Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-02-24
AROUND The WORLD.
SHORT TELEGRAPH NOTES FROM
ALL POINTS OF HEMISPHERE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past week-NatiOnaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

events tersely olus
Six men were killed and IA injured
at the Lytel colliery. near Pottsville,
Pa, recently.
The house of congress has passed
the pensions appropriation bill carry
ing $1SS, $50, 700.
Several attacks have been made on
Governor White and Governor-elect
Dawson of West Virginia.
AS the author of Ben Hur" the late
General Lew Wallace was known in
practically every country Of the globe.
At Charlottesville, Ind, the funeral
of General Lew Wallace last Satur-
day was private, in accordance with
his expressed wishes.
Smelling at the new plant of the
Sullivan Group Mining company, at
Marysville, B. c., should start with the
first furnace about March 1.
Word from Warsaw, Russian Poland
states that in that city hundreds of
prisoners, mostly strikers and revolu-
tionists, are daily executed.
Funds with which to prosecute the
inquiry into the methods of the Stan
dard Oil company was asked Of the
house recently by the secretary Of
commerce and labor.
In diplomatic circles at St. Peters
burg, the opinion is quite generally
expressed that the recent tragedy may
be. followed by the decision Of the gov
eminent to conclude peace.
The empress of Russia has received
from the women of Moscow an address
piteously appealing to her as a wo-
man and a mother to use her infiu-
ence with the emperor to secure peace.
The professors who gave their SER
vices free to the st. Petersburg uni
versities by a vote of III to 2 decided
not to resume their duties until fall
unless the present demands are grant
ed
Investigation of special dispatches
sent from Arizona points detailing
depredations and massacres by Yaqui
Indians in the state of Sonora, Mex
leo, fails to develop any foundation
for these stories.
Five persons were burned to death
in a dwelling house at Howebrook
plantation, so miles from Island Falls,
Mo. The dead: Mrs. John Chorey and
daughter, Mrs. Sampel Antworth and
two daughters.
The Arizona Rangers have present
ed Governor Brodie the finest saddle
they could buy. The governor, who
leaves for the east soon, will present
the saddle to President Roosevelt with
the compliments of the Rangers, who
are mostly former rough riders.
One Of the most audacious of the
many recent robberies in New York
occurred in the Bronx, when a high
wayman attacked Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Cornish in front of their home,
snatched $4,000 diamond brooch from
Mrs. Cornishs throat, and escaped.
The German consul at Chefoo states
that the taotai has ELECTED confess
sion from two members of the crew
of junk that the German and the
French naval attaches, Guggenheim
and Cuverville, were murdered for,rob-
berry and their bodies thrown over
board
. Harry Silverberg, alias score OF
! other names, has been arrested in New
J York by Central Office men. His ar
! rest was in connection with swim
J ding operation which was to have
reached its climax on Monday, when
the prisoner was to receive $4,000
} from one of his alleged dupes.
Twelve men have been held up by
; six armed robbers at the Office of MAJ
: Mildenberg, proprietor of the electric
light, oil and gasoline delivery at Chi
cago. The highwaymen fired severa
shots as they entered, wounding two
persons. They knocked another un
conscious with blow from a revolver
They then took more than $500 ant
escaped.
/, It is dificult for an American tt
imagine the conditions under which
the people of Russia who do not hap
: pen to be of the official class or mem
/ bers of the Romanoff family are com
/ PEELED to live. They are in constan
danger of molestation from the secre
/ police, either for purposes Of black
|, mail, revenge or because of some sus
i picious action which might be con
strued as seditious.
n Togal Noren of Rossland won tn
n championship of Canada in both SIX
s events in Rossland, B. G., in conneC
e ton with the eighth Rossland white
carnival. The ski run from the sun
l. nit Of Monte Cristo mountain to CT
e lumbia avenue beat all previous rex
It ords. In the flying jump on Mont
II Cristo mountain, made on a special
constructed course, Noren jumped 8
Il feet without losing his balance.