The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-06-16
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.

President Roosevelt made a brief
trip to Rapidan, Va, recently.
President Castro was formally in
stalled as president of Venezuela Sat
urday.
King Edward of England cabled to
President Roosevelt congratulations
on the reception of his efforts to Sc
cure peace.
William H. Rogers, for II years a
member of the editorial staff of the
New York World, is dead from acute
pneumonia.
The resignation of the minister Of
Sweden and Norway at Copenhagen,
Rome and Madrid were rendered by
telegraph and accepted.
Representatives of DOWie, the Zion
list, have rented a large hall in Paris.
This is expected to be the scene of
Zionist movements in France
EX-president Grover Cleveland is to
aid the Equitable Insurance company.
He says he will do his share toward
the reorganization of the company.
Enrique Daguhob, the leader Of the
Instruction movement in the island
of Samar, was killed, together with
80 of his followers, according to late
advices.
Mabel Gates, aged IS years, and
George Job, Jr., committed suicide by
strychnine poison in Rosedale, Kan,
recently. The young people had been
sweethearts for several months.
King Alfonso has left London for
Spain. He apparently thoroughly en-
joyed his visit and the character of
the farewells testified to the cordially
of the feeling of the British people.
1t is reported that Richard Croker
will return to New York with Mrs.
Croker and their three children, who
are now visiting him on his Irish es
tate near Dublin.
The preliminary examination of ].
B. Young, of the Goldfield, New, bank
and trust company, and Francis l..
Burton, on the charge of conspiracy
and obtaining money under false pre-
lenses, resulted in their acquittal.
Albert T. Patrick has been inform
ed in his cell in Sing Sing prison of
the decision of the New York court
of appeals sustaining the judgment of
conviction of murder in the first de-
gree in causing the death of William
M. Rice.
The monument marking at Bethel,
in York county, Va, the place of the
first battle between the federal and
confederate troops in the civil war,
was unveiled in the presence of
large crowd of eX-confederates and
Others
In the case of the state of Kansas
against the Standard Oil company, the
state won the first point in the SUI
preme court This is the case in
which the state is trying to GUST the
Standard from doing business in the
state on the ground that it is a trust
Judge Rufus w. Peckham of the
supreme court of the United States
has declined to grant a writ of error
which would allow the case of Mrs.
Mary Rogers of Vermont, now under
sentence for the murder of her hus-
band, to go to the United States
court.
Paul Morton, who retires from the
secretaryship of the navy on July l.,
has been elected chairman of the
board of directors of the Equitable
Life Assurance society. His election
marks the first and most important
step in the reorganization of the So
ciety.
The Japan government has placed
with a Pittsburg car building COM
pany an order for 900 bOxcars for
early delivery. This is supplemental
to the order for 1000 box and gondola
cars placed few days ago with sew
eral Pennsylvania car building compa-
MES.
Frank G. Bigelow, the defaulting
bank president of Milwaukee, pleaded
guilty to an indictment of 10 counts,
returned by the federal grand jury
charging violations of the national
banking laws and was sentenced to
a concurrent sentence of 10 years at
hard labor in the federal prison at
Fort LeavenwOrth, Kan.
Rear Admiral Train has reported
to the navy department that the Rus
sian ships at Manila have been in
termed. In addition to the information
conveyed Admiral Train said that the
coal supply of the ships has been
limited and the officers and men pa
rolled upon condition that they take
no further part in the war.
Cold storage of fruit in the United
States has grown to enormous nrnnnr-