Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1906-12-26
news OF THE WORLD
short DISPATCHES FROM ALL
PARTS OF The GLOBE.
A Review Of Happenings In Both
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
During the Past Week-National
Historical, Political and Personal
Events.

Congress concludes Roosevelt Is
wrong in his recommendations as to
citizenship for Porto Ricans. They are
not ready for it, as grave matters of
public policy are involved which make
the matter impossible.
The lower house of The Neither
lands parliament approve the Alge-
ciras convention.
Secretary Root and Sir Mortimer
Durand have signed supplementary
article to the extradition treaty be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain, including bribery in the list Of
extradition crimes.
Of Yonkers, N. Y, is in st. Joseph's
hospital, New York, recovering from
a broken neck and an injured spine.
Curtis Jet has been found guilty
Of the assassination of James Cock
rill at Jackson, KY, four years ago,
and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Jet confessed.
William G. Anderson, the embez-
cling teller of the First National bank
Of Kansas City has been returned
home from Austin, Texas.
The Norwegian whaling steamer
Frithjof was lost in the Antarctic on
November 9. Nine men of the crew
were lost.
The newest American peerless Is
Hermonie, daughter of the late E. W.
H. Schenly of Pittsburg, who was mar
ried in London recently to Lord Ellen
borough. a retired commodore of the
royal navy.
The steamer w. T. Scoville, plying
in the Vicksburg, Miss, and Davis
Bend trade, was destroyed recently by
an explosion, and between 10 and 16
persons killed and a like number in.
jured.
Bishop Charles G. McCabe of the
Methodist Episcopal church, is dead.
He was buried in Evanston, ILL.,, last
Monday.
John Annoy Knox, at one time wide
ly known as the editor and proprietor
of the Texas Siftings, is dead.
A test case has been instituted in
the United States court by Montgom-
cry Ward & Company of Chicago, who
seek an injunction against the South
Dakota Merchants & Hardware Deal
ers' association for boycotting their
wares.
There will be no holiday strike of
railroad men in New York.
On December 20, 1865, John M. Har-
Ian, now associated justice of the SUI
preme court, was married in Evans
vile, Ind, and on the 20 inst he and
Mrs. Harlan celebrated their golden
wedding by giving reception at their
residence in Washington, D. G.
In accordance with the annual Gus.
tom, the married employees of the
White House were presented with tur.
keys, with the compliments of the
president.
Judge John F. Phillips, in the fed
eral district court, granted a writ of
habeas corpus in the case Of Mrs. Ag-
mes Meyers, in Jail at Liberty, Mo-, un-
der sentence to be executed on jan
uary 10 for the murder of her hus-
band.
Mrs. Kate Gilman, mother Of Dena
Gilman, who was murdered on Novem-
Der 20 at Dayton, Ohio, and Collins
Gilman. brother Of the dead girl, have
been released. The bonds Of each was
fixed at $4,000.
William E. Smith, president of the
United Mineworkers of Illinois, is
dead.
Albert M. Sheldon and other Minnea-
polls capitalists have purchased one
billion feet of timber on Queen Char
lotte island, on the Pacific coast.