Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-07-26
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.


announce the death of Sonora Juan
Quesada, the Cuban Joan of Arc, at
the age of 20 years.
Judge Lawlor Of San Francisco has
postponed until Thursday decision on
the motions to set aside the indict-
ments against Patrick Calhoun, Eu-
gene E. Schmitz, Abe Ruef and others
because the minutes of Judge Ora
hams department have not been
amended to conform with the facts.
Schmitz is not allowed to leave the
county jail.
Fire has destroyed the Southern
Pacific depot and hotel and the Nc
Cloud river exchange depot at Sisson,
Cal, and Miss Laura Sake of New
York, school teacher, lost her life.
Several others were badly burned,
one, Miss Lizzie Walgamott, a wait
ress at the motel, dangerously.
A divorce has been granted Count
ess Rosslyn, formerly Anna Robin
son, the American chorus girl who
married in 1905.
While Queen Maria of Portugal and
her son, Prince Manuel, were auto
MODELLING they were stoned by hood
lums, but not seriously injured.
p. H. Hartman has bought the
home Of the late Heber r. Bishop at
S81 Fifth avenue, paying for y about
100000.
The armored cruisers West Vir-
ginia, Colorado, Pennsylvania and
Maryland of Admiral Dayton's Pa
cifc fleet, are expected to start from
Cavite for the United States In 10
days or two weeks.
Professor H, Magnus Olsen. the d.
rector Of the Northwest Sangerbund.
which will give the annual northwest
sangerfest in Spokane the last Of next
month, is making a tour of the diff
ferent towns Of the northwest, procur-
ing singers and giving them an idea
OF the general lines of work to be ia
ken up for the sangerfest.
The body of Miss Lawley, a nurse,
was found recently on the beach near
Victoria, B. O., and there is every in
dication that a murder has been com
mitted
Mrs Charles w, Fairbanks. wife of
the vice president, was in an auto acct
dent rs miles west OF Amsterdam. N
X, but escaped without serious in
jury. The loss of a tire ditched the
machine.
The trustees of the Knights Of the
Maccabees have decided to move the
Pacific coast medical department
headquarters frOm Oakland Cal, to
Salt Lake City, Utah.
The formal notification from the
American government that the French
chambers Of commerce had been
placed upon an equal footing with the
German chambers In the matter Of
certificates in relation to the yalua-
ton of exports to the United states
mas been received with qualification
in France.
The whole Bohemian justice system
is tied up by a passive resistance
strike Of the junior Judicial officials.
The strikers are demanding more pay
and quicker promotion.
A rebuff from King Victor Emman-
uel to one of the American immigra-
ton committee visiting Italy studying
Immigration conditions is the subject
Of much comment in government and
diplomatic and commercial circles.
The great dock at oallaO. Peru,
sank recently.
Oscar s. Straus, secretary Of com.
merce and labor, is visiting in, Port.
land.
Sixteen thousand men employed by
the United States Steel corporation
and independent mine owners on the
Vermilion and Mesaba ranges, are on
strike, paralyzing the entire iron ore
industry OF the Lake Superior region.
The men ask for a general increase.
James F. English, S5 years of age,
and pair clerk of the democratic eau
Gus OF the house, died in washington.
ID. G, recently as the result Of liver
complications.
The plot to capture or kill General
Alfaro, president Of Ecuador. was
very cleVerly conceived, but 1t failed
OF its purpose because at the last mo-
ment one Of the conspirators betrayed
It to the government.
General HagroR, who has been chief
In Command OF the French army since
the retirement in June, 1906, of Gen
eral Brugere, has now been retired at
his own REQUEST.
Clasped in each others arms.
George and Herbert Shire, twins, 40
years old, fell into an open sewer in
Philadelphia and were swept into the
Schuylkill river and drowned.
Eight Boston master teamsters
have been sued by a New York con-
Germ which makes a business of Alr-
nishing strikebreakers. 1t is charged
the teamsters have failed to pay the
agreed waee scale.
There is renewed and more pro
nouneed criticism by Americans in
London on the way in which presenta,
tons in court are made by the Amer
lean embassy. 1t is asserted that the
presentations are managed" by the
titled American set, or dictated by pol
ities.
Police Commissioner Bingham of
New York says that immigration is
responsible for the epidemic of crimes
against Young woman and Iittlo s3r1