Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-12-04
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-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
The servian cabinet has resigned.

The Servian cabinet has resigned.
Cholera is spreading in st. Peters
burg.
The army transport Dix has arrived
at Manila.
The International Livestock exposi-
ton opens in Chicago this week.
1t is said that Hartman will ac-
quire control of the railroads in San
Francisco January l.
The first annual exhibition of the
HJunior Aerial club" will be held in
New York December 10.
Captain Peter G. Hams is to be put on
trial December IA in New York for the
killing of William E. Annis.
The name of the coasting vessel which
was lost during recent storm off San
Fernando was the San Pablo.
William Robert Brasch, the Roches-
ter IN. W wife murderer, was electro
cuted in Auburn prison Saturday.
The current issue of Outlook con-
tains an article by President Roosevelt
on the Awakening Of China"
Miss May Miller recently won a mil
lion dollar suit for her client and $780,
900 fee for herself in Chicago.
Charles H. Bull, millionaire retired
banker, one Of the oldest citizens of
Illinois, is dead, aged sc years.
Frank H. Hitchcock has been offered
and has accepted the position of post
master general in the Taft cabinet that
is to be.
Jacob Themes of Burlington, ILL.,, one
of the best known gamblers in that Sec
tion of the country, committed suicide
recently.
Floods of terrific nature have done
great damage in the interior of Costa
RIGA, compelling many mines to sus-
pend operations.
Norman E. Hapgood, editor of Col
1er's, and Charles Dana Gibson, ere
ator of the "Gibson Girl, f." visited the
northwest last week.
Sister Vincent de Paul, one of the
founders Of the House of Providence
in Vancouver, Wash, over so years ago,
is dead, aged almost 81 years.
Tom L. johnson, mayor of Cleveland
and traction magnate, has lost his for
tune in his attempt TO put his theories
of city government into operation.
Equal increases will be made in the
rates to the coast and to Spokane un-
der the new transcontinental tariff
which will become effective January 1.
Failure of the engineer to slow down
his engine near Spokane caused the
death of Savoria Guagliardo, an Ital-
ian, and Stephen Logan, an American.
Samuel Shepard Rogers, at one time
president of the American Newspaper
Publishers association, and for many
years business manager of the Chicago
Daily News, is dead
Cleansing the body and habitation as
well as the soul are the expressed pur-
poses of Countess Aurelia s. Bethlen,
a native of Hungary, who is in Chicago
to uplift its inhabitants.
A network of steel which proved i'm
penetrable to Whitehead torpedoes in
recent tests was pierced Monday by
means of the Davis torpedo gun before
board of naval officers.
The appeal court in London handed
down a decision to the effect that a
trades union cannot levy compulsorily
on its members to maintain the labor
representatives in parliament.
Ernest G. Devine, although identified
by A. B. Turner and two of the latter Is
clerks as the man who secured $4,000
worth of bonds from Turner 8 firm in
Boston, is not the guilty person.
The Dominion timber trade of New
Zealand has been so seriously affected
by the increasing importations of Ore
gon pine that timber merchants petit
TONED the premier to impose duty on
Oregon lumber.
William Montgomery, former cashier
OF the Allegheny National bank, Pitts
burg, which failed for over $1,000, 900
some time ago, was sentenced to serve
10 years in the penitentiary. He was
charged with embezzlement.
Four of the five members composing
the country life commission appointed
by President Roosevelt to collect in
formation and make report concern
ing the things needed to improve the
condition of farmers will visit Spokane
December s.
While there has been considerable
gossip recently concerning the proba-
bility of John d. Rockefeller and John
d. ArchbOld seeking immunity from
any possible future criminal procedure
on the plea that their testimony given
in the government dissolution suit
entities them to such, counsel for the
company lay absolutely no stress on
such a move.
Chinese Escape.