Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-15
TELEGRAPH MEMS SUMMARY
;ULLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
\ Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

mirai, has been gazetted life senA-
tor.
The battleship Wisconsin, which has
been at the Puget sound navy yard for
several months undergoing repairs,
has left for her station IN the far east.
Heavy withdrawal of foreign credits
from New York is shown by an in
crease of $9,0O0,00O in New York bank
loans. The money is wanted for suU-
scriptions to the new Transvaal loan.
In the strike situation at Montreal
everything is quiet. Work progresses
slowly, but the piles of merchandise
on the wharves are, growing bigge",
with no immediate prospect Of moving
them.
Postmaster William OLeary, soldier
and newspaper man, died recently at
Dallas, Texas. He served with Gus
ter's cavalry in many Indian fights.
He was connected with the Dallas and
Galveston News and Texas Siftings
during his newspaper career.
A serious conflict, the outcome of Ia
Dor troubles in Fremont, Ohio, oc
Cured recently. Otto Mischke, 20
years old, was shot and killed, and
Albert Gummell fatally wounded, the
shooting being done by gang of non
union men, three of whom are now in
jail.
The Kansas supreme court has af-
firmed the decision of the lower court
in the case of the state vs.. Jessie
Morrison. Jessie Morrison was 1e
clared guilty of killing Mrs. Olin Cas-.
tie three years ago ut the Castle home,
in Eldorado. The decision means 20
ears imprisonment.
The first weekly crop report for the
1903 season issued by the freight de-
partment of the Northern Pacific, IN.
cludes the following: Idaho, Wash
ington and Oregon-Winter wheat ~
backward. The amount is the same as
last year; spring wheat seeding rs per
cent completed; increase in acreage.
10 per cent; season two weeks late.
Miss Louise Hadley, a chambermaid,
at hotel in Indianapolis, Ind, has
been discharged for refusing to make
up bed occupied by Booker T. Wash
ington the night before.
Six men employed in the train serv-
ice on the Santa Fe on the Kansas d.
vision have been discharged for fire.
quenting saloons. The employees were
engine men and conductors.
Ten or 70 persons were severely Id
iured and three business houses in tho
center of Stockton, Cal, were burned
by an explosion, which was followed
by fire recently. Cause unknown
1t has been learned that 227 Of the
235 presbyteries of the Presbyterian
church in America voted solidly for
creed revision as based on the ii over
lures sent down by last years general
assembly.
The investigation of the affairs Of
the postoffice department, which has
been dragging along for two months,
took sensational turn recently when,
by order of Postmaster General Payns,
August W. Machen, general superin-
tendent of the free delivery system and
one of the most widely known gov
ernment officials in the country, was
relieved from his duties.
An important DEAL including the
holdings of the Alaska Commercial
company at Nome, has Just been con-
summated, and the John ]. Sesnon
company, incorporated, is now the OWL
er of the large mercantile establish
ment in the northern camp, besides
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