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Newspaper
Kennewick Courier
Location
Kennewick, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1905
Page
2
A weekly survey reports windstorms in Chicago, diplomatic moves in Europe and Asia, a fatal car crash on Long Island, post office thefts in California, financial scandals in Pittsburgh, and military disciplinary actions. Also noted are shipwrecks near Newfoundland, a yellow fever case in Havana, a new comet sighting in Mexico, and other international happenings.
The Northern Pacific Railway placed orders with eastern car foundries and locomotive shops for more than seven million dollars in new equipment. Additionally Tacoma shops will construct 2000 freight cars at a cost of hundreds of thousands, requiring significantly more skilled workers.
Four inmates led a vengeful assault at the Missouri state penitentiary in Jefferson City injuring Deputy Warden Lee and Gateman John Clay and fatally wounding convict Charles Blake. The group used nitro glycerine to blow a gate and flee into the street before authorities recaptured them. two convicts were killed and three others wounded.
The exchange occurred Saturday afternoon at the state department with Baron Rosen and Minister Takahira. The sealed copies, bound in plum morocco and kept in a silver gilded box, arrived in Washington earlier and are tied with matching colored ribbons.
John Alexander Dowie and his Zionist party, who spent two months in Mexico examining sites for a promised Zion colony, are now in New York. They aim to secure a 2,000,000 acre grant in Tamaulipas to establish the colony.
Secretary Wilson reports the 1905 farm wealth reached $6.415 billion, the highest in any country. Four crops—corn, hay, wheat, and rice—hit new value highs, with corn at a record 2.708 billion bushels and hay valued at $605 million. Farm aggregate value now stands at $6.133 billion, with yearly increases averaging $3.4 million in value.
Mme Emma Calve brings a Carmen centered program to the Spokane Theater on January 15 with Gypsy Cigarette girl costume and includes Hamlet mad scene, French Irish and Scotch folk songs, and a MasseNet la Navalaise tour piece with tenor Bouxmann. Lois Steers Wynn Coman directs the Pacific coast tour. tickets by mail to manager Joseph Petrich.
The Spokane theater schedules Thanksgiving matinee and night shows including A Human Slave, Ghosts, and Andrew Mack comedy. Next week adds Bowery Girls burlesque and Britt Nelson Moving Pictures with Dorothy Grey lauded as leading woman. Henry Watterson hails Ghosts and Harry Mestager as a rising actor.
The army transport Logan sailed from San Francisco bound for Honolulu Guam and Manila. On board were Companies I and L of the Tenth Infantry 100 enlisted Marines for Manila 20 Marines for Honolulu hospital corps recruits and casuals Major General S S Sumner and his wife were among the passengers.
Boston papers credit Grace Ellison with a triumph in The Lion and the Mouse. Uncle John’s cowhide boots from The Old Homestead are said to be twenty years old next July. Mrs. Leslie Carter will present Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth likely at upcoming special performances. Frederick W. Thompson plans to dramatize Brewster’s Millions for the New York Hippodrome. Andrew Mack’s Tom Moore, a comedy about the Irish poet by Theodore Burt Sayre, heads to Spokane for a Saturday and Sunday engagement.
In Idaho, owners plan a $20000 extensive mill on the creek used for tailings after a month with a net $500 from a home plant. Dominion Copper at Boundary Falls, B C, delays a new smelting plant while its reduction works are set to be blown in this week. Funeral in Wallace for George H. Allen draws 350 miners and residents.
Samuel Gompers was reelected president of the American Federation of Labor by a practically unanimous vote. Frank Morrison of Washington was chosen secretary and John B. Lennon of Bloomington was named treasurer. Minneapolis, Minnesota, chosen for the 1906 AFL convention.
A year to date tally shows 10 deaths and 137 serious injuries in football. The total injured may top a thousand, including ten high school players three college players and one girl player. Four deaths involved body blows, three spine injuries, six brain concussions, two from blood poisoning, and four from other causes.
The bishop of London condemns Oxford students drinking heavily while college dons counter that excess has some level but is not notably dangerous or rising, noting only a certain degree of inebriation among the student body.
Simon Wolf of Washington, former president of the national B nai B rith and a leader on its executive committee, says recent atrocities in Russia may trigger another exodus of Jews to the United States.
The Jewish national relief fund in the United States has raised 8270574 dollars to aid Jews who suffered in Russian atrocities.
Reports from St. Petersburg describe a successful mutiny of Sevastopol sailors and an entire regiment's revolt, sparking government alarm. Mutinies spread from Vladivostok to Cronstadt, with Manchuria unrest and alleged bloodshed of 42 executions in Linovitch forces. Count Witte’s cabinet met, rumors fly of a possible dictator, and the regime braces for deeper crisis.
It is reported that Richard A. McCurdy president of the Mutual Life Insurance Company his son Robert H. McCurdy general manager and his son in law Louis Thebaud favorite general agent for New York have tendered resignations to the company. Each man has been drawing about 150000 a year.
A group of released Port Arthur soldiers arrived in Vladivostok to join a local garrison but revolted on Sunday. They killed two, wounded five officers, and were subdued by garrison members. the ringleaders face execution.
St. Petersburg reports the finance minister has finalized next year’s budget with projected revenue of 1.027 billion dollars and expenditures of 1.02 billion.
Judge Carpenter sustains Lizette Schandein will admitting it to probate. The $7,000,000 estate names Mrs Jacob Heyl as chief beneficiary while Mrs Ella Frank and Emil Schandein receive only a small allowance. Contestants Mrs Frank and Emil Schandein accused undue influence by Heyl.
The Turkish government shows signs of yielding to American demands in long running talks, especially over recognition of naturalized American citizens in Turkey. Tokyo is stated to be 100 years older than St. Petersburg.
Reports cover a welterweight bout where Honey Mellody loses his career after a 14th round knockout by Jack O Keefe in Spokane. Other items include Yale, Harvard, Princeton bowling scores, a Union College football fatality at NYU, high school football deaths in Bellmore and Sedalia, Western bowling signings, and Olympic and baseball news.
In Seattle, Washington high school teams battled to a 0-0 standstill at Recreation Park in a tightly played game described as a bully scrap. Yale defeated Harvard 6 to 0 in Cambridge on a muffed punt turn, while Michigan crushed Oberlin 75 to 0 at Ann Arbor. Minnesota edged Northwestern 6 to 1 in Minneapolis. Georgetown beat George Washington 6 to 1 in Washington. West Point topped Syracuse 17 to 0. Washburn won 6 to 0 at Denver over Denver University. In Cheney Washington the state normal team won 17 to 0 against Colfaz high school with two 20 minute halves. Senator Burton Guilty Verdict reported in St Louis on all counts for taking compensation from Rialto Grain & Securities as attorney before the post office department. verdict delivered after about 25 minutes of jury deliberation.
In Pompeii a terra cotta lamp bearing a Christ monogram and leaf crown was unearthed over ten feet below ground on the northwest side during excavations under Italian government orders. The find marks the first clear indication that Christianity existed in Pompeii before the 79 year destruction.
Famine sweeps the northeast of Japan due to rice crop depletion. Government steps up relief efforts as missions report aid activity. A reference to Rev. Halsey of a Presbyterian foreign mission group notes ongoing involvement abroad and connections to European royal figures.
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