Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-01-22
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 TerselJ Told.

nominees the failure of Seymour r.
Church, the California pig iron mer-
chant. the liabilities being placed at
100000.
G.. e. Bacon and A. II. Butler, pres
ident and cashier of the Lockport, ILL.,,
hank. which recently failed, have been
indicted on charge of embezzlement.
General John c. Black, recently APP
nointed a member of the civil service
commission, has taken the oath of Of
fce and will at once enter upon his
duties
The supreme court has issued the
mandate committing Blanche Boise to
iail for 80 days and to pay fine of
s1OO This is the affirmation of the
district court sentence wherein Miss
Roles was sentenced for smashing sa-
loon fixtures ana windows.
The Dime Savings bank of Ports
mouth, Va, closed its doors. The al
legged defalcation of Cashier John
Downing several weeks ago is said to
he the cause of the failure.
Elias F. Perry, treasurer Of the In
ternational Association of Machinlsts,
has been arrested on charge OF steal
inc $3.50 of the unions money.
John J. Brennan, the Chicago alder
man sentenced to one year in the
house of correction for completely IN
election frauds, was put to work w.
ing bundles of brooms in the broom
factory department. He was attired
in the regulation prison suit and his
hair and mustache had been trimmed
with Brennan are 1877 other men,
white and colored. He was convicted
of buying votes.
The commercial committee of the
house of commons of England has ca
bled to the American parliamentarian
arbitration group at Washington the
heartiest congratulations on its forma-
ton and promising gladly to cooperate
with it.
A recent fire among the wholesale
establishments and warehouses in the
triangular block formed by the juno
ton of Pearl and Erie streets at Buf:
falo, N. Y, caused loss estimated at
$25O,OOO.
A special from Eustis, Fla, says
James l.. Blair of st. Louis, formerly
general counsel Of the Louisiana Pur
chase exposition, is dying. He was
taken with a congestive chill and is
slowly sinking. His physicians give
but little hope of recovery. Mrs. BlaiI
and their son are with him.
Archbishop Harry has landed at Ma
ill ,nl ontbnsia fir
reception. A water pageant added Drill
lancy to the affair, the bay in the vi
cinity of the landing stage being pack
ed by boats gaily decked with varicol
ored bunting. Fully 10000 people took
part in the shore parade, in addition to
5000 school children representing all
the Catholic societies within the arch
iepscopate jurisdiction.
A report Of headon collision neal
Woolsey, New, of freight train which
ran into the eastbound Atlantic ex
press, moving at the rate of 20 miles
an hour, is confirmed. No one was
killed, but several injured.
The statement of Uncle Sans treas
ury balances shows: Available cash
balance, $226,254,00l; gold, $95,112,
974.
Young Corbett is reported broke
The rich stake he received for beat
ing Eddie Hanlon he took to the race
tracks at Emeryville and Ingleside
CAL, and played it away $1,000 at q
crack on the ponies.
1t is reported on good authority that
F. l. Whitney, general passenger agent
of the Great Northern. has rendered
his resignation and will retire from
the railroad business.
Because Franklin Union, No. 4, OF
Press Feeders. Chicago, had failed tc
satisfy judgment of $4,000, due the
state as a fine, which Judge Holdrum
entered against the organization, after
nnding it guilty of contempt Of court
as corporation, Judge Brentano has
entered an order naming Allen Nc
Lean as receiver for the union.
Workmen engaged in digging gray
ell at Winnemucca, New, have discov
cred at depth of about IL feet mum
DER OF bones that once were parts OF
the skeleton of gigantic human be
ing. DR.. Samuels pronounced then
the bones of a man who must have
oeen nearly II feet in height.
Three thousand five hundred actors
stranded in strange lands by the dis
banding of 1856 companies on the road
nave, for two months, been wandering
tnelr devious ways back to New York
many of these are able to tell offhant
now many crossties there are to E
mile OF railroad track. When they
arrive in New York they are no better
vi than those who have fallen by the
"ayside. The theatrical business IL