Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-12-25
THE DEATHOF PLUMB
The Famous Kansas Senator Dies Sud-
denly at Washington.
An Unusual Record of Accidents, Crimes
and Deaths.
SltndG y, Dec. 20.

Senator Plumb, of Kansas, died OF ap-
oplexy this morning. He was stricken
with the disease early this morning, and
after lingering some hours in an uucon-
scious condition. death took place There
were present at his bedside when death
occurred, DR.. Wales, who had been in
attendance upon the senator, Mr.. Jen-
ming in whose house the senator occupied
apartments, and M. Flanagan, private
secretary to Mr.. Plumb. The news Of
the death spread rapidly through the
city and was great shock-indeed, it
was hardly credited by his associates,
being regarded as all untounded rumor.
The serious question OF breaking the sad
news to Mrs. Plumb, who is in delicate
health, was solved by sending telegram
to Major Hood, president of the Empor-
la National bank, Emporia, Kans., where
Mrs Plumb now is. Mrs. Plumb tele-
graphed request that the remains be
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sent to Emporia as soon as possible.
Michael Hawkins of San Francisco
was arrested yesterday on a charge
of threats against the life of Mrs. ANNE
Donohue, widow Of Peter Donohue,
banker, a second cousin OF Hawkins,
from whom he has attempted to extort
morey. In August, 1889, Hawkins was
convicted Of assault to murder Mrs.
Donohue, and sentenced to one year in
county jail
John Hobbs of Philadelphia was shot
and instantly killed yesterday by Mrs
Josephine Smith at the station of the
Pennsylvania railroad. The cause of the
killing is unknown, as the woman refuses
to make a statement, She was at once
arrested.
Herbert Bashford and Miss Minriie
Cole, of Tacoma, we're married in Seat
tie, by Lee FairchIld, whois an orlainesl
Universalist minister
The Sound is visited with an unusally
severe storm
Monday, Dec. 2I.
Walt Whitman, the poet, is fast sink
ing in Philadelphia.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria is
seriously i'll with influenza
The Rio Grande Southern railway was
completed at Durango, Col, Sunday
noon.
Garcia's bandits are killing and steal
ing cattle from the ranchers near En-
cinial, Texas.
The estate of the lato Judge J. P
Hoge, of San Francisco, has been ap-
praised at $4,000.
A. l.. Fergusur and his wife and ba-
by we're killed by train, Sunday, at a
crossing in Pawnee City, Neb.
Sixty Rock Island railroad employees
were discharged at St. Joseph, Mo,
Saturday night. No cause is given.
Carl Edward johnson jumped from
fifth-storY window in Chicago, Sunday
morning, and was killed instantly.
Jimmy O'Connell and Mickey Norton,
local bantam weights of Parlor Grove,
KY, fought Around draw Sunday.
William Hopkins and Jack Hill, cow
boys, fought duel last week in Ere
mont county, Wyo., and Hopkins was
killed.
Truckee Cal, suffered loss of about
100000 by fire Sunday night, which
started in the Star skating riHk. No
lives were lost.
Telegraphic advices received Saturday
night from Cairo, Egypt, announces
that Major Wissmann is recovering his
health.
DR.. Frank Angel of New York and
Miss Louise Lee Bayard, daughter of
the ex-secretary of state, were married
in Wilmington, Del, yesterday.
British steamer Kansas, which sailed
from Liverpool November % for Boston,
and broke her shaft soon after in storm
arrived off Queenstown yesterday.
The revolution in Honduras began
the very day that Ponsiano Leiva was
inaugurated president and General Bog
ran retired to private life. TIE situa-
tion is critical
George Hampert OF San Francisco was
so badly crushed by mass OF earth and
rock, while grading a roadbed in San
Francisco, Sunday, that he died soon
afterward.
| Three or four people were Injured