Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-12-03
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.

On behalf of Samuel Gompers, John
Mitchell and Frank Morrison, the labor
leaders, petition has been fled in the
supreme court of the United States for
a writ of certiorari requiring the court
of appeals of the District of Columbia
TO certify to the nation s highest tribu-
nal for its revision and determination
of the appeal taken by them in the ia.
nous stove case.
James Freeman Curtis, the new as
sistant secretary of the treasury, took
the oath of office Saturday.
After scorning the wiles of Cupid 81
years William Tursk IS heart finally was
pierced by one of the shafts from the
archer IS bow, and now he Is living hap
PLY with bride, aged 80, on his little
farm on the outskirts Of Evanston, Hi
,nois.
Heavy storms in the eastern zone of
the West Indies have cut off from cable
communication the islands of Antigua,
Guadalupe and Martinique.
Forest fires are doing heavy damage
throughout the naval stores belt in
Georgia.
Another traditional corner of New
York City, known the world over as
Mulberry Street, has yielded to the
march of time, and this week police
headquarters will be moved to the new
building in Center street.
Fifteon-year old Wesley Mcbride shot
and killed his 13-year-old comrade, Har-
rv TonU IN tho rix,ar banI, 100, 9Th
Omaha. He said the first shot was an
accident, the second and third being
fred to quiet the boys screams The
Mcbride boy is thought to be insane.
Raging floods have caused damage
along the Nooksack river in northwest
Washington, carrying out steel bridges
and endangering homes for 100 miles
along the boiling stream and its trib-
ntaries.
Judge Walter II. Sanborn of the fed
eral circuit court has fled an order dis
missing Charles H. +. Smith and Hor-
ace G. Burt as receivers of the prop
critics of the Chicago Great Western
Railway Company.
"A special commission will be sent by
the United States to Central America
to take up the question of developing
statement for insuring peace in that
quarter.
DR., j. d. Moody, aged So years, war
veteran of Ashland, Ohio, and former
secretary to General James A. Garfield,
is dead in Los Angeles.
A Chicago club man was run down by
q taxicab recently and killed.
The British foreign office, in reply to
a question Monday reiterated the state
ment made before that King Edward
had not yet been invited to mediate in
the Alsop claim between the United |
States and Chile.
Fire which originated in the basement
of bank building at Colorado Springs,
Colo, recently destroyed the store of
Perkins & Shearer. The loss is estimat-
ed at nearly 100000, fully insured
A military court which is making the
final inquiry into the shooting-up of
Brownsville by members of the Twenty
fifth United States infantry, who have
since been dismissed from the service,
convened Saturday at Brownsville, Tex
as The session was taken up with the
disposal of matters preliminary to the
hearing of testimony,
st. Joseph, MOI. Otis Blaisdell of
New York recently made new world IS
record for fifteen minutes copying ON a
typewriter by writing 6,1s4 words, or
an average of 1O3 minute. The pre-
vious record of 95 words minute was
made September 80, in New York, by
Miss Rose L. Fritz.
Fire in Seward, Alaska recently de-
stroyed several buildings valued at
$4,000.