Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-05

Almost the entlre German press IS
sued memorial editorials, the occasion
being the anniversary of the death of
Prince Bismarck.
General Otis has informed the war
department of the arrival at Manila of
the transport Valencia. There were no
casualties enroute.
President Mckinley will give recep-
ton to Admiral Dewey at the White
House when the latter arrives in Wash
ington.
The revenue cutter McCulloch has
sailed for St. Michael, Alaska. Major
Il. w Clark, special treasury agent sta
toned on the Pribyloff islands, was a
passenger on the McCulloch
Serious forest fires are reported be-
tween Clallam and Neah Bay. Wash
Recently there has beeen no Geographic
communication between those points.
The United States transport Han
cock, having on board the Nebraska
regiment and two batteries of the Utah
artillery, have arrived in San Fran
cisco.
The one mile match race between Ar
thur Zimmerman and Eddie c. Bald at
Vailsburg. N. j., for a guaranteed
purse" of $1,000 and a percentage of
the receipts, was won by Bald.
Champion Walter d. Mansfield has
again broken the worlds record for
long distance casting. In the accur-
acy event he made 95 per cent and IS
per cent in the delicacy event.
1t Is admitted in administration cir
Giles that upon the assumption of Office
by Secretary Root, General Miles will
again become leading factor in the
management of military affairs.
Paul COrcOran, the Shoshone county
dynamiter. has beeen convicted at the
recent term Of the district court at Wal
ace, conveyed to the penitentiary and
entered upon his term of service.
The rumors regarding the formation
Of a China-Japanese alliance are semi
officially denied. and it is asserted that
the ENJOYS recently sent to Tokyo were
appointed simply to prove the friendly |
relations between the powers.
Two automobiles beat the Paris-St |
Mole express train, in race between
those cities. a distance of 226 miles, !
making the best time ever recorded for
an automobile, covering the distance in
seven hours and 4S minutes
The effect of Judge Thornhill's decis-
ion in the Iowa court will result in the
release of James Doyle. Ell Paso coun-
TVS millionaire prisoner. James Burns !
will comply with the conditions i'm
posed on him by the court and Doyle
may go free tomorrow.
One of the biggest quartz discoveries
in the history of Idaho has been made
on Badger creek, which empties into
the Boise river about three miles this
side of Twin Springs. The discovery
was made by prospeCtor named Frank
Bryant at point on the creek three
miles from its mouth.
The accident on the Erie railroad
growing out of the landslide a mile east
of LuckawaXon. N. Y, was not as SER
ious as at first reported. Only the fire
man and engineer of the derailed en-
CINE of the westbound Chicago express,
which turned oyer on the track, were
killed, though number of the express,
the vestibuled train for Buffalo and
Cleveland, which left New York, were
injured.
Despite the wild utterances of Sir
Charles Upper and Sir Wilfrid I.aur-
Ter in the Canadian parliament at OF
tawa regarding the Alaskan boundary
dispute and the alarm which these
speeches have caused in official circles
in London. everyone at the White
House, ID. c., at the state department.
and in cabinet circles generally, laugh
at the very idea of a possibility of war
with Great Britain on this or any other
account.
The United States may pay dearly be,
cause four thugs recently lynchcd were
Italians.
Yellow fever has appeared at Phoebus.
The little town almost adjoining the sol
diers' home at Hampton.
John Cayanaugh was shot and killed at
Republic, Wash, by Willie Callahan. Cal
lahan acted in self-defense
The assassins of President Heureaux
and their friends are in the mountain dis
trict about % miles north of Moca
The United States cruiser Marblehead
which is ON her way from Peru to Mare
Island, has left Coquimbo, Chile for Cal
lao, Peru.
The Oriental steamer Victoria reports
that before she left Kobe a typhoon was
raging which threatened serious damage
to shipping.
Thomas Balm, liberal member for Went
worth, was elected speaker of the house OF
commons at Ottawa to succeed Sir James
Edgar, deceased.
In the house of commons at Ottawa the