Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1906-12-14
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western tiemlspheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Brigadier General Whit has been as
signed to command the troops in Cuba.
The fuel famine in northwestern Da-
kota has assumed serious proportions.
The supreme court of the United
States will be asked to pass on the con-
stitutionality of the eight nour labor
law.
The entire business section of San
Sara, Tex, was wiped out by fire re
Gently. The loss aggregates 100000,
partly insured.
Judge Church, at Anamosa, Iowa,
quashed indictments against F. e. Sny-
der, the Ohio banker, charged with
fraudulent banking.
At Prairie Du Roche, ILL.,, the 10 year
old son of William Blow shot and kill
ed his year old sister accidentally
while PLAYING with gun.
At Springfield, ILL.,, Bishop Seymour
died recently. The deceased was a.
noted ecclesiastical writer and Episco-
pal bishop of Springfield since 1879.
Edward Fehre, scion of Russian
nobility, exiled from the land Of his
birth, alone and friendIess in Seattle,
recently died amid squalor and dis
tress.
Governor Folk of Kansas has grant
ed respites of 80 days to Myers and
Frank Hoffman, sentenced to be hang
ed for the murder of Meyers, the wo-
mans husband.
James Vale of Wellsville, Ohio was
instantly killed in a street car wreck
near East Liverpool, Ohio. All of the
passengers in the car were injured,
several, it is thought, fatally.
About 800 citizens of Louisville, KY,
gave a banquet to Henry Watterson,
the event being in the nature Of a
stirrup cup for the distinguished edi-
tor, who will spend the winter in
Spain.
William A. Boyce, a pioneer news
paper man. died in Santa Barbara,
Cal, recently. He was for 20 years
connected with the San Francisco Call
and later was news editor of the Los
Angeles Times. He was Ga years Of
age.
owen Ford, postmaster at San Mar
cos, Tex, for several years past, shot
and killed himself with a pistol as he
was leaving his carriage at the office.
The coroner rendered a verdict of &C
cidental death.
Palestine, Text is learned that
the six train robbers who assaulted a
Pacific Express messenger on a Cot
ton Belt train at Eylau Saturday, Sc
cured close to $4,000 Five of the
robbers are now under arrest.
Mary Twain wrote to Speaker Can
non and asked him to get, by persuas-
ion, violence or otherwise, the thanks
Of congress for his not bothering them
for II years. This was refused and
Mark has proceeded to lobby for the
copyright law.
Attorney General Ellis Of Ohio has
began to probe the charges of robbery
in connection with the contracting by
state commission for the erection on
the state house grounds Of monument
to the victims of the Sultan steamboat
disaster during the civil war.
e. H. Hartman has determined to
set aside the sum of $1O,000,O00 for the
improvement of the Los Angeles-Pa
cifc railway system, which extends
from Los Angeles to Santa Monica
Ocean Park and Venice, and that he
will unite with H. E. Huntington in the
venture.
Captain w. Bentley of Grand Forks
B. c.. makes the startling statement
that fully one third of the Hindus who
have thronged to Grand Forks in hun
dreds are women disguised as men
He is in close touch with the Hindus
has given the brown men more atten
ton than any other resident of the dis
trict, and his remarkable statement il
accepted without dispute.