Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1897-08-21
CHANCES ALL OVER THE WORLD
AT HOME AND ABROAD.
Record of MisfOrtunes, Mishaps and
Crimes, as Well as of Indus
trial Progress.


way & Navigation Company for the year
ending June 80, 1897, shows an increase
of 81 ,0l5,32l in net earnings over the pre-
vious year. Total earnings, $4,7lS,354;
operating expenses, $2,779,O47. Net earn
ings, 81, 939,307
The property of the Chicago Sugar Re
filming Company has been formally trans
ferred to the Glucose Sugar Refining Com
pany of New Jersey for the consideration
of $6,250000 "and other valuable CON
siderations." The plant consists of an
enormous sugar refinery and glucose fac
tory which have been in operation for -
years.
A special from Coffeen, ILL.,, says:
Frank Campbell, who was the trusted
lieutenant of General Bradley, was
forced to flee for his life from the strikers
camp west of town. He was pursued by
an angry mob of Slavs, who charged him
with having sold Bradley and his men out
to the Colleen Coal and Copper Company
The Falls Creek tannery at Falls Creek
Pa, has closed down because of the APP
pearance of a peculiar and terrible di
sease among the employees, of whom four
died within a few hours after they were
seized. 1t is supposed to be caused by
handling hides which were imported from
China and which contained germs of an
unknown and dangerous disease
Captain w. H. Shafoe, one of the best
known racing men in the south, com
mitted suicide by shooting himself at
Gallatin, Tenn, apparently withou.
cause.
Ethan Allen Hitchcock of st. Louis has
been appointed minister to Russia. Mr..
Hitchcock is great grand son of Ethan
Allen, who captured Fort Ticonderoga
Sin the name of the Great Jehovah and
the continental congress-"
Captain General Weyler has rendered
his resignation as commander of the
Spanish forces in Cuba. His campaign
was brought to an inglorious close, lie
having been chased into Havana by the
rebels on the last day of the protracted
struggle.
All of the big labor leaders in the coun-
try have assembled at Pittsburg to aid
wages. President NJ. ID. Ratchford of the
United Mine Workers of America, fro n
the West Virginia districts, says the
working men are bound to win: they are
daily growing stronger, and have now
reached the point where the courts have
been compelled to step in and enjoin the
striking miners from carrying on their
~
600 out of 10000 diggers in West Nir
ginia were now striking.
Eli Burney of Whitehead, Ala, who
was forbidden to visit his sweetheart,
shot and fatally wounded the girls faith
er, afterward escaping.
Several hundred tests of adulterated
tea, imported by Portland Chinese firm,
were rejected by the Tacoma customs in
spector regardless of the protests of the
cOmpany's agent.
Governor Rogers has received an invi-
tation from the governor of Texas i'll
viting him to send four delegates to the
national prison association meeting in
Austin, October 1920. The delegates
must pay their own expenses. No one
has been found.
The eighth international congress of
pharmaceutical chemists is in session at
Brussels, the direct object of the two
weeks meeting being to discuss hygiene
pure water supplies, public health anu
sanitary legislation.
Ex-Collector of Internal Revenue .. NJ.
Welburn of San Francisco has been form
allv indicted by the federal grand jury
upon the charge of having embezzled
1922 between September 80, 1896, and
Nav. 1897. There were 43 counts. Bail
was fixed at $4,000 and promptly fur
nished
The annual conference of the priests
Eucharist League" opening at the Uni
versity of Notre Dame, South Bend, lnd'
August II, will be attended by 200
priests and II bishops, among the latter
being Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati and
Archbishop Williams of Boston.
David G. Swain, U. S. A, retired, Judge
advocate general, is dead
Michael Angiollilo, the anarchist as
sassin of Premier Canovas de Castllloe'
who was tried by court martial at YER
CARA. was found guilty and sentenced to
death.
Information is obtained at the office OF
the chief grain inspector of Minnesota
that the wheat crop of that state and the
Dal,otas would run 3O,OOO,000 bushels
short of expectations
The employees of George c. Heitzel x
Co. manufacturers of worsted goods OF
chester, Pa, have been notified that the
wages paid in 1892 would be restored on
September 6 next.
A special from Rome says IT Is REPORTED porte
that the pope will excommunleate Prince
Henri of Orleans and the Count OF Turn
nc dueling is forbidden by the Roman