The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-07-07
news OF THE WORLD.
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL POINTS OF The GLOBE.
4 Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-Natonal,
Events.

Events.
The interested eyes of 100000 en-
thusiastic Epworth Leaguers are turn
ed upon Denver, Col, this week for the
seventh annual international cOnven-
ed to order Wednesday, and the ensu-
ing proceedings will be the theme OF
conversation in Methodist homes all
over the land.
There are persistent rumOrs current
in Washington that the unexpected
visit to the United States of Major
General Leonard A. Wood is due to
the fact that he is obliged to undergo
a serious surgical operation. 1t is
said that he has had some trouble
with his head which necessitated his
return from the Philippines to consult
specialists.
Mrs. Augusta Chaplin, one of the
best known woman's rights agitators
in the country, is dead from pneu-
mOnia in a hospital at New York. She
was 50 years old, and had been ill.
Charles H. Treat of New York has
succeeded Ellis H. Roberts as treasur-
er of the United States. Mr.. Roberts,
who had held the position for eight
years, has left for Utica, N. Y, where
he will make his home.
Oyster Bay, L. Henry Seymour
of Vantage, L. l., unarmed and ap-
NJ a
Sycamore Hill while making repeated
and persistent efforts to see President
Roosevelt He was released on prom
Use to leave town at once.
1t is believed IN official circles Hay
will be succeeded by Joseph H. Choate.
Society has now rare bit of gOS-
| sip in the rumored intention of Lieu
| tenant General Nelson A. Miles, U. S.
A., retired, to lead to the altar the
blooming widow of Philadelphia ia
nous DR.. Huidekoper
John Deeny, 10 years of age, messen-
with $500 in a wallet was held up at
Chicago by man who threw red pep
per in his eyes and grabbed the money
and escaped.
The st. Petersburg police have dis
covered eight completed and % half
completed bombs and so cannisters of
explosives in a house occupied by a
government employe in the village of
Vera near TsarskO-Selo.
One of the tallest buildings in the
| world is to be erected on the site of
DR.. Parkhurst's Madison Squire Pres
byterian church, New York, by the
Metropolitan Life Insurance company.
st. Petersburg.-The resignation of
Minister of the Interior Bouligan is re-
garded as impending. He probably will
be succeeded by Count Ignatieff, form
erly governor of Kieff.
More than $50 policemen, under the
personal direction of Director of Pul
lie Safety Potter and aided by agent
of the law and order society, recent
raided numerous houses of ill reput
and other disorderly places, maxim
500 arrests.
Santiago, Chile.-Tenders will /
made November Is for the building
railway from africa to Lapaz, Bolivi;
Chile will give a per cent guarante
during period of 20 years, and a d.
post of $2oU,OOO will be made to TAX
part of the tenders
Three soldiers of Company
Eleventh infantry, while rowing O
Sloan's lake, some miles north of Che
yenne, were drowned owing to tn
boat leaking.
Admiral Sigsbee's squadron, with
the body of John Paul Jones, expects
to leave France July and to arrive
off the Virginia capes on July %.
Disastrous floods in the neighbor-
hood of Valdez, Alaska, are reported
in special cable advices received today
from the north by Major Glassford.
There has been no loss of life, but so
cabins were swept away and fully a
mile of telegraph poles washed out.
There are continuous disorders in
Borisoff, Russia, and adjacent country
district, and scarcely a night passes
without shooting ARRAYS.
At bingham, Mass, Commander in
Chief w. w. Blackmar of the Grand
Army of the Republic is ill at his sum-
mer home.
King Oscar has relieved C. Hague,
secretary of the legation of Sweden
and Norway at Washington, of his
functions at the legation. Mr.. Hague
is a Norwegian.
Cherbourg,-Tne municipality of
Cherbourg has arranged an elaborate
program in honor of the American
fleet, consisting of concerts, illumina-
lions and receptions.
1t was suggested recently by the
delegates to the convention of the in
dustrial union that May be made Ia
Dor day instead of the first Monday
in September.
Rev. Joseph White, who recently
died at Malvern, Australia, was one of
six young Wesleyan missionaries who