The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-08-18
NEWS OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Mayor w. H. Belcher of Paterson,
N. j., who disappeared more than 10
days ago, leaving his financial affairs
| in a bad way, has been located at
Stockton, Cal. A warrant has been
issued for his arrest on charge OF
embezzlement.
| the Japs have asked for secrecy, and
| the Russians at Portsmouth prefer
publiciyt.
An order will be issued by the war
| department shortly diminishing the
term of service for army staff officers
in the Philippines from three to two
years and half, counting from the
time of sailing until the time of re-
| turn. Is this way the time during
which those officers will serve will be
two years and tour months.
Shanghai-The governor reports
province of Chansi is purely local.
| Walter Ferral, a prominent lawyer
of San Francisco, killed himself at Nc
Cloud, Cal, recently.
The chief of ponce of Radon, Rus
sian Poland, received many wounds
him recently.
| Mrs. Mary Genders, a widow 81
years old, has lost $1,000 from her safe
deposit box in a Chicago bank, and
has sworn out a warrant charging
Charles C. Hammit with the theft
| IF
home intoxicated recently and his wife
told him to jump into the lake and
drown himself. "All right" said Gar
ron, iii just do that" and although
he was alive when taken from the wa
ter he died two hours later
| Warsaw.-Ihe long list of murders
resulting from the strike was increas-
ed by the assassination of the mana
ger of the LilpOprau ironworks, who
was shot down at his residence by
strikers recently.
The latest discovery to be announc-
ed is the discovery of pearls in the
Kankakee river, in Indiana.
| Despite the sentiment against Pres
ident Cornelius P. Shea, which has
been plainly manifested at various
times during the convention of the
International Brotherhood of Team
sters, there were enough delegates ia
vorable to his administration to secure
his reelection.
A freight wreck is reported on the
Rio Grande road in the vicinity of the
Royal Gorge, Col.
Sunday, the day set apart for the
holding of a national referendum vote
on the dissolution of the union, was
observed as a fete day throughout Nor
way.
The international conference called
by the sultan of Morocco to discuss
reforms in Morocco will convene at
| ly Spanish minister of the interior,
will preside.
October is announced as trial day
| for "a packers and five corporations
| indicted on charges of combining in
restraint of commerce, accepting of
brides and interfering with govern
ment witnesses.
| The convention of the Amalgamated
Metal Workers alliance has adjourn
ed after electing officers and fixing up
on Atlantic City, N. j., as the place
for holding the next meeting, in July
1907.
Madrid.-Telegrams received here
| from Seville, Malaga and Cordova re-
port that the agrarian crisis is becom-
| ing increasingly serious.
Wilhelmhohe, Prussia.-At the cas-
| tie here Emperor William received
Nicholas Murray Butler, president of
| Columbus university, New York, and
| Professor Burgess, also of that uni
versity.
Caracas, Venezuela-Congress has
voted estimates to the amount of SILL
100000, the largest ever granted. The
estimates include $2,256,OOO for for
eign debts, $2,5OO,OOO for the army
and navy, and $495,OOO for public
works.
Prescott, Ariz-Antoine StenOd, an
aged German, recently stood over
charge of dynamite he had placed in
an old pine stump and literally blew
the upper part of his body into an
| unrecogniZable mass.
On account of the low stage of water
only one side of the Morning Mill at
Mullen, Idaho, is now being operated.
This has caused considerable reduc-
ton in the working force at the mine.
Advices received at Victoria, B. c.,
indicate the reason Of the dispatch of
Admiral Kalagoa to the Siberian coast.
with one squadron going to Kamchat-
ka, the other to Okhotsch is that he is
to seize the Russian seal rookeries on
Komandorski island, Boring sea. and
Copper, off Kamchatka, and on Rob-
ben island, in Okhotsch sea off Cane
Penitence of Sakhalin.
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