The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-06-19
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Howard T. Kressly, the Spokane
confessed forger, is believed to have
ded to escape arrest.
While wrestling with Joe Beaumont
friend. Frank Davy, both living in
Deer Lodge, Mont. broke his neck and
died instantly. The two were wrest.
liIg for fun.
With President T. ]. Cornwall in
parts unknown and short nearly 500.
900. the Eessmer Savings bank Of Biz
mtngham has closed it's doors and ask
for a receiver. The shortage will not
affect the Birmingham bank.
AT San Francisco Mark Cchn, a
school hoy, was smothered t. death
recently In company with other lads
he dug cave in the side of sandhill
nsar his home, aud, while alone in it,
the ovarhanging bank fell AID buried
him.
Governor Bailey of Kansas says he
will call an extra session Of the Kan.
sas legislature. Inc call is to be is
sued as soon as the governor receives
assurances from a quorum of the mem
mers that they will be here. The spe-
cial session will! provide for relieving
the food situation.
Robert Fair, an employee Of the Kent
Lumber company, of Seattle, fell un-
der the wheels Of moving train re-
Gently and died in about 10 minutes.
Fair was t:cn'an on donkey engine
Belonging TO the company at Barnes
tcn. He Jumped eff the Car and
stumbled.
: The Italian cabinet has resigned be-
cause the chamber of deputies decided
upon parliamentary inquiry.
Ulysses s. Grant, Jr., was graduated
from West Point last week, and stands
with the first seven in his class.
A receiver was named for the Vim
cent Valve company of Sandusky, Ohio.
Assets, $4,000; liabilities, 100000.
The big well at Cornell furnishes six
thousand gallons of water an hour. A
reservoir holding one hundred thou
sand gallons is in readiness to receive
the supply.
Kansas City, Kan, is still sorely in
need of aid for it's flood sufferers. Al
second urgent appeal to the country
has been issued by the relief commit
tee of that city.
The statement of the treasury fund,
exclusive of the $15O,00O,O 900 gold re-
serve in the division of redemption,
shows: Available cash balance, 1926
5S6,923; gold, $1Os,O29, 662.
s That she has no equal in American
waters in smooth sea and light wind
the Reliance has again demonstrated
by another recent victory over both
the Constitution and Columbia.
William G. Hook of Leavenworth,
Kan, has been elected to succeed
Judge Caldwell, who recently resigned
the judgeship of the circuit court for
the Eighth district. Judge Hook is at
present district judge
Moses Fowler Chase, the young mil
lionaire, who was declared to be I'M
sound mentally at Fowler, Ind, and
for whom Frederick Chase, his father,
was appointed guardian, has been TAX
en-, to private sanitarium for treat
ment.
Major w. H. Gibbes, who is said to
have fired the first shot of the civil
war upon Fort Sumpter, died recently
at Columbia, s. c. Major Gibbes was
gunner in Captain Grimes COM
pany, to whom General sBeauregard
sent the order to open fire upon Major
Anderson. He served as postmaster
Of Columbia under President Cleve-
land.
Five persons were burned to death
in New York recently in a fiat build
ing at BAT East One Hundred and Fiji
teenth street. 1t is believed the fire
was Of incendiary origin.
A typhoon Of extraordinary violence
swept over Hanoi, Namdinh and Thai
binh, China, recently, causing much
damage. Many natives persisted and
several Europeans were injured. Three
trains were overturned between Hanoi
and Namdinh.
Plans have been adopted for the for
nation in fittsburg Of one of the
greatest combinations of banking in
terests ever taken in the country. BY
the deal the Farmers Deposit Nation
al, Colonial Trust company, Pennsyl-
vania Trust company, Columbia Ma
tional bank, Tradesmen's National
bank, Tradesmen's National bank, Ger
mania Savings bank and Freehold bank
will be merged, making the largest and
most powerful institution between
Philadelphia and Chicago.
The Rio Giande at Earlham, N. NJ,
is very threatening. The rise is more
than foot and half in IL hours,
and from San Marcial an additional
rise Of Is inches is exps. ell. The
river is more than two miles wide,
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