Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-12-06
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The wheat yield in western Canada
may possibly be 100000 bushels.
Seven business blocks in the center
of Cody, Wyo., were destroyed recent
.Iy by fire. The loss is estimated at
$685. 900.
At Beattyville, B. Fulton French, ac-
Cused of completely in the assassina-
ton of James B. Marcum, has been
acquitted.
The slight activity of Mount Vesu-
Vius continues.
Professor Nicholson of the Univer-
sity of Chicago is to be awarded the
Nobel prize for physics. DIR. Nicholson
is the discoverer of new method of
determining the velocity of light.
1t is said the financial question will
receive first consideration in congress.
Five factory employees we're killed
at Waterbury, Conn, when a freight
train crashed into a trolley car con-
tanning rs passengers, bound for the
pin factories in Oakville.
Senator ]. B. Foraker made it clear
ly known that he will contest the Ohio
delegation to the republican national
convention with Mr.. Taft
Florence Nightingale has been deco
rated with the Order of Merit by nlng
Edward She is the first woman to
receive this distinction, which, UP to
the present time, has been bestowed
only upon 10 men.
A fire which started from the over
turning of a lamp in barber shop
recently destroyed three-fourths of the
town of Granite, small town east of
Leadville, Colo.
Mrs. Louisa Taft mother of the sec
rotary of war, Is quite ill.
Wong Leung, the Hop Sing Tong
highlander, was shot nine times in
the pistol battle between Oakland,
Calf, police and Chinese tong men,
assisted by white gun fighters.
Operations will be resumed within
week at practically all the Holyoke
paper mills, which we're closed re-
Gently.
BY the arrest and sentence of B. A.
Belisle, Fernie, b. c.. officers believe
they have captured one of the shrewd-
est tin horn" gamblers that ever oper-
ated in the northwest.
Chicago's new nickel-in-the-slot
street cars have been tried, and, &C
cording TO the public, have been found
wanting.
Mrs. Max Roseman of New York
city recently presented her husband
with triplets, weighing total of rs
pounds.
Joseph r. Smith resisted officer
John M. Lyon at Salt Lake City and
was shot and killed. Smith had
knocked the officer down and was beat
ing him when the latter fired,
Habeas corpus proceedings failed to
release Harry Kleinschmidt, accused
murderer of Frank Bellows, and the
student had to go back to jail in Oak
land, Calf
Sheriff Bartell of Boulder county,
Colo, arrived in Spokane recently to
take back to Longmount, Colo, Elmer
Bratt, who had stole $4,000 worth OF
jewelry there.
At Des Moines, in fit of jealous
rage, Ray Howard, soldier, fired a
shot at Mabel Dair last night. The
bullet went wild and killed her sister
Mrs. Martha Pickering.
Poisoning by arsenic caused the
death of Arthur Baker, young man
who is reported to have been wealthy
at Bogota, N. ],
1t is reported Americans who are
now living in Japan are making every
effort to leave the country without
jeopardizing their interests.
Congressman George w. Smith dice
at his home in Murphysboro, ILL.,, re
Gently.
Robbers recently dynamited the saf'
of the New Franklin (Mo) bank, ran
sacked the vaults and escaped will
$4,000 in coin and currency.
At Elmhurst, Ill.,, John Holman,
machinist, Saturday shot and killed hi
wife and then fatally wounded himself
David Rankin, Jr., capitalist ant
philanthropist, has decided to thu
David B. Rankin Jr. School of Me
chanical Trades titles to real estat,
in st. Louis and railroad stock valued
at more than 100000.
W. H. McVay, a prominent citizel
of Yankton, s. D., is dead.
DR.. George Shrady, the noted physi
clan and surgeon of New York, il
dead