Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-12-18
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLED FROM DISPATCHES o
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphercs
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Persona
Events Terseiy Told.


been iusL WIN all hands.
COLOMBIAN troops suner some severe
harusnips On Inc ALralo river. touI
THOUSAND more warriors started OUT
then returned TO bOgola.
Loru AuInser uIeu al the LaribOisle
hospital al rarls recently from neart
faiiure brought on NY the SHOCK o.
I.... 1870 .ue s.airs oI d restaurant.
The State department has been In.
formed mat nnai steps nave been TAX.
en- Iur Inc Iormauun OIL permanent
republican form OIL government in Fan.
anna.
sunday, for the first time this win
ter, LIE transportation 1acliltles on
the chicago railroad systems were
more Or less crippled by heavy tan
Of snow.
Serious charges against Consul Gen-
erai Olver J. hughes at Coburg, Ger
many, nave been brought to the at
tenlion OF the state department a,
Washington.
PresiuenI Roosevelt recently enter.
NaIionai League of Republican clubs
and prominent league workers from
various parts of the country.
United states Minister SQuiers, Of
Havana, sailed for New York, whence
he will go Immediately to Washing
ton. 1t is SAID the CUBAN government
has granted all his requests.
A drowning accident occurred re-
Gently Of CrawfOr. bay, near Nelson,
B. O., when j. Brown Of Fernie lost
his life. Deceased was employed as a
deckhand on the steamer Valhalla.
Beginning with the new year the
railroads Of the west will adopt very
stringent rules about issuing passes.
1t will be pretty hard matter for
people to get favors OF that sort after
January l.
The last statement Of the treasury
balances in the general fnund, exclu-
sive OF the $150,0O0,000 gold reserve
in the division of redemption, shows:
Available cash balance $220, 1853 ,591;
gold, $11S.030.122.
Senator Hanna has decided to re-
quest the senate committee on mill
tary affairs to subpoena General Wood
to answer some of the charges made
against him by opponents of his con-
firmation as major general.
The president has sent the following
nominations to the senate: Assistant
treasurer, lnomas ]. Adkins, of st.
Louis, Mo. Envoy extraordinary and
minister plenipotentiary to Panama,
William l. Buchanan of New York.
Norman Wolf, Jack McGovern. Jas
Burns and Jas. Smith were killed and
several other men injured by a boiler
explosion recently at Montgomery &
Palmer sawmill, IL miles from So
Iona, Colo, at the head of Onion creek
Ben c. Aylor. the Webb City. Mo-.
mineowner, who shot Gordon Allen, a
wealthy Joplin man, two months ago
was acquitted by jury In the circuit
court. The jury was out only eight
minutes. Aylor's plea was self de
tense.
Altoona, Pa.-Orders have been is
sued for the employees In the Pennsyl
vania shops to work 10 hours day
with overtime when necessary, to get
out the WORK. Between 1000 and 5000
additional men will be given employ
ment.
According to computations made by
State Insurance Commissioner Host
Wisconsin may recover from $150.000
to 100000 in back taxes from Isl fire
insurance companies operating at pres.
ent and from forty that have operated
here for 30 years.
1t is reported that the Northern Sc
curities company mas disposed of $685.
100000 of the total Of $96.000000 OF
Great Northern preferred stock for
merly held in its treasury in order to
defeat the government suit in the
Ulited States supreme court.
The Westminster abbey authorities
have declined to permit the ashes OF
Herbert Spencer to be sepulchered in
the British Valhalla, according to a
N. Y. World dispatch from London.
They were informally approached, but
expressed regret that it was impossi-
BILE.
No change will be made in the name
of the Protestant Episcopal church
in the immediate future and the next
triennial council of the church will
take no action on the movement which
has been on foot for a change of name
of the church to the Catholic Church
of America.
Word has been received from Love
lock, New. to the effect that p. H.
Cook, travelling freight agent for the
Union Pacific, while showing an auto
matte revolver to ]. w. Walters, agent
at Lovelocks. accidentally discharged
LIE weapon and Killed Walters instant