Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-20

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tendance was the largest on record,
$4,000 being present, Score to 5.
Arson M. Stratton, known as the
pioneer of Coney Island" is dead. He
left fortune of 100000, acquired by
early investments at Coney Island.
! The Belmont mill, the Top mill and
the Labelle mill, of Wheeling w. Va,
and the Benwood blast furnace of Mar
tins Ferry, o., have advanced wages
! 10 per cent.
| Donald Mclean, a western railroad
promoter, fell over the balustrade on
| the fourth floor of the Palmer house,
in Chicago, Sunday, and received fatal
injuries.
Mayor Taggart, of Indianapolis, who
went down to Chandelier island to
view the body of the young lady found
buried there, identified it as his daugh-
ter, lost in the wreck of the Paul Jones.
The schooner Nelson, deeply laden
with cargo of coal, foundered in Lake
Superior off Grand Marais Sunday, and
carried down all hands So far as
known only one man, Captain Hagney,
escaped.
The managers of Mayor Jones, of To-
ledo, Ohio, have made arrangements
to run two special trains to Columbus,
on May 31st, at which time Mayor
Jones will speak before the laboring
men Of the state
Henry Reitz was struck fatal blow
by one of his companions recently in
Chicago. Reitz was the father of H.
P. Reitz, second baseman of the Pitts.
burg ball cluD, and of Edward d. Reitz
second baseman of the Sacramento
club.
The Tsung Ii Yamen replied to De
Giers, the Russian minister at Pekin,
that the government is unable to ac-
cede to the Russian demand made for
new railway concession connecting
Pekin with Russia's present system in
Mancnuria.
dispatch to the London Daily Mail,
from st. Petersburg, says: According
to the program prepared for the forth
coming conference at The Hague, one
vote will be permitted to each delega-
ton on every proposal submitted to
ballot, and votes will be cast by the
chief executive of each country.
The state department has been in
formally advised that claims aggregat-
ing a considerable amount have been
made by British and German residents
in Cuba during the recent insurrection.
and that these ultimately will be press
ed against the United States govern
ment.
The $3o0Oo,O00 window glass trust is
a certainty.
Courtlandt Ethridge, pioneer on Puget
sound is dead.
George d. Scott committed suicide at
Tmrytown, N. Y, Monday, by shooting
himself in the head
Five hundred spinning employees of the
q mills struck for 20 per cent increase
in wages in Menominee, Mich
Winnie Roach, a mulatto, and her hus-
band, of Atlanta, Ga, are charged with
brutally burning their four little child en-
to death.
Jack Root of Chicago was given the
decision over "Australian" Jimmy RYAN
at the end of a 20-round contest Monday
in Louisville, Ky.
The Lone Pine, Surprise and Pearl claims
in Republic, Wash, have been consolidated
under one company and will be developed
as one big mine
Secretary Alger has ordered that the
Washington volunteers, when sent home,
return directly to Puget sound without
stopping at San Francisco.
Charles w. Nordstrom, who was con-
victed about eight years ago of the murder
of William Mason, is sentenced to be
hanged August II, in Seattle
Wizard" Jake Schaefer of Chicago beat
George Slosson, the student" in an ex-
citing game of lS-nch balk line billiard
at the LenoX Lyceum in New York on
Monday.
II. n. Halliday, president of the Will
Evansville, Greenville & St. Louis railroad,
was shot and killed at Williamsvlle Mon.
day, by Monroe Johnson, prominent
lumberman.
Champion George Dixon added another
to his long list of victories in the ring by
winning from kid" Broad of Cleveland
in 20 rounds in the Olympic club in Buff
falo n. Y, Monday.
j. l.. Hamilton, a printer who was en-
ployed in the sugar factory in Santa Ma
ria, Cal, attacked his wife with knife
cutting her throat and killing her. He
then cut his own throat.
Sunday evening Hon. j. A. Hunter, one
of the most prominent men in Wallowa
county, Oregon, was shot and instantly
killed by Mrs. Elliott, a neighbor, who
then committed suicide by taking poison
The river steamer Hasalo, on trial in
Portland steamed for half an hour at q
/ speed of 25 miles an hour, and during q