Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-08-30
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

All harvest work has been suspend |
ed throughout the Palouse country.
The Unionists have elected Walter
Guinness to the house of commons from
Bury st. Edmonds, England.
The danger is thought so great at
Fee that all foreign residents have
been ordered to leave the city.
The bodies of the late President and
Mrs. Mckinley are to repose perma'
nently in especially made bronze cas-
kets.
Charles Murphy, Tammany leader,
says that Tammany would contribute
$1,000 every week to the striking tele-
graphers.
1t is reported that the French cruis-
er Duchayla has captured a German
vessel loaded with rifles and flying
the Spanish flag.
A California man has been accused
of stealing 200 bicycles. 1t ought not
to be hard for his lawyer to prove
that he has wheels
Five persons were soffocated by
smoke from fire in the tenament at
449 Norfolk street, Bonneville, Mass,
recently and two others were over
come
1t is reported that the pope has APP
pointed Rev DIR. Edward j. Hanna
professor of dogmatic theology at St
Bernard's seminary, to be coadjutor
at San Francisco.
AT. La Crosse, Wis, recently Fred
Kersters, age II, helped get his foul
brothers out of their burning home
and then persisted in the flames be
fore his mothers eyes.
Lieutenant Colonel Sherwood has
sent out orders offering reward o.
$500 for Bill Miner, the highwaymaI
who escaped from the British Colum
bia penitentiary on July %.
The big fire at Cincinnati was pu
out after superhuman efforts on the
part of fireman had confined it within
the block. The total loss will be near
1y million and half dollars.
The number of employees in the di
visions of building and construction
municipal work and engineering OF
the Panama canal has been reduced
rs per cent because the appropriation
As less JllS year Jlldu letSLs
Montreal, Que, labor unions are t.
petition the Ottawa and Quebec gov
ernments, requesting that in futur,
all government construction worl
throughout the province be given onl,
to union men at a current rate.
AMI Smith, aged ga, for man,
years in charge of the document room
at the senate, is dead. He had re
markable memory for faces facts AM
the location of thousands of docu
ments.
The Nebraska railroad commission
has ordered the Great Northern t
cease discrimination against Oman
in favor of Minneapolis in refusin
cars for loading grain destined for tn
Omaha market
One of the most disastrous hal
storms that ever visited North Dakot
has devastated a strip about 25 mile
long and from one to six miles wide
destroying one of the finest whea
sections recently.
In his annual report to the depar
ment of trade and commerce, Lor
Strathcona emphasizes the necessit
of Canadians striving to steadily in
prove the quality of products sent
the British market, as a higher stanC
ard is demanded every year.
From the references that are bein
made in the press to the National
rigation congress, to be held at Sa,
ramento, September 2 to z, the int
est in this annual event is becomin
more widespread and the benefits {
Irrigation more generally recognizes
A courier from Morocco city col
firms the reports that the sultan
brother was proclaimed sultan on Aul
ust 16 and assumed the throne. TIL
new sultan declares his intention {
appointing another brother kalif {
Fee and then proceeding to take con
mand of the Moorish forces besiegin
Casa Blanca.