Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1903-06-26
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLED FROM ASSOCIATED
PRESS DISPATCHES.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemlspheres
Curing the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Great Britain has pracucally cut VI
diplomatic relations with Servia.
The United States government ha
adopted an attitude similar to that o
England toward the new Servian dy
nasty.
Baron Ludovic Monchem, Belgian
minister to the United States, MAJ
sailed for Europe. He is returning
home on a vacation.
Bob Fitzsimmons has announced MS
engagement to Miss Julia May Clifford
prima donna in the johnnie Comes
Marching Home" company.
The state bank of Oakley was roppeo
recently. The safe was blown open
and is complete wreck. The robbers
got between $4,000 and $4,000.
George Marvin, said to be from Chi
cago, is in jail at Noblesville, Ind, In
a dying condition, as result OF an al
legged attempt to blow up safe.
The Dutch representative at Bel
grade has been instructed to assume
the same attitude as Great Britain to
the provisional government OF Servia.
According to a dispatch from Tan
pier. Ell Metnetsh, the Moorish war
minister, has lost 5000 men in a bat
tie fought with the rebels at Annie
dinna.
Several riots arising out Of collisions
between clericals and anti-clericals
are reported from several towns In the
provinces of France in connection with
religious professions.
Assistant Secretary Armstrong OF
the treasury department has issued
circular letter carrying into effect, be-
ginning July 1, the pure food act ap-
proved March 8, 1908.
Fourteen men were killed and 10 in
jured by an explosion recently in the
lyddite factory at the Woolwich ar
senal near London. Several of the VIC
Tins were literally blown to pieces.
The building was completely wrecked.
Governor Cummins Of Iowa, upon re-
,eipt of advices that a crisis was ap-
in the street railway strike
It Dubuque, has issued orders mobil-
zing three additional companies of mi
itia at that point.
A treaty with Cuba continuing the
present postal arrangements between
hat republic and the United States,
has been signed by the president and
Postmaster General Payne and then
to the state department
or the signature of Secretary Hay.
The death of Admiral De Solier is
in a dispatch from Buenos
Ayres. 1t occurred suddenly while he
was on a yachting trip. A wave swept
The deck, carrying the body overheard,
but after a three hours struggle 1t was
and landed at Montevideo.
The entry of G. s. Titus, the cham.
pion amateur oarsman of America, has
been rejected by the American-Henley
committee at Philadelphia. The rejec-
lion is made under rule 10, under which
no reason need be given. Titus is a
member of the Atlanta Boat club Of
New York.
The Very Rev. Herbert Vaughan,
cardinal and archbishop of Westmin-
ster, is dead. Cardinal Vaughan was
born April Is, 1882. He became arch
bishop of Westminster in 1892. He had
been i'll more than three months. Late
in March it was thought he could not
survive more than few days.
Secretary Root has issued an order
assigning Major General s. B. M.
Young as chief of staff, with Major
General Corbin and Brigadier General
w. H. Carter as the other general staff
officers. Brigadier General Tasker H.
Bliss is to become president of the
war college. The order will take effect
August Is.
Lightning struck a house stored
with 5000 pounds of dynamite at the
new mines now being operated near
Senecaville, ~ miles from Cambridge
Ohio, during a storm, and killed six
men and injured score of others, be.
sides running the mine shaft and break.
ing nearly all the windows in Seneca.
vile, a mining town of 800 people, half
a mile from the mine. The men killed
and wounded were carpenters.
Madame Morello, trainer of wild an.
imals, was recently nearly killed by a
6-year-old leopard which she was train.
ing in one of the cages of an animal
show at Coney Island. The animal
leaped on her back from above, and
before 1t could be driven off had tori
and scratched the woman almost ia
tally Madame Morello was finally res
cued by men who fought the beast of
with a pitchfork.
News has been received that thu
famine in kwang ST is growing worse
by degrees. The starving population
is estimated at 100000 and daily nun
bers of deaths occur from starvation
The Chinese are considering an officia
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