The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1906-02-23
news OF THE WORLD
Short TELEGRAPH items FRon
ALL PARTS OF The GLo8E.
A Review of Happenings in Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-Nation.t
Historical, Political and Persona,
Events TerseIy Told.

A son has been born to Prince
ehun, the Chinese emperor's brother.
Karl Joubert. the well known writer
on Russian subjects, died in London
recently.
A plan is on foot to buy the Abra.
ham Lincoln homestead and convert
it into national park.
Horace A. Taylor, assistant secro.
tary of the treasury. has rendered to
the president his resignation.
Sir William Joseph Greene. who
came to Denver five years ago from
Boston, seeking health, is dead.
Two prolonged and severe earth.
quake shocks were felt at Roseau
Island of Dominica, B. w. l.. recently
James W. Alexander, former presi.
dent of the Equitable Life Assurance
society, is seriously ill in New York.
Pat Grove is now a prisoner in the
Council Bluffs, Iowa, Jail, and will be
arraigned on the charge of streetcar
robbery.
The shipping companies at Fiume.
Hungary, have yielded to the demands
of the strikers and work has been re-
sumed in all trades.
Nearly 5000 Americans, men, WON.
en- and children, are in peril of death
at the hands of Chinese mobs in the
threatened Boxer uprising.
The state department has received
a cablegram from Shanghai, China,
saying that the conditions in that city
are not such as to cause any alarm.
The American consul at Fort de
France, Martinique, reports an earth
quake recently, the most terrific in
81 years. Little damage was done.
An urgent writ has been served on
Count Boni de Castellane, making him
defendant in the separation proceed
ings of his wife, formerly Anna Could
l.. S. Montague, son of Sir Samuel
Montague, the well known London
banker, will be the liberal candidate
for the city of London against former
Premier Balfour.
The city of Boston officially cele-
brated the Longworth-R Roosevelt we'd
ding Saturday, the mayor ordering all
bells in the city to ring Is minutes
beginning at noon.
Morris Caplin, who operates an
dered in the dining room of his home
by masked man, who entered for
the purpose of robbery.
Lord de Clifford of London was>mar.
ried February 10 at st. Margaret's
church, Westminster, to Eva Caring
ton, who. is now playing small part
in "Bluebell in Fairyland."
Governor Dineen of Illinois has re-
ferred to the state board of pardons
the petition of Johann Hoch for
communication of sentence. He is SEN
fenced to hang February %.
The Iowa house of representatives
has passed a bill making it misde.
meanor, punishable by fine and I'M
prisonment, to discharge firecrackers
or other explosives on July 4.
In pursuance of his campaign for
the betterment of the army, Lord
Roberts has issued manifesto to
the British nation advocating that
drill and the use of the rifle be taught
in all public schools.
The largest picture ever painted ID
France and perhaps the world, was
inspected by the Fine Arts commission
at the Gallerie des Machines. It
248 feet square, and contains more
than 1000 life size figures. The pic
ture represents the mob, after the taA'
ing of the Bastile, marching with Il
fayette to the Hotel de Vile. It
the work Of M. George Roussel.