Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-10-11
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
During the Past Week-NatIonaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events

Ambassador Tower at Berlin has
written President Roosevelt, asking
that he be permitted to retire from
the diplomatic service next spring.
AS a result of investigations by D.
B. Babcock, special agent of the
United States treasury department,
sent to Vancouver, B. c., when the
anti-Japanese riots occurred, force
Of federal officials will be installed at
the international boundary line to
keep back the scores of Japanese who
cross the border into the United
States.
Ambassador Leishman at Constan-
tinople has notified the state depart
ment that he has bought the first
American embassy property in Euro
pc. 1t is a magnificent place over
looking the Bosphorus and cost less
than $4,000
United States Senator Plat of New
York made formal denial that he ever
married Mae Wood, who is suing him
for divorce, alleging that she married
the senator November 8, 1901.
Judge Seawell has decided that
Eymoto, the Japanese restaurant keep
er whose place on Folsom street, San
Francisco, was damaged by a mob
some months ago, cannot recover
from the city and county officers
damages covering his loss.
William Burns, a negro desperate
who recently shot Policeman August
Burns at Cumberland, Md, inflicting
a wound from which the officer died,
was taken from Jail by a mob and shot
and kicked to death
The report of the death of the real
mother of the emperor of Japan, Lady
Nakayama, is confirmed.
Governor Patterson of Nashville,
Tenn, is to be married during the lat
ter part of November to Miss Mary
Russell Gardner, daughter of w. H.
Gardner of Union City, Tenn.
President Roosevelt will make his
try this week for the bears he seeks
to bag.
William Jennings Bryan has given
strict instructions that no tainted
money shall be used to defray the ex-
penses Of his coming tour of New
York state.
Pittsburg, Pa.-Called on for the
first time to pass the death sentence,
Judge Joseph M. Swearingen col
lapsed Saturday as he sent Norman b.
Holmes to the gallows for numbering
his sweetheart, Nancy Miller.
At Exeter, N. H., Booker T. Wash
ington Jr. has withdrawn from Phillips
Exeter academy and left the village
because he felt he was being discrim-
mated against on account of his color.
]. r. Gomez, a Cuban, who was Wash
ington's roommate, left at the same
time.
At Winamuc, Ind, Sheriff Charles
oglesby was shot and killed recently
az the Pennsylvania railroad depot by
three tramps whom he was endeavor-
ing to arrest. He shot two of the
tramps.
Count Ladislaus Sechenyi and Miss
Gladys Vanderbilt will be married No |
vember 4 at the counts castle in Hun
gary
Secretary Metcalf and Admiral |
Brownson announce that the fleet will |
be in readiness to start for the Pa |
cific on December Is. The ships will |
start on time, whether all repairs are
finished or not.
The board of directors of the James |
town exposition elected A. Martin vice
president, to be the successor of J. M.
Barr, resigned
Governor Johnson of Minnesota is
out with formal statement to the
press of the Twin Cities that he is
not and has not been seeking for
the nomination for president.