Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-10-30
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

The Echo de Paris announces that
the king of Spain will visit Paris next
May.
In sympathy with fellow workmen in
New York 1000 United Garment Work
ers employed by the International Tai
loring company in Chicago are on
strike. Half the strikers are women.
Special officers Clark and Snipes of
Ogden, Utah, were shot by an un-
known man recently. The officers were
in the railroad yards patrolling when
q man rode towards them on bicycle.
Before the officers could say a word
the man began to shoot, wounding
Clark in the right hand and infiicting
a mortal wound IN Snipes abdomen.
The man who did the shooting then
rode away.
The appointment of Sir Henry Nor
timer Durand, the British ambassador
at Madrid, as ambassador to the
United States to succeed the late Sir
Michael Herbert.
A special from the Folsom (Cal.J
state prison states that second term
er named e. Manuel was shot and
killed by the guards while attempting
to escape.
A train composed of two cars. on
the Kings County Elevated structure
at the Brooklyn end of the bridge
jumped the track at the curve at 11:45
at night, narrowly escaped falling into
the street, caught fire from the third
rail and was partly consumed with the
flooring of the st. ucture. Fifty pas
sengers were bruised by the jolt and
thrown into panic by the blaze, and
all rushed to the tracks, regardless of
the deadly third rail, and escaped.
The Petit Journals correspondent
at Copenhagen telegraphs to his news
paper that a whaling vessel which has
arrived there reports the failure Of the
Zeigler north pole expedition on the
ship America to reach Franz Josefiand.
The attempt, the whaler further re-
ports, will be renewed in the spring.
Joseph W. Folk, prosecuting attor-
ney Of st. Louis, has announced his
candidacy for the democratic nomina-
ton for governor at one of the largest
political meetings ever held in st. Jo-
seph.
Samuel Clemens MARK Twain) and
his wife and two daughters have sailed
for Naples and Genoa from New York.
Application has been made to the
New York stock exchange to list $133,.
100000 sinking fund S per cent of the
United States Steel corporation. These
are portion of the $3.50, 100000 issue
authorized for conversion purposes.
1t is learned that the German am
bassador to the United States, Baron
Sternberg, has sailed for Europe on the
steamship Auguste Victoria. He is to
undergo an operation on one of his
ears while abroad.
Five Italians, who were repairing the
tracks of the Erie railroad at the
Hamapoo curve, New York, were in
stantly killed by an express train re-
Gently. A number of other laborers
were injured and removed to a hos.
pital.
The board of Philippine commission.
ers has just issued proclamation an
nouncing the characterization of the
Mexican dollar on and after January
1, 1904. Until the date the coin will
be accepted at all the government Of
fees at the usual rate, which is equiv.
alent to so cents American money.
Robert Wilcox, ex-congressional
delegate from Hawaii, died recently
at Honolulu Of consumption. Wilcox
was the home candidate for sheriff and
was in the midst Of the campaign.
Overwork brought on hemorrhages.
There is great mourning among the
natives, with whom, owing to his blood,
Wilcox was very popular.
The steamer Etruria, which sailed
from Liverpool recently, took Charles
Kohlsaat, the st. Louis commissioner,
who bears from the king of Denmark
a message to President Roosevelt, ex.
pressing the greatest regard for the
United States, and for the president
personally. Nine. Patti, Colonel Will.
liam F. Cody, Major Burke, and the In.
dams of the Wild West show, are also
passengers on the Etruria. Colonel
Cody will return in the spring. His
horses are to pass the winter in Eng
land.
United States District Judge M. M.
Estee of Honolulu is seriously i'll.
An electric car recently in the high
speed experiments on the Marinnel.
Zossen line at Berlin attained the
speed of 1870 2-5 miles per hour.
The American government has won
and the dominion government has lost
by the seizure by the cruiser Petrol OF