Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-09
THE WORLDS NEWS NOTES
cuLLEp FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemspheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

The Chicago & Alton railway has
passed to the ownership to the Union
Pacific.
The Johnson-Dunar Mills company
of North Adams, Mass, has made an
assignment.
A tornado recently struck Coving.
ton, Tex, injuring several persons Sc
verely. No one was killed.
Fire has destroyed the cement plant
of the Struthers Furnace company, five
miles east of Youngstown, Ohio.
Six persons were burned to death
and four terribly injured during fire
and oil explosion at Elyria, Ohio.
About 900 men are on strike in the
Coal Creek district, Tennessee. aug
menting the number Of strikers to
1850.
King Edward has approved the ap-
lointment of Earl Grey as governor
general Of Canada to succeed the earl
of Mimic.
Eight persons were injured and sew
eral residences badly damaged by a
tornado in the southern part of La
Crosse, Wis.
At least 10000 Sir Knights Temp
lars, from all parts of the earth. are
attending the conclave in San Fran
cisco this week.
The archbishop of Canterbury. who
recently arrived in the United States,
comes to attend the convention of the
Episcopal church, which is to be held
in Boston in October.
President Roosevelt manifests the
deepest interest and concern in the
situation in the far east, and follows
carefully the press reports of the OPP
erations of the contending armies.
The maritime supremacy of Marseil-
les as the second city in France is
threatened with extinction. owing to
the continuance of the strike and the
tieup of the entire marine industry.
In saving newsboy who had run in
front of his automobile. Robert e.
Fouse of Chicago, drove his machine
into a telegraph pole. His left arm
is broken and his vehicle wrecked.
Memphis, Tenn.-Fire in the heart
Of the wholesale district has destroyed
property valued at 100000. The fire
originated in the Oliver-Finne Gro
Gerry company from an unknown cause
Although Napoleon never hesitated
to sacrifice his soldiers, he never, eX-
cept on one occasion, entered an en-
gagement with as many men as have
been fighting under Kuropatkin and
Oyama.
The United States South Atlantic
squadron, consisting of the cruisers
Brooklyn (flagship) and Atlanta and
the gunboats Marietta and Castine, has
left Cape Town for the island of st.
Helena.
Minister ]. Barrett warns Americans
Of lack of employment in Panama. He
says the boom will not be sudden and
that force of $4,000 men will even
tually be engaged, but will arrive
gradually.
M. Leroy, Partisan clockmaker,
has just achieved triumph in watch.
es. He has been at work since 1897
upon chronometer which he has just
completed. 1t contains 975 pieces, and
cost $4,000.
Carroll D. Wright. commissioner of
labor, says he would resign from Of
fee at the end of the present year.
He will devote his attention to his
duties in connection with the presi-
dency of Clark college.
A Lethbridge, N. W. T., special re-
ports the killing of three painters, res
idents of Chicago, who were engaged
in the painting Of the standpipe erect
ed In connection with the municipal
system of water works.
Arrangements have been completed
for teaching the Igorrotes, Moros and
Negritos the English language, and a
school will be regularly conducted at
the Philippine reservation until the
close of the worlds fair.
A note left by Princess Louise of
Saxe-Coburg. who escaped from her
hotel, for her maid Elga, requesting
the latter to keep her belongings care
fully, closed with the words:
Il am gone. God has heard my
prayer Farewell"
Bobby" Walthour of Atlanta, Ga,
won the 100 kilometer motor paced
professional championship of the
world from Simar of France at Lon.
don recently, by "a lengths. The
time was one hour 33 minutes and
81 3-5 seconds.
The Indian war records have been
transferred from the interior depart
mcnt to the war department. Many
of the veterans who served in these
wars and who have heretofore found
it impossible to obtain a pension are
now enabled to secure their claims.