The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-09
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
a REVIEW OF Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-NationaI.
Historical, Political and Persona,
Events.

vent :. is still interrupted.
Richard L. Ashurst has been an
poln-ed postmaster at Philadelphia, to
succeed Clayton McMichael.
Admiral and Mrs. Winfield Scott
ecniey were in an exciting runaway
ACCIDENT, recently, at the National
Capital
Mount Vesuvius is in eruption from
a assure 400 meters in length on the
right side of the mountain. 1t is a
magnificent sight.
Public Printer Stillings has appoint.
ed Charles S. Brown of Grand Rapids
Mich. to be chief inspector of the
government printing Offices
Cameron A. Owens, assistant cashier
OF the w. X. Vanderslice Jewelry com
pany of San Francisco. committed sui
side recently by gas asphyxiation.
Ukiah. Cal.-Frank Willard, half.
breed. who murdered Sheriff Smith on
December % last, was sentenced to
be hanged at San Quentin April %.
The national treasury statement
shows: Available cash balance, s145,-
955,425: gold coin and bullion, ST.
81, 410; gold certificates, $36,765,17O
The American game of football as
now played is wholly unfit for col
leges and schools, according to an
opinion expressed by President Chas
Eliot of Harvard university.
London.-Lady Strathcona and
Mountroyal. wife of the Canadian high
commissioner, has donated $52,50O to
Queen Alexandra's fund for the as
sistance of the unemployed.
The war department has decided
to so back to the heavy caliber for
army revOlvers and adopt a cartridge
proposed by the ordnance bureau car
rying bullet of As 'caliber to replace
the SO caliber now in use
The board of construction of the ma
Wy has about decided to recommend
the installation on board each of the
South Carolina and the Michigan, the
two new battleships now being de-
signed, of turbine machinery.
Secretary Metcalf of the department
of commerce and labor has issued in
structions advising inspectors of
steamboat inspection service that they
In the future assist the United States
district attorney in the enforcement
of the steamboat inspection laws.
Chester H. Mercury. recently ap-
pointed American consul at Managua,
will not fill that post. Mr.. Mercury
married a Nicaraguan, the daughter of
an ex-president, who is still alive and
in politics. 1t was feared that Mr..
Mercury might therefore become in
volved in Nicaraguan domestic af-
fairs.
The president has confirmed the SEN
tence in the case of First Lieutenant
Richard w. Buchanan. 23d infantry,
who was tried by courtmartial in New
York city and found guilty of charges
of violating his pledge to abstain from
the use of intoxicating liquors and
drunkenness on duty and sentenced to
be dismissed.
President w. G Tighe of the New
Mexico university was seriously injured
recently by sn explosion of gasoline
while experimenting in the laboratory.
One of his arms was torn off and he
was otherwise horribly mutilated. His
recovery is doubtful.
M. Pokotiloff, the Russian minister,
and Mr.. Tong representing the Chinese
government. are discussing Russo
Chinese treaty along the lines of that
between China and Japan.
James n. Trevorrow, late superin.
tendent If the LIE Roi mine at Ross.
land. B. c.. is dead. He died at Los
Angeles, California. He was a. years
old.and native of Cornwall, Eng
land. He leaves wife and six child
rem. the Oldest of whom is about Is.