Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-10-02
NEWS OF THE WORLD
BRIEF MENTION OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD.
Record OF Misfortunes, Mishaps and
Crimes, az Well ~ Of Indus
trial Progress.

Michael Cross. the composer and or
ganist of Philadelphia, is dead.
Louise Michel, the notorious French
anarchist it is said, will leave Paris in a
few days for the United States.
Major Edward |, Merrill, aged 20 years,
died at his home in Pennington, Maine,
Sunday. He was the secretary of the
ways and means committee of the ma
tional house of representatives.
The declaration is made at Madrid and
is being generally circulated that the
Spanish troops in Cuba have recaptured
Victoria de Las Tunis, which was taken
by the insurgents under Calixta Garcia
and Jesus Rabion, September 5.
| The Afridis and Orakais of the Tirah
country, on the frontier of India, at
council held at Bagh, have decided to re-
sist the British advance. They have sent
a message to Gholam Hyder Khan, the
ameer's frontier general, asking him to
help them.
President Mckinley passed Sunday
quietly at Adams, Mass. In the morning
the president and the Misses Mabel and
Grace Mckinley, accompanied by their
host, went to the Congregational church.
The church was crowded and was decor
ated with flowers. The usual order of
services was observed.
The attorneys for the Panama Railroad
Company have placed on record in New
York a mortgage bonding all the proper
ty, rolling stock steamship, wharyes and
other appurtenances of the Panama Rail
road Company in the sum of $4O000O0.
A disappointing rye crop is indicated by
final returns to the American Agricultur-
list. Instead of some 28,000,000 bushels,
as expected from earlier indications, the
crop of the United States now figures out
about 25000000 bushels, 100000 more
than last year, and 100000 less than in
1895 and 1894. Latest European crop ad-
vices are confirmatory of serious short
ages, especially in Russia.
j. w. Follert. government produce
merchant at Trail, B. c., accidentally shot
last Sunday while enjoying a days out
ing, is dead, having never recovered con-
seriousness.
Secretary Sherman STILL according to
interviews in the Spanish newspapers, de-
sires a solution of the Cuban question by
November at the latest, as he fears the
"jingoes' will make themselves heard on
the reassembling of congress.
The supreme court of the state of
Washington filed al opinion to the effect
that /. s. Hewlett is still commissioner
Of arid lands, and a percmptory writ of
mandate was ordered issued directing the
state auditor to issue warrants for the
payment of his salary as such officer
Henry George has been unanimously
nominated for mayor of Greater New
York by the United Democracy, com
posed of numerous free silver and Bryan
clubs. Mr.. George once polled $4,000
votes as labor candidate for mayor of
New York. His strength, if he should
accept, would be drawn principally from
the democratic vote
The slaughter of mother and her six
children occurred at the home of John
Blocker, a farmer, living eight miles
northwest of Carrollton, Iowa. Blocker.
the fiendish husband, completed his
bloody work by sending a bullet into his
own head inhicting fatal wound. The
family were prosperous Germans, and as
far as is known, had lived happily. No
motive for the tragedy has been dis
closed.
The instruction in Nicaragua has been
suppressed.
Benjamin f. Tracy has been nominated
for mayor of Greater New York by the
republican convention, on the st. Louis
platform.
George Fred Williams of Dedham has
been nominated for governor of Massa-
chusetts by the democratic state conven-
ton on platform that squarely indorses
that adopted by the national convention
at Chicago last summer.