Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-01-28
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERsE TRICKS FROM THE WIRE
Complete Review OF the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foreign
Lands-Sumnarized From the Latest
Dispatches.

Ihe commissioner of internal revenue
has decided that legacies paid out of the
proceeds of real estate, directed to be sold
Tor the purpose, are not subject to the tax
upon legacies arising from personal prop
erty. In case the debts and claims against
the estate exceed the appraised or clear
value OF the personal property, he says,
there can be legacy tax.
The condition of Colonel James A. Sex
ton shows no material change.
james w. Parker of Atchison Kas.,
died of heart trouble He was a pioneer
stage operator and mail contractor. In
1866 he operated some of the largest mail
routes in the country, particularly in the
west, being one of the owners of the old
California & Oregon Stage Companyfi OPP
Grating between San Francisco and Port
Land.
The executive committee of the Long
fellow Memorial Association, formed for
the purpose of erecting statue of the
poet in Washington has issued an appeal
to the public for subscriptions to accom-
plish this purpose. The committee esti-
mates that $4,000 will be needed to pro-
cure a statue worthy of the poet and the
site The smallest contributions will be
welcomed.
a telegram reviewed at Madrid from
Manila says that the insurgent congress at
MaloloS has authorized the release of all
civil prisoners and will shortly cause to
be liberated the military prisoners held by
the revolutionists.
The Spanish steamer Salustregui from
Havana, has arrived at Cadz with re-
patriated Spanish troops on board
The army transport Port Victor has ar
rived at Fort Monroe, from Puerto Rico
with 1873 sick soldiers
The British cruiser Royalist has been
dispatched to Samoa, following the Tau
ranga, which left last week.
The Seattle baseball team took the final
game of the coast championship series
from the Athletics by score of to g.
The northerners having won four out of
seven games will now call themselves the
champions of all the western coast.
The American Zinc Company, with a
capital of $5,000,000, has been organized
with j. o. Rogers of Toledo, Ohio, as the
leading spirit Mr.. Rogers has, it is re-
ported, interested Ex-Governor Flower
Daniel O'Day and others of the Standard
Oil Company. All the leading zinc man
ufacturers are in the deal.
Miss Jennie Moore, daughter of the late
1. c. Moore, and a prominent society
belle of San Francisco, died at the family
residence on Cough street from the effects
of fire.
The Washington government has mott
flea Spain O its endeavor to secure the re-
lease of Spanish prisoners in the Philip
pines.
Charles Frohman secured the Lyric the
alter in New York for term of five years.
This is the fifth New York theater ac-
quired by Frohman.
A steamer just arrived at Genoa from
Buenos Ayres reports that on January IA
peasant woman named Ferrarini, in fit
of insanity, threw her ,Aree little sons
into the sea and then leapcd
overheard. All four were drowned. Two
days later her husband and daughter
jumped into the sea and were lost. The
remaining son, who has made fortune in
La Plata, landed at Genoa.
Archbishop Ireland, after visit to
Rome, will go to London to consult with
the French bishops on the subject of
Heckerism. The bishop of Orleans has
invited the distinguished American eccle-
siastic to preside over The fetes in honor of
Joan dare.
In the chamber of deputies at Paris NJ.
Grousoet introduced the question of sub
marine boats The deputy pointed out the
Importance of this matter, which he al
legged would produce revolution in naval
tactics
Mrs. Rose Proctor of Los Angeles has
sued the Southern Pacific for $4,000 dam
ages. She purchased a return trip ticket
from kentucky to Los Angeles and upon
attempting to return was, according to
her allegation, put off the train and her
ticket confscated.
The federal council of Berlin has agreed
upon the imperial bank bill, which raises
the capital of the Imperial bank from
l20,OOO,OOO marks to l50,000,000 marks,
and increases the tax on free paper money
from 279,00O,OOO marks to 4O0,0OO,0O0
marks.
DR.. Guy Lewis Edie, U. S. A.. and Miss
Elizabeth Clementine Kip were married
in San Francisco.
1t is not unlikely that the National
Association of Amateur Oarsmen in New
York may send this years winning eight
Dared crew to the Paris exposition to COM
pete in the international regatta there
next year.
A dispatch from Bucharest, Roumania,
says that a pack of wolves, emboldened
by hunger, recently attacked monastery
at Lopelaun, in the Moldavian mountains,
and killed a friar