Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-11-06
NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS
RECORD OF CRIME AND MIsHAP
Progress of business at Home
Abroad-Fire Losses and Accide"-
tai Deaths - Political Appoi"
ments.

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nesday.
Flags are half-masted all over England
because of the death of the duchess OF
Teck. daughter of the duke OF Cumoer-
land. seventh son of George Ill,
Judge Thayer of the United States CIR
cuit court of appeals has decided that
the Kansas legislature has the right TO
fix the charges at the Kansas City (kan,)
stock yards
A dispatch to Minneapolis paper from
New York says Mr.. Mellen will leave the
presidency of the Northern Pacific with
in three months and will be succeeded by
Dan Lamont.
William Carr, the inhuman father who
drowned his child because there was one
too many in the family, begs the Kansas
CITY officials to let him be tried and
hung, thus paying the natural result, he
says.
An attempt was made Wednesday
night to hold up the Rock Island pas
senger train near Boyd, Tex, by piling
crossties on the track, but beyond the
presence of two men with Winchesters no
farther attempt occurred.
Twenty eight hundred men are report
ed to be at work on the construction of
the Crows Nest Pass railway. Camps
dot the Belly river bottoms as if an army
had possession of the country. The work
is being pushed with all speed in antici-
patton of heavy fall of snow. To the
end of an early completion contracts have
been sublet and grade work is well under
way along the entire $50 miles.
John H. Hall has been appointed
United States attorney for Oregon.
An official dispatch from Havana an
nounces that Blanco, the new captain
general, has arrived there and has taken
command of the island from General
Weyler.
Searchlight is king of pacing three
year-olds. His time, made on the track
Saturday at Santa Ana, in an exhibition
mile and an eighth, eclipses all previous
records and puts him at the head of pac-
ers for his age. With running mate he
was driven by Tom Heating and establish
ed rs his record 2:053
The German postofiiee is experimenting
with an invention of an electric typewrit
be connected with telegraph wire which
types message off on keyboard and
which is reproduced at the other end.
Prof w. W. Campbell of the Lick OBJ
servatory, accompanied by his wife and
Miss Rowena Beans, young society lady
of San Jose, has sailed from San Fran
cisco for Hong Kong en- route to India for
the purpose of observing the total eclipse
of the sun which takes place early next
year. His expedition has been made pos
sible through the generosity of the late
Colonel c. +. Croker. Prof Campbell
takes with him two tons of scientific
freight.
President and Mrs. Mckinley arrived
at Canton, Ohio, Monday night, being
welcomed by large crowds.
The British ship Moreton, which left
Tacoma about three months ago for Della
goa Bay, South Africa. went ashore at
the entrance of Lorenzo Marques
Nathan Stark, prominent farmer of
Mercer, Mo-, was held up on the highway
by Ira Sexton, a neighbor, who attempted
to rob him Stark resisted and Sexton
shot and killed him. Sexton was taken
to Princeton and placed in Jail
Marshal Blanco the new captain gen
eral of Cuba, has sent cable message to
the Spanish government saying he has
formed favorable opinion regarding the
prospects of the pacifcation of Cuba.
James H. Eckels, comptroller of the
currency of the United States, has been
elected president of the Commercial Ma
tional bank of Chicago. He will enter
upon his new duties January / 1898.
A Valparaiso Chilli dispatch says that
Augustine Edwards, millionaire banker,
philanthropist and ex-senator, is dead of
pulmonary disease.
An English syndicate has purchased
the gold mines in Alaska of Frank B. Pts
Gator of Benton Harbor, Mich, paying ST.
100000 for three claims-No. q on Bear
creek and two rich claims on Eldorado.
The syndicate paid $4,000 down and the
balance is to be paid in year,
The w. c. Il. u. at Buffalo has re-elect.
ed the old officers, as follows President.
Miss Frances Il. Willard; vice president
at large, Miss Lillian Stevens of Massa-
chusetts; corresponding secretary, Mrs.
Catherine Stevenson of Massachusetts;
recording secretary, Miss Clara c. Hofr-
man of Missouri; treasurer Miss Helen
Barber of Illinois
Five powers of the Latin union. on the
initiative of Switzerland, have signed a
convention to increase the number of
small silver coins by a franc per head of
their population, using the existing five
franc pieces to supply the necessary silver
Russia Dictates to COrea