Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-10-07
DO|NGS THROUGH THE week
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
a Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week Ina This and Foreign
Landa-Summa rixed From the Lat
est Dispatches.


a story of considerable interest which
runs back for period of Is years. Ii
May, 1889, and for years previous
Hinckley was the paying teller of the
West side bank in New York city. Or
May IA, 1884, Hinckley performed his
duties as usual and on that night he
disappeared and with him $4,000 OF
the funds of the bank. 1t was all in
the shape of cash. Nothing was known
of his whereabouts by the bank man
agement until very recently.
The most destructive fire in the his
tory of Grants Pass occurred last
week. The strong breeze from the
west added greatly to the fury of the
flames, which spread in three direc-
tions in an incredibly short time.
The Colombian legation at Washing
ton has received an official cablegram
from Bogota, announcing that General
Julio Rengffo, until recently the Co
lombian representative in Washington
and one of the best known South Amer
lean diplomatists, had been drowned
in the Magdalena river.
The Transvaal government has is
sued O notice of the measures to be
observed in the event of war. The
mines may continue working, reason
able protection being afforded. The
liquor traffic is prohibited and special
police will maintain order. The Rand
gold produced during the war is to be
deposited with the government, who
will mint therefrom sufficient to pay
its working expenses. The rest Will
be returned after the war.
The U. S. transport Rio Janeiro has
arrived at Portland from San Fran"
cisco and it is understood she will sail
next week for Manila with two battal-
ions of the Thirty-fifth infantry. The
steamship Lennox was turned over to
the United States government today.
The Lennox will carry cargo Of mules
and supplies for the army in the Phil
ippInes.
Marquis De Gallifet, the minister of
war, having written to the Figaro, as
serting that he had never written to
the Due d'Orleans since the end of
1898, when he declined the latter's in
vitation to shoot at Woodnorton.
George Edwin MacLean was recently
Il lugurated president of the State uni
versity of Iowa with impressive cere-
monies in which a number of educators
and other public men OF wide promi-
nence participated.
Walter Clyatt, plumber, aged 81,
living at Albina, Ore, shot and killed
himself at 1880 o'clock this morning.
Before taking his life he shot his wife
in the back of the head. Jealousy is
to have been the cause of the
deed.
The additional Priest Lake forest re-
ward to the Kootenai river and to the
line of the Great Northern railway.
This takes in much meadow land and
many we'll cultivated ranches.
The Great Northern has issued the
following circular regarding rates for
the returning volunteers: Account
the return of the Washington volun-
teers and the celebration to be held in
Seattle, we will make a rate OF one fare
Tor the round trip from all stations
on the Great Northern Railway in the
state of Washington. Tickets to be on
sale at Wenatchee and all stations west
thereof one day before the celebration,
and at all stations east Of Wenatchee
two days before. The final limit of
tickets to be two days after the cele-
bration."
mo greater insult was ever offered
to the comrades of the Grand Army of
the Republic than the action of the
Dewey Day committee in New York,
when 1000 white-haired old soldiers
were not allowed a place of honor in
the great parade" This was the state.
ment of Albert D. Shaw, commander
in-chief of the G. A. R., who spent ten
minutes in Kansas City on his way to
Topeka, where he went to address a
reunion of the veterans.
The fiercest September blizzard with
in the memory of the oldest inhabitant
of the Red River valley is now raging
Snow is falling, driven by a severe
southwest wind. Thousands of acres
of wheat are still in shock in the north
err part of the state.
Judge Thayer, OF the United States
court OF appeals for Utah, has handed
down decision affirming the decision
by the United States court for the dis
trict of Utah, in the case of the United
States against James H. Bacon. TIL,
decision of Judge Thayer means {
term il prison OF seven years for Ba
con. who was convicted of making falls,
reports of the condition of his bank
and no is ordered to surrender himsel
to the United States marshal for Utah
The annual convention of the Pre-