Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-02-22
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-NatlonaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Albany now has IN cent railroad
fare, the governor having signed the
bill reducing the fare.
LONDON-W. H. Dickinson, liberal
list, has introduced a bill in the house
OF commons giving suffrage to married
and rate paying women.
South Dakota will not have a 2 cent
railroad fare yet.
st. Petersburg-A son of Count Leo
TOlstoi has been indicted for high
treason on the charge of printing the
latest political pamphlet written by
his father.
Neutrality-suspicious. have been sub
mitted to the president for the cree
ton of a military post at Guantanamo,
Cuba, and will in all probability re-
ceiVe favorable consideration.
Nat G. Goodwin has cleaned up con-
siderably more than $4,000 on his
Investment in Goldfelds mining stocks
thus far with a good prospect of dou-
bling that amount in the next few
months, asserts an exchange.
Charles Schrader, aged 20, a mill
worker, met Amedia Larson, a girl
who had rejected his attentions, in
company with another man on the out
skirts of Seattle, and, being spurned,
shot himself through the head in her
presence, while the favored sutton was
in search of policeman.
The house has passed the bill pro-
Viding for special delivery of letters
carrying 10 cents worth of ordinary
postage stamps instead of special
stamps.
News has been received at Victoria,
B. c., by the steamer Miowera that
a hurricane has completely wiped out
COoktown, in North Australia. No
lives were lost. The monetary loss
will amount to 100000.
Berlin-Die Nation, a political and
literary weekly Of high standing, an
nOunced that it will discontinue pub
hcation March 81, after an existence
of "a years. Its-proprietor and editor,
DR.. Theo. Barth, says political con-
BideratiOns caused the suspension.
The house committee on commerce
has decided to make a favorable re-
port on q bill limiting the time of
consecutive employment of trainmen
to 16 hours.
One of the largest settlements ever
made by railroad company in a suit
for personal damages was closed yes
terday when the action of Onward
Kleist of New Rochelle for $500, 900
damages against the New York Cen
trail Railroad company was settled for
$4,000. Mr.. Kliest was riding in a
New Haven car when a Harlem train
crashed into 1t. Mr.. Kleist suffered
broken hip, became paralyzed and lost
the power of speech.
Anthony Comstock, secretary and
special agent of the Society of Sup
preston of Vice, is seriously i'll with
grippe at his home at Summit, N. ]. |
Columbia, S. C.-The house of repre-
sentatives has adopted the report of |
the conference committee on the local
option bill. The report was also adopt |
ed by the senate and the act will be |
signed by the governor at once, the |
state dispensary thus passing out of
existence.
New York-Redmond & Co., bankers
on Pine street, announce that IA Amerl-
can railroad bonds, worth about $11,-
600, were lost or stolen in transit to
Paris. The bonds were sent by regis
tered mail by the line La Savoi on
January IT,
Vienna-The Princess Clementine Of
SAKE Coburg- Gotha, mother of Prince
Ferdinand of Bulgaria, died Saturday
morning.
General George e. Bryant, superin-
tendent Of public property and one of
the first republican politicians of Wis
consin for 80 years, died recently, aged
rs. General Bryant was born in Mas
sachusetts and was with Sherman in
his march to the sea.
Warren Peck and l. L. Schriver,
bankers of Cedar Point, Kans., were
run down and killed by a Santa Fe
train near Topeka, Kans. They were
driving in buggy when the accident
happened. Peck lived four hours.
1t is now expected that Pope Plus
will hold a consistory In March or
April. His holiness has no present
intention Of creating new cardinals at
this consistOry.
Kills His Man on a Train,