The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-04-20
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
4 Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western tlemispheres
During the Past Week-Nationab,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

An official cable from Caracas states
that department secretaries are SD
filling the cabinet positions made va
cant by the resignation of President
Castro
The population of Los Angeles, Cal.
according to the city directory census
of April /, 1906, is 22S,29S The popu-
latiOn as given in the directory for
May l, 1905, was 1854. On this ba-
sis the city has increased 1864 in
population in II months
President Roosevelt will not hunt
any more while he is president, &C
cording to Colonel Cecil Lyons, repub-
lican national committeeman from
Texas
George r. Young. cashier of the Pos
tai Telegraph company a: st. Louis,
who was arrested charged. with en-
bezzlement, committed suicide while
on the way to Jail.
Arthur Turner, editor and publisher
OF Vogue, died recently from pneumO-
mia at his home. He was SO years of
age and had been in the publishing
business in New York for nearly 80
years.
The planters association is arrang-
ing to send an agent to the Philip
pines to secure Filipino or Japanese
laborers to work in the Hawaiian ISL
ands. The agent will also be instruc-
ed to secure labOrers in Porto Rico.
All hope has been abandoned for
the recovery of Father Louis Martin,
general of the order OF the Jesuits, and
known as the BLACK pope" He is
suffering from cancer.
The official enrolment figures of ,Ae
University of Michigan for 19O5-19O6
were given out recently and show
total of 4571 students. This is gain
of 435 over last year.
The cruiser Washington returned to
the yards of the New York Shipbuild-
ing company after a successful trial
off the Maine coast. The cruiser at
tanned 22.27 knots, little more than
a quarter of a knot in excess of the
government requirement.
Miss tombstone Bennett, the actress,
died recently.
The king of Spain was recently
elected a member of the royal yacht
squadron, preparatory to his arrival at
Cowes, April II, to visit Princess Ena
of Battenberg, the future queen of
Spain.
King Victor Emmanuel has decOrat-
ed Professor Matteucci, director of the
royal observatory on Mount Vesuvius,
with the rank of commander of the
order of the crown.
Incendiary articles in the Appeal to
Reason have resulted in it's being
barred from the Canadian mails. 1t
is socialistic organ, published at
Ulrard, Kan.
Israel Ludlow of New York, inven-
tor of the aeroplane, was SO badly in
jured by fall at Atlantic Beach, Fla.
that he will probably die.
The recent discovery of a plot of
anarchists to assassinate all of the
members of the royal family of spain
has caused feeling of apprehension
throughout the entire country.
The French pOStmen have been re-
turning to work. There are now only
400 strikers among total of 10000
postmen. The strike at Lyons is end
ed
King Frederick. Notwithstanding de-
malls, is endeavOring to obtain from
the pope the ecclesiastical sanction for
divorce from the Countess Montig-
noso in order to marry again.
Two men were killed and IL prob
ably fatally injured in a collision Of
coal cars at the Territory mine of
the Stonewall company near Charles
ton, w. Va. The cars went over a
100 foot embankment.
General E. S. Bragg, who has been
consul general of the United States at
Hongkong for the past three years,
has returned to the United States