Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-04-15

The Twenty-6rst United States in.
fantry, 1400 strong, have left for Ma
nila.
John d. Sims and Leonard Hale
were drowned at Shorebar, on the
north side of Feather river, Cal, last
week.
General John w. Turner, who served
with distinction on the union side in
the civil war, is dead.
Joe Walcott and Jim Judge were to
fight 20 rounds at Toronto, but the
fight came to an end in the eleventh
round, Walcott finishing his man with
a terrible right on the point of the
jaw.
The jury in the case of A. B. Jones'
formerly cashier of the Utah National
bank, charged with shooting ex-
Banker Stout, rendered a verdict of
not guilty.
Henry Massoe and his son John,
farmers living IN the northern part of
Harlan county, KY, were ambushed
and shot dead while on their way from
a neighbours house.
The statement of the board of trade
in London for the month of March
shows a decrease of fl ,920, 400 in i'm
ports and an increase of fl, Asa 100 in
exports.
1t is announced that Great Britain
will formally occupy her new terri
tory of Kow Loon, adjoining Hong
Kong, this month
At the town hall in Liverpool, Eng,
the lord mayor presented to the cap
tain, officers and crew of the Cunard
timer Peruvian an Illuminated address
and medals in recognition of their de-
votion to duty in behalf of the mercan-
tile marine service and Lloyds'.
The wife and daughter of John Car
rington, living eight miles east of
Veedersburg, Ind, were killed by
dynamite explosion which wrecked
their house. Darlington had placed
about rs pounds of dynamite under the
stove to thaw.
At a meeting of the Tammany gen.
eral committee last week resolutions
were adopted putting the organization
on record as favoring municipal own
.ership of gas plants for all lighting
purposes.
President Mckenzie of Elmira col
lege, N. Y, has already secured $780,
900 toward a 100000 bi-centennial
fund. The celebration will take place
in September, 1903.
The stockholders of the Pan-Ameri-
can Exposition company have decided
to increase the capital stock from ST.
100000 to $2,500,000 in 100000 shares
of $40 each.
England won the international foot
ball championship by score of 2 to /.
Recently published official figures
show that in 1898 the Canadian gold
output was $13,700,000, placing Can
ada in fifth place as a gold-producing
country.
The California state fish commits
sion is about to undertake the exter-
mination of sea lions that infest the
California coast and which destroy
enormous quantities of fish.
A pitched battle was fought in the
streets of Brunson, S. c., last week
between James Preacher, Charlie
Preacher and Aren Preacher, broth
aers, on one side, and George Reid,
Mack Reid, James Reid, brothers, and
Joseph ConneIly on the other. George
Reid was killed, Mack Reid probably
fatally wounded and Joseph Connolly
seriously wounded, and James Preach
or slightly wounded.
Vice President Hobart Is slightly
better but is not yet ont of bed.
Thomas ]. Havemeyer of New York
is dead. He was a brother of Henry
o. and Theodore Havemeyer and was
formerly in partnership in the sugar
business with them.
Top men in the mines in the south
ern Illinois coal district have decided
to strike as the result of their employ
.ers' refusal to grant raise of 25 cents
a day. This will tie up at least 5000
men.
Moses w. Dodd, founder of the pub
FISHING house of Dodd, Mead G Co. is
dead.
Edward Ryan. one of the victims of
the shooting at the race track at Mem
phis, is dead.
The Jefferson day banquet of the
Monticello club has been abandoned,
owing, it Is said, to dissensions over
the invitation list, and William j.
Bryan, who was TO be the chief ora
TOR, was wired not to come.
Matthew Hancock, colored, who shot
and killed Ticket Broker George Per-
ton at Union station in 1897, was
hanged in the jail yard at st. Louis
last week in the presence of 500 peo-
pie.
Texans recently shipped their first
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