Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-14
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES
cuLLEo 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 TerseIy Told.

FINANCIAL news OF IOuuOl, anu d loi
mer New York newspaper man, has
been elected to represent the Isle OF
Thanet in the house of commons, sue
ceeding the late James Lowther.
Robbers dynamited the bank at
Freeland, Ind. and it is reported they
secured $4,000. The safe was blown
open and looted and the entire side
of the bank was blown out. The noise
aroused the people of the town, who
hurriedly gathered at the wrecked
building, but the robbers had fed.
The man who is responsible for the
plan of the Japanese campaign is Cen
eral kodama. Baron kodama Is like
Lord ROBERTS. He has the alert fig
ure, the soldierly bearing and the
keen face of the British general.
The new training ship Intrepid was
launched recently at the Mare island
navy yard in the presence of large
crowd.
Several days ago it was reported
to the president that the Copper River
Indians, in Alaska, were starving. 1t
has proven untrue.
While riding home from school on
his bicycle, IA year old Frederick
Woodrich has been run down by an
automobile and fatally injured at Chi
cago. The chauffeur, David Hender.
son, was alone in the vehicle.
Matthew w. Ransom, formerly U. s.
senator and once American minister
to Mexico, died suddenly at his resi-
dence in Northampton county. N. c.
It was his 10th birthday. The cause
of death was heart failure.
General Ridzovsky, under secretary
of the interior of Russia, has been
appointed chief of the gendarmerie,
which is virtually divorced from the
ministry of the interior, although NOM
inally under its control.
Signor Caruso, the Italian tenor,
sang in Germany for the first time
last week. Berlin rarely hears the
greatest singers, because the people
are not accustomed to pay the prices
asked. Caruso was called out twenty
times at the end of Wednesdays per-
Torrance.
William Artman, who recently came
to Chicago from Denver, killed his
wife by cutting her throat. Artman
slashed his own throat, but is now in
the hospital with fair chance of re-
covery. He said that he killed his
wife after quarrel in which he lost
his temper.
The Shenango tin mill resumed work
Monday. Two thousand tin workers
are employed. The Greer tin plate
mill is expected to resume next week.
Albert Adams, known for years as
the policy king" of New York, was
released Tuesday morning from Sing
Sing prison.
AS the result of crusade started
In Lexington, KY, last Sunday by the
Law and Order league to stop all labor
on the Sabbath, the superintendent of
packing company and two book
keepers of the same institution, who
were working on their books last Sun
day, were fined $40 each in the police
court. The fine was assessed under
the laws of the commonwealth. This
is the first punitive result of the cru
SADIE. which threatens to spread to all
central Kentucky cities.
Massachusetts democrats in state
convention conducted proceedings
without friction. The entire state
ticket. headed by William l.. Doug
las. the great shoe manufacturer Of
Brockton, was nominated by acclama.
ton.
The Stracy hotel in South St. Joseph,
Mo-, burned recently, four persons
losing their lives.
Estimates for the department of
agriculture as finally framed by Sec.
rotary Wilson for the fiscal year be-
ginning July /, 1905, aggregate $685.
S1O This is an increase of $26S,270
over the present year.
At Warsaw the army clothing de-
partment is giving work to 1900 per.
sons who were without employment.
They are turning out 100 900 uniforms
each month.
Walter S. Melick, secretary of the
state board of examiners, and owner
and editor of the Pasadena Star, died
at Pasadena recently. Several days
ago he underwent an operation for a
serious stomach trouble and has never
rallied from the shock.
Coroner Kingston held an inquest
into the cause of death of John Mel
son. who died suddenly in Grand Forks
b. C. The jury brought in a verdic
that the deceased came to his deatt
by taking an overdose of choral.
Some English employers advertise
in the papers the death of faithful ser
xiul rlts