Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-09-18
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Events in Both Eastern
and Western Hemispheres During
the Past Week-National, Histori.
cal, Political and Personal Events
Tersely Told.

CZdT Will arrive Ill ItOlu6 OCIOUeE
"a and will remain three days.
Seattle streetcars ran in almost
their usual number and practically Oh
schedule time, in spite of the street
car operators strike.
There is no bread in Panama, ow
ing to the bakers union ordering a
general strike in compliance with the
master bakers regarding the number
Of working hours.
1t is said that Senator Fred T. Du-
bois Of Idaho will resist the claims of
Senator Reed Smoot Of Utah to seat
in the United States senate.
The mineowners' association of
cripple Creek, COL, has announced
that no member of the Western Fed
GRAFTON of Miners will be employed in
any Of the properties owned by mem
bers Of the association.
Wheat reached the highest price of
the season at Garfield recently, when
$4,000 bushels sold for 90 cents per
bushel, sacked In the warehouse. The
grain sold was club and red wheat.
Bluestem is worth four cents = bushel
more than club anu red.
San Francisco was visited by hot
wave recently. The mercury stood at
Ga degrees in the early morning and
during the day it gradually rose until
at 1920 p. m. the thermometer regis
tered go degrees in the shade.
James Powell. lineman for the
Northern Pacific, engaged in stretch
ing wires along the route of the Belt
line, was killed by an electric shock |
at Renton, near Seattle, recently. |
Chris Berg, who was pulling the line,
was knocked over and thrown several
juries.
Six inches of snow on the level has
fallen throughout Yellowstone park
during Sunday.
The last statement OF the treasury
shows: Available cash balance, $685.
7S5,6S5; gold. $109,17G,0 95.
Charles Kuhnle, one of the best
known and wealthiest farmers of Paso
Robes, CAL, was murdered recently.
In the Alps all telegraphic communi-
cation was for a time completely in
terrupted and Italy cut off from Eu.
rope and America.
United States Senator Platt of Con-
necticut has announced that he favors
the nomination of President Roosevelt
as the head of the republican national
ticket.
William A. Hoffman,, who shot and
killed his father-in-law, DR.. A. j.
Brandt, near Mayestown, ILL.,, and
threatened to take the lives of others,
is under arrest at Belleville, Ill.
Frank Day, formerly of California,
was killed in an automobile at thel
State fair grounds at Milwaukee, Wis,
while driving against Barney Old
fields record in race against time.
Before crowd of $4,000 people, Ar.
thur Featherstone's Igniter won the
$4,000 annual championship stakes,
two miles and a quarter, at Sleeps
head Bay recently.
A Rome paper says: 1t Is insistent-
ly rumored that the discovery was
made recently that sum of money
was missing from the treasury of the
propaganda Pope Plus ordered that
an inquiry into the matter be made by
cardinal De La Volpe, project of econ
omy OF the propaganda, who, accord
ing to the reports, found $40, 900 to be
missing
A dispatch from Augusta, Wis. SAYS
that the town and vicinity are flooded.
the result Of cloudburst. The leyee
went out and the floods swept through
the town, carrying everything before
1t. Every railroad running through
the Northwest is crippled from wash.
outs.
Recently at Clay Center, Neb., two
unknown highwaymen attempted to
secure money from several persons.
A party Of four resisted and Dad"
Stevens, ]. w. Houserman, Night
Waterman Bush and Louis Behrends
were shot by the robbers and severely
wounded. Behrends was hit in the
head and is not expected to live. The
bandits got no money. although their
victims had considerable cash and
jewelry in their possession. The high.
waymen escaped.
1t is estimated that the loss to the
Florida orange crop will be from 25
to 40 per cent.
The contract for the construction |
of a bridge across the Snake river at
Weiser, Idaho. has, been awarded
A fire, which originated in Klosser's |
candy store destroyed an entire block
of stores in the heart of the business
district of Sault Ste. Marie. Mich,
James Kerr Kelly. formerly United
States senator from Oregon, died at