Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-02-23
NEWS OF THE NORLl
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
a Review Of Happenings IN Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week National.
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Terseb Told.

A SON has been born to Prince
Chun, the Chinese emperor's brother.
Karl Joubert, the well known writer
on Russian subjects, died in London
recently.
A plan is on foot to buy the Abra-
ham Lincoln homestead and convert
it into a national park.
Horace A. Taylor, assistant seere-
tary of the treasury, has rendered to
the president his resignation.
Sir William Joseph Greene, Who
came to Denver FIVE years ago from
Boston, seeking health. is dead.
Two prolonged and severe earth
quake shocks were felt at Roseau
Island of Dominica. B. W. l.. recently.
James w. Alexander, former presi-
dent Of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, is seriously i'll in New York.
Pat Grove is now prisoner in the
Council Bluffs, Iowa, jail, and will be
arraigned on the charge Of streetcar
robbery.
The shipping companies at Fiume,
Hungary, have yielded to the demands
Of the strikers and work has been re-
sumed in all trades.
Nearly 5000 Americans, men, wom-
en- and children, are in peril of death
at the hands Of Chinese mobs in the
threatened Boxer uprising.
The state department has received
cablegram from Shanghai China,
saying that the conditions in that city
are not such as to cause any alarm.
The American consul at Fort de
France, Martinique, reports an earth
quake recently, the most terrific in
ga years. Little damage was done.
An urgent writ has been served on
Count BOni de Castellane, making him
defendant in the separation proceed
ings of his wife, formerly Anna Gould
L. s. Montague, son of Sir Samuel
Montague, the well known London
banker, will be the liberal candidate
for the city of London against former
Premier Balfour.
The city of Boston officially ceIe-
brated the Longworth-Rooseve we'd
ding Saturday, the mayor ordering all
bells in the city to ring is minutes
beginning at noon.
Morris Caplin, who operates an
auction business in Denver, was muir
dered in the dining room of his home
by masked man, who entered for
the purpose Of robbery.
Lord de Clifford of London was mar
ried February 10 at st. Margaret's
church, Westminster, to Eva CARING
ton, who is now playing a small part
in 'Bluebell in Fairyland."
Governor Dineen of Illinois has re-
ferred to the state board of pardons
the petition of Johann Hoch for q
communication of sentence. He is SEN
fenced to hang February %.
The Iowa house of representatives
has passed a bill making it a INSIDE
meanor, punishable by fine and inn
prisonment, to discharge frecrackers
or other explosives on July 4.
In pursuance of his campaign for
the betterment of the army. Lord
Roberts has issued a manifesto to
the British nation advocating that
drill and the use of the rife be taught
in all public schools.
The largest picture ever painted in
France and perhaps the world, was
inspected by the Fine Arts commission
at the Gallerie des Machines. It is
246 feet square, and contains more
than 1000 life size figures. The pic
ture represents the mob, after the tax
ing of the Bastile, marching with La
fayette to the Hotel de Vile. It is
the work of M. George Roussel.