Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-10-21
OO|NGS Through THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-Sum married. From the Lat
est Dispatches.

1t is stated that John d. Rockefeller,
the standard Oil magnate is about to in
crease his mining business to large eN-
tent ON TeXada island
y big fire did considerable damage in
knightstown, Ind. One fireman was killed
by falling walls. Several others are miss
ing. The loss will be 100000,
The newspaper Patria at Manila has
been suppressed, and its editor, Senior
Utor, spuniard, placed under arrest on
the charge OF printing and publishing Sc
ditious documents.
Major Frank X. Upham, treasurer, act
ing quartermaster and commissary OF the
soldiers home at Santa Monica, Cal, in
otdntly killed himself by accident.
Ten pounds of giant powder exploded 1T
the 3O0-foot level of the Rabbits Foot
mine near Eureka, Utah, where the men
were at work, killing James Redford and
Oscar Slett. The other men were brought
to the surface alive, but almost suffocated
by gas. Paul Berk, a miner at the Grand
Central was killed by shot going OFT
While he was still in the Wine.
Dan Creedon of Australia knocked out
Pat Ready of Washington in New York
IN the eighth round OF what was to have
been a 25-round bout at l5S pounds
Admiral Sampson, in the speech made
at Morgantown during the reception to
Captain Chadwick, created a sensation and
contributed a most interesting chapter to
the unwrtten history of the Santiago
, campaign.
STATE President j. NJ. Hunter arrived at
Spring Valley, HIS, on the call of the ex.
ecutiNe committee of that district, ami
! called Il strike OF 2000 miners employed
by the Spring Valley Coal Company. The
men all struck and the supply of Goa!
from this point will drop 5000 tons. The
difficulty which brought on the strike is
alleged to have been the refusal of General
Manager Dalzell to stop union dues at che
company's office.
The sale OF the Sutro street electric road
IN San Francisco was formally consum-
| mated, after some spirited bidding il
Judge Cotfey's court the purchaser being
the Sutro Street Railway Company, anu
the price to be paid $2l5,000
DIR. klapper, editor of the Deutsoh
Agrar Correspondent of Berlin, has been
sentenced to Imprisonment in fortress
for six months on account of lese ma
je-te for criticising Emperor William.
Governor Frank Steunenberg of Idaho
has protested against the proposed re-
mo'aI of federal troops from the Occur
d'.None district
\ large number OF men have handed in
; their names to Captain +. Mel. Form OF
the RossIand, b. C., rifle company, as vol.
untecIs for the Canadian regiment now
being formed for service in South Africa.
The American bark wilma, Captain
John Slater, caught fire at Tacoma dock,
and will be total loss. She was loading
at the st. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Com
pany', mill for Australia, and had 100000
feet OF lumber below her decks at the time
of the ire. This, with the vessel which
Was uninsured, will make the total loss
$4,000.
| Joseph Henitz, the alleged mine salter.
Is lodged in the county Jail at Olympia,
! Wash, awaiting his friends to put up
! $1,000 bail before he can be set at liberty.