The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-07-20
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FROM
ALL PARTS OF THE GLOBE.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-NationaI,
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

During the maneuverS In the Baltlc
sea a Russian torpedo boat struck
mine and sank off Bjorko. The boat
was demolished, but the crew was
saved.
The transport Thomas, which re-
Gently grounded near the island OF
Guam, arrived at Manila.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress, was
recently married to William Payne at
Portsmouth, N. H.
With picks and shovels, City Mar
shall John Isaacs of Prescott, Wis,
was murdered recently by a crowd OF
30 Italian railroad laborers while at
tempting to make arrests for alleged
violations of the state game laws.
They are under arrest.
It is credibly stated that the assas-
sin of Admiral Choukin, commander
of the Black sea feet, was girl dis
guised as a sailor. No arrest has
yet been made.
Three men were blown to pieces,
three others were fatally injured and
several others badly hurt by an ex-
plosion which wrecked shanty in the
Mclaughlin stone quarry at Ballwod,
a short distance northwest Of Chicago.
The outlook for the passage of the
summer without a general upheaval
in Russia is considerably brighter and
everything making for delay increases
the possibility of the ultimate attain
ment of a real constitutional regime,
without an open civil war.
John H. Chapman was recently
elected for the sixteenth time presi-
dent of the Baptist Young Peoples
union of America, without a note of
opposition.
Harry K Thaw, in the Tombs for
the murder of Stanford White, is re-
ported to be without funds.
The Daily Colonist, the oldest and
most prominent newspaper in British
Columbia, has changed owners. j. H.
S. Matson represents the purchasers.
=, The instruction in Matte Crosse,
Brazil, is swelling to huge proportions.
The announcement Of the engage
ment of Miss Annie Ide, daughter OF
Governor General Ide of Manila to
Bourke Cochran was made recently.
w. p Royce, machinist for the
Sioux City, Iowa, Electric company,
has just been married to Loretta Pat
ten Hendrickson, daughter of the
woman whom he shot to death ten
years ago while in jealous rage.
1t is said that President Roosevelt
may mediate in the impending war be-
tween Salvador and Guatemala.
William H. Busbey, for nearly 30
years a member of the editorial staff
of the Chicago InterOcean, died re-
Gently.
All Germany is discussing the re-
markedly bold attack upon the kaiser
published in the National Zeitung Of
Berlin, apropos of the emperor's dis
appointing failure to declare general
amnesty on the occasion of the birth
of his first grandson.
Emperor William will probably send
his fourth son, August William Cborn
in 1857 to an American university
after the young prince has finished his
course of study at the German univer-
sity.
Quartermaster General Humphrey
of the army has compiled statement
showing that the amount necessary to
be expended as a result of the fire in
San Francisco under the various titles
of appropriations for his department
aggregates $2,268,47S.
Discovery has been made in a small
draw near Rawlins. Wyo., of desert
ated horses near by. The wagon box
is splintered with bullet holes and
the inside of the wagon stained with
blood
The wedding of Captain Heidi of
the Fifteenth cavalry to Miss Grace
Howe Mckinley, niece of President
Mckinley and for a time mistress of
the White house, occurred last We'd
nesday.
Mr.. Loeb, secretary to the president,
says: "The president meant exactly
what he said on the night of his cleo
date again for the Office. That state
ment is irrevocable."
The small Portuguese steamer Silva
Americana sank recently at the en-
trance of the Kwanza river (Portu-
guese West Africa. Nineteen per-
sons were drowned.
The liberals are jubilant at the post
ponement of the visit of the British
channel fleet to Russian waters, which
they regard as open recognition of the
fact that public sentiment in both
countries is hostile to such an official
exchange of courtesies while the peo-
pie and government of Russia are at
war
AS a people. the Moors are already
we'll inclined to anything that gilds
life writer saws. "NJnthipo do1;~hto