Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-02-26

clJIIED TNS"'
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS.
Review CT Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
nurjno the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.
Emperor William starts for the Med
;tor,anean on Monday, March ).
About $1,000 worth OF Jeweiiy ana
s15O in cash have been stolen from
the hotel apartments OF Postmaster
General Payne at Washington.
The federal assembly. by vote OF
eo :, Ia uemaIded that Porto Rico
he adl~tted to statehood or that the
island be granted Independence.
An explosion at the LaiIin 4 Rand
nodwer mills at Wayne, seven mics
f,om Paterson, N. j., caused the death
of three men. The mills were wreck
ed.
The investigation of the right OF
Senator Smoot to sit in the United
States senate promises to be the m
teresting sideshow of congress this
session.
Pennsylvania passenger tain
was wrecked at Hobart, Ind, in a
beadend collision with freight train
Charles Slrayer, baggageman, was
killed.
General Jesse NJ. Lee is to succeed
Ceneral Fred Grant in Texas. Gen.
eral Lee was under General Chanee
with the allied troops Oh their march
to Pekin during the boxer troubles.
II was thought not life was lost
in the fire at Baltimore, but charle ed
body has been found in the water al
Bowler's wharf. The body is 50 Uau
ly burned as to be unrecognizabie.
Samuel c. Hazard, alias Hargreave,
the West Pointer and former army Of
ficer, convicted of bigamy al Mime
apolis. Mimi, has been sentenced t.
two years in the state penitentlary.
The French ambassador. NJ. Cam
bon has left London for week emf
visit 10 Paris, as he frequently .does.
The German ambassador, Count Won
Metlernich, is also absent on a week
end visit
Corporal Aylara, ringleader among
the constabulary, who recently revolt
ed at Luzon, has been captured. He
hps II "eeI, tried. convicted anu
sentenced by the court at Vigan to be
Aa..o.u.
Another battle has occurred between
the insurgent Albanians In north AL
bania and the Turkish troops. lhe Al
banians were beaten, losing 500 mel
killed or wounded. The Turks also
lost heavily.
Fourteen employees of celluloiu
comb factory at the Boulevard Sebas-
topol and the Rue Etieane Marei,
Paris. lost their lives recently in a
fire, which started by an explosion OF
gas. Twenty others were injured.
Wheat for May delivery at Chicago
sold at $lO7 bushel last Saturday,
The market was extremely active, and
the volume of trading was of euor-
nous proportions. The phenomenal
rise in wheat is regarded as. showing
that International complications may
be pending.
The house committee on postofices
and poastroads today completed the
postotiice appropriation bill, which car.
ries $l69,9975Ss. The total appro-
prlation for rural free delivery service
Is 2l,OOO.OO0. The salaries of rural
free delivery carriers are increased
from $500 to S72O.
Racine, Wis.-All that remains of
the Racine county insane asylum is
smoldering ruins, the loss aggregat-
ing $4,000. All of the 1873 patients
escaped, though rescue in many cases
was accomplished with difficulty, as
some OF the inmates fought their res.
cuers and tried to plunge back into
the burning building.
A blazing Larimer avenue electric
car with all brakes off and with 20
passengers aboard, raced down Fifth
avenue from Grant almost to Market
street. Pittsburg. For Is minutes at
.er the car came to a stop 1t bazed
IKE furnace. Four of the passen-
gers We're seriously hurt and Dorothy
ureenup, who was internally injured,
may die.
"A Brooklyn milk dealer has secured
verdict Of $4,000 against the city
ai'er Undergoing a remarkable test be-
.o'e the jury Hot irons were applied
W ohe arm and leg and the flesh was
plefced with surgical Instruments to
prove that the plaintiff had suffered