Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1907-03-29
NEWS OF The WORLD.
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
a Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
nvrino the past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Harry Thaw's lawyers believe him
II. Clay Ewing, who was attorney
general of Missouri from 1872 to 1874,
is dead.
"a. l.. Lawshe has been appointed
third assistant postmaster general to
succeed Edwin G. Madden, resigned.
The Chicago Orchestral association
has been given $4,000 by Mrs. Flor
ence Lathrop Page Of Washington,
d. G.
Edward A. Slack, receiver of the
land Office, we'll known newspaper
man and a pioneer of Wyoming, is
dead.
The navy department has ordered
the equipment of the United States
ship San francisco as mine laying
vessel.
George ]. Woodruff of the forestry
service has been appointed assistant
attorney general to succeed Frank L.
Campbell.
Mrs. John Comeau and three chill
dren were frozen to death in snow
drift at st. Simon, N. B., during the
recent blizzard
The 18th annual meeting of the
Trans Mississippi Commercial con-
gress will be held at Muskegee, /. t.,
November 10 to %.
Ward M Synder, son Of Pittsburg
millionaire, has been indicted at Sap
ulpa, l. r., by the grand jury on the
charge of bigamy.
Oh1cials of the Pennsylvania rail-
road are satisfied that robbery was the
motive for wreclIing the Chicago lin
tied near Stewart, Pa.
A statement Of the business of the
general land Office shows material
increase in the number of entries,
filings and selections made.
Fire at Ironton, o., caused 100000
loss in two hours. The entire plant
Of the Ironton Lumber company and
nine residences were destroyed.
The government will enter on g
thorough prosecution of all men i'll
cicted for fraudulent dealings in Goa
and agricultural lands in Nebraska.
The French committee on hygiene
has reported favorably on the prohi
bition of the manufacture and sale
of absinthe, after one and two years
respectively.
James W. Van Cleave of st. Loui
is in Boston agitating the formation
OF gigantic employers organization
on the plan Of the American Fedora
ton of Labor.
Secretary Taft has reconsidered hi
decision of an earlier date in regart
to the eight hour law saying it doe
not apply to cooks, captains, decl
hands and pilots.
The steamship Northwest formerl
the Orizaba of the Ward line on tn
Atlantic, lies a wreck on the sout
end of La Touche island on the south
western coast of Alaska.
At North Baltimore, Ohio, Arthu
Bean killed his wife with an AK an
then committed suicide by shootin
himself. Bean had forbidden his wifi
visiting her family,
A fire which started in the boile
room of the Bluff City Lumber con
pany at Pine Bluff, Ark, destroye
several residences and the plant. TIL
less will exceed 100000.
President Roosevelt has expresse
his disapproval of the verdict of a
luittal Of Captain Lewis M. Koehle
of the Fourth cavalry, U. S. A., con
mander at Jolo, Philippine islands.
According to the weather burea
Friday was the hottest March da
ever experienced in Washington, ]
O.. the thermometer registering 80 d
grees at o'clock in the afternoon.
The rehearsal of the closing g
ercises at a country school house wei
of Carmi, ILL.,, ended in a tragedy an
the arrest of a farmer for the mu
der OF q man who had been his frieI
and neighbor for years.
Major @. w. Penrose of the Invent
fifth infantry has been acquitted of Il
charge of neglect of duty preferrt
against him at the instance of Pre-.
dent Roosevelt for alleged miscondu
in connection with the shooting III
of Brownsville, Texas, by negro 81
d!ers of the Twenty-ifth infantry, la
August.
Sacramento, Cal.-Because his /
tie granddaughter Ellen Gum, l
fused to sing a second song to hi
Monico EcheVerria shot her in Il
left side and then fired at his daugl
er, Mrs. Cato and Miss McKenna |
fore sending a bullet into his oy
brain. The granddaughter is not G
pected to live.
Secretary of War Taft has recol
mended mitigation Of sentence of Ca
tain viii Cochran, Twenty-four
infantry, who was convicted in t
Philippines of drunkenness and Sc
fenced to dismissal. The secretar,
action is based on evidence of the
ficer's splendid record. It is und
stood the president will approve t
secretary's recommendations.
Will Stolen in the Mail.