Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1908-06-26
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-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Rev. Paul G. Rhode of St. Michaers
Roman Catholic church, South Chi |
cago, has received official notice from
the papal legation at Washington that
he had been appointed auxiliary bish-
op of Chicago.
One man is dead, another is miss
ing and nearly score of others were
injured recently by an explosion on
board the German steamer Arcadial,
which arrived in New York from Ham
burg.
The American Federation of Labor
has filed in the district court of APP
peals the transcript of record in its
appeal from the decision of the dis
trict supreme court in the case of the
Buck Stove and Range company of
st. Louis against the federation, in
which the lower court had restrained
the labor organization from publish
ing in it's Federationist the company's
name as unfair"
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation declaring the adhesion
of the American government to the
Paris convention of May, 1904, for the
suppression of the white slave traffic.
There are 10 nations signatory to the
convention, and three have declared
their adhesion to it.
| w. l. Woodman, warehouse manager
for the Whittier Coburn company,
wholesale dealers in paints and oils in
San Francisco, is in Jail charged with
embezzlement. Woodman, it is said,
today confessed to his employers that
he had embezzled between $4,000 and
and $4,000 during the past two years.
Pasadena, Cal.-Chas. William Lewis,
night engineer of the municipal light
ing plant, was found dead in the pit
beneath big flywheel. his skull frac-
tured, his arms broken and his body
sawed almost in two.
The buildings of the Keystone and
the Booth Fish companies plants at
Erie, Pa, were destroyed recently by
fire. Loss, 100000 Three tugs in
the harbor were also burned.
London theaters are suffering from
a shortage of chorus girls who are
good both to see and hear.
A terrific storm struck Chicago at
midnight Saturday and swept out into
Lake Michigan, and fears are enter.
tanned for the safety of go of the 100
small sailing vessels which were max
ing a cruise to Michigan City.
The supreme couicil of the Order OF
Foresters has decided on an advance
in insurance rates of from 40 to 100
per cent
The John Mitchell boom for gov
ernor of Illinois on the democratic
ticket was formally launched Sunday
at the convention of the Illinois State
Federation of Labor.
Between 4 and o'clock p. m. Sat
urday a severe wind swept over south
ern Minnesota and northern Iowa
causing great DANCE to property.
The mammoth 100000 auditorium
is practically completed for the demo
cratic convention July Z at Denver.
Federal Judge c. H. Hanford has
filed a memorandum decision dismiss
ing the suit brought by Ernest v
Cowell of San Francisco against John
S. Mcmillan and the Tacoma and
Roche Harbor Lime company to com
pei Mcmillan to make restitution Of
moneys and stock alleged to have
been fraudulently absorbed by him
Control of the Roch Harbor company
valued at more than 100000, was al
stake in the fight, and Mcmillan wins
a clear-cut victory.
An automatic governor on one of the
flood gates in the Casadero power
plant of the Portland Railway, Light
and Power company Sunday prevent
ed the closing of the gate and started
the generator connected with it tC
racing. This generator flew to pieces
and one of the pieces of flying meta
struck the governor to a second gate
and started the second generator tt
racing. The second generator few t.
pieces, causing a similar accident tt
the third generator, which likewise
flew to pieces. Before disintegrating
the generators became excessively
heated and one piece of flying meta
landed on the wooden flooring of al
uncompleted portion Of the building
setting it afire All the woodwork o.
the building was destroyed.