Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-09-09
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispfieres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.


Pacific.
The Johnson-Dunar Mills company
of North Adams, Mass, has made al
assignment.
A tornado recently struck Coving
ton, Tex, injuring several persons Sc
verely. No one was killed.
Fire has destroyed the cement plant
OF the Struthers Furnace company, five
miles east of Youngstown, Ohio.
Six persons were burned to death
and four terribly injured during a fire
and oil explosion at Elyria, Ohio.
About 300 men are on strike In the
Coal Creek district, Tennessee, aug
menting the number of strikers to
1850.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment of Earl Grey as governor
general of Canada to succeed the earl
of Mimic.
Eight persons were injured and sew
eral residences badly damaged by a
tornado in the southern part of La
Crosse, Wis.
At least 10000 Sir Knights Temp
lars, from all parts Of the earth. are
attending the conclave in San Fran
cisco this week.
The archbishop of Canterbury, who
recently arrived in the United States.
comes to attend the convention of the
Episcopal church. which is to be held
in Boston in October.
President Roosevelt manifests the
deepest interest and concern in the
situation in the far east, and follows
carefully the press reports of the op-
erations of the contending armies.
The maritime supremacy of Marseil-
les as the second city in France is
threatened with extinction, owing to
the continuance of the strike and the
tieup of the entire marine industry.
In saving newsboy who had run in
front of his automobile, Robert e,
Rouse OF Chicago, drove his machine |
into a telegraph pole. His left arm
is broken and his vehicle wrecked.
Memphis, Tenn.-Fire in the heart
of the wholesale district has destroyed
property valued at 100000. The fire
originated in the Oliver-Finne Gro.
Gerry company from an unknown cause.
Although Napoleon never hesitated
to sacrifice his soldiers, he never, ex-
cept on one occasion, entered an en-
gagement with as many men as have
been fighting under Kuropatkin and
Oyama
The United States South Atlantic
squadron, consisting of the cruisers
Brooklyn (flagship) and Atlanta and
the gunboats Marietta and Castine, has
left Cape Town for the island of st.
Helena
Minister ]. Barrett warns Americans
OF lack of employment in Panama. He
says the boom will not be sudden and
that force of $4,000 men will even
tually be engaged. but will arrive
gradually.
M. Leroy, Partisan clockmaker,
has just achieved a triumph in watch.
es. He has been at work since 1897
upon chronometer which he has lust
completed. 1t contains 975 pieces. and
cost $4,000.
carroll ID. Wright, commissioner of
labor, says he would resign from Of
nee at the end Of the present year
He will devote his attention to his {
duties in connection with the presi- |
dency of Clark college. /
A Lethbridge, N. w. T.. special re-
ports the killing of three painters, res
idents of Chicago, who were engaged I
In the painting of the standpipe erect !
ed In connection with the municipal {
system of water works. /
Arrangements have been completed 7
for teaching the Igorrotes, Moros and {
Negritos the English language. and a 1
school will be regularly conducted at
the Philippine reservation until the
close of the worlds fair.
A note left by Princess Louise of /
who escaped from her {
hotel, for her maid Elga, requesting {
the latter to keep her belongings care I
FULLY, closed with the words: a
Il am gone. God has heard my t
prayer. Farewell"
Bobby" Walthour of Atlanta Ga +
won the 100 kilometer motor paced \
professional championship of the {
world from Simar of France at Lon a
ion recently, by "a lengths. The s
line was one hour SS minutes and h
81 3-5 seconds. &
The Indian war records have been n
transferred from the interior depart.
nent to the war department. Many
II the veterans who served in these
vars and who have heretofore found n
t impossible to obtain a pension are q
low enabled to secure their claims. 3
October 3rd to 9th. inclusive. is the l