The Western news., 1904-10-26
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES
cUlLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
\ Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NatIonal
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

Rice & Hutchins of Boston. sho
, manufacturers, received the gram
prize at the st. Louis fair.
Vice President Ramon Corral wa
, rendered banquet by the citizens o
San Francisco recently.
The jury in the bribery case agains
ex-Mayor Ames of Minneapolis cam
into court and announced that it coul,
not agree.
Fifteen earthquakes have been re
corded on the seismograph, or earth
quake machine, at the Johns Hopkin!
university since April last.
Governor Davis of the Panama cana
zone authorizes the Associated Pres.
to deny the reported disturbances a,
Culebra or at any place in it's vicinity
portion of the store of Durand q
kasper company, wholesale grocers a,
Lake and Union streets, Chicago, was
destroyed by fire recently. Loss, 5000,
600.
Lieutenant H. A. Roberts of the
Seventh cavalry died at Fort Riley
Kan, after sustaining an operation
for injuries received in a hunting ac
cident recently.
The Berkeley, Cal, city hall caught
fire from some unknown couse re-
Gently 1t is a wooden building and
was entirely destroyed. The total loss
is about $25,OOo
Horace T. Richards, his wife and
their con havo hoop Covorolx, ;,;,,rod
in an automobile accident near their
home, Thirty-second street and Abbots
ford avenue, Falls of Schuylkill.
At Chicago l.. Herzfield has been
shot and fatally wounded while en-
deavoring to rout three masked high.
waymen who had invaded the grocery
of his father in law, A. M. Tubin.
| Thomas T. Kelly, state treasurer of
Kansas, placed his resignation in es-
crow and invited an inquiry by ex-
pert accountants and a judicial in
quiry into his administration of the
office.
Robert S. Mccormick, American am
bassador to Russia, has arrived in the
| United States He came home on a
leave of absence to attend to urgen,
private business. He will remain in
this country one month.
At Youngstown, Ohio, Patrick Nc.
Laughlin and Butler Connolly, Anal
gamated association men, former en-
ployes OF the Carnegie mills, were shot
and killed in the street by Frederick
and George Wolf, ke-breakers.
| The official admission by the Union
Pacific of the purchase of half in
terest in Clarks San Pedro road, pay
sides advancing $6,OO0,OOO for con-
struction and rolling stock, has at
tracted much attention.
| Three are known to have been kill
ed and number injured in head on
collision between northbound pas
senger and freight train about mid
night, three miles south of Fayette
Miss, on the Yazoo & Mississippi
Valley railroad. The dead are two
firemen and an engineer.
Mrs. Nellie Thompson wife of a
former prominent real estate dealer
in Peoria, ILL.,, is dead as the result
of injuries received it is reported, in
a sensational encounter with Richard
and Jennie Higgins, children of John
G. Higgins, member of the board
of supervisors of Peoria county
A ship building race between the
New York and Mare Island navy yards
has begun over the construction Of two
coliers authorized by the last con.
gress. They are to be the largest and
fastest boats of their class in the
world. Each will be about 500 .eet in
length and cost about $1.250,0OO.
Two million dollars worth of cam.
pagn goods. uniforms, hats, caps, fire.
works. torches, walking sticks, umbrel-
las, flags, etc, are rotting on the
shelves of Chicago manufacturing and
jobbing houses as a result of the un-
paralleled lack of interest in politics
from one end of the country to the
other.
Two ST. Louis detectives are dead
and another is not expected to live
lduring the night, while one train rob-
Der suspect is at the morgue and two
Others are in the city hospital, one
probably fatally wounded and the 9TH
er badly beaten up, as the result of a
desperate battle between five officers
and three men whom they tried to ar.
rest.
The total number of money orders
issued by this government during the
last fiscal year passed the. 5O,OOO.OOO
mark for the first time in the history
as shown by the annual report of the
superintendent of the money order sys-
TEN. The net revenue of the money
order business was $2,52S. .4O3. an in.
crease of $2SS.494 as compared with
the previous fiscal year The gross
revenue was $S.626,676. an increase OF
|$376,2S2
Wheat Sells at SO Cents.