Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-02-28
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.

Eastern and western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
Deposits in the national banks OF
Chicago are now the largest in their
history.
William Loeb, secretary to the pres
ident, is suffering from an attack OF
the grip.
Minnesota will send a solid Taft
delegation to the national republican
convention at Chicago.
Crosby S. Noyes, the veteran editor
of the Washington Evening Star, died
recently in Los Angeles.
At Sedalia, Mo-, the Missouri Pa
cific railroad shops, employing zoo
men, are closed until March Q.
Mary Botha, the youngest sister
of Botha, the famous Boer general,
was recently welded to r. C. Hawk
ms, a London barrister.
The cabinet factory of Edward B.
Jordan & Co., at Brooklyn, N. Y, was
totally destroyed by fire recently, en-
failing loss Of 100000.
Rumor has it that e. H. Hartman
will be delegate to the national re-
publican convention from Oswego
county, where his home is.
At Sacramento, Cal, the Morning
Union, one of the Oldest papers in
California, has been purchased by the
Calkins newspaper syndicate
Capt. Kellogg, American embezzler
and forger, failed in his attempt to
secure stay of extradition proceed
1ngs at New Westminster, B. C.
The Rt. Rev. Henry Yates SatterIee,
~ D., for the past IL years Protestant
Episcopal bishop of Washington, D. c..
died recently. He was So years of
age.
1t is reported that the Rock Island
and the Santa Fe railways will in
crease their force of telegraphers to
comply with the new federal nine-hour
law.
Announcement has been made at Ber-
lin that Andrew Carnegie has contrib
uted $4,000 to the Robert Koch in
stitute for the investigation of tuber-
culosis.
Miss Annie Wallace of Atlanta, Ga,
was married recently to Marx Frank
ling Rowland of Boston. She will re-
ceive 100000 from Andrew Carnegie
as a wedding present
The jury in the case of Mrs. Estelle
Corwell charged with the murder of
George T. Bennett, a contractor, in
Los Angeles, on July 20, 1907, re-
turned verdict of acquittal.
The nomination of Louis A. Cool
idge of Massachusetts to be an as
sistant secretary of the treasury was
ordered reported favorably by the
senate committee on finance.
The Indian appropriation bill, which
was reported to the senate, carries |
$9,S25,S20, an increase of $1,61O123
over the total appropriations made by
the bill as it was passed by the house.
At San Francisco so longshoremen
employed in unloading lumber for the
Pacific Lumber company went on
strike on being notified that their
wages would be cut from 81 to $3.50
a day.
At a recent meeting in Seattle par
ticipated in by representatives of one
third of the 500 shingle mills in the
state of Washington, movement was
started to keeps the mills suspended
till April IS.
It is thought probable that the
Yerkes home, and the art collection
which it contains, will be saved to
New York city from mortgage. to
which it is to go after the death of
Mrs. Yerkes.
The shops of the Denver & Rio
Grande railway at Salt Lake City,
which closed down February IA for
an indefinite period, reopened Monday
morning, giving employment to more
than $50 men.
Emphatic denials are made of a
rumor which has been circulated for
the past week that Enrico Caruso, the
tenor, was to desert the Metropolitan
opera house for Oscar Hammerstein's
opera house. 4
Warren Stone, grand chief of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
In speaking of the proposed reduction
Of the wages of railroad employees, as !
serts that any reduction is unjusti-
lied and will be resisted by the men. l