Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1904-10-28
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES
cuLLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
a Review Of happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

prize at the st. Louis fair.
Vice President Ramon Corral was
rendered banquet by the citizens of
San Francisco recently.
The jury in the bribery case against
ex-Mayor Ames OF Minneapolis came
into court and announced that 1t could
not agree.
Fifteen earthquakes have been re-
corded on the seismograph, or earth
quake machine, at the Johns Hopkins
university since April last.
Governor Davis of the Panama canal
zone authorizes the Associated Press
to deny the reported disturbances at
Culebra or at any place in its vicinity.
A portion of the store of Durand q
Kasper company, wholesale grocers at
Lake and Union streets, Chicago, was
destroyed by fire recently. LOSS, $780,
900.
Lieutenant H. A. Roberts of the
Seventh cavalry died at Fort Riley.
Kan, after sustaining an operation
for injuries received in hunting ac-
cident recently.
The Berkeley, Cal, city hall caught
fire from some unknown couse re-
Gently. It Is q wooden building and
was entirely destroyed. The total loss
is about $4,000.
Horace T. Richards, his wife and
their son, have been severely injured
in an automobile accident near their
home, Thirty-second street and Abbots-
ford avenue, Falls Of Schuylkill.
At Chicago L. Herzfield has been
shot and fatally wounded while en-
deavoring to rout three masked high
waymen who had invaded the grocery
Of his father In law, A. M. Tubin.
Thomas T. Kelly, state treasurer Of
Kansas, placed his resignation in es-
crow and invited an inquiry by ex-
pert accountants and q judicial in
Quiry into his administration of the
Office
Robert s. Mccormick, American am
bassador to Russia, has arrived in the
United States. He came home on a
leave OF absence to attend to urgenl
private business. He will remain In
this country one month.
At Youngstown, Ohio, Patrick Nc
Laughlin and Butler Connolly, Anal
gamated association men, former em-
ployes Of the Carnegie mills, were shot
and killed in the street by Frederick
and George Wolf, strike-Dreakers.
The ofiicial admission by the Union
Pacific of the purchase of half In
terest in Clark's San Pedro road, pay
ing nearly $15.000,000 therefor. be-
sides advancing 100000 for con-
struction and rolling stock, has at
tracted much attention.
Three are known to have been kill
ed and number injured in head on
collision between northbound pas
senger and freight train about mid
night, three miles south of Fayette,
Miss, on the Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley railroad. The dead are two
firemen and an engineer.
Mrs. Nellie Thompson, wife of
former prominent real estate dealer
in Peoria. ILL.,, is dead as the result
of injuries received, 1t is reported, In
a sensational encounter with Richard
and Jennie Higgins. children of John
G. Higgins, member of the board
OF supervisors of Peoria county.
A ship building race between the
New York and Mare Island navy yards
has begun over the construction of two
golfers authorized by the last con-
gress. They are to be the largest and
fastest boats of their class in the
world. Each will be about 500 ieet in
length and cost about $1.25O.0O0.
Two million dollars worth of cam
paign goods, uniforms, hats, caps, fire.
works. torches. walking sticks, umbrel-
las. flags. etc., are rotting on the
shelves of Chicago manufacturing and
jobbing houses as result of the un-
paralleled lack OF. interest in politics
from one end of the country to the
other.
Two st. Louis detectives are dead
and another is not expected to live
during the night, while one train rob-
Der suspect is at the morgue and two
others are In the city hospital, one
probably fatally wounded and the 9TH
er badly beaten up, as the result of
desperate battle between FIVE officers
and three men whom they tried to ar
rest.
The total number of money orders
issued by this government during the
last fiscal year passed the $4,000, 900
mark for the first time in the history,
as shown by the annual report of the
superintendent Of the money order sys-
tenn. THE net revenue of the money
order business was $2,52S.4OS, an in
crease of $2SS,494 as compared with
the nraufnlia fiscal uaar Thu -r,.n