
The alleged embezzlement of $45,-
600 Of the funds of the Commercial
Banking company of Duluth, MINI,
for which q. q. Johnson, a trusted
clerk OF the bank, is under arrest,
has brought about the failure of the
Merchants Bank of Duluth.
Dollar wheat" was seen ON Mime
apolis exchange last Saturday for the
first time since the Letter corner In
1890. It was cash wheat, and there
were sales at that figure. Later $1.O2
was asked and $1,01 bid, with no sales.
September option touched So cents.
Frank B. Greer of the East Boston
Athletic Association Boat club wrested
the sculling championship from G. s.
Titus OF the Atlantic Boat club of New
York on Lake Quinsagamond recently
at the annual regatta of the National
Association of Amateur Oarsmen. |
Greer was eight lengths ahead.
The steamer Princess May from
Skagway has brought word of tribal
war among the Chilkat Indians of the
Klukwan tribe. For several DAYS a
reign of terror was in progress in the
valley of the Chilcat from Pyramid
Harbor to Klukwan.
AS the result of the ATTEMPT Of
Jim Doilard to shoot up the town" at
Lander, Wyo., Frank Bryant and Ross
Springer the latter printer, are dead.
and Dollard is in jail Dollard ran
out OF cartridges in killing Bryant,
and used heavy board to kill Spring,
er, crushing the latter's skull.
The Monmouth, N. j., county court
OF common pleas has decided the case
brought by Alan & Lord against a
tenant for rent which was unpaid be-
cause the tenant had to move owing
to bedbugs. The court favors the ten.
ant Few cases of the kind are on the
court records.
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