Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-02-15
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-NatiOnaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Carter Harrison, former mayor OF |
Chicago, who has been spending the
winter at Pasadena, announces that he !
will accept the democratic nomination |
for mayor of Chicago if rendered him.
st. Petersburg.-An imperial decree
provides for the issue of $35, 100000 |
in per cent state rentes to meet the
famine relief expenses and the urgent
extraordinary expenditures as shown
in the budget statement.
The copper smelter interests, head
ed by Senator Guggenheim of Colo
RADIO, have decided to kill the bill
fathered by Ex-Governor McGraw of
Washington, making concession for the
Alaska Railway company.
Statistics for the year just ended
show that people of the United States
consumed six and one-half billion
pounds of sugar or 76 pounds for each
man, woman and child, the value of
which was $30O,000,O0O
Ossing, N. Yin railroad wreck
here last night of train to which was
attached the private car of Alfred c.
Vanderbilt, the engineer and fireman
we're both killed. None of the Van
derbilt party were injured. Several
of the trainmen have been arrested.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.-Seven dead min
ers were taken recently from the Wa
mamie colnery of the Lehigh & Will
kerbarre Coal company. They were
killed by burning timbers. One other
is believed to be dead.
Paris, France-A dispatch from st.
Petersburg announces that Japan has
confiscated the Russian Red Cross
proposition at Port Arthur.
Wilkesbarre. Pa.-Seven miners are
entombed in a burning mine here
and their fellow workmen claim there
is little hope of rescuing them.
Austin, Texas-The senate has
passed bill providing that every ex
press Office in the state handling ship
ments of liquor must pay an assess
ment of $4,000.
Halifax, N. S.-Two persons are
, reported killed and several injured in
a collision upon the Halifax & South
Shore railroad near Malone Junction
J shington-Hearst has introduced
bill in the house making bribery g
felony. He states that it is his inten
} ton to prevent corrupt practices il
} elections.
Washington-The Japanese gov
J eminent has asked for permission t.
, confer various decorations upon the
t American ambassadors to Russia anC
, Japan during the Russo-Japanese war
San Francisco-Judge Sewell has
handed down a decision in favor O
the Utah-Nevada Mining compan!
against Captain Joseph Delamar o
: Nevada. The case involves over IS,
900, 900.
Mexico City-President Diaz hal
: sent a note to the governments o
4 Costa RIGA, Guatemala and San Saliva
3 dor, asking them to use every effor
$ to get Nicaragua and Honduras to al
e bitrate.
Havana-Governor Magoon re
4 ceived cablegram from Secretar.
: Taft Friday directing the postpone
ment of the decree increasing tn
+ rural guards until the protests of tn
liberals can be heard.
Washington-A bill has passed tn
senate appropriating $4,000 to erec
monument to the memory of Genera
, Henry Harrison upon the Tippecan
5 battlefield at Tippecanoe, Indiana.
The war department has decided t
hold the Tenth Nebraska cavalry unit
? March 1, when the railroad puts tn
9 cclonist rate into effect. The depart
J. ment wanted a rate lower than nov
y prevails for hauling the troop, but tn
+ railroads refused. The colonist rate i
e lower than the rate the government
g asked.
Senator Kittredge has introduced
0 bill to make the president the suprem
Il boss of Panama canal work.
Hartman is out with a bid for
job on the interstate commerce con
mission.
e Nine men are dead and two injure
L of an explosion yesterday as the n
s suit of an explosion on board a Frenc
d torpedo boat at Lorente, France.
d Louisville, Ky.-The Louisvill
o Railway company has voluntarily il
e creased the wages of all employees
1t cent an hour without regard to lengt
1t of service.
Agrees on Diplomatic Bill,