The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1903-09-04
LATE telegraph BREvET|ES.
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 TerseIy Told.

Events TerseIy Told.
Senator Hanna is still sick in bed
The New York glass workers are on
a strike. They refuse to sign slips
telling of their previous employment
General Robert Shaw Oliver of New
York, the new assistant secretary OF
war, has entered upon the duties of his
Office.
A Wabash train carrying the St
Louis and Cleveland base ball teams
was wrecked recently at Napoleon. O.
Several of the players were hurt.
The navy department has received
a cablegram from Rear Admiral Cot,
ton, saying that the Brooklyn and San
Francisco have sailed from Genoa for
Beirut.
Cleveland, O.-Mrs. Alexander Win
ton, wife of the president of the Win
ton Automobile company, committed
suicide recently by throwing herself
into the lake.
Facing his divorced wife, Herbert
R. Shaffer of Chicago lifted a vial of
carbolic acid to his lips and said:
1T is your fault. Minnie. Goodby,"
then swallowed the acid.
Joseph Haworth, aged 4S, the well
known actor, was found dead recently
in room in the Kingsley hotel at
Willoughby, o., small village few
miles east of Cleveland.
Bids for the delivery of feed at Port
land, San Francisco, Tacoma and Sc
attic have been asked by the gorvern-
ment for the army in the Philippines.
The quantity asked is 300 tons of oats
and 5000 tons Of hay.
The third section of the Barnum &
Bailey circus train. composed almost
entirely of sleeping cars for the per-
formers, was wrecked at Wildwood
Pa, recently, and serious accident
was narrowly averted.
An envelope said to contain govern
ment bonds and copper mining stock
valued at $1,5O0.0OO, which Joseph Pi-
card says he placed in vault at the
Minnesota state capitol 16 years ago
for safe keeping, cannot be found.
The transport Texas has sailed from
Oakland, CAL. with 600 miles of the
submarine cable which is to be laid in
Alaskan waters. The cable now on the
Texas will be transferred at Seattle
to the United States cableship Burn
side.
Rev. DR.. c. Farris, aged II years,
former pastor of the North Presbyte-
rian church and well known through
out the southern Presbyterian church,
is dead at his home in St. Louis. For
many years he was editor of the st.
Louis Presbyterian church.
President Roosevelt has announced
that Henry c. Ide, at present a mem
Der Of the Philippine commission,
would be designated as vice governor
of the Philippines in succession to
General Luke Wright when the latter
assumes the Office of governor general
Word has been received from Moore
croft, Wyo., that the most disastrous
cloudburst in the history of that Sec
ton occurred there recently. Two
large bridges on the Burlington rail
road, with a considerable amount of
trackage, was washed out and de-
stroyed.
Sir Thomas Upton, aboard the Erin,
declared after losing the second race
in an interview, that he would never
challenge again for the Americas cup,
until man had been found in Eng
land who sequaled Nat Herreshoff in
yacht building. The baronet admitted
his disappointment at his failure, and
frankly said that he had no hope of
winning even single race.
OF the lumber export in the last fls-
cal year the Pacific coast shipped 16
per cent. The increase in eastbound
lumber shipments from Washington by
the Great Northern. Northern Pacific
and Canadian Pacific is an interesting
feature. The first six months Of this
year shows about SS0.O00.O0O feet of
lumber, an increase of 20 per cent over
the same time last year. Shingles in
creased Is per cent.
General Frederick Funston, accom-
panied by his aide de camp, Lieuten-
ant Mitchell. has arrived in Seattle
on his return from an inspection of
the forts Of Alaska. General Funston,
as commander of the department of
the Columbia, has Alaska under his
jurisdiction, and the trip which he
has just completed was for the pur-
pose of making the regular inspection
which the government requires to be
made of all its property.
Los Angeles.-An electric car on
the San Pedro-Los Angeles line of the
California Pacific railway was held up
at the crossing Of the Santa Fe rail-
road, about two miles south of the