Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-02-18

Denver and q professional gambler, was
shot and killed in saloon by Charles \.
Kimmel an ex-polieeman.
Ii is estimated that half OF the Georgia
peach chop has been killed and the other
half greatly damaged as a result OF the
recent cold wave.
The California & Oriental Steamship
Company have received cablegram that
a fourth steamer has been secured at
Hong Kong, named the Han Tung, and
will leave that port with full cargo Tor
San Diego, February 23rd.
Alexander Phillips, sailor on the
barkentine Geneva, has been missing for
week. and the ship sailed without him.
A fire at Pueblo, Colo, destroyed the
Deremer theatre building, causing losses
aggreeating $4,000 Frozen water plugs
interfered with the work Of the fire de
partment. 1t was 20 degrees below zero
when the fire was burning.
One of the attaches of the Chinese le-
CATION in Paris, believing that he was be-
ing prosecuted by the secretary OF the lie
cation, Lien Young, killed the latter by
shooting him with a revolver, and then
committed suicide.
Fire at Vanwort, Ohio, destroyed a
number Of business blocks, causing a to-
tai loss of $4,000.
A mob took Cupid Redding and two
unknown negroes from jail near Atlanta,
Ga, and Iynched them. The prisoners
were delivered after Il short parley with
the sheriff and the mob entered the Jail,
The Short Line is having an unusual
experience between Payette and Wieser,
idaho, The Snake river became damned
with ice and flooded the track causing
a bad washout, the track being weakened
for a long distance,
The thirteenth annual convention of
the Independent Order of Birth Abraham,
which has 10000 members throughout
the United States, took place Sunday,
Monday and Tuesday in Industrial Hall,
in Philadelphia.
The board of experts on insular affairs
have established themselves in their quar-
ters in the Lemon building, Washington,
d. c., and are going over mass of pa
pers referred to them by the war depart,
ment.
Sixteen skaters living in the suburbs Of
Rogers Park and Lake Forest, Chicago,
We're carried out into Lake Michigan on
ice foes. Ten of them were rescued
Mark Wentworth Durham, owner of
the famous Oaklawn farm, the most ex-
tensive breeder of pure bred horses in the
world, is dead.
Bob Fitzoimmons and jim Jeiiries have
signed articles for a fight some time be
tween April 4th and May Doth.
kid" Mccoy has accepted an engage
ment to meet Joe Choynski. He says he
will fight any time after March 10Th.
On the steamer from Yokohama came
General T.. Riego De Dios and Senior
NJ. Rivera, who are "Aguinaldo's special
commissioners to Washington" They
were muoh disturbed when told OF the
latest developments in the Philippines
The peach and apricot crops of Vernon
and Cedar counties, Mo, are reported
killed
Dr. Pierce, United States charge at St
Petersburg, cabIed the state department
that the conference proposed by the car
looking to the disarmament Of nations
will be held at The Hague.
Fire totally destroyed the building on
Front street, Toronto, Ont, occupied by
Owens, Quent & Co., crockery and glass.
ware dealers The loss is 100000
The engagement is announced of Lis
penard Stewart of New York and Miss
Romela Dahlgren, grand daughter Of the
late Admiral Dahlgren
The trial revision bin was adopted by
vote of 332 to 232 in the chamber OF
deputies at Paris.
-Four mines placed in the harbor for its
protection from hostile attack during the
war with Spain were torn from their
moorings by the storm and drifted about
the harbor until the waves cast them up
on the beach at the Marine park in South
Boston. Each mine was charged with 200
pounds of guncotton, and if exploded
would have blown up any vessel unfort-
innate enough to be in the vicinity. Luck
lily there was no such collision with the
drifting terrors.
Deputy Constable Welsh arrived at
Sacramento Cal, at midnight with Il
Chinese woman whom he was taking to
Portland, Ore. The woman was taken
from him here on dispatch from San
Jose and viii be returned there on a
charge of larceny.
The stage running into Santa Barbara
was held up by a lone highwaymau who
was concealed behind fallen tree. He
was armed with shot gun, and after re-
lieveing j. w. Armstrong and William
Paddock, commercial travellers, of $40,
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