Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-31
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cuLLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

has been appointed United States con-
sui at Hull, England.
Uncle Sans treasury statement
shows: Available cash balance, $685..
1S6,1O7; gold, 9S,965,S 800.
DR.. Edward w. Warren, rector of
st. James Episcopal church, is dead in
Austria from appendicitis.
A seat at the New York stock ex-
change was sold recently for 100000.
The last previous sale was at $67, 500.
Thomas O'Toole Of New York, one of
the most expert bridge builders in the
country, was accidentally killed at
Quarryville, Pa, recently.
Rev. Robert Chester Foule, D. D.,
for the last 10 years rector of Grace
Episcopal church in San Francisco, is
dead. The cause of his death was apo
plexy.
The national convention of dairy
and food commissioners has closed
their convention at st. Paul with the
election Of officers for the ensuing year
as follows:
President, ]. B. Bailey, Oregon;
first vice president, W. P. Mcconnell;
second vice president, Maroni Heiner,
Utah; secretary-treasurer, R. M. AL
len, Kentucky.
The sheriff Of Des Moines, Iowa, has
not been able to locate Mrs. Ella
Hodge, who is wanted in Salt Lake on
a charge of numbering William X.
Ryan, peddler of that city.
1t is understood that Governor Hunt
of Porto Rico has indicated his in
tention of relinquishing the island gov
enorship. When his resignation will
take effect is not known definitely.
Word comes from American Fails,
Utah, that Carrie Varney and Lucille
Dunkley, two girls ABOUT 10 years of
age, were drowned while bathing in
Utah lake. The bodies were recov-
cred.
Robert Fftzsimmons, actor and pu-
gilist, has married Julia May Clifford.
The ceremony took place in San Fran
cisco. The groom gave his age as Al
and that Of the prospective bride as
20. Both claim New York as their
homes.
London is to lose another of its
show places. A building in Portugal
street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, which is
said to have been the original of the
"Old Curiosity Shop" immortalized by
Dickens, has been sold to an American,
who will eventually take it to pieces
and reerect it in the United States.
George Wilson, an old resident Of
Rochester, N. Y, who was pronounced
dead by his attendants, has come to
life. When the undertaken arrived
Wilson's body was stiff and cold.
Preparations were being made for en-
balming when the supposed corpse
suddenly jumped up and swore at the
undertaken for handling him SO rough
ly.
Shamrock I. will have a duel with
Columbia over the Americas cup
course or at Newport probably after
the races are decided. Ed Morgan at
Newport has declared his willingness
to race Columbia against her former
adversary under any conditions and at
any time suitable to Sir Thomas. The
matter was closed on board the Erin
by Sir Thomas acceptance Of the offer.
The announcement was made re-
Gently. on the New York stock ex-
change of the suspension of the firms
Of Talbot ]. Taylor & Co. and W. L.
Stow & Co. was the sequel to period
of excited selling of stocks and wide
outside prices, which had not been
equalled before since the present
movement to liquidate set in. There Is
nothing in either failure that can be
traced to business or industrial condi-
tions outside the exchange, the case
lying close to diagnosis of specu1a.
tive collapse.