Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-04
Items FROM ALL AROUND
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
Complete Review Of the Events Tor
"a the Past Week IN This aud Foreign
Lends-summarized From the Latest
Dispatches.

President J. j. Hill OF the Great North
ern and President 4. l.. Mohler OF the
o. r. & n. held conference III Seattle
recently. 1t is thought that the confer
ence was based upon the question OF con
structing railroad into the Republic
mining district
William Wayne Belyin is under arrest
in the Waldorf Astoria, charged with
threatening the life of the Denver mill
ionaire, David II. Moffat, and also with
trying TO defraud the hotel out OF S423.
The United States gunboat Wheeling
has arrived in Vancouver, b. G., from
Alaska.
Miss Ada Rehan, the leading lady OF
Augustm Days company has been en-
gagged, with Mr.. Days permission and
approval, to create the part OF the hero
inc in the next Drury Lane drama.
The commissioners of Golden Gate park,
San Francisco, have accepted an offer by
Claus Spreckels to erect marble or
Sidilltc i1usiC SJSilu, 10 COSt NV iS7o SAi'eh
100000
At st. Louis, in the trial Of Campbell
Aligair on the charge of murder, photo
graphs purporting to portray every stage
of the assault were brought forth by the
state and allowed as evidence. The entire
tragedy as the prosecution presents it
was acted out before a camera.
Orders have been issued for filling in
of the iifty.mile gap between Surf and
Elwood, on the coast division of the
Southern Pacific railroad. This will COM
plete new trunk line from San Francis
co to Los Angeles within a year,
Frances Saville, the opera singer, who
states that she is d citizen OF California,
has brought suit against the Madison
Avenue hotel in New York to recover
$4,000, the value OF casket Of jewels
which she alleges was stolen from her
apartments in the hotel December 0, 1898.
Total receipts from customs and taxes
in Americas island possessions are: In
Cuba, from July Is, 1898, to January 81,
1899 (six ports not reporting for Janu-
ary), $l,3l2,372; in the Philippine isl
ands, from August Is, 1898, to December
81, $l,Sl9,8l3; in Porto Rico, from Aug
nat 10, 1898, TO December Is, 1898, 49,
643, 6O2.
Lieut.. Commander c. F. Rees, u S. N,
who was the signal officer with Admiral
Deweys fleet, and who stood upon the
bridge with the admiral during the bat
tie of Manila, has arrived in Topeka,
Kan, to visit relatives. The naval off
Ger was received by the governor and
both branches of the legislature, and
spoke briefly before both the house and
senate.
An appeal has been received by the
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on
behalf of the food sufferers OF the Shan
the appeal are American anu English peo-
Pile The state that the Chinese of the
district have raised something like $780,
900, but this viii go but short way, as
there are over 100000 people starving.
The transport Roanoke has sailed for
Manila with full cargo of supplies for
the troops. She took away II recruits
for the Fourteenth infantry, II men of
the Twentieth infantry and two men and
81 recruits for the Twenty third infantry.
The consummation OF the $25,000,00O
combine, the New York Gas, Light, Heat
& Power Co., has been made possible
by the decision of the directors of the
Standard Underground Cable company to
surrender to the combine $l46,0O0 worth
of bonds of the United Electric Light X
Power company Of New York held by it
as collateral
Negotiations will probably be complet-
ed for the sale of the plant OF King, Gil
bert & Warner company of Columbus,
Ohio, to the Bessemer steel plants of the
national organization. The plant is one
of the largest in the west.
Attorney General Monet of Ohio has
filed motion in the supreme court ask
ing that +. b. Squire, secretary of the
Standard Oil Company, be cited for con-
tempt. Secretary Squire refused to pro
duce certain books demanded by the at
torney general during the taking of tes-
timony in the cases against the Standard
Oil company, before the master commits
sioner.
With regard TO the reported Anglo
German agreement, Prince Radziwill OF
France remarked; can entente between
such serious commercial rivals as Great
Britain and Germany is almost impOs-
sible.
Emil Beme, cabin passenger on the
North German Lloyd steamship Saale,
was arrested in New York on charge OF
smuggling.
President Mckinley has notified the
Moravian college for women that it might
Announce the fact that "a far as the