Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-05-27
TELEGRAPH NEWS SUMMARY
cULLEo FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
purino the Past Week-Nationai,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

The Newark, ONO, oaNluss pohh
has closed its doors.
English Lad, the heavily backed ia
vorite, won the Chicago derby last
Saturday.
Blowing out the gas resulted Ill the
death at st. Louis Fair of ii. Batters
by of Enumclaw, Wash.
Plans have been announced for the
amagamation of the leading WOOL dye
ing firms and corporations.
The last statement of the national
treasury shows: Available cash bal
ance, $1G4,390,216; gold, S74,l49,961.
Rev. DR.. Herbert Franklin Fisk, ID.
d. LII. D., for q years president OF
the Northwestern university academy
at Chicago, has resigned.
The Stonybrook plant of the United
Box, Board & Paper company at Whip
pany, N. Y, was practically destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, $35O,OOO.
r. II. Plant, president of the |. c.
Plant & Sons bank and the First Ma
tional bank, of Macon, Ca, which
closed recently, killed himself with
revolver.
Nelson, B. C.-Louis Gillie, charged
with the murder of John MCGEE at
Michel, January 16 last, was acquitted
by a jury after they had deliberated
two hours.
About 1000 'longshoremen, employ,
ed in the marine district of the New
York. New Haven & Hartford rail
road at the company's eight piers on
the East river. have struck.
Three persons were seriously injur-
ed and nine others slightly hurt, but
nobody was killed, in the accident to
the southbound passenger train on
the d. & R. G. narrow gauge line near
Chama, Col.
The announcement has been made
that the California Fruit agency, the
big merger in control of the packing
and shipping of a large part Of the
orange crop of southern California, is
about to dissolve.
Cardinal Satolli of Rome has ar
ranged program for his visit to
America, which includes trips to Wash
ington Notre Dame, Ind, Philadelphia,
st. Louis, Chicago, St Paul, Duluth
and New York city, in the order nam
ed.
News has reached Jackson, KY, OF
the assassination of Riley Coldiron in
Perry county. Coldiron was the prin-
cipal witness against Curtis Jet and
Tom White. who were convicted of
the murder of James Cockrill in jack
son.
Rear Admiral Cooper, commanding
the Asiatic fleet, has arrived at Hong
kong on his flagship Wisconsin, and
will be joined there in day or two
by other vessels of his command. The
battleship Oregon has left Cavite for
Hongkong.
The town of Bonesteel, in Gregory
county. S. D.. has grown in less than
a month from village of 800 to city
of 5000. Bonesteel is located at the
edge of the Rosebud reservation, that
the government is preparing to open
to homesteaders.
Countess Cassini has reported to po-
lice headquarters at Washington that
she has been robbed of a gold brooch
set with diamonds and pearls valued
at 5000. 1t is supposed to have been
stolen during the recent fete given by
the countess in aid of the Red Cross.
Chicagos Fourth of July celebra-
ton promises to be one of the most
elaborate affairs of its kind ever I'M
dertaken by an American city. Pres
ident Roosevelt. members Of his cabi
net, representatives of the army and
the navy. the mayors of all the prin
cipal cities and the consus for for
eign powers in Chicago have been in
vited.
Major Sylvester, the superintendent
of Washington police, has announced
that he has destroyed all of the films
of the moving pictures taken shor
time ago by theatrical parties on the
capitol grounds, when President Roos
evelt was impersonated in the act o
helping fictitious negro into his car
riage. The police authorities say thi