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

rian Brewery at Wilmington, Del, and
blew open the safe, securing Sl406.
A seat on the stock exchange in N. Y.
was sold for $4,000, the highest sum ever
paid.
President Mckinley proposes to make a
tour of the west during his coming sum
mer vacation.
An attempt is being made to effect a
combination of the various glue compan-
les in the country.
Fully $4,000 visitors and Confederate
veterans attended the annual reunion OF
the Confederate Veterans Society at
Charleston, S. C.
The insurgents have assassinated Du-
marais, Frenchman who entered their
lines for the purpose of negotiating for the
release of the Spanish prisoners.
The big five-story warehouse of the
Newly Transfer & Storage Company,
Kansas City, Mo-, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday. Loss, over 100000.
The director of the Egyptian museum
has discovered the mummy of Thothmes
of the eighteenth dynasty, B. c., 1888,
and three other mummies in gilt collins at
Cairo
ALI. Stanford, steeple chase jockey,
and A Nichols, horse trainer and owner,
have been banished from the turf for life
by the board of stewards of the Pacific
Coast Jockey Club.
Andrew Carnegie offers to contribute
the last $25000O which Chamberlain Is
trying to raise for the university of Biz
mingham, provided the scientific school
be made the principal department in the
institution.
Under decision given by Judge But
Ter in the district court depositors of the
Peoples Savings bank, which failed in
1898, will recover all the money they had
on deposit at the time of the banks fail
ure The stockholders will have to pay it.
Montevideo announces the arrival
there of the cruiser Newark.
A half block of business houses were
destroyed by fire at Palestine, Tex, re-
Gently.
Edward Smith, colored, was hanged in
the district jail at Washington He re-
fused to the last to make any confession.
Claude Branton of Eugene, Or, was
hanged for the murder of John Linn.
Branton walked upon the scatfold UNI
assisted.
'Kid" Mccoy has forwarded to Tom
my Ryan a formal challenge to fight i'll
Denver for the middleweight champion
ship of the world.
Forty mules are to be sent to the Fiji
islands from San Francisco on the next
outgoing steamer. They are to be used
on large sugar plantation.
The Hondo coal mine, 100 miles south
of Eagle Pass, Tex, in Mexico, was Wis
tied Tuesday by a terrific tornado deal
ing death and destruction in its path.
Samuel L. Findley, the absconding tax
collector of San Luis Obispo county, CAL
ifornia, has waived extradition proceed
ings at Lima, Peru, and declares that he
will return to California voluntarily.
Firemen at work in the ruins of the
American Company's plant at the foot
of Cross street, Baltimore, which was de-
stroyed by fire, discovered the body of
Robert F. Hudson, an employee of the
company.
The defenses of San Francisco harbor
are rapidly being strengthened. The
work under way now is the mounting
of the second battery of 10 mortars on
the bluffs above and back of old Fort
Winfield Scott Eight huge pieces OF ord
nance are already in position and the
others are being mounted by men from
the Third artillery.
Vice President Hobart is getting
stronger daily.
The grain shovelers have returned to
work at Buffalo, N. Y.
Sir Henry Irving is seriously i'll with
an affection of the throat.
The Allan Line steamship Gallia
went ashore recently in Lake ST. Peter.
The total number of dead as a result
of the recent wreck near Reading, Pa,
is so.
Oliver Moody Hidden, of Vancouver,
B. c., dropped dead in San Jose, CAL,
Sunday.
The report of an impending issue of
bonds in the United States is without
foundation.
King Humbert has approved the Sc
lections for the reconstructed cabinet
made by General Pellieux.
The sixth annual 100-mile relay BIZ
cycle race around San Francisco bay,
was won by the Olympic club.
Company L, Twenty-fourth Infantry
colored, from Vancouver barracks, will
leave for Alaska on the 18th inst
A consolidated traction car struck
and horribly mangled Katie Three, a
Polish child, in Pittsburg Sundey
The flooded area of the Leadville
basin. in Colorado, is now practically
unwatered. The mines will resume
work after ten years rest.
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