Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-06-19
NEWS ABOUT THE WORLD
FROM ALL PARTS OF THE NEW
AND OLD WORLD.
Review of the Inn
portnnt Happenings OF the
Current Week.

July 3.
james Hughes Taylor, the veteran
tragedian. is dead, of dropsy at Down
ington, Penn.
Commander J. c. Green has been or
dered to the Puget sound naval sta
Bank clearings of Spokane during
the past week were $65O54S. This is an
increase of q per cent over the same
week last year.
est wedding in it's history, Larz Ander-
son. until recently a member of the
United States diplomatic corps al
Rome. Italy, and Miss isabelle Per-
kins of Boston, heiress TO I7OOO,OOO
becoming husband and wife.
Floods are doing conslaeIaole dam
age along the Connecticut river in New
England, A boom containing 900
feet of logs, north of Bellows Falls, Vt,
was carried away. The boom at Tur-
ner's Falls. Mass, also broke There
were about 100000 feet OF logs. The
dam of the Warner Manufacturing
Company at Greenfield broke. 1t was
built of solid rock and was on leet lonB
and II feet high.
Alvin G. Clark, the famous telescope
lens manufacturer, is dead:
News is Just received of terrible
gale off the coast of China May g. over
taking several hundred fishing boats
OF Cna san AIcIAIpSld6o' WV AiOii 100
ing their lives
Claude d. harrington, superintendent
of the National Academy OF Design,
has been arrested in New YORK on
charge of having embezzled $4,000 of
the academy's funds.
While trying to arrest three burglars
at Omaha. Neb., Police Officers Tiede-
mann and Glover were shot, the for
mer perhaps fatally The burglars es-
capped.
Governor Tanner of Illinois has sign
ed the famous Allen street railway
bill 1t authorizes a 50-year extension
of the existing railway FRANCHISE, al
lows five-cent fares permits consolida-
ton of companies and makes no PROV
sion for compensation to municipali-
ties.
William Andrews, colored, was taxi
en- from the officers a the door of the
court house at Princess Anne, Md, and
killed by a mob. Andrews had been
tried, convicted and sentenced to death
for feloniously assaulting Mrs. Benja-
min T. Kelly on May B.
Prof. Fesenius, the well-knoWn chem
list at Wiesbaden, Germany, is dead.
A London cable says that j. w.
Stocks has ridden 1914 miles in an houf
on a bicycle at the Crystal palace.
James French was hanged Friday in
the county Jail at Rockford, Ill, for
the cold blooded murder of his wife
last July. Two hundred persons wit
messed the execution.
A dispatch from Simla announces Sc
rous trouble on the northern frontier
of India and the massacre Of mum
Der of British officers and native sol
diers in the government employ,
While canvasmen were working on
the tent of Ringing Bros circus at
WahpetOn, n. D., the centerpOle was
struck by lightning. Charles Walters
and Charles Smith were killed and
four others shocked.
The grand jury has returned indict-
ments against President A. c. Huger
Cashier J. H. Field and Directors e.
T. Johnson and Olaf Searle, of the
failed Washington state bank, at Min
neapOlis, Mimi.
1t is alleged at Athens that the Ger
man government seeks to overthrow
the Greek dynasty ana 10 establish a
rigorous control of Greek finances. IN
order to attain this double object Ger
many wants a continuance or the war
and to have the terms of peace finally
dictated at Athens.
Bradstreets reports business better
than it was year ago.
By the falling of a cage in colliery
in Wales 10 miners were killed.
Indianapolis reports that two per-
sons seeking shelter under a tree were
killed by lightning.
A treaty of alliance is said to have
been completed between France and
Russia.
The Paine Shoe Company, one of the
largest in Holbrook, Mass, has assign
ed.
The senate has agreed to the amend
ment to the tariff bill making the duty
on sugar 1.95 cents, or nearly cents a
pound.
yNf nnI1Gn6
trouble in the Reform Episcopal church
and Bishop Cheney of Chicago has re-
signed.
Gas companies of New York and
Brooklyn have consolidated, having a
total capital stock of over $50, 900 900,
and a bonded Indebtedness of over SILL
900
A correspondent of the London Stand
ard writing from Madrid says that
everything shows that Spain is again
drifting into strained relations with
the United States.
The Turkish government is draining
the Asiatic province of the empire for
troops to be sent to the Belkans and
has ordered an additional 10000 Mauser
rifles.
The Voseeage Finishing Company,
manufacturers of shoe machinery and
wood working tools, Of Lynn, Mass,
has assigned to F. A. Wyman. The as
sets are UNKNOWN, the liabilities are
placed at $4,000.
Hiram A. Waite, ex-city comptroller,
of Port Huron, Mich, has been sentenc-
ed to five years in the house of correc-
ton, on a conviction Of embezzlement
of 900 from the city.
An excursion train, while on the way
from Baramouth to oldham, England,
was derailed at Westampton near Os-
wesley, last night. Nine persons were
killed and 25 injured.
w. J. Bryan was greeted by a great
crowd upon his arrival in New York
Saturday. AS he left the train he was
greeted with cheers and repea ted cries
of Bryan, the next president Of the
United States" AS Bryan left the
station all the hackmen waved their
hats and renewed their cheering for the
next president of the United States"