Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-05-29
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-Natlonal,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
Congress ends this week.


The house has rejected the confer
ence report on the postofice appropri
alton bill lat to 1876. This means the
defeat Of the ship subsidy bill.
Governor John Sparks of Nevada
died at his home on the Alamo farm
near Reno recently of Bright's disease.
Robert M. Fullerton, son of st.
Louis millionaire, who was arrested in
Seattle accused of wronging a young
woman of New York, was taken to
San Francisco by two detectives and
yesterday released by Superior Judge
Seawell on a writ of habeas corpus.
The Western Unitarian conference
closed in Chicago recently with the
election of President Morton d. Hull,
Chicago.
A loss estimated at 100000 was
caused by fire at San Francisco,
which consumed several frame build
ings at Sacramento and Market
streets. The fire was caused by a
lighted cigarette.
Mrs. Sarah Morasch, aged As
years, was found guilty of murder in
! the first degree by jury in Kansas
City, Kan, which tried her on the
charge of poisoning year old Ruth
Miller. The woman will be sentenced
to life Imprisonment.
No bill to modify the power of the
federal courts in the exercise of in
functions will be passed this session
of congress.
In the superior court of Chicago
Mrs. Daro Mcdonald, who was re-
Gently acquitted of the murder of the
artist, Webster Guerin, was declared
to be the legal wife of Michael Nc
Donald, the millionaire politician and
sporting man, at the time of his death.
The school children of Vienna, num-
bering, upward of $4,000, gathered re-
Gently in the park of Schoenbrunn
castle, the suburban residence of EN-
peror Francis Joseph, to pay homage
to the aged ruler, who this year cele-
brates the Goth anniversary of his ac-
cession to the throne.
An entire carload of United States
mail was burned near the eastern end
of the Wyoming division of the Union
Pacific recently.
The Alaska Central Railway COM
pany has passed into the hands of a
receiver.
Snow, which in many places reached
a depth of three feet, fell last week in
Wyoming.
$ Captain Samuel d. McAllister of the
Thirty-eighth company of coast artil-
lery has disappeared from his station
at the Preside.
A report from Green, small town
in Kansas, says that tornado passed
through that place recently, killing
three persons and doing much dam
age.
A golden key was presented to
Rear Admiral Sperry as symbol that
Seattle is open to the admiral and the
men of the feet. The key is made of
virgin gold from Alaska and is an ex-
quisite piece of workmanship.
After being separated for q years,
Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ Smith, deaf
mutes, were reunited at Spokane.
A serious accident attendant upon
the visit of Rear Admiral Sperry's
feet occurred at Bellingham Friday
and resulted in the death of ]. j.
Staub, seaman ON the New Jersey,
and the fatal injury of F. Lulinsd, a
third class master at arms on the
same vessel, and the lightweight
champion of the navy. They were
riding on the front of a streetcar
when a chain broke, letting them fall
under the wheels.