Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-09-10
NEWS OF The WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM ALL over
The ENTIRE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

A good market will be opened for
American hay in Great Britain during
this year, states Consul johnson in a
report from Bergen, Norway.
A man giving his name as Harry
Hieland, but whom the police believe
to be John F. Dietman, an alleged alb
sconder from St. Paul, is under arrest
at Seattle. He was secretary of st.
Paul lodge of Eagles and absconded
with the organization IS funds.
A freight train on the Great North
ern railway was wrecked just at the
south end of the long trestle approach
ing the Elk river bridge in West Fer
ME, B. c., Saturday.
A process has been discovered, it is
said, by which alcohol can be made for
cents a gallon from sawdust.
| Former President Herman F. Jaime
of the failed First National bank of
Ironwood, Mich, committed suicide
Sunday by shooting himself through the
heart.
Former Premier Clemenceau of
France, whose ministry was defeated
some time ago. has dramatized his own
life in a three-act play, "Plus Forts, -
which will be produced this season at
the Theatre Renaissance.
After practicing all the morning
with a revolver Elizabeth Clara Becker
shot and killed John A. Gunter, Jr.,
and then shot herself fatally in New
York city Sunday. She thought he was
going to desert her.
Francis j. Heney, prosecutor in the
graft cases, has returned to Frisco
from an extended vacation in Alaska
and received an ovation Saturday at a
theater, which was packed to the doors
with friends and supporters of Heney
and the graft prosecution.
The Jap cruiser Izumo has sailed
from Yokosuku for San Francisco in
command of Captain Satake, former
naval attache at Washington, carrying
6S5 men.
The Japanese government has decid-
ed to make a new naval port at Toba,
in Ice bay, and coast defenses will be
built. The work will occupy three and
a half years.
Unknown persons recently invaded
the new La Sale hotel, Chicago, Just
} finished at cost of several million
dollars, and put the entire telephone
system of the hotel out of commission
The loss to the company will be be,
tween $4,000 and 100000 and 1000
telephones are rendered useless.
5 San sebastian, Spain.-A destitute
r workman dropped fainting in the street
Monday from sheer starvation just as
= the queen mother was passing. Stop
ping her carriage, the queen mother as
e sisted the workman, giving him all the
money in her possession.
Los Angeles-A verdict of not guilty
. was brought in by the jury in the cast
= of Thomas Broadhead, former chief OF
D police, charged with having accepted
brides to protect resorters in the OLE
:, restricted district.
h Marshall W. Pullen, a brakeman ant
d engineer on the O. R. & N, was strucl
by rock thrown by J. A. George,
o discharged employee of the road, at TIL
y Dalles, Ore, Friday night. Stunned b,
= the blow Pullen fell from the pilo
d of the engine on which he was rid
d ing and was instantly killed. Georg
(, is now held on a charge of murder
d Charles E. Woods, an employee o
Reynolds dairy, Portland, last nigh
f insisted he couldn't stand the no
e weather any longer and drank the cor
e tents of fOur-ounce bottle of chlorc
t. form liniment with fatal results.