Washington State journal and Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1906-1907, 1907-01-16
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-Natlonal,
historical, Political and Personal
Events.

A report from Vancouver, B. c.,
says that the Fraser river Is frozen
over at Eburne, for the first time in
Is years.
j. L. Smelling. late United States ap-
praiser of the port of Boston, and for
many years we'll known New York
man, is dead.
John d. Rockefeller has agreed to
give $4,000. GOO for the endowment of
q university for Louisville. KY.
Information was received at S..
Petersburg Sunday that the chief Of
20. ice NJ Daghastan, on the Caspian
sea, was murdered. The assassin es-
capped.
Jacob Gruen. one of the Oldest wine
importers in the west, died at his
home in st. Louis recently from ap-
.orlcxy.
The North American Life Insurance
company has been organized in New
Jersey.
Joseph Mahoney, a large land own
er of Johnson county, Texas, was shot
to death in one of the principal streets
of Venus recently by his wife. Do
mestic troubles we're the cause Of the
tragedy.
Honey" Melody of Boston was
giver tho decision in the 18th round
in his fight with Terry Martin of
Philadelphia at Augusta, Maine, Tues
day night.
The bishop of Diion, who was re-
Gently fined by the French courts for
q violation of the church and state
separation law. arrived Saturday in
Rome and was received by the pope.
President Roosevelt has been elect
ed an honorary member of the Royal
Geographical Society of England.
Those so honored include Emperor
William, King Leopold and King
Oscar.
Philip B. Stewart of Colorado has
notified the president that his bust
ness is such that he will not be able
to accept the position Of commission
DER of the general land Office, to be va
Gated by the retirement of Commits
sioner Richardson on March 4.
James ]. Hill, president of the Great
Northern railroad, has given $4,000
to Manchester college on condition
that the productive endowment fund
be raised to 100000.
Advices were received from Okla
homa City recently to the effect that
on January 81 the interstate COM
mission will meet in Oklahoma City
to hear testimony in the case Of the
territory of Oklahoma versus the Chi
company and other railroads operat-
ing in Oklahoma. wherein the terri
tory seeks lower wheat export rate
ito Galveston.
The attorney general of Washing
cton advised recently that Judge Chad
wick in the Whitman county SUI
lperior court on January 10 denied the
of the Oregon Railway &
Navigation company to set aside his
decree sustaining the railroad COM
mission joint rate on wheat. The at
torney general holds this bars the
railway from proceeding in the fed
eral court until the state supreme
Antonio Pedro, an Italian, was
killed at Mercur, Utah, recently by a
shot fired through the window Of his
dwelling.
Mexico's new ambassador to Ameri-
ca. Enrique Creel, has been called to
Mexico, where it is said he will re-
ceive instructions relative to the nego-
tiatiOns of a treaty with the United
States under the terms of which the
Mexican republic may be able to
reach and punish those of its people
who come to America to plot and act
against their own government.
With $34O, the payroll for the en-
ployes of Bernard Waldstein, clasped
to her breast, Margaret Hoffman, IA
years old. was held up and robbed Of
the money Saturday while on her way
to the shop from the German Ex-
change bank, New York.
The disclosures in the burning love
letters of Or. Raoul Amador to Mrs.
Bertha X. Gresham have caused the
prospective resignation of Amador's
father, president of Panama, accord
dng 10 dispatches from Colon.
Statistics show that in 1906, from
January 1 to December 1, 2O9,767 im-
migrants entered the ports of Argen-
tina. The statistics for November
alone show 52,761 immigrants. while
the number of those who left the coun-
try was 9,467.
II. Fl. Rogers says: $50 far as !
end my associates in the Standard Oil
company are concerned, We are per-
fect!y willing that Mr.. Cortclyou shall
make public any tranactions we may
have had with the republican national
co.nmittee."
Frederick Stearns of Detroit, head
of the Stearns Manufacturing COM
pany of that city, is dead.
SLATER Is NOMINATED.