Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-01-07
NEWS OF THE world
SHORT items FROM ALL over
THE ENTIRE GLOBE.
Il Review Of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatioNal,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Frank B. NOyes, publisher of the Chi
cago RecordHerald, has sold out his
interests to Herman II. Kohlsaat.
Governor Noel of Mississippi has APP
pointed James Gordon of Okolona, Miss,
as United States senator to succeed
Senator A. j. McLaurin, who died re-
Gently.
Jassame Harte Steele, daughter of
Bret Harte, was recently granted di
vorce from Henry Milford Steele, for
Inerly prominent in Denver financial cir
Giles.
Charles w. Morse, the former bank
er, has been taken to the federal pris-
on.
Homer @. Davenport, the cartoonist,
is i'll at the home of friend in San
Diego.
Lieutenant Colonel Lea Febiger, for
snerly in command at Fort George
Wright, has been transferred from the
Third Infantry to the Sixth.
An estate of the estimated value of
$3,OO0,O00 is disposed of by the terms
of the will of Stoughton j. Fletcher, the
indianapolis banker.
f. II. Jermyn, reputed to be a null
fimillionaire and one of the wealthiest
coal mine operators in the United
States, was struck down and probably
fatally injured by street car in San
francisco.
agua.-Presiden Madriz has sent
$4,000 in gold to aid the work of the
Red Cross among the prisoners of war
at Bluefelds.
Jack Johnson and Burns may fight
again, as Hugh Mcintosh offers a purse
of $4,000 for go in Australia.
Under the new reckoning the time in
Chile will correspond with that of the
eastern time division of the United
States.
Mrs. Russell Sage made to Yale uni
Versity gift of $65O,OOO to meet the
entire cost of securing 3O-acre park
for a campus.
The city power plant, which furnish
ed both light and water for the city of
Lethbridge, Alberta, was totally de-
6troyed by fire recently.
Joe Cans, former lightweight boxing
champion of the world, is to be superin-
4endent of Jack Johnson s training
camp and chief second in the ring when
the present heavyweight champion fights
Sim Jeffries.
With the true Bohemian spirit appar-
ent on every side cities of the north
west ushered in the infant year with II
celebration.
Mrs. John A. Logan, Jr, has an
nouneed the engagement of her daugh
ter, Miss Mary Louise Logan, to Henri
de Sincay Of Brussels, Belgium.
Celebration of the New Year resulted
in the death, through the accidental dis
charge of a revolver, of Mrs Frances
Gardiner, the wife of Blake Gardiner.
Alaska has produced since 1880 when
mining first began, $16s, OO0, 900, all ex-
cept 100000 having been gold. Coal
fields are an important factor IN Alas
Jsa.
The best news to the mining inter
eats of Grant and Baker counties Gore.
gon) comes from Sumpter to the effect
that the smelter will resume operations
IN the spring.
Three hundred feet of false structure
of the Mckinley bridge, now under con-
struction across the Mississippi river,
was knocked out by an ice jam recently.
Sixty nine men were thrown into the
river and some may have been drowned.
At Trenton, Mo-, three people, two
of them women, were killed in a wreck
recently, and 4s were injured, three
seriously.
Study Of forestry is to be made more
systematic in the United States through
the closer relation of the schools of for
estry and the standardization of the
methods of instruction.
Spencer Trask, head of the firm of
New York bankers, was crushed to
death in his private compartment in
wreck at Saratoga.
Archbishop Ryan is confined to his
bed with a severe cold.
At Boston, Mass, thirty hundred
conductors and motOrmen received a |
New Years gift January 1 of $40 and
$25 in gold as a reward for their good
records in 1909.
Paris.-RObert Bacon, former secre- |
tary of state, who now succeeds Henry
White as United States ambassador to
France, presented his credentials to
President Fallieres January /.
The unwilling of the statue of Gen
eral Lew Wallace will take place at 10
a m. at indianapolis, January II.
The American Association for the Adj |
vaneement of Science has closed at Bos-
ton to meet next year at Minneapolis.
The sea exacted toll of the Glouces-
ter, Mass, fishing feet this year of four
vessels and Al men and left IL widows
and rs fatherless children.
Postal receipts for Spokane during
1909 reach approximately the $4,000, 900
mark.