Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-12-02
NEWSOF THE WORLD.
SHORT ITEMS FROM MOST ANY
PLACE ON THE GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings in Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week National, Historical,
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

Chicago is in the throes of diph-
iberia epidemic.
The silk hat s supremacy in England
is threatened by the automobile.
The city of Bangkok is the only
place in Siam lighted by electricity.
John Bull has more daughters than
sons in England and Wales by 1926,
05S.
A Seattle firm has had orders from
China for 100000 creosoted railway
ties within two years.
President Taft has not fully made
up his mind with regard to the tariff
features of his forthcoming measure.
M. Rachkovski, former head of the
secret police in Russia and agent of
the Russian police in Paris, died re-
Gently.
Several of the surgeons in Berlin
have Experimental much with bloodless
surgery and reports have it with much
success
The will of Sir Claude Campbell was
recently probated in London and his
estate goes to his mother, Lady Esther
Campbell.
Nine. Ali Kuli Kahn, wife of the
charge of affairs of Persia, will be the
official chatelaine Of the shah s legation
in Washington, d. G.
Vienna.-The feeble condition of the
emperor is giving the men responsible
for the government more concern just
now than any other question.
Telephones win in all probability
shortly be installed at Jerusalem, as a
system is being installed in all cities
by the Turkish telegraph department.
Herr Won jagged, the chief of police
of Berlin, has returned from London
quite unconvinced Of the reputed su-
periority of British police methods over
those which obtain in Germany.
1t is proposed to let the one-acre
space of cellars in the heart of London
remain. They are the historic cellars
or vaults under the churchyard of st.
Martin-in-the-Fi Fields Trafalgar square.
The French cabinet has decided
against the temporary abolition Of inn
port duties on foreign wheat and other
cereals which had been proposed be-
cause of the shortage of the French
crops.
People in London, England, not to
speak of many thousands living in
places remote from it, are alarmed at
the increase of rats which, it is believed
have caused many cases of sickness in
the interior.
More than 100000 index record
cards showing the individual service
records who fought in the various wars
ia which this country has been engaged
are now on file in the Office of the adju.
tant general of the army
Rain, the first in three months, be-
gan at Bartlesville, Okla, Saturday
Many towns in northern Oklahoma and
southern Kansas are facing a water
famine. If the fall continues the situa-
ton will be relieved in many places.
Since the death of former United
States Senator David B. Hill of New
York many estimates of the aggregate
value of his estate have been made. The
present estimate is that the entire es-
tate, personal and real, will not yield
more than $4,000.
The Navy in hard and clean game
of football at Philadelphia Saturday
afternoon, before a large and enthusi-
astic crowd, defeated their old rivals
the Army, by to o. Games won since
1890: Navy 2, Army T. Total points;
Navy 1913, Army 154.
A French blacksmith named Puvior
recently won the first prize, 100000
in French lottery. A neighbor named
Dumoulin gave Puvion 10 francs for a
half share in second ticket, which was
never bought. Nevertheless the black,
smith has insisted on sharing his good
fortune equally with his neighbor.