Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1905-02-24
AROUND THE WORLD
,uopT TELEGRAPH NOTES FROM
AL POINTS OF HEMISPHERE.
,.view of Happenings in Both
..srn and Western Hemispheres
.;,o the Past Week-National,
u;.,oricaI, Political and Personal
Events TerseIy Told.

civ men were killed and IA injured
:. the Lytel colliery, near Pottsville,
Pa, recently.
The house of congress has passed
.,a nensions appropriation bill carry
Ing s13s,25O,7oo.
&c Several attacks have been made on
o.rornor White and Governor-elect
lawson of West Virginia.
As the author of Ben Hur" the late
General Lew Wallace was known in
or.ctically every country of the globe.
Al Charlottesville, Ind, the funeral
- General Lew Wallace last Satur-
dav was private, in accordance with
his expressed wishes.
Smelling at the new plant of the
Sullivan Group Mining company, at
Marysyille, B. c., should start with the
first furnace about March 1.
Word from Warsaw, Russian Poland.
states that in that city hundreds of
prisoners, mostly strikers and revolu-
tionists, are daily executed.
Funds with which to prosecute the
;noury into the methods of the Stan
dard Oil company was asked of the
bouse recently by the secretary of
commerce and labor.
In diplomatic circles at st. Peters
burg, the opinion is quite generally
expressed that the recent tragedy may
r. followed by the decision of the gov
R,rnment to conclude peace.
The empress of Russia has received
from the women of Moscow an address
piteously appealing to her as a wo-
man and a mother to use her influ-
ence with the emperor to secure peace.
The professors who gave their SER
vices free to the St. Petersburg uni
yersities by vote of Ill to decided
not to resume their duties until fall
unless the present demands are grant
ed.
Investigation of special dispatches
sent from Arizona points detailing
depredations and massacres by Yaqui
Indians in the state of Sonora, Mex
leo, fails to develop any foundation
for these stories.
Five persons were burned to death
in dwelling house at Howebrook
plantation, so miles from Island Falls,
Mo. The dead: Mrs. John Chorey and
daughter, Mrs. Sampel Antworth and
two daughters.
The Arizona Rangers have present
ed Governor Brodie the finest saddle
they could buy. The governor, who
leaves for the east soon, will present
&e saddle to President Roosevelt with
'&ae compliments of the Rangers, who
are mostly former rough riders.
One of the most audacious of the
many recent robberies in New York
occurred in the Bronx, when a high
wayman attacked Mr.. and Mrs. John
w. Cornish in front of their home,
snatched $4,000 diamond brooch from
Mrs. Cornish's throat, and escaped.
The German consul at Chefoo states
that the taotai has ELECTED a confess
sion from two members of the crew
Of junk that the German and the
French naval attaches, Guggenheim
and Cuverville, were murdered for rob-
berry and their bodies thrown over
board.
Harry Silverberg, alias score of
other names, has been arrested in New
York by Central office men. His ar
rest was in connection with swim
ding operation which was to have
reached its climax on Monday, when
the prisoner was to receive $4,000
from one of his alleged dupes.
Twelve men have been held up by
SIX armed robbers at the Office of Max
Nuremberg, proprietor of the electric
hght, oil and gasoline delivery at Chi
cago. The highwaymen fired several
shots as they entered, wounding two
persons. They knocked another I'M
conscious with blow from a revolver.
They then took more than $500 and
escaped.
1t is difficult for an American to
imagine the conditions under which
the people of Russia who do not hap
pen to be of the official class or mem
GERS of the Romanoff family are COM
speiied to live. They are in constant
aanger of molestation from the secret
ponce, either for purposes of black
mall, revenge or because of some sus-
pic,ous action which might be con-
s.rued as seditious.
losal Noren of Rossland won the
championship of Canada in both ski
events in Rossland, B. c., in connec-
.ion with the eighth Rossland winter
carnival. The ski run from the sum-
nit OF Monte Cristo mountain to Co.
.unipia avenue beat all previous rec
oius. In the flying jump on Monte
oiisto mountain. made on a specially
INSTRUCTED course, Noren jumped "a
LOCI without losing his balance.