Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1909-08-20
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.

E. II. Hartman left recently for
Paris.
Mrs. Taft's health is improving
slowly.
President Taft heartily endorses the
idea of increasing the membership of
the National Red Cross from 10000 to
100000.
BY a vote Of As to 81 the house of
Alabama passed the Fuller bill, said to
be the most radical prohibition measure
ever drawn.
The young Shah of Persia will be
officially married soon, his household
is now being arranged. The shah is
only IL years old.
The steady decline in the price OF
wheat is causing much speculation
among farmers, who steadfastly refuse
to sell at present prices.
John B. Blank, head of the Fidelity
Loan company, shot and killed himself
at his home in Des Moines, Iowa. Blank
was Respondent over loss Of $4,000.
In head-on wreck between two
Rock Island freight trains one mile east
of Rockford, Neb, seven persons were
injured, none fatally. Three engines
were demolished.
To save the life of her baby, Mrs.
Belle Pistole declares she was compell-
ed to shoot her father, Ransom Ross, to
death, in the family home, IL miles
north of Dallas, Texas.
A score of miners are reported to
have been killed by the fire which is
destroying the Camelia mine at Real
Del Monte in the state of Hidalgo,
Mexico. Six bodies have been recOv-
cred.
Swapping his hands behind him, Pro-
fessor Alva Willis, a teacher of Char
eston, ILL.,, committed suicide by jump
ing into a we'll. Ill health is supposed
to have caused him to become temper
arily deranged.
The jury in the case of Robert Dunn,
who was being tried for killing Carl
Elbin in a quarrel on Dome creek, AL
aska, October 10, 1908, has brought
in verdict of manslaughter Dunn
pleaded self-defense in extenuation of
his deed.
The Standard Oil company broke
ground recently at Bayonne, N. j., fol
the erection Of 100000 building in
which, when completed, will be in
stalled 100000 worth Of machinery
for the purpose of turning petroleum
into butter.
An electrical storm which swept ovel
Chicago, flooded many Easements
throughout the city, Saturday. Sew
eral houses were struck by lightning
The storm lasted four hours, during
which time the rainfall amounted t.
$50 inches.
Governor Hadley of Missouri, hal
signed the woman 3 nine-hour law. L
regulates the employment of girls anC
women in factories, restaurants an(
other such places. Employment i
limited to nine hours day, between
5 a. m. and 10 p. m.
William F. MacLennan, for man,
years chief Of the bookkeeping and war
rants division of the treasury depart
ment, died recently after lingerin
illness. Mr.. MacLennan was one o
the best known of the veteran expert
of the treasury department.
Many Chicago saloonkeepers VIII
have been emulating frugal housewife
in seeking bargain-day prices, now hav
in stock liquors which Pure Food Con
missioner Jones and his corps of a
sistants are confscating and destroyin
as rapidly as they can get around.
j. Dalsell Brown, who served ter
of over year for fraud committed
his administration of the California ID
post and Trust company, of which
was vice president, has been release
from the penitentiary at San Quent
upon the expiration of his sentence, la
Saturday.
A warning has been issued by Secl
tary P. c. Kaufman of the Washingt
Bankers association, to all banks
be on their guard against counterf'
$40 gold pieces dated 1899, which ma
N1~their appearance in Spokane recent
he coin is tfade of white metal a
is hesilY goIb plated.