Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-12-31


water front property in San Francisco,
paying $3S775O for the same.
A special meeting of the Western Pas
senger Association will be held January
10 to consider the draft of new asso-
citation agreement.
The resignation of Andrew j. Smith,
governor of the Soldiers Home at Santa
Monica, Cal, has been accepted, to take
effect March l. 1899.
Sherry Burke, an old-timer at Butte,
Mont, fell down fight of stairs, receiv-
ing injuries from which he died.
Prof John Bell Hatcher, of Princeton,
has gone back to Patagonia to- continue
his search for rare fossils and explore the
interior of the country.
Assurances have been given that Col
ombia will grant an extension OF SIX
years to the Panama Canal Company for
the construction of the canal
Rev. Horatio Stebbins, pastor of the
First Unitarian church, of San Francisco,
and one of the regents of the University
of California, is critically i'll.
Stories of the effect Of the recent big
storm on the New England coast continue
TO come in, the pranks of the gale and big
sea being everywhere evident.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
has given orders for the construction of
two new steamers to ply between San
Francisco and Yokohama and Hongkong.
Frederick Won Hartmann, son of Baron
Won Hartmann, of Cologne, Germany, was
sentenced to five years in the state pen
itentiary of Indiana for burglary.
John A. Stevens, superintendent OF the
d. M. Ferry Seed Company, at Detroit,
Mich, committed suicide at his residence
last week. Insanity is assigned as the
cause.
Thirty railroads were represented at a
meeting held at the Grand Pacific hotel,
Chicago, to consider plan proposed by
Charles B. Mangham for joint exhibit at
the Paris exposition in 1900.
While attempting to arrest Thomas
Crosby, a l3-year-old son of a wealthy
Chicago widow, Deputy Sheriff Frank
Nye was shot and instantly killed by
the youthful prisoner.
w. G. Spaulding, cashier of the Ger
man-American bank at Port Clinton, o.,
and Mrs. Martha Jameson, of Toledo,
have been arrested for killing Miss Amy
Meeker by performing criminal opera
ton.
DIR. Howard Agnew johnson, formerly
OF Iowa and now pastor of the Forty first
Street Presbyterian church of Chicago,
has been formally called to the pastorate
of the Madison Avenue Presbyterian
church of New York city.
The evacuation of Mariana province IN
Cuba was gloriously celebrated last week.
Rev. Dr. Theodore n Morrison, of Chi
cago, has accepted the office OF bishop OF
the Iowa diocese.
Captain Borchgrevinks expedition has
started from Haleait, tasmania, for the
Antarctic regions.
Ambassador Jules Cambon will sail
from Havre for New York January TO
resume his duties at Washington.
Charles w. Davis commander of the
Loyal Legion, and one of the best known
veterans in Chicago, is dead.
An explosion on the steamer Fanjta at
Havana killed one man and fatally scald-
ed three others.
All of the prominent six-day bicycle
racers, including Miller and Waller. viii
soon appear in race at San Francisco.
Ray Burnett, Joseph Faragher and w.
E. Selling We're killed recently in the Co
lumbus mine, located in La Plata, Col.
The Midland Railway Company, Of
London, has ordered twenty.eight freight
engines built in Philadelphia and New
York.
John D. McCullis of Carthage, Mo,
shot and mortally wounded W. G. Gillen
yesterday. Gillen was charged with ruin
ing his home.
A dispatch from the Lloyds' agent at
Skibberreen, Ireland, denies the rumor
that a Transatlantic steamer was ashore
off the Irish coast.
The state canvassing board of Kansas
has decided that A. F. Scott, republican,
and J.. M. Mail, populist, tied for the
legislature. BY drawing lots Scott Won
Chancellor McGill, OF Jersey City, has
granted rule to show cause Why a re-
ceiver should not be appointed for the
whisky trust. A big legal fight is looked
for.
The Third battalion of the FIRST New
York regiment, which arrived on the
transport Scandal at San Francisco sew
eral days ago, will leave for their homes
in about one week.
Mrs. Leland Stanford has filed in the
superior court of San francisco her final
account as executrix of the estate of her
husband. The immense estate is now in a
position to be closed.
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