Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-05-27
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
crn and Western Hemispkeres During
tho Past Week. National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told In
Short Paragraphs.
The Oregon census shows e7s,s7s.

The Oregon census shows 675,s79.
A. D. Pelton, owner of the Toledo
Blade from 1857 to 1868, died Saturday
aged 81.
The Rev. Billy Sunday is headed fol
California to start campaign against
the big fight.
The Rev. DR.. John w. T. Booth, one
of the oldest and best.known Baptist
clergymen in the United States, il
dead at his home in White Plains, N. Y
James NJ. Lynch was reelected presi
dent of the International Typographical
union by 5000 votes in the election
throughout the country by the organ.
ization May 49, o
Annoy, China. - Conditions arising
from the continued drouth are serious
There has been no rain for four months
food supplies are running low and the
crops are failure.
A severe storm in Clay county, Kan
sas, Saturday night did much damage
to crops, trees and outbuildings. Tele-
graph wires are down and the full ex-
tent of the damage is not known.
General Louis Botha, premier of the
Transvaal, has been summoned to form
the first union ministry cabinet of
United South Africa of which Viscount
Gladstone is the first governor-general.
Harry Pike, formerly of Chicago, and
whose divorced wife now lives there,
shot and fatally wounded Hazel Ritter,
aged 25, of Laramie, Wyo., and then
attempted suicide at Denver, Colo:, Sat-
urday.
Arrangement of the administration s
sale of the Philippine friar lands and
of the activities of the so-called sugar
trust" in that archipelago, was made in
the house Saturday by Mr.. Covington
of Maryland.
John M. Simpson, California argonaut
of 1849 and Oregon pioneer of 1866, died
at his home in South Tualatin, Washing
ton county, Cal, Friday, from the effects
of injuries sustained in a runaway acct
dent near there some time ago.
George Turner, former United States
senator Of Washington, has sailed from
New York to The Hague to act as one
of the attorneys of the United States
in the adjustment of fishery and boun-
dairy questions between Canada and the
United States.
With the approach of the time for
the maneuvers at American Lake, Wash,
in August, when the posts of the north
west will be all but deserted by all
soldiers and officers, interest increases,
and all activities bear relation to max
ing Preparations to go.
Seven hundred nonunion miners en-
plOyed at the Providence electrical and
at White Dog zinc mines, Webb City,
Mo-, have struck upon the refusal of
the company to increase the wages to
dgures which obtained before the de-
creased price of ore forced 10 per
cent reduction.
Twenty-one students of the mining de-
partment of McGin university, Mon
ttreal, are at the concentration of the st.
Eugene mine, Moyie, B. c., where they
will remain for four or five days devot-
ing their energies to the acquiring of
practical knowledge of the various
modern methods of silver-lead ore treat
ment.
A heavy snowfall delayed railroad
traffic and threatened telephone and
telegraph service around Trinidad, Colo,
Saturday. Six inches of snow is re-
ported in the Stonewall mountains. The
snow is melting rapidly and the mois-
ture means thousands of dollars to farm
ers and stockmen in this section in pros
pective crops and grass for stock.
A lockout in the building trades of
Germany, affecting 100000 men, is in
full swing. It is expected the lockout
will spread even further. Although the
employers of Berlin, Hamburg and
Bremen have not Joined the movement,
it is expected that work there win be
suspended. Negotiations for peaceful
settlement are under way at Munich.
The body of Martin P. Case, president
of the Independent Oil company, and
for number of years known in fnan-
eial circles as wealthy man, was found
in the basement of his home in Cleve-
land, Ohio, Saturday night. He had
died of bullet wound apparently self.
inflicted. He was 73 years old. The
dependency of old age is thought to
be the cause of the suicide.