Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-02-04
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT ITEMS FROM EVERY
WHERE, ALL The TINE.
A Review of Happenings N Both East
ern and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National Historical
Political and Personal Events Told in
Short Paragraphs.

Simon Chandler of Worcester, Mass,
said to have been the first man to en-
list in regularly organized military
company in response to Lincoln s call
for volunteers in the civil war, is dead
at his home in that city.
Drifting for "a hours in boiling
sea, clinging frantically to the top of
the deck house and expecting every
moment to be washed to death, Cap
tain Meader and the crew of eight of
the old schooner McFadden was saved
by the British tramp steamer Rather
inc, bound from Baltimore to Tampico.
A sky scraper for the use of ply
sicians, the only one in the world,
will be built in this city off Broadway,
in East Forty-frst street. The build
ing will be dubbed ''The -Doctorium. -
The projected building will be Is
stories high and will contain $50
suites of offices, each adapted to the
use of doctors.
General Wickersham has decided that
the dividends received by a corpora
| ton as a stakeholder of any other cor
poration of the character to which the
act imposing a tax of 1 per cent on
net income applies should be deducted
from its gross income regardless of
the amount of the net income of such
dividend paying corporation.
The president recently issued a
proclamation in which it is said that
inasmuch as Denmark, The Netherlands,
Norway, Sweden, Belgium, Egypt,
Persia and Portugal do not unduly dis
criminate in their tariffs against goods
imported from the United States those
countries are entitled to the minimum
rate established by the Payne-Aldrich
| law.
The German imperial committee that
was formed after the disaster to the
Zeppelin airship near Echterdingen in
order to organize a national Zeppelin
airship fund, has now issued its official
report. The total sum subscribed to
the fund exceede 100000 marks The
subscription list was headed by the
kaiser with 10000 marks.
Governor Alexander Henderson of
Yukon territory, who has arrived in
Vancouver, B. c., from Ottawa, where
he conferred with dominion officials,
learned that petition asking the gov
eminent to remove him from office was
on the way from Dawson to Ottawa.
He will not go north until he learns
what action the dominion government
means to take upon the petition.
Julius Langbein, known to civil war
veterans throughout the country as the
''Little Drummer Boy of New York, -
is dead at his home. Langbein, who was
II years old when he enlisted as a
drummer boy in Hawkins zouaves, was
the youngest volunteer who went from
New York state to the front. After the
war he became a district judge and
president of the Medal of Honor league.
While defending an aged man from
three men tormentors at New York
Thomas Graham, a partially paralyzed
newsboy, was stabbed three times by
one of the men in Herald square. Two
women in an automobile took the
wounded newsboy into their machine
and while the car sped to Bellevue hos
pital they held him on their laps and
their rich dresses became saturated
with blood. Doctors said the crippled
lad would probably die.
Premier Mcbride announced recently
at Victoria, B. c., that the govern
ment's railway policy will be laid be
fore the house this week. Then mem
bers of the legislature and the public
will have an opportunity of judging
whether thes contract by which the
Canadian Northern agrees to build &
railway from the Rockies to Vancouver
with a ferry to Victoria and roaG
traversing Vancouver island IS west
coast, is bargain or a holdup.
Heavy penalties were imposed by
Judge R. w. Tayler in the federal cour
at Toledo, Ohio, on the prominent mem
bers of the Ohio band of blackhander,
found guilty of conspiracy to use tn,
mails to extort money from Italians
living in Ohio and Indiana. Salvatore
Lima of Marion, the chief of the band
was sentenced to 16 years imprison
| OOOoSbiolh LlLudJ HIS DIOGu6T
and Giuseppe Ignoffo, his brother-in
law, were sentenced to 10 years i'm
Iprisonment each.
Mr.. Van Norden, the millionaire heat
of the Van Norden Trust company O.
New York, was robbed of $4,000 il
front of the Waldorf Astoria hotel a
the outcome of performing an act O.
courtesy. Mr.. Van Norden stopped t,
pick up handbag that Young woman
. had dropped. Her companion jostle,
against him so that he almost lost hi
balance. After he had restored TIL
handbag he went on home and forgo
] the incident. When he opened hi
t wallet, however, he found that severa
2 $1,000 bills were missing.
Two hundred people, including man,
women and girls, were thrown into
: panic at Chicago when Carmena Sicoli
a laborer, entered a hall where the,
: were dancing and began firing a re
> volver. The dancers escaped through
l windows to adjoining roofs and dow
= fire-escapes. All the shots were wild