Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-14
LATE TELEGRAPH bREVE1IES
CULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western HemisPheres
During the Past Week-NatIonal,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.


against Victoria by IL goals to l.
The American squadron has SAILED
for Vile Franche, southern France.
The Colima (Mexico) volcano re
. mains in a violent state of activity
No casualties are reported.
King Peter of Servia is being open
y terrorzed by his encourage, accord
ing to the Belgrade advices.
Andrew Carnegie has offered the city
of Dublin the sum of $4,000 toward
the erection of free public library.
Saturdays statement of the treasury
balance sheet shows: Available cash
balance, 1921 ,247,9S6; gold, $102,250,
9S3.
Postmaster Wise of Fairdealing, Mo-
Is in Jail on the charge of being short
in his accounts to the extent of over
$1,000.
Policeman Charles Vodeman of
Brooklyn has been shot and probably
fatally wounded by Vincent Thomas,
a safe expert, in a quarrel at Coney
Island
The textile strike which was inaug-
urated in Philadelphia has been prac-
tically declared off, when 10000 Of
the 10000 strikers decided to return
to work Monday.
Mrs. Van Cercke of Shawnee, Kan,
reported to the depot authorities in
st. Paul that she had lost a hustle,
containing $3.50. while enroute to St.
| DouJ ~, n pooIr Ic1opd train
Rear Admiral George W. Melville,
who was retired for age last January,
has relinquished his duties as chief of
the bureau of steam engineering and
was succeeded by Rear Admiral
Charles w. Rae.
Charles A. Gould, son of the million
aire car coupling manufacturer, and
his wife. were violently thrown from
their automobile in front of their coun-
try home at Bayside, l.. l. They were
finally restored to consciousness, and
their condition is said to be improved.
The volcano Kilauea near Honolulu
is virtually lifeless for the first time
in many years. There was an enor-
nous lava slide from the rim of the
pit and since then neither stream nor
smoke has come up from the crater.
Kilauea is the largest active volcano
in the world.
The general lockout of the New
York jewelry workers decided on by
the manufacturers has gone into ef-
feet. Fourteen hundred men are at
fected. The cause of the lockout Is
the demand of the union that one of
the firms discharge an employee be-
cause he was not member of the
union.
Frank Reese, II years old, who has
been one of the attractions at fire.
works display at Chicago recently, fell
so feet in the sight of 11,000 people, as
result of an accident to the slack
wire on which he was performing. The
force of his fall was broken by a small
scaffolding that held fireworks under
the wire and the boy is said to be not
seriously hurt.
One thousand Bulgarian insurgents,
half of whom are armed with Mann
licher rifles, and the remainder with
| udlCAttS, are I'LL thO eoVh VI
Vodena, 46 miles north of Salonica. 1t
is rumored that 10000 insurgents, di'
vided into four corps, are operating
against the troops in the village OF
Monastir and that 10000 more are op
Grating at Castoria.
Kate Walsh rs years old, has tried
to end her life by jumping from the
sixth floor of an apartment house in
New York City. There is a cisterr
at the bottom of the air shaft, and the
woman jumped through the boards
which covered it and into the water
The police carried her to the hospital
and there it was found that the in
iuries were not serious, despite the
great distance she had dropped.
Adyices from Baku. south Russia
show that $4,000 men were involved
in the strike which commenced there
,July Is for an eight hour day and in
crease in wages. For week the strik
ers were masters of the situation. botf
in the town and in the naphtha fields
Only 600 troops were available. FOL
IN days Baku was without trains ant
for several nights the town was with
out lights, while no newspapers ap
peared. ..-
August Gonzalves. the Portuguese
: how whose mother in California ha
made an extraordinary effort to locat'
him, was picked up in Council Bluffs
Iowa.
The mystery surrounding the disap
pearance of Eugene B. Cooney' the l,
year old son of E. H. Cooney, city edi
tor of the Great Falls Leader, has beer
cleared away by the discovery of thu
: young mans body floating in Lake ee