The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-06-02
AROUND THE WORLD!
TELEGRAPH SHORT NOTES FROM
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-National,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

The First National bank of Barber
ton, Ohio. has failed.
Public opinion in Philadelphia has
won. The gas steal is apparently
dead.
w. J. Kline, a resident of Spokane,
committed suicide in Waterville re-
Gently.
| Captain B. F. Reynolds, chief engi-
neer of the Omaha water works. is
dead at his home in Florence, aged 81
years.
Lawton, Okla-Geronimo, the aged
Apache chief, rode his sorrel horse
Geronimo in race at the fair grounds
and won a $3.50 purse.
Lodz-A procession of Jews carry
ing flags came into conflict with Cos
sacks, who fired, killing three persons
and wOunding several others.
Count kinjiro HirOsawa, member
of the Japanese house of peers, has
arrived in San Francisco, accompanied
by several Japanese naval officers.
The Paris police authorizes are
adopting the most stringent precau-
lists there during the visit of King
Alfonso.
i Christiana.-King Oscar, at Satur-
days sitting of the council of minis
tiers, declined to sign the law requir-
| ing a separate consular system for
Norway.
| Stockholm, Sweden.-The American
consular corps Saturday presented the
retiring minister, w. w. Thomas, Jr.,
with a handsome silver loving cup, as
a mark of esteem.
| Judge Alton B. Parker addressed the
Illinois State Bar association. Chica-
go, recently, on The Lawyer in Pub
lie Affairs. Judge Parker was greet
ed by hearty applause.
| Nat Crump, an outlaw, who shot
and seriously wounded Clay Grub, at
Salisbury, N. c., was captured at Old
Fort after a desperate fight with a
sheriff's posse, in which he was badly
wounded.
| Governor Higgins Of New York has
| signed the bill restoring the four year
term of the mayor, comptroller and
borough presidents of New York city.
| The law does not affect the present
administration.
There was frost in Germany last
week, the thermometer registering 6
to degrees below freezing. The cold
weather caused much damage to fruit
and vines and particularly in the Mo-
selle wine district.
Vienna.-The government has over
ruled a recent decision of the NUM-
cipality prohibiting the slaughter of
cattle according to Jewish rites, which
alleged that the method employed en-
tailed undue suffering.
VIM. Stemler was almost instantly
killed and half hundred men and
| women were injured, several of them
seriously, in a collision between two
trolley cars returning to the city from
| Westport, a suburb of baltimore.
| B. A. Worthington, formerly general
manager of the Hartman lines in the
northwest, has been elected vice pres
ident, in charge of traffic and trans
portation, of the Wabash, Pittsburg
Terminal and the Wheeling & Lake
Erie.
The Chilean cruiser Presidente Pin
to has fOundered in the gulf of Ancud,
north of the Island of Chloe. off the
southern part of the coast of Chile.
According to one report her command
er, Captain Whiteside, committed sui
eide in despair. Another version says
he was drowned.
| The cog road has reached the sum-
nit of Pixies Peak with it's first train
| this year. In order to open the track
a force of 100 men have been at work
for six months, and have removed four
million cubic feet or ice and snow
from the right of way.
Miss Vesta Tilley, who has signed
a contract for six weeks engage
ment to sing in New York, is to re-
ceive $40 for every minute she sings.
Her salary amounts to $500 per week,
and she will not spend more than $50
minutes on the stage each week.
Miss Frances B. Johnson, cashier in
the employ of d. d. Drake, Kansas
City money lender, was fined 500 and
sentenced to serve 80 days in the
county Jail on the charge of exacting
usurious interest. This is the second
conviction in the crusade against the
money lenders who charge 10 per cent
a month interest.
The mineral output of British Co.
lumbia for 1904 was the greatest in
its history. with the exception of the
year 1901, according to the report of
of mines. The gross output for last
year was $1S,977,359. This is an in
crease Of $1,4S1,4 05, or S.5 per cent,
over the gross output of 1903.