Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-02-05
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cuLLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
4 Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Events TerseIJ Told.
The Omaha Mckinley club cele-
brated the birth of William Mckinley
with banquet.
Mrs. Roosevelt gave another music
ale at the White House recently, to
which very large company was in
vited.
Otto Seiloff of Chicago, was given
the decision over Jerry Mccarthy of
Salt Lake recently at the end of 20
slow rounds.
Charles j. Ellis, of San Francisco,
real estate agent committed suicide
recently by shooting himself through
the head at his residence The only
reason assigned is insanity.
Exhausted at the end of the 18th
round recently kid" Broad of Cleve-
land, abandoned his contest with Ed
die Hanlon of San Francisco, and the
referee awarded the fight to the Cali
70 nian.
Ex-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis has
been released from the state peniten-
tiary of Minnesota through the de-
cision of the supreme court which
quashed the indictment under which
he was tried, convicted and sentenced.
Kansas is the storm center for q
freight rate on grain and in the next
fortnight it is likely that the state
will be pretty thoroughly drained of
the 20, 900, 900 bushels of wheat which
are supposed to be held by the farmers.
The report of the commissioner Of
patents for the calendar year 1908
showed that the business transacted
exceeded all previous records. The
total cash receipts of the Office were
81 ,816,697, leaving surplus of $780,
900. There were 50,2l3 patents applied
for and 81 500 issued.
Fire at Progreso, the chief port
of Yucatan, recently destroyed an
entire square of business houses and
public buildings, including the market
The loss is 100000. The rail-
way offices were consumed. The
public buildings were not insured and
the loss on them is 100000.
Negotiations for the flotation of
the proposed 1856, 00O,0 900 Cuban loan
have come to a temporary halt. The
banking interests declare that the
Russo-Japanese situation makes such
transaction inadvisable at this time,
because it would tie up a large sum
of money which might be used
elsewhere to better advantage.
News has reached Panama from
Bogota that, as Generals Reyes and
Cavallero have assured Columbia
that the United States will only OBJ
ject to her landing forces in the canal
zone, the Columbian government in
tends to organize and send an expedi-
ton against Panama.
Mrs. Lulu Prince Kennedy Kramer,
on trial second time for the murder
in January, 1901, of her husband,
Phillip Il. Kennedy, was found not
guilty by a jury at Kansas City. At
her first trail she was convicted and
sentenced to 10 years in the peniten-
tiary. The conviction was reversed
on technicality.
By his will, Captain Daniel g. Parr,
who died recently, aged 10 years,
leaves Immediately $500, 900 in person.
al property and after the death of his
last grand child, $45O,0O0 in realty,
or his entire estate, toward the
establishment and maintenance OF
PARIS Rest" a refuge for old and
infirm woman at Louisville, Ky.
Canton, Ohio, observed McKinley's
birthday in an appropriate manner.
Lieutenant General Chatfee, as chief
of staff, has made a report to the score
tary of war, which will be transmitted
to congress, urging an appropriation
of S2, 900, 900 for the purchase of four
tracts of ground, one each in the four
quarters of the United States, for
military maneuvers.
The Chefoo correspondent of the
London Daily Mail says a foreigner
who has arrived there reports that
the Russian steamship Arugun, upon
which he was passenger from Naga-
saki to Port Danley, was fired at by
japanese warship outside of Chem.
ulpo harbor. Three shots were fired
across the Arugun's bows, but no
further attempt was made to stop her,
was made.