The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-03-23
news OF THE WORLD
SHORT TELEGRAPH ITEMS FRAN
ALL PARTS OF The GLOBE.
a Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemisphere
During the Past Week-Nationa
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

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Historical, Political and Personal
Events.
Speaker Cannon Saturday gave a
company.
Ann Arbor.-PrOf. A. p. Patteneill
OF the University of Michigan. is dead.
Starvation has forced blacks in the
northeastern Australian gold fields to
cannibalism.
The average low temperature for
Nebraska Saturday night was seven
degrees below zero.
Plague is prevalent at Nouemea,
French New Caledonia. A number of
deaths have occurred.
The Dresses Machine Tool com
pany's plant of Cincinnati, burned re.
Gently. Loss 100000.
Lyman ]. Gage, former secretary OF
the treasury, has decided to resign as
president of the United States Trust
Martha Wolfenstein, authoress, the
daughter of DR.. S. Wolfenstein, died
recently at the home of her father in
Cleveland.
DR.. Y. G. Allen. 46 years old, mis-
sionary to China, called upon the pres
ident recently and urged relaxation OF
the exclusion law.
UniOntOwn, Pa.-Mrs. Mary McKit.
trick, believed to be the Oldest per-
son in western Pennsylvania, Saturday
celebrated her 108th birthday.
dinner to the Gridiron club, the ia
nous organization of Washington cor.
respondents, whose guest he had been
on many occasions during the past %
years.
st. Petersburg.-There is already
evidence that only check and not a
defeat has been administered to the re-
actionists who are conducting the an
ti-semetic agitation.
Non-negotiable bonds and mortgage
notes worth $4,000 were stolen re-
Gently by robbers, who blew open the
safe, In the Office of Frank Troost, q
monument maker Of Chicago.
Professor H. w. Smith of the Eng
fish department of the Spokane high
school has resigned his position and
has gone to Butte, where he has been
elected to the principalship of gram
mar school.
One man was killed and three 9TH
ers were injured, one of them perhaps
fatally, during fight in the saloon
of Henry Dusing at Lakeview, near
Chicago. The dead man is William
Curry.
No matter what the results of the
troubles in Russia-no matter whether
the first experiment into the realms of
parliamentary government is or is
not success, the car himself is age
ing rapidly.
The United Mine Workers conven-
ton this morning voted $4,000 and as
much more as necessary to defend the
western miners arrested and charged
with the murder Of Ex-Governor Steu-
nenberg of Idaho.
Berlin.-The police have just dis
covered that married couple by the
name of Schmolz, living at Gelsenkir-
chen, have since their marriage, in
1897, killed seven out of the eight
children born to them.
Charles M. Travers and o. c. Lille
pleaded guilty to misapplication of the
funds of the First National bank of
Conneaut, Ohio, and we're sentenced to
six years Imprisonment The bank
failed as a result of their crimes.
The finding of the Canadian COM
missioners who investigated the Va
lencia disaster is ready and will be
presented during this week. 1t is
stated to find the wreck due to error
Of judgment on the part of Captain
johnson.
The president has announced the
reappointment of Rear Admiral Endi-
colt, chief of the bureau of docks and
yards in the navy department. Ad-
miral Endicott will continue as a men,
Der of the isthmian canal commission.
He will be placed on the retired list
next November. q
Columbus.-The American Express
company has brought suit against G..
E. Fletcher, who is serving six years
sentence in the state prison for ar
son, for $4,311. It is charged that
Letcher was the agent of the COM
pany at Fayette Ohio. 20 years ago,
and burned the Office.
Judge Dillon of Columbus. Ohio, has
sentenced frankie McHugh. formerly
featherweight champion of Ohio. to
four years In the penitentiary for
knocking down w. A. Watkins of
Pittsburg in the street and robbing
him of $780, McHugh was assisted
by four other men, who received like
sentences.
Burglars recently committed dar.
ing crime at Longbeach, Cal, money
and drafts to the amount of $4,000
being stolen from room in the Park
hotel. Only a few minutes elapsed
before the robbery was discovered
hut the thief had made good his es
cane The money and the drafts were
the property of Mrs. M. King, OF Mon
tana
Kills Man Who Insults Her.