Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
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.

Frederick Siemans, the great Ger
man manufacturer, is dead
Cardinal Sat@lli has left Rome for
Naples ON his journey to the United
States.
The total sum realized from the first
days sale of the Jewels belonging to
the late linCess Mathilde OF Paris
was $99 ,iS9
AT Bedford, Ind, James Mcdonald,
charged with the sensational murder
last winter of Miss Sarah Schaefer,
Latin school teacher, was acquitted by
jury.
The buildings CT the New York City
Milling company, in New York, were
wrecked by fire recently and 1000 bar
rels of -four destroyed. The loss is
100000.
Tasuncsek Fukukita, a japanese
student of Stanford university has
been chosen by Dr.. Ewald for the head
of the department of English phil
ology at the university
The Presbyterian general assembly
of the United States has declared in
favor of union with the Cumberland
Presbyterian church by vote so near
ly unanimous that it was not counted.
Thirteen persons were killed, three
fatally injured and five hurt by an ex-
posion of boilers, which totally de-
molished the towboat Fred Wilson, off
Riverview Park, Louisville. KY, re.
Gently.
The department of agriculture has
announced that an ant has been found
in Guatemala that is an effective en-
envy of the boil weevil. 1t will be
Immediately introduced in the cotton
states.
The postofflce department says that
navigation on the Yukon river, in
Alaska, is reopened and that mails
may be accepted by postoflices for
transmission to any destination in the
Alaskan territory.
Two lives were lost in a fire at Law
ton, Okla, recently that destroyed the
Farmers hotel, small structure. John
Brandon and Patrick McCabe, section
foremen on the Rock Island railway, |
were burned to crisp.
lyon Evans, known as Viscount d'Oy-
ley, and son of the American dentist,
DR.. John Evans, died recently at a
private sanitarium in Paris, as the
result of bullet wound received un-
der mysterious circumstances.
]. L. MARCEL, cashier of the defunct
Highland bank at Troy, Kan, which
failed last winter with liabilities of
$4,000 and practically no assets, has
pleaded guilty to one count in each of
the five cases of forgery pending
against him.
The widow, children and other i'm
mediate relatives of the late Andrew |
Mentally of Chicago, are made the ben
eficiaries in his will, which has been
filed for probate. The personal prop
erty is valued at 100000 and the real
estate at 100000.
L. S. Ingraham, first assistant grand
engineer of the International Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, drop
ped dead at his desk in the recent
convention of the brotherhood in Los
Angeles, from apoplexy. His home
was in Cleveland, Ohio.
The largest catch of halibut for
single days fishing ever made by any
vessel in the world fell to the lot of
the steamer New England, Captain
Freeman. Off Cape George. Dixon en-
trance, North Pacific coast, the New
England one day caught 100000 lbs.
of fine halibut, thus beating all pre-
vious records.
By the decisive yea and nay vote of
AL to 1SS, the Methodist general con
ference has decided not to make any
change in the church discipline in the
matter of prohibited amusements. The
question is one which has asitated the
minds of the delegates to the present
general conference perhaps more than
any other single problem that has been
before it.