Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-11-25
The WORLDS NEWS NOTES
.,lLep FROM DISPATCHES OF
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI,
historical, Political and Personal
Events Tersely Told.

It is officially announced that Italy
has agreed to take part in the new
mace conference at The Hague.
Carl Buenz, the German consul gen.
oral at New York port, is dangerously
m from relapse Of pneumonia.
great storm ragged Saturday night
along the Pacific coast from British
Columbia to the California line.
San Diego, Cal.-Rev. X. b. Taylor,
pastor of First Presbyterian church,
was drowned in the bay Saturday.
The naval estimates for the fiscal
wear ending June 80, 1906, aggregate
sl14,5SO,67S, an increase of $l7,372,-
44S over the last appropriation.
Six thousand garment workers be-
longing TO the special order of the gar
tories of Chicago, following a walkout
of 450 cutters.
1t is asserted in official circles that
the reports which have reached the
United States of great distress in
Macedonia from cold and hunger are
without f0undatlOn.
While sorting mail in the postoffice
at New York city, clerk came across
a new 81 bill, stamped and addressed
to Miss Althea Briggs of Kingston,
N. Y. Miss Briggs now has the bill.
At least ~ lives were lost in fire
in a Brooklyn tenement house Satur-
day. 1t is believed that the death list
will equal Is. Twelve persons we're
injured, none, it is believed, fatally.
Twenty-Five gas tanks in the big rail
road gas charging station at Seventy
third street and South Chicago explod-
ed recently. Five employees were kill
ed and a score injured, two seriously.
Victoria, B. C.-The barkentine Max
aweli, Captain Nelson, lumber laden
from Tacoma to Mazatlan, Mexico, has
foundered on the west coast of Van
couver island, at Clayoquot, all hands
perishing.
Through the arrest of George Mack,
Anna Helds chauffeur, the mystery
surrounding the finding of Jacob Glenn
Ons, an aged farmer, in a ditch on the
Pelham Parkway, in New York city,
was cleared.
The fourth annual meeting of the
executive committee of the National
Civic Federation, at which president
to succeed the late President Hanna
will be elected, will be held in New
York city on December Is.
At Lafayette, Ind, the Foster Furni-
ture store was completely destroyed
by fire recently. Loss, 100000. Bep-
jamin O'Connor, a fireman, was fatally
injured by a fall, and II other tiremen
we're overcome by smoke.
beam mill with a monthly capac-
ity of 10000 to $4,000 tons of finished
structural shapes is to be added to the
Chicago plant of the Illinois Steel COM
pany, at cost of $1,200,000. 1t is
said 500 persons will be employed.
A pumpkin pie five feet long and
three feet wide was presented to SEN
ator Platt by republican friends in
Waverly, N. Y. The pie weighs 2o0
pounds and Is to be at the buckwheat
breakfast which Senator Plat Is to /
give.
Rio Janeiro-A battalion of infantry
stationed at Bahia mutinied recently,
at the instigation of sub-lieutenant,
according to telegram received here.
The commander tried to address the
men, but was shot dead by the ring
leader with revolver.
President Roosevelt has ordered the
department of commerce and labor to
thoroughly investigate the petroleum
industry of the United States. The OBJ
!ect is to ascertain whether the Stan
dard Oil company is an illegal combi-
nation in restraint of trade.
All the pupils in "a" grade of the
norwood high school in Cincinnati, D.,
consisting of 16 sons and daughters or
the most prominent families in the
suburb, were indefinitely suspended be-
cause they took down the American
nag from the school flagstaff and SUBJ
sututed the class colors.
Toronto, Ont.-A street car, with
-aiier attached, got beyond cohlioi
recently and crashed through the
guard gates at the Queen street cross
ing of the Grand Trunk railway. A
freight train struck the forward car,
srinding 1t to splinters. Every pas
senger on the street cars was injured,
TWO dying soon after being taken from
Tue werckage and two at the hospital.
II appears that the Japanese war ex-
penditures for the year beginning last
april and ending next March will
amount to 1S6.OOO,OOO; and as the
soVernment's estimate of the war eN-
penditure for the fiscal year is $780,
oVo'oo0, we shall have-my own esti'
mate being correct-a surplus of $4,-