Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-10-26
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OFTHE GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The town of Seneca, S. c., was Wis
tied by a fire recently and property
worth about $4,000 was destroyed.
A definite Anglo-F'rench convention
covering the future administration OF
the New Hebrides has been signed.
Sehimotir, Russia.-The peasants Of
two villages, Pukosihofka and Doretz,
in this vicinity, have decided to emil
crate in a body to the United States.
st. Petersburg. - The ministry of
education has finished the draft of a
PROJECT for universal education in
volving an expenditure of $103,000,0OO
yearly.
New Misconceptions of $780,
900 for the building of private auto
mobile race course on Long Island
were made in this city. 1t is said that
the course will cost 100000.
Johannesburg-The rope of a cage
which was descending the East Sim
mer gold mine here Saturday snapped
and the cage fell 1000 feet. Twenty
three Chinese who were being lowered
were dashed to pieces.
Toms River, N. 1.-THE jury in the
case of DR.. Frank L. BrOuwer, after
listening to the case for the last 10
days, returned a verdict of mot gull
ty."
Five persons were killed and about
100 injured by a gasoline explosion in
the Meinerding dry goods and hard
ware store at Fort Recovery recently.
At the home of former President
Cleveland it was announced that Mr.
Cleveland is not i'll.
London.-P. McFadyn & Co., the
London house of Arbuthnot & Co.,
bankers of Madras, announce that
they had been compelled to suspend
payment.
The city hall at Phoenix, B. c., was
recently discovered to be on fire, but
the flames were extinguished in
short time, with damage estimated at
5000.
What is regarded as the worst snow
storm that has occurred so early in
the season since the settlement of |
northern South Dakota ragged all day
Saturday. Fourteen inches of snow
fell in IL hours.
A dozen bandits rode into the town |
OF Caribo, between Nogales and Her
robbed stores and kept those |
present covered with rifles until they
mounted and rode away with the plum.
der.
Two powerful battleships of the
Russian navy were launched recently,
the Andrei Pervosvanni of 10000 tons.
and a smaller vessel, the st. Eustace.
at Sebastopol.
San Francisco. - Bernard Duffey,
who was convicted of holding up and
robbing man o. IS cents, was re-
Gently sentenced by Judge Lawler to
Ten years in the Folsom prison.
1t is announced from the White
House that herbert G. Squires of New
York has been selected as minister to
Panama to fill the vacancy caused by
he retirement of Judge Magoon.
'HUAAS0 was lOIIu6T minister TO Cuba. |
1t is feared that the sloop Daisy.
presumably a fishing vessel, has been
wrecked on the Vancouver island
coast during the heavy weather of
asst week.
A report from Ottawa says that the
department of justice has practically
lecided to elevate w. H. P. Clement
Il Grand Forks, judge of the county
curt, to the vacancy on the supreme
curt bench of British Columbia re-
emily made vacant by the promotion
+ Mr.. Justice Duff to the supreme
curt of Canada.
The United States district attorney
)yer, father of D. P, Dyer, Jr., receiv-
ng teller of the United States sub
reasurys who is under suspension
ending the investigation of an al
eyed shortage of SCI, 900 in the gov
funs, has sent a letter to the
ttorney general of the United States
Hering to resign if his connection
nth the government and his relation
D Teller Dyer causes the administra-
on any embarrassment.