The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-07-28
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-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Herr Mueller, the Austro-Hungarian
civil agent who has been supervising
the reforms in Macedonia, died in
Salonica recently.
There are 60 warehouses in Whit
man county, Washington, and Latah
county, Idaho, and every one of them
| will handle on an average $4,000 BUSH
els more this year than last.
Seattle is raising $500 as contri-
button toward Nomes exhibit at the
Lewis and Clark exposition.
BielstOk, Russia.-A bomb was
thrown in the town killing several per-
sons and severely wounding number
of others, including the chief of po-
| lice and his son.
Edward Nash, president of the Am
erican Smelling & Refining company,
died at his home in Omaha from the
effects of stroke of paralysis sus-
| tanned Monday night, May %.
Saturday was widely observed by
the working classes and liberals of
St. Petersburg and many other parts
as a memorial day for those killed in
the disturbances of January %.
Roswell, N. M-The condition of
Jerry Simpson, former congressman
| from Kansas, is declared to be crit
| ical by the physicians in charge of
| his case. He has suffered rupture
heart.
Jean Jacques Henner, the dis
tinguished painter, who had been seri-
ously ill for some time, is dead in
Paris.
J. o. Aselin, a telegraph operator
for the Northern Pacific railway, sta
toned until a week ago at Hatton,
Wash, was run over and killed by
switch engine at Spokane last Sun
day.
Fred w. Nutting, a switchman, was
fatally injured by pistol shot in his
room in Salt Lake City, and died while
being taken to the hospital. Mrs. Dan
iel j. Quinn, wife of yard foreman,
who was in the room with Nutting
when the shot was fired, was arrested.
Fifteen persons were injured, II of
them seriously and three of them
probably fatally, in collision be-
tween two electric cars on the line of
the Portsmouth, N. H., Electric COM
pany. The cars crashed together on
steep grade and while rounding a
curve.
The announcement is made that the
Canadian Pacific railway management
is planning to make the Imperial Linn
tied the fastest long distance train in
the world. At present it runs from
Montreal across the continent to Van
couver in 96 hours.
Representatives of the Japanese
government have just bought $4,000
worth of horses at a stock farm at
East Aurora, N. Y. There are "a
horses in the deal, and all will be ship
ped to Japan for breeding. Seventeen
of them are thoroughbreds and some
are stake winners. The average price
is about $4,000 for each horse.
Baron Komura, the Japanese en-
voy to the Russo-Japanese peace
conference, was greeted at the sta
bers of Japanese.
Three commissioners are inquiring
into the attempt on the life of the sui
tan recently, but they have not yet
been able to find the slightest clew
either to the author or the origin of
the outrage. The majority of the vic
tins were coachmen, and q hack
coaches we're blown to pieces and so
of the horses were killed.
On account of the existence of yell
low fever at New Orleans, quarantine
has been declared against that port.
At a meeting recently of the Cali
| fornia Raisin Growers company,
joint stock concern, which has sue
ceeded the old cooperative association,
the proposition submitted by the d.
rectors of forming joint stock COM
pany with the big packers was in
dorsed by a vote of S647 to 3191, each
vote representing one acre.
| Baron JutarO Komura, Japanese
plenipotentiary to the peace confer
ence soon to convene in Washington,
|
attic for the east. to make careful in
quiry touching the education of the
Japanese children resident in Seattle,
and before his departure, to announce
that he would contribute the sum of
$500 to be expended on the education
of the children in the language and
literature Of Japan.
The five men who escaped from the
guard house at Fort Wright at Spo-
kane Saturday night were military
convicts, and not soldiers of the fort.
All of them were men sent in to the
fort to serve sentences for desertion
from other army posts. The names OF
the men are Frank Burton, Joseph
Carroll, James Collingwood, Herman
w. Lamp and Harry Linden. There is
a reward of $50 for the capture of
each of them.