Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1889-04-06
HOME AND ABROAD.
BOLD ROBBERY OF A DENVER BANK
IN BROAD DAYLIGHT.
A Negroes Fearful Struggle on the Gal
lows-Reported Destruction of the
American and German War
Vessels at Samoa.
Boulanger will be prosecuted.

Paris proposes to legislate against spec
ulators.
John Bright, OF England, died Wednes-
day morning.
The labor movement is spreading in
Germany.
The fainting fits of the Pope are becom-
ing more frequent.
Placer gold has been discovered in the
bluffs on the Missouri river.
The woman suffrage bill has been de-
feated in the New York legislature.
Four inches of snow is reported to have
fallen in Albuquerque last week.
Mrs. U. S. Grant has given $25 to the
Confederate Soldiers home at Austin.
Chicago's monument to the Haymarket
policemen will be dedicated May 4th.
The famous horse, Prince Wilkes, was
sold for $50, 900 in New York Monday.
Two aged inmates of the Ramsey
county, Mimi, poor house have eloped.
the gun-boat Yorktown has been de-
livered to the naval authorities at League
island.
1t is reported that the Northern Pacific
has secured control Of the Wisconsin Cen
tral.
John Knowles, of Huntington, Tenn,
is wanted for burning to death four mem
bers of the Flowers family.
A disease known as "bIack knot" is
destroying the blue plum orchards in the
vicinity OF Dayton, Ohio.
A flock of wild geese flying over Con
zales, Texas, Wednesday, were struck
by lightning and Y killed.
1t is said that no white child born on
the Isthmus of Panama has ever reached
the age OF twenty-one years.
Southern Kansas received the news of
the opening of Oklahoma by the firing of
cannons, display of bunting and bontires.
On account of the failure of crops in
| four years III succession in Russia, the
inhabitants of whole districts are dying
OF starvation.
The discovery last week of an illicit
/ IOllD dU IL lltto IuI ~
clue to gigantic plot in Russia to assas-
sinate the Gar.
The Chinese minister at Washington
expends more money in kilograms and
cable dispatches than the government of
the United States.
William Clinchman, aged Is years,
snapped an empty revolver at little Bir-
] i u T,JaCJnry Nhr I,1l-
| let pierced the child's brain and she will
die.
Louisa Freely, 20 years old, of Davis
vile, n Y, committed suicide Tuesday
/ bv taking strychnine, because her par
ents refused their consent to her mar
riage.
The 11-months-old daughter of Mrs.
! Schulz, of Rochester, n. Y, while in a
2aroxism of coughing vomited live
snake which measured 12la inches in
| length.
The Bald-Knobb cases were finished
in the Christian county, Mo-, court last
week. Four of the number have been
sentenced to hang April 18th.
John Rosenbarger shot A. Castalian,
in row over a trivial matter, near
Creighton, Neb., Wednesday. He then
burned his own house to the ground and
shot himself in the head.
Assam swarms so with leeches that
! lives of men are in danger, any person
/ falling from faintness or getting stuck in
a mud hole or swamp being sure to be
sucked to death by hundreds Of them.
At Uniontown, Pa, Friday, John Har-
ris. thirteen years old, while riding on a
coal car, stepped off and into the mouth
OF a blazing coke oven. He was literally
roasted alive before taken out.
Jud Pritchell, negro ravisher, was
hanged at Danville, Va, Friday. He
fought like a mailman on the gallows.
and it required the combined efforts of
four deputies fourteen minutes to force
him through the trap.
Aaron York. an Indiana farmer near
Peru, placed several sticks of giant pow
der under the kitchen stove to thaw out
During his absence the stuff exploded,
instantly killing his wife and daughter.
Clara Hogin, of Spartansburg county,
! o.. eloped with Edward Matthias Sunday
anu MbI6 IIdIIlCu OA liOliO
| for the usual parental forgiveness the
Young man was fatally stabbed in the
neck by Hogin.
The exclusion of strangers from the
news of St. Thomas Episcopal church,
| New York, has created revulsion OF
sentiment among Episcopalians against
conducting the church on commercial
basis.
It is reported that during a terrific
storm which swept over Samoa recently,
the American and German war ships,
six in all, were driven on reef and to-
tally DESTROYED. The American vessels,
the Trenton, Vandalia and Nipsic, lost
/ four officers and forty-slx men, and of
the German ships, the Adler, Olga and
Eber, nine officers and elghty-seven men
were drowned.
A man held up the president OF the
First National bank Of Denver, Friday,
and with a cooked revolver close to the
| officials head forced him to S ign check
for $21 900. after which the robber fol-
lowed him behind the bank counter and
| in the presence OF a score Of clerks re-
ceiyed the money. He then cody lifted
his hat and disappeared.
Near Mt. Vernon, KY, Monday, JAS.
Raker shot and mortally wounded Moses
Gatliff. datlif7s wife had run away
with another man. Gatliff pursued and
recaptured her. At the depot where
tbeY were to take the train he began
beating her. Baker demonstrated and
| Gatliff shot at him. Baker then shot
Gatliff, wounding him fatally, and then
surrendered to the sheriff.