The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-01-08

SUMMARY
SHORT ITEMS CLIPPED
FROM DISPATCHES.
NEARLY ALL PARTS OF THE
WORLD REPRESENTED
HEREWITH.

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Cebu, P. IA major portion of the
Chinese district of this city has been
wiped out by fire. The loss is estimated
at $25O,00O.
Denver.-Mistaking a bottle filed
with vermin poison for medicine she
was in the habit of taking, Mrs. Richard
Dodson, aged rs years, the wife of
prominent young business man of this
city, swallowed the contents and died
soon after.
The cocoa crop this season is the larg-
est ever produced in Ecuador and
amounts to 100000 pounds. The price
averages about so per cent less than last
year.
Mary Evelyn Moore Davis, the popu-
lar, southern authoress and wife Of Maj
Thomas Edward Davis, editor of the
New Orleans Picayune, died recently.
Guyaquil, Ecuador.-The bubonic
plague has made it's temperance here
and sevral cases are being treated at
the lazaretto.
Pasadena, Cal, opened her hospit-
able gates to the delightful entertain
ment of 100000 guests upon the occa-
sion of her annual New Years festival
or tournament of roses.
Chief of Police Jesse Cook Of San
Francisco has appointed Captain Mar
cellus o. Anderson to be head Of the
detective bureau.
Chicago's new ordinance demanding
the pasteurization Of all milk sold in
the city unless it comes from cows
is now in effect.
A new 100000 vaudeville structure
to be erected and opened by November
l is the latest addition to numerous the
ater schemes for Chicago.
A million dollars in round numbers
was spent in the United States last year
IN the campaign against tuberculosis.
Colorado Springs, Colo.-Arthur Da-
Wis. son in law of G. P. Essick, the
Woodman of the World clerk, who was
found murdered in bed last week, has
been arrested.
Los Angeles.-Fire in the furniture
factory of Wilson & Hanson completely
destroyed that establishment recently,
with loss of $4,000, part of which is
covered by insurance
Nelson Penn, carpenter, aged rs
years, met with terrible death recently
at Nanaimo, B. c., while walking along
a drift without light and fell down the
airshaft of mine, dropping 600 feet.
On the grounds of desertion, Mary
Aloie Goodwin Gilmore was granted an
absolute divorce from Paul Gilmore, the
actor.
George Washington Hough, professor
of astronomy at the Chicago Northwest
ern university and director of Dearborn
observatory, died suddenly at his home
in Evanston recently.
| Some alarm is felt for the safety of
Perry s. Heath, former assistant post
master general, who was travelling with
his wife in italy at the time of the
earthquake.
William Mitchell, ironworker, is un-
der arrest at Los Angeles, charged with
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senger accused of leading Mitchell s
sister, age 16, astray.
Congress last Monday appropriated
100000 for the relief of the sufferers
in Italy.
Charged with drunkenness and sus
pected of passing worthless checks, j
G. Sandstrom, formerly policeman al
Portland, was arrested in Los Angeles
Lieutenant j. J. Meade, United States
marine corps, in charge Of the Chicago
recruiting station, has been ordered tc
Guantanamo, Cuba. He will be sue
ceeded by Lieutenant Ben A. Lewis Of
the battleship Maine.
st. Petersburg.-The defense commit
tee of the duma has rejected the gov
eminent g demand for a grant of 81,
100000 towards the construction of fou1
new battleships. The rejection wa.
based on the ground that there has bee,
no reform in the administration.
Irvine, Ky.-Beach Hargis, charged
with the murder of his father, has beer
admitted to $4,000 bail. The youns
man will 60 to Hot Springs, Ark, fo
treatment for rheumatism.
Motion for rehearing has been filet
by the Standard Oil, Indiana and tn,
Republic Oil companies in the cases il
which they were ousted from Missouri
. by recent decision of the state supreme
court and fined $4,000 each.
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PUTS WIFE 8 BODY IN FURNACE
George johnson of Chicago Arreste.