The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-11
news OF THE WORLD.
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROA
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-Nationa!.
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.


question of the hour at ST. Petersburg
Mrs. Mary ]. Carlisle, wife of for
mer Secretary Of the Treasury Car
| Isle, is dead.
Judge Andrew Leamy of the county
court at Grand Forks, B. c., is dead
disease.
John Mueller, who slashed his wife
and two Children to death and then
attempted suicide at Chicago, has been
sentenced to be hanged.
The National Lead company has
filed a certificate in the Office of the
secretary of state at Trenton, N. j..
increasing it's capital to $50,000,OOO.
That too much free transportation
has been given to secure freight and
passenger business is the opinion OF
the executive officers of western rail
roads.
L. M. Hayden, the Rossland, B. c.,
superintendent of the Kootenay Power
and Light company, was electrocuted
recently while repairing some wires
on top of pole.
Members of Amalgamated lodges at
the mills of the Carnegie company,
where a strike has been on for over
a year, recently took a vote deciding
to call the strike off.
M. Karostovez, M. Whites chief aid,
has issued a formal statement declar-
ing that whatever decision is arrived
at by Witte, will be binding and con-
sidered so by the car.
A school teacher, Kulikoysky, who
on July II shot and killed Major Cen
eral Count Shuvaloff, project of the
Moscow police, has been sentenced to
death by court martial.
Robert Criswell, the Town Topics
man who was sued by Congressman
Rhinock of Kentucky for libeling Miss
Alice Roosevelt, was decapitated by a
subway train in New York city.
The cable ship Colonia has sailed
with 24OO miles of cable to lay the
Commercial Cable company's line from
Waterville, Ireland, to Canso, N. S.,
and thence to Newfoundland.
A disastrous fire swept through the
business section of Winnemucca, New,
recently, burning 10 business houses
and infiicting damage variously esti-
mated from $4,000 to 100000.
Creditors of Mrs. Cassie l.. Chad
wick will receive total dividend of
about seven mills on the dollar when
= &c fin l11y
sets will amount to about $4,000.
A movement having for it's object
an adequate commemoratiOn in New
York of the 200th anniversary of the
birth of Benjamin Franklin next JAN
uary has been inaugurated among
various societies of New York.
Dr. w. C. Tilden, at one time chief
chemist in the army medical museum
attached to the surgeon generals Of
fee, is dead. 1t was he who discov-
cred the poison in the bouquet sent to
Guiteau the day before his execution.
The body of Dudley F. Chambers,
treasurer and general manager of the
Southwestern Oil and Gas company
has been found floating in tank of
oil on the Bernhard lease, six and a
half miles east of Chanute, Kan. He
became asphyxiated.
Four officers of the police force SEM
| a, fusilade of shots after two robbers
who had stolen goods valued at about
$4,000 from a baggage car in Chicago
The thieves escaped with their booty
but three innocent persons were shot
by the officers, none seriously, how
ever
'"Sister Elizabeth wants transporta
ton" was the code message flashed
over the wires to every district chair.
man of the Order of Railway Teleg
raphers by President Perham at ST.
Paul, when the officials of the order
decided upon the strike now in pro-
gress.
The correspondence of the London
Times relating to the British expert
ment of promoting cotton cultivation
in West Africa indicates that there is
very little prospect of obtaining
enough of this material from that
quarter to have any perceptible effect
npon tho marriott at loact for a lon O