The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1905-09-08
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-NatienaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.


ranged to visit Foiden on a tour OF
military inspection, has given up the
plan because of cholera.
Arthur Woodward and Talcum
Woodward, two negroes, were lynched
recently at Silver City, Mass, by
mob of so persons. The negroes had
assaulted Andrew White, a well known
farmer, and seriously beat him.
An unusually heavy earthquake
shock was experienced at Los Ange-
les recently. The disturbance was OF
about six seconds duration.
Charles G. Moore of Colorado, for
10 years a clerk in the pOstOffice de-
partment, has confessed to taking
railroad tickets from letters in the
dead letter office and has been dis
missed.
District Attorney Jerome, mentioned
as citizens union candidate for may
or of New York in the coming election,
says he will not, under any circum-
stances, be a candidate for the Office
Of mayor.
Practically every Presbyterian
church in the onited States preached
last Sunday on the subject of some
phase of the labor situation, in re-
spouse to an appeal from Chicago
union officers.
Fog stranded vessels and smoke
from forest fires have practically
brought shipping to a standstill be-
Montreal tho Enlf nf Ct
Lawrence.
General Manager J. Hurley of the
Santa Fe railway states that the COM
pany would not withdraw the bonus
system from it's blacksmith shops be-
fore October 1, or at any other time.
If the blacksmiths adhere to their
ultimatum issued recently, Mr.. Hur-
ey's statement means that the men
will strike October L.
Two hundred dock labOrers at Mont
real went on strike recently for an in
crease in wages of Is cents a day.
The strikers were brought here two
years ago to take places of members
of the longshoremen's union who went
on strike at that time, demanding a
similar increase.
Shanghai was visited by a typhoon
recently and the entire city was flood
ed, the water rising to a height OF
three feet. This is the first flood
which has occurred here within the
last so years.
Nels Anderson, a motor inspector
for the Illinois Steel company, chose
death by electrOcutiOn in preference
to a more horrible fate in one of the
company's seething metal pits recent
ly. He accidently fell, and it had to
be one or the cher.
Marshall Field, the wealthy Chicago
merchant, was married to Mrs. Mary
Cation, also of Chicago, according to
a cable dispatch from London.
Reports reaching San Jose, Costa
Rica, give partial details OF the dam
age caused in the banana zone by the
hurricane of August l. The fruit or
many of the best farms was nearly or
wholly blown down. About one mil
lion punches of bananas were lost.
A general strike has been proclaim
ed at Reval, European Russia, as the
outcome of the political movement.
Measures have been taken to prevent
disorders.
Secretary Bonaparte has issued an
order converting a cOurtmartial to
meet at the Mare Island navy yard
September Is for the trial of Com
mander Lucien Young and Ensign
Charles T. Wade on charges growing
out of the fatal explosion on the gun
boat Bennington at San Diego in July.
More than 100000 acres of land on
the Uintah reservation in Utah have
been filed upon as hOmesteads by
persons who drew lucky numbers in
the recent drawing at Provo. So far
the names of 555 persons entitled to
make filings have been called at the
land office, and of these 381 have re-
sponded and filed on homesteads.
The Duke of Orleans Greenland par
ty has discovered a new and unknown
land, which they named Terre de
France, and also discovered that Cape
Bismarck is a part of large island,
and not on the mainland, as hitherto
assumed.
Steps have been taken for the Span
ish naturalization of Prince Ferdinand
of Bavaria, who will receive appropri-
ate Spanish rank in connection with
the project for his marriage with the
Infanta Maria Teresa, youngest sister
of King Alfonso.
Judge John l. Mullins in the Colo
RADIO district court has ordered Re-
ceiver G. L. Stevick of the Denver
Savings bank, which closed its doors
August 10, to pay depositors imme-
diately a dividend of 10 per cent.
The shah of Persia has arrived at
Peterhof He was met at the station
by Emperor Nicholas, several of the
grand dukes and Count Lamsdorff.
prince Murdered