Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-05-06
LATE TELEGRApH1o NOTES.

Martial law has been declared in Ward
ner, Idaho.
There We're several labor strikes in
Cleveland, O., Monday.
South Dakota prairie fires have done
much damage in that state. Losses are
heavy.
After nine weeks of enforced idlcness,
the plate glass factory resumed operations
in Alexandria, Ind.
Great Britain has already taken steps
to counteract the efforts of the Russian
expedition in Asiatic Turkey.
Howell T. Morgan, returning fr m Pert
Valdes, Alaska, to Bayonne, n. j., killed
himself on the train in Indian.
Charles Mccullough, farm laborer, was
shot and killed Monday by Mrs Eunce
Brown, at her farm south of Canton,
S. ID.
The rebels have retired from their forti-
fcations at Nailele, Samoa, which they
demolished together with other forts along
the coast.
The following customs and taxes were
collected at the ports mentioned dunng
April: Manila, $457 ,0C2 Iloilo, &45, 534
Cebu, $30,757; total, $633,2 93.
Ten of the IA republican members Of
congress of Illinois have decided unani-
mously to support Congressman Albert
Hopkins, of Aurora, for speaker of the
matt, nal house of r5p. esentatiyes
There were fifteen members Of
the yorktown party clp,ued by The FIJI
pinos at Baler, and Admiral Dewey ac-
counts for five that have been killed.
They probably were killed or fatally
wounded in the original assault upon the
landing party at Baler.
The monthly statement of the public
debt today shows, at the close Of business
April 80, 1899, the debt less cash in the
treasury amounted to $l,l72,5S7 ,26l, an
increase dming the month of SO 05l .70l.
This is accounted for by the payment of
$20,000,000 to Spain in settlement of
treaty obligations.
The latest estimates of the Klondike
gold yield this season range from twelve
to twenty millions.
Formal announcement of the organza-
ton of the American Hide & Leather Com
pany is made.
Henry B. Hyde, president of the Fqui-
table Life Assurance Society of the United
States is dead.
Peter Maher and Gus Rubin, the
"Akron giant" fought to a 20round draw
before the Lenox Athletic Club Tuesday
night.
General T. NJ. Anderson has been as
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ment of the lakes with headquarters at
Chicago.
/ Paymaster General Stewart, L. S. n,
has been informed of the intention of the
navy department to retire him on May
5 for age.
The police board denied license to the
Coney Island Sporting Club, under whose
auspices the Fitzsimmons-Jeffries fight
was scheduled to take place.
Great Britain has officially demanded
of the Chinese government satisfaction for
the recent attacks made by the rebels
upon the British authorities in the Kau
Lang extension of Hong Kong.
The dead bodies of 252 United States
dead, brought from the battlefelds of
Cuba and Puerto Rico by the steamer
Crook were inferred at Arlington Gene
terry Tuesday with military honors.
Tuesday, Eugene Bette, of Joplin, Mo-,
shot and mortally wounded Sanford Dor
tvs installing him for brother, Fieldon
Dortys, whom he had sworn to kill for
marrying his daughter.
AS result of General Torres oppres-
sive conduct toward American merchants
trading at Bluefelds, Nicaragua, this gov
eminent has determined to require the
Nicaraguan government to relieve him
from duty at that point.
A peculiar tragedy occurred in Stock
ton, Cal, Tuesday night. The bodies of
Mrs. William Hickman and Mrs. H. A.
Hassal, clasped in loving embrace, but
both dead, were found a room OF a
lodging house, bullet having ended the
life of each.