Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-01-15
EVENTS OF THE YEAR.
1908 LEAVES DARK RECORD IN
MANY RESPECTS.
Deeds Of Rapine and Violence and Far
Reaching Natural Disasters over
Shadow Its Showing of the Fruits
of Industry and Peace.


massacre, murder, disaster and violence
that are in sharp contrast with the un-
DERIVING spirit of progress that is stead
lily making for friendliness and better
mutual understanding between individu-
ais and nations. Religious intolerance,
political intrigue, class hatred and con-
vulsions of nature are the causes upon
which the dread responsibility rests.
In May occurred the great massacre Of
Jews in Kishinev, Russia. A month later
King Alexander and Queen Draga Of
Servia were murdered in their palace in
Belgrade by their own soldiery and OFF,
GERS. Strikes and other labor disputes
have been responsible for good deal Of
violence and several deaths in the Unit
ed States; and natural phenomena, un-
der which classification are numbered the
disastrous foods and storms Of last
spring and early summer in Kansas, Ne
braska, Iowa, Missouri and other parts
of the nation, hurricanes in the South
Sea Islands and an earthquake in Ash
attic Turkey, have caused the loss Of
thousands Of lives and much valuable
property.
The unfaltering course of commercial
achievement has been evidenced by the
opening of two new cables beneath the
Pacific ocean, successful practical tests
Of wireless telegraphy, and the establish
ment of a Department Of Commerce in
connection with the government in Wash
ington.
The years roll Of deaths includes &C.
clesiastic authorities like Pope Leo and
Canon F. M. Farrar, statesmen. like
Lord Salisbury of England and EXPIRE
mier Sagasta Of Spain, thinkers like Her
bert Spencer and Prof. Theodor Momm-
sen, public men like former Postmaster
General w. s. Bissell, religious workers
like Mrs. Emma Booth Tucker, and
inventors like R. j. Calling.
The events of the year 1908 are briefly
summarized below.
January.
1. Opening of Pacific cable between San
Francisco and Honolulu. :. .Asiatic plague
at Mazatlan, Mexico.
8. Death Of ex-Premier Sagasta Of Spain
in Madrid.
g. Death of j. /. Case, of Racine. Wis.
II. Death Of Gen. Samuel Thomas, prom
inent railroad man.
IA. Congress votes tariff of coal.
II. German gunboat attacks Fort Carlos,
and Is repulsed by Venezuelans.
10. Death of ex-Mayor A. 8. Hewitt OF
New York.
10. President Roosevelt and King Edward
VII. exchange greetings by wireless teleg-
raphy. :. .Forty-four Chicago coal men In
dicted by Grand Jury.
90. Death Of Julian Ralph, war CORE
4 gpondent
Fl. Germans recommence bombardment
Of San Carlos.
o. Canal treaty with Colombia signed.
"a. Treaty for arbitration Of Alaskan
boundary dispute signed in Washington.
Senator Teller reelected in Colorado after
hard fight. Nv. r. Day appointed to
United States Supreme bench.
n. Fifty perish In burning OF Colney
Hatch insane asylum in England. -, IA
killed and many injured by collision on New
Jersey Central railway near Crawford.
2s. Train wreck at Vailo. Ariz.,. kills and
burns 20 persons, injuring many others.
20. Army Of Sultan Of Morocco routs that
Of Pretender in battle near Fez.
February.
g. Earthquake shakes felt between St.
Louis, Mo-, and Louisville, KY. More
than 1000 lives destroyed by hurricane In
South Sea islands.
Q. William Hooper Young pleads guilty
to murder in New York and gets life sen
tence.
ii. One million i've hundred thousand
dollar IRE at Rock Island, H., arsenal.
ID. Allied powers sign protocols for rails
ing Of Venezuelan blockade.
is. Venezuelan blockade raised.
| 1918. Extreme cold and storm over
United States.
river steamer near EdentOn, n. c.
10. Eight children killed BY train In New
20 Many injured in FIRE that destroys
Clifton House at Cedar Rapids, Iowa..
rs. -Four miners killed and many injured
In battle with United States officers at
| Stamford City, w. Va.
20. Pike Opera House In Cincinnati burns
| with half q square Of other buildings; loss
| 81, O00, 600. go. Albert Knapp, Of Hamilton,
| o., confesses i've murders. Death of r.
J. Calling In New York.
March.
2. President Roosevelt issues message
| calling Senate In special session March 8. /.
Two Senators elected in Delaware. after
s. Pope Leo celebrates 25th anniversary
Of his pontifcate.
s. Special session of Senate meets.
| Z. Nineteenth lives lost by capsizing of
| ferry boat at Spier Falls on Hudson River.
8. Six burn to death In hotel at Leiten,
W. Va...... Death Of Hawaiian Commits
sioner Blount at Macon, Ga.
..eos Twsnty oissn v r. s't BY oil fire and
II. CUBAN reciprocity convention ratified
| by Senate In Havana.
II. Gear proclaims religious freedom
| through empire.
16. Tax riots at Coimba, Portugal.
| II. Strike Arbitration Committee fles re-
port. -. Senate ratihes Panama canal
1920 Floods along Ohio and Mississippi
10. Senate ratines Cuban reciprocity
treaty and extra session 10 adjourned sine
Fl. Finding of Coal Arbitration Commit.
20. Death Of Very Rev. r. W. Farrar in
| London,
28 Six miners killed BY explosion at
rs. Irish land bill introduced in Parlia.
ment.
n. Death Of N. K. Fairbank.
%. Reciprocity treaty with United States
| ratified by Cuban Senate.
20. Death Of Gustavus r. Swift, Chica 20
al. young Corbett" defeats Terry Nc.
Govern at San Francisco.
| April.
1. President starts on long Western trim.
Il e. Republicans gain In elections In Ohio
cities. :. :. Republicans carry Michigan cleo
ii. General strike in Holland declared
OF.
20. Erie train wrecked at Red House. N.
/ Y, and six persons burn to death.
ri. Eight hundred thousand dollar Are In
81 Riot in illinois House of Represents.
tives. $500. Russia demands Manchuria OF
as. Negro iynched for assault near Santa
Fe, Ill. -. 5000 900 IRE in Columbus, o..