The Western news., 1904-10-19
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES
cULLED FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review OF Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

pickles and food products.
AL G. Fields, the minstrel, corrobo
rated the report that he is about tc
close deal for the entire Forepaugh
and Sells shows.
Lester Stowe, aged II years, sho'
and killed his sister Rosa aged II
years, near Whiskeytown, Cal. He
claims he did not know the gun was
loaded, but other members of the fam
lily allege that the boy had an ungov
ernable temper and that he killed his
sister while in a rage.
News has reached Mexico City that
the town of San Bias, on the Pacific
coast, has suffered severe damage from
hurricane.
At the st. Louis Exposition, Hunter
Baltimore rye has been awarded the
grand prize for the highest order of
merit in all the elements OF perfect
whisky.
John G. McWilliams, for many years
one of the leading business men of
Chicago, is dead.
NJ Jusserand, the French ambassa-
dor, and wife, have returned to Wash
ington after an absence of four months
during which time they visited abroad.
Wilhelmina Masur, 35 years old, the
wife of John Masur, one of the oldest
newspaper men of Pittsburg, has been
stamped to death by bull in the sta
BILE at their home in Allegheny.
Fifteen were injured, two of them
perhaps fatally, in head-on collision
recently on the Denver & Rio Grande
railroad, mile and half west of
Portland, Col.
Three men of the Eighty-ninth reg
ular coast artillery were killed and
eight injured by the explosion of a
mortar battery at Fort Banks, Win
throp. Three of the injured may die
Former Governor AlonZo B. Cornell
of New York, aged u years, is dead.
He was son of Ezra Cornell, the
founder of Cornell university
The Pacific Coast Jobbers 4 Manu-
facturers' association reelected H. H.
Loveland, who served the association
last year as president, unanimously.
Mrs. Alice Hogan Rice, the author of
MRS. Wigs of the Cabbage Patch,
and "Lovey Mary" is to contribute the
leading serial to The Century during
the coming year.
The house of deputies of the Episco-
palian general convention at the close
of four days debate rejected an
amendment to the divorce canon,
which amendment sought to prevent
the remarriage of divorced persons by
clergymen of the denomination.
monument erected by the late Cy-
rus w. Field at Tappan, N. Y, to the
memory of Major Andre has been sold
for the nonpayment of taxes.
The national conference of charities
and corrections decided as nearly as
possible the date for the annual meet
ing, which is to be held in Portland,
Ore, between July and July Is, 1905.
John Barrett, United States minis
ter to Panama, reports that diplomatic
relations between the new republic
and this government were being sat
isfactorily adjusted.
The entire stud of the late William
c. Whitney, consisting of some so
brood mares and eight stations, will
be disposed of at public auction in
Madison Square Garden, New York,
on October 10.
Merritt L. Joslyn, who was assistant
secretary of the interior under Presi.
dent Arthur, is dead at WoodstocK,
III.
Democratic Presidential Nominee
Parker went to Kingston, N Y, and
registered to vote in the Second cleo
tion district of the Ninth ward He
makes his voting residence at the
home of his son in law, Charles Mer-
Ger Hall.
The Nova Scotian schooner Went
worth was thrown upon Chatham bar,
Mass, and smashed to pieces in the
terrlnc surf. 1t is believed that not
soul on board survived.
Rear Admiral C. F. Goodrich's flag
ship New York. during her target prac-
tice last month in Magdalena bay, Mex
leo, broke the worlds record for fir
ing eight inch guns, making the great
est scores, based on time and accu-
racy, ever made with guns of this cal
iber, either in our own or any other
navy.
The archbishop of Canterbury and
his party has sailed for home in Eng
land.
Emperor William has nominated a
Jewish millionaire merchant, James
Simon, to be life member of the
Prussian house of peers.
President Francis declares that the
worlds fair has lost at least 81, ,OOO, 900
through being compelled to close Sun
days.
Coming Events.
Washington State Teachers associa-
ton. Spokane, December $3.50.