Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-11-27
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY.
A Daring Attempt at a Prominent
Minnesota Hotel.
The Republican National Convention
to be Held at Minneapolis.
Monday NOU. 23.

| 49, '04oAu dllOl u CIOCh TWO We'll
| dressed men entered the room of W. A.
Crawford, guest, and were going
through his clothes when he awoke and
began shouting for help. Book keeper
Willis tried to intercept them as they
ran out and one of them fired three
shots at him. Though pursued by a
number of employees of the hotel, the
men escaped.
The express which left Syracuse, N. Ys
at $3.50 Sunday night ram .i9f6 freight
a mile east of Canestota. Ehe wreck took
fire, burning sev49l express and freight
cars. Both engines we're damaged and
Engineer Park and Edward Board, fire.
man, were seriously injured. The cause
of the accident is unknown.
The election to fill the seat for North
Leeds in the English commons, made
vacant by the appointment of Rt Hon,
W, L, Jackson to the position of chiet
secretary for ireland, was held on Sat
urday, Mr.. jackson was returned with
out opposition.
Roseberry, the famous high-jumping
horse, fell Saturday night at the fat
stock show at Chicago while attempting
to beat his record. Sunday he died from
paralysis, the result of the fall. His
owner, Mr.. Pepper, had refused $4,000
for him.
The Republican nominating conven-
ton will be held on the 7th day of June,
1892, in Minneapolis. The Flour City
was decided upon on the 7th ballot, re-
ceiving 20 votes to Is for Cincinnati,
apd three for NeR York. rk.--.-.----, -
The report in Germany that syndi-
cate of bankers had been formed with
the object of purchasing Swiss railroad
shares has created a sensation at Berne.
1t is believed the project covers political
designs.
The circuit attorney filed mandamus
suits against go corporations doing bus
mess in this city for Noncompliance
with the provisions of the antitrust law
in st. Louis.
A Moscow, Tex, special says White
caps Saturday night hanged Billy BIach
colored, He was a stranger in the city
and had been very insulting to ladies'
and children.
The state supreme court Of California
Yesterday rendered decision declaring
the law legal appropriating 100000 for
California's exhibit at the worlds fair.
Influenza is spreading in France and
Germany, and many schools are closed.
The death rate IN Hamburg is 230 above
the normal average.
c. Miller, member Of the saloon firm
of Dorm & Miller, OF Seattle, absconGs
with considerable of the firms cash.
Fonseca resigns the presidency of
Brazil in favor of the vice president.
The resignation was forced.
Active measures are being made to
stop the smuggling along the Dakota
border.
Three women lose their lives in the
burning of hotel at jamestown, n. Y.
Gen. \. H. Hovey, governor of Indiana,
died at u O'Clock.
Repeated earthquake shocks felt in
Greece,
Tuesday, NoU. ,24.
There was fatal railway acc;dent
Yesterday on the Orelegrasi line in Rus
sia. The train was derailed on bridge
and four carriages hurled into the river.
Twenty-three persons are reported killed
and ten injured.
William Ellis, better known as ''Squaw
Bill" Of Missoula, Mont, shot himself
in the mouth at 7:l5 this evening. the
ball coming out behind the ear. There
is little prospect of his living. The deed
was with suicidal intent.
Three children belonging to an Eng
lsh family named Trump suffocated iH
their home in Rae Dominique, Paris, a
red-hot stove having set fire to the bed
stead in the absence of the children s
parents.
Patrick McCartY, a grocer at Ballard,
accidentally shot himself while hunting
ducks near the city and died this even
ing. He leaves wife and four children.
Delegates at Brussels from the various
iaOor organizations have decided to de-
mand universal suffrage in Belgium.