Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-09-11
NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLEp FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
a Review Of Events In Both Eastern
and Western Hemlspheres During
the Past Week-NatlonaI. HIstorl.
cal, Political and Personal Events
Tersely Told.

Tersely Told.
The United States cruisers Brook
Ign and San Francisco have arrived at
Beirut.
President Loubet received King
Leopold of Belgium recently at the
Elysee palace.
Herman Zumpe, the composer and
musical conductor, died recently at
Munich. Bavaria, of apoplexy.
Count Won Deyne, Austro-Hungarian
ambassador to Great Britain, died re-
Gently at Eckersdorff, Silesia, of heart
disease.
Reliance, the American cup defend
er, won the third and final race and
the series for that famous sea trophy,
the Americas cup.
steamboat man. and one of the best
known river editors of the South, died
recently at his home in Louisville, KY.
Edith w. broke the worlds record
recently for pacing mares on a half
mile track at Anderson, Ind, in the
free-for-all pace. Her time was 2:07.
Peter McCourt and
Horace Phelps have filed articles of
incorporation at Denver, Colo, for the
Bell sanitarium for econsumptiye act
Ors.
Aurelia Herrera and Jack McClel-
land will fight before the Pastime club
at Portland, Ore, on September IL.
Both men are topnotchers in their
class.
| The yacht Reliance has been taken
to City island to be laid up for the
winter. Shamrock III. is being pre-
pared for her long trip back to the
Clyde. @
A fire recently destroyed the town
of Travnik, Bosnia. Several persons
were killed. and about 600 houses,
seven mosques and synagogue were
burned.
Congressman Timothy D. Sullivan
is now the head Of the Fraternal Order
of Eagles, having been elected grand
worthy master at the convention In
Tammany hall recently.
In the Cleveland automobile races
at the Chenille track, D. Chisholm of
Cleveland, Ohio, broke the five mile
record for electric machines. Time,
6:29 3-5; former time, $40.
Jack Munroe has announced that he
had sent word to James ]. Jeffries,
accepting his challenge to fight him
at Los Angeles on October 16 for the
championship of the world.
William Lafare shot and killed e. T.
Massey on Dolores river. in the Una
weep country, Colo, recently. Both
were prominent cattlemen, and their
quarrel was over water right. Lafare
surrendered.
China's building site at the Worlds
fair was dedicated Saturday. Short
addresses were delivered by President
Francis. Wong Kai Kah. the imperial
commissioner of China. and Director
Frederick Lehman.
Considerable comment has been
caused by a special dispatch from
New York to the London Daily Mail
declaring that mistake in connec-
ton with Shamrock HIS water line
made her defeat foregone conclu.
sion.
More than $4,000, and perhaps
100000, Is lost to St. Michael's Pro-
testant Episcopal church in New York
city, according to the Herald, through
forgeries and misrepresentation by
Henry T. Edison. who recently killed
Mrs. Fannie Pullen and himself.
The annual report Of the commits
sioner of pensions shows there were
in Washington during the last fiscal
year S067 pensioners, who were paid
$1,022,166, while the number Of pen
sioners in Oregon was Gilt, drawing
$77S,77S.
Sarah and Gladys Hogan, daughters
of Samuel Hogan. Jefferson county
| (kan.) farmer, 10 miles northeast of
Topeka, were burned to death recent
ly. The elder girl of 16 years had the
younger in her arms and was light
ing the fire with kerosene when the
can exploded, carrying the flames over
the children.
| Seventeen cotton manufacturing
concerns of Fall River. Mass. shut
down until September IA, throwing out
Of work nearly $4,000 hands, operating
100000 spindles. The curtailment
is the most extensive of any there
since the cotton situation became I'M
favorable to mill owners. This extern
sive stoppage of machinery will take
more than 100000 out of circulation
through the loss of wages. The delay
in the arrival Of new cotton and the
situation in the market is RESPONSE
BILE.
Governor Sparks of Carson, New,
states that the two conyicts captured
at Reno, Miller and Woods, would not
be returned to California until the re-
wards offered by the state of Califor-
mia were paid. He did not intend, he
said. that the officers making the cap
ture should be put to the trouble of a
law suit that generally follows such
cases The governor stated that when
the check came for the amount due
the extradition papers would be signed
and not before.
There recently left the New York
port for the Philippines 10,465, 900
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