Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-12-30
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CERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRE
I Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week In This and For
eiED Lands--summartsed Froza the
latest Dispatches.


mains are temporarily laid to rest.
Gold shipments to Europe last week
probably aggregated four millions.
Ice broke on skating pond in Brus-
sells and forty children were drowned.
General Miles thinks the Transvaal
people are we'll prepared for trouble.
Carnegie has raised the wages of all
employees at the steel works at Pitts
burg
Grown Timber Inspector Wilson of
the klondike has resigned TO engage in
mining.
Proposed new classification of freight
rates, it is said, will ruin the small
shippers.
McGovern beat down and knocked
out Harry Forbes Of Chicago in the sec
ond round.
The cruiser New Orleans has ar
rived at Manila just two months out
| from New York
4 large order is said to have been
given to a continental firm for artil-
lery for Filipinos.
A plan to reft the historic old craft
Constitution and make her a training
ship is being considered.
J. H. Sanders, a well known resident
of Chicago, killed himself in Mem
phis, Tenn, hotel recently.
The large dry goods house of John
NJ. Conklin & Son of Brooklyn has
made general assignment.
Sol Smith Russell will retire from
the stage for year or more at the con-
clusion of his interrupted engagement
at Chicago.
| Commission men and fruit dealers
of New York report a scarcity of ban
anas for the holiday trade almost with
! out precedent
Edward Worstell, laborer, at Lewis
ton. Idaho, died from the effects of eX-
posture when for q hours the unfor-
tunate man lay pinioned beneath an
overturned wagon.
A wreck on the New Jersey Central
railroad at Highbridge, N. j.. recently
resulted in one death and the injury
of five persons.
| Captain B. ". Bjornsted, formerly Of
! the Thirteenth Minnesota volunteers
has been appointed captain of the
! Forty-second infantry
The urgent deficiency appropriation
/ bill is now practically made up. The
! total will amount to ST. 600 600 Of this
over $4,000, 600 is asked for war and
over 100000 for navy department
1t is officially announced that Cen
cral Young reports that he believes that
the American prisoners, including
Lieutenant Gilmore, are now in the
hands of the United States troops.
! President Mckinley has informed
/ Senator Perkins Of California that he
would accompany the Ohio delegation
to San Francisco next fall to witness
the launching OF the new battleship
Ohio.
Dwight Moody is dead The famous
evangelist passed away at his home.
Over a month ago he was stricken with
heart trouble at revival meeting in
Kansas City and be never fully recov-
cred from the shock.
! A chunk of Italy recently slid into
the sea and with ii went hotels, monas-
terry and villas, causing a big loss of
! life, also four vessels were crushed un.
der the huge earthen mass. 1t hap
pened at Amali, popular tourist resort
on the gulf OF Salerno.
The duke of Westminster is dead.
! The duke was the largest individual
owner of realty in London, and his rent
roll ran into tens of thousands of
pounds a year. His fortune has been
estimated at amounts ranging from
800 ,000,0 900 to $250.00000O.
Six disguised governors of western
states and territories met at Washing
| ton, d. c. They were Steunenberg of
Idaho, Brady of Alaska, Shaw of Iowa,
Murphy of Arizona, Otero of New Mex
leo. and Barnes of Oklahoma. They
were to take part IL 4 celebration that
was postponed.
w. w. Simpson and A. W. Lager
| quist of the Christian and Missionary
Alliance of New York arrived yester-
! day on the Idsuni Maru from Thibet.
Before leaving there in August last
Mr.. Simpson said the mission at Paon-
gan was completely demolished by arm
ed natives headed by Buddhist priests
While the school girls Of St. Francis
Parochial school, Seventeenth and Vine
streets, Quincy, Ill, were rehearsing
for an entertainment TO be given
Christmas one of their dresses caught
fire on gas jet and 10 minutes later
six burned to death, two died an hour
later and three others died before mid
night Half dozen others were burn.
ed more or less seriously.
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