Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-08-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS
CHANCES ALL OVER THE WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Record of MisfOrtunes, Mishaps and
Crimes, as Well AS of Indus
trial Progress.

receipt of overtures of the French govern
ment, though Ambassador Patenotre, for
negotiating reciprocity clause of the
new tariff law, and the secretary adds an
assurance that he hopes to take up the
important subject at any early day.
The cannery of the Pacific Northwest
Packing Company at Blaine, has been en-
tirely destroyed by fire, together with r.
600 cases of sockeye salmon ready for
shipment The loss will exceed $4,000.
Owing to the raise in the price of lea
the fall in silver has been offset in tn
Occur d'Alene, Idaho, district, and tn
owners of properties there say they vii
continue to run full shifts the same as i
the past.
Advices from Honolulu say the Ameri
can flag has not yet been raised in Ha
wall, and there is no indication that
will be. The government has declined
to grant permanent register to the Pa
ciic mail steamship China, owing to tn
belief that the reputed sale of the YES
sci, British made ship, is not bona fide
A telegram from Northern Dallas, Ala.
states that a Mormon elder touring tina
part of the state stopped with L. G. Ham
lin. A few mornings Hamlin awoke t
find his wife, the elder and several of hi
neighbors' wives had gone. The commun
ity feels hurt over the elders doings and
caught he will be summarily dealt with
doc" A. Huff, bartender in the Gran
Central hotel, New Denver, b. c., ma
well known throughout the British Co
lumbia mining camps, was found dead
Six Mile creek, near where he was /
camp, the result of stroke of apopleXy
The United States revenue cutter Rus
has returned from Boring sea with Pro
fessor David Starr Jordan of Stanford
sent north IA months ago by the govern
ment to investigate the feasibility o
branding the female seals to prevent thei
determination. Professor Jordan has no
yet spoken concerning the trips results.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock, newly appoint
ed minister to Russia, has paid his re
spects to President Mckinley.
Robbers held up the messenger at Gran
ite, Col, and relieved him of $1,000, tn
result of a cleanup from placer mine
and escaped into the mountains.
Fierce timber fires, started by Italia
pcddlers from Moscow are raging on bot
sides of the south fork of the Clearwater
1t is hazardous to travel and farm build
ings are in danger.
Report comes from Shepherd, Mich.
that Cashier Elmer E. Struble, OF tn
Farmers bank, was shot down in tn
vault and killed by desperate depositor
who had been refused their money. Ar
rests will follow.
Rev. w. C. Lord, pastor of the Madi
son Street Methodist church, Seattle, and
state president of the A. p. A. has fled
from that city, owing to his being charged
with unlawful intercourse with his ser
want girl, Jessie Morford, aged l6 years
Lord is married, has four children, is a
prominent lodgeman and is brother o
Presiding Elder b. f. Ford, now in south
ern Oregon.
Bill Hubbard and his sister, Mrs Park
er. accused of robbing the Pineville, Mo.
bank, have been arrested at Weir City
Kan. The woman was dressed in man
clothes and gave the officers hot chase
during which her horse was shot from un
der her. The third member of the party
Whit Tennison, was shot and dangerousl
wounded
The entire cash in banks in the state
of Washington at the close of May was
81 ,39l 1926. The population of Wash
ington is given in the census as over 349,-
600, but making the estimate on popu-
lation of $4,000 will give us per capita
circulation of $6.83.
Edwin Corbin of Chicago has closed a
deal in London matchmaking the United
States and Canadian lakes fisheries com
panies, whereby the control of 20 com
panies passed into the hands OF
the British company with $5,OOO,00O capt.
tai.
The wheat market opened at ColfaX,
Wash, Monday at IS cents. Hamilton
Rourke bought pool of $4,000 bushels
at 70 cents. This is one of the largest
sales ever made there. This wheat be-
loneed to a local bank and local mer-
chants. In the afternoon, upon receipt OF
Chicago prices, the price dropped q cents
and closed weak at 20 cents in the ware
house.
Silver broke all records again Monday,
falling to 23ad in London, which is I'd be-
low the previous low record. Bar silver
closed in New York at 5l1 cents. At the
New York prices for bars, the value Of
silver in the standard silver dollar is 1866
cents.
The grain men at Davenport, Wash,
report that most of the wheat this year
will grade No. l. Wheat Wednesday
brought 20 cents for club sacked, and y
cents for bluestem sacked.