Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-06-10
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT.ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western HemispLeres During
the Past Week-National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

-Four hundred metal workers are on
strike in Portland.
Ninety five per cent of the fruit crop
of Iowa was destroyed by the late
frosts.
William Sidney Porter, go. Henry"
the most versatile and prolific of mod
ern short story writers, is dead.
A delegation of railroad presidents
are to visit Washington this week in
the present freight rate dispute.
Charles K. Hamilton will attempt
to fly from New York to Philadelphia
and return, probably on Saturday of
this week.
Martin Sheridan broke his own
world record with the discus at a re-
cent athletic meet by throw of lao
feet z inches.
The strike of 1,40O metal workers in
and around Los Angeles is to end in an
industrial revolution in southern Cali
fornia, says a report.
Mrs w. j. Bryan has sailed for Liv-
erpool to join her husband in Edin-
burgh, where they will attend the
worlds missionary conference.
The Wisconsin SCARED crew won
easily over the Washington university
over the three-mile course in Wiscon-
son in contest rowed in a contest
rowed in drizzling rain.
Arrangements for the consolidation
of hotel interests valued at $4,000 900
are being contaminated. The combine
will include many well-known hotels
between San Francisco and New York
The steamship Corwin, which left Sc
attic May 10, arrived in Nome, Satur-
day after a hard battle with Boring sea
ice, in which, however, she sustained
no serious damage. All were well on
board.
At Dayton, Ohio, Big Four rail
road passenger train crashed into mar
ket wagon at a street grade crossing
Saturday and three persons were killed.
The victims were farmer, his daugh
ter and son.
Former Secretary Of the Spokane
Chamber of Commerce L. G. Monroe,
who resigned the position May 1, has
accepted the secretaryship of the first
Canadian apple show to be held at
Vancouver, b. c., in October of this
year.
Guilty of murder in the second de-
gree was the verdict in the Hinton
case at Canyon City, Ore. Hinton was
convicted Of killing Ollie Snyder, slay-
ser of Arthur Green. Snyder was taken
from the custody of Deputy Sheriff
Caseday and shot.
While his resignation of the position
Of special agent for the general land
Office was in the mails en- route to
Washington, Horace T. Jones of Port
land was indefinitely suspended"
from service at the order of Secretary
of the Interior Ballinger.
When parliament convenes this week
for what may be the most momentous
session for more than a generation,
there will be a desperate contest be-
tween the radical and more conserva-
tive element in both political parties
for control in the matter of forcing an
issue on the lords veto question.
According to all the information
which can be collected from the di-
Vorce papers fled by Reese Prosser,
who was shot ON the Great Northern
train at Libby, Mont, last week, the
reply of his wife, who has now become
his slayer, and from people who were
acquainted with either one or both of
the parties to the tragedy, it seems
that as far as domestic trouble-making
is concerned the two broke about even.