Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1898-02-05
A LOOK ALL AROUND.
NEWS AT HOME AND ABROAD
Items of Information Gathered Ero
Wide Aren-POIiticaI Happen
ings and Industrial Notes-Criua
and Accidents

1t was necessary to call out troons I.
suppress an anti-Hbrew riot at Malo
France.
Alfred Raymond Ockerman alias Raw
mond, who is wanted in Portland, Ore
for the ENLIGHTENMENT of $4,000 from tbo
Benevolent Order of Elks, has been ar
rested at Hastings, suburb of Vancouver.
B. c. Raymond has been in the neigh
borhood for about fortnight, but until
today succeeded in eluding the police.
/ Ockerman, who was formerly a druggist
in Portland, agrees to go back, and he
states that he can make good the shortage
which he claims only amounts to 5000.
Assistant Secretary Day has directed
the pension office to reopen and readjudi.
cate upon its merits the pension claim of
! w. b. Watson. late fireman of the United
States revenue cutter Tiger. 1t was reject
ed by the pension Office in January, 1895.
on the ground that the men of the revenue
service not being enlisted in the navy.
! had no title to pension under the act of
June q, 1890. The reason, the assistant
| secretary holds, was not tenable or sound
/ Receipts of this seasons wheat crop at
Tacoma to date aggregate 6l96,4 bush
els. The total yield for Washington, ac-
cording to the state grain inspector, will
be about 100000 bushels.
/ Miss Mary w. Boord of Metuchen, n.
j., is preparing to lead a mining colony
into the wilds of Alaska.
Russia will soon demand of Turkey pay
ment of the whole balance of her indem-
nifty of the Russo-Turkish war.
The Italian government has found it
necessary to call out portion OF its army
reserves to suppress the bread riots.
Trustees of Euphrates college. at Kar-
pOot, Turkey, have asked President Nc
Kinley for an assurance of protection.
John ID. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
magnate, proposes to spend 100000 in
improving the roads of Westchester coua
ty. New York.
Colonel +. b. Beaumon. a retired Unit
ed States army officer, believes that the
day of cavalry fighting is over, and that
what the army needs is rifemen and
modern heavy guns.
Secretary Long says that instead of be-
ing unprepared for WIZ, our navy is as
efficient, ship for ship, asthat of any other
nation, and that our new ships compare
favorably with any in the world.
F. n. Franker, formerly merchant at
Kansas City and Chicago, was recently
heeced out of $3l 900 by Mexican sharp
ers in the City of Mexico and is trying
to recover his money by legal proceed
ings.
The British steamer TourmaliR, it is
officially announced. while attempting to
land arms and stores on the Sus coast
of Morocco. was interrupted by the Sher
ifan Hassina, whereupon she opened fire.
The Hassina reciprocated and captured
one of the ships boats with three ER-
elishmen. The Moorish troops then de
molshed the villages favorable to for
eigners, killing numbers of inhabitants.
The president has nominated William
McMicken of Washington to be surveyor
general of Washington.
II. p. Gay has been confirmed by the
senate as United States attorney for the
district of Washington.
The burning of the McIntire block in
Winnipeg caused loss of 100000.
A Toxic paper states that there are
some 10000 troops in Tladivostock ready
to take the field at a moments notice.
The Rt Rev. EthcIbert Talbot d. d..
IL. d.. former missionary bishop of Idaho
and Wyoming, has been cnthroned as
bishop of the central Pennsylvania do
cese of the Protestant Episcopal church.
On December "a, the japanese merchant
steamer Nara Maru ran on hidden rock
of the Pescadore group and sank imme-
diately. Of her 80 passengers and crew
seven only reached the shore. The drown
ed were all japanese.
According to the statistics of the Jap
anese customs authorities, Is foreign seal
ING schooners, II British and four Amer
lean entered Hakodate and Yokohama
during the year 1897 Their aggregate
catches were 1852 decreae of 1854 COM
pared with that of 1896.
Thousands of sheep are reported to have
persisted from cold and starvation in west
ern Wyoming The cold has been intense
for go days and old-timers say that it is
the hardest winter they have seen for ~
years. Carbon county has 100000 sheep
and fockmasters there fear the loss will
amount to 25 DER cent Losses among
cattle will not be so heavy. as owners had
been preparing for several years to feed
their stock during severe weather.
Sentenced to he Hanged.
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