Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-03-26
NEWS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD
Items of Information Gathered From
Wide Aren-POliticai Happen
ings and Industrial Notes-Crimes
and Accidents.

miles in North Africa reach hci9ht OF
four or five feet.
Judge Amidon at Deadwood, S. D., in
! structed the jury in the case OF the BuX
! tons against the Golden Reward to return
I a verdict of 100000 in favor of the plain
tiff Valuable mining property Is involv'
ed in the suit.
Thomas Mexican, one of the wealthiest
and most prominent citizens OF Phila-
delphia. is dead. His wealth is estimat-
ed at between $lO,000000 and $20.0O0,000.
The Home Savings bank of Sioux City,
Iowa. has closed its doors. The assets
are said to be 100000 and the liabilities
$50 900 of which $4,000 is school funds,
President Springer of the National Live
/ Stock Associations with the approval Of
! the executive committee, has appointed
/ George l.. Goulding of Denver, commit
tecman from Colorado, treasurer Of the
assoca ton.
A dispatch from Shanghai states that
Russia informed China that the latter's
delay in replying to the Russian demR nds
would be construed rs an acquiescenee in
/ the Russian occupation OF Port Arthur.
! Sir Claude Mcdonald, the British minis
! ter at Pel<in. is said TO be urging China
to resist.
The Texas and Massachusetts,, battle
ships, now with Admiral Sicard's squad
ron, have been ordered to proceed at once
from Key West to Hampton Roads, where
/ they will join the cruisers Minneapolis,
| Brooklyn and Columbia, and other yes
/ sells yet to be selected forming a new
naval division.
The first disbursement under the recent
act of congress appropriating S50,00O,000
| for national defense has been made by
the treasury department on an executive
order for $l45,99j to be cabled to London
to the credit of Sir William Armstrong,
in part payment for l2 rapid-fre guns,
including mounts and ammunition
Hon. Blanche X. Bruce, register of the
treasury, is dead. He was born in Prince
Edward county Virginia March ], l64l.
He was of African descent, was born
slave, and received the rudiments OF edu
ca ton from the tutor OF his masters son.
The republican state convention of
Rhode Island has nominated the follow.
ing ticket: Governor, Elisha Dyer; lieu
tenant governor, William J. Gregory;
secretary of state, Charles =. Bennett; at
tolncy general, W. p. Tayner, general
treasurer, w. 4. Reed; adiutant general,
G. A. SacIett; auditor, a. c, Lands su.
pcrintendent of educati ton, I. B. Stockweil.
Rev. Samuel Belts, the cowboy preacher,
is going to the Klondike, says a Grand
Rapids, Mich, dispatch. He will do
evangelical work along the way. he Is
building l9foot long, 46-inch beam, gal
vanized iron paddle and sail canoe, with
air tight compartments and room for bag
gage and about April will start On his
! long voyage His route will be through
! the lakes. Erie canal and along the At
! lantie and Gulf OF Mexico coast to Calves
! ton, and thence by nail to Los Angeles.
! He will follow the Pacific coast north
ward to the gold regions and expects to
get there some time next season. lie vail
be accompanied by his son.
Gray wolves are preying upon young
cattle in the vicinity of Laramie river,
! Colo.
An epidemic Of measles and mumps is
prevailing among the pupils OF the state
| Normal school at Emporia, Kan
The British admiralty has ordered that
all British war-ships be painted black or
white, abandoning the uniform gray color
now in vogue.
The convention OF cattle raiscrs at Fort
Worth. Texas, raised subscription Tor
a monument to the dead of the battle-shlp
Maine.
Efforts are being made at Richmond,
Va. to transport the old Libby prison
back to that city from Chicago, where
it was on exhibition during the Worlds
Fair.
SPANS ideal hero, Franscuelo, the ceie-
brated bulltghter, who has been honored
by the Queen Regent and high officials OF
the government, is dead, and all Spain is
in mourninr
The department of agriculture reports
last years crops still in the hands OF the
farmers as follows: Wheat, l2l 100000
bushels; corn, 7S3,00O,OOO bushels; oats,
272,000,000 bushels.
Mrs. Helen A. Clark renowned the pro-
vision OF the will of her late husband,
which gave her life estate in property
worth 81 100000, in marrying j. Charles
Linthicum, young lawyer, at Baltimore.
New South Wales paid last year $780,
600 for the destruction OF noXious animal
pests. Among the varieties slaughtered
for bounties were bandicoots, panemelons,
wombats, wallabies, Aangaroos, emns, ma
tive dogs, flying foxes, kangaroo rats and
9reS.
The ear. according to a dispatch from
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