Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-03-18
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clans say he shows great weakness, which
is rather alarming to his encourage.
According to a dispatch from Sydney,
n, S. w, no less than one hundred per.
sons persisted in hurricane that swept
Queensland.
A six-story tenement at Bayard st.
was destroyed last week in New York.
The Marysville wooden mill, in Cal,
was almost destroyed by fire, the loss
being placed at $l50,0O0.
a dispatch from Allahabad, India,
says it is reported from Yarkan, Chinese
Turkestan, that large force of Russian
troops has arrived at the Russian post
Fort Murghabi, on the Murhabi river.
The report that the Italians have seiz-
ed San Mum, province of Che kiang,
which the Italian minister, Signor Mar
tino has demanded as naval base and
coaling station, is officially declared I'M
founded.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Frederick der Crosse, Captain Mehl,
which arrived at Bremen on March 9Th,
is aground off Schulau in the river Elbe.
Hon. J. +. Tillman, register of the
treasury, is dead.
Ex-State Senator j. {. Hour, of Wash,
is dead.
The Chicago has been detached from
the squadron of Rear Admiral Sampson
and has sailed from Havana to Hampton
Roads, under Admiral Howison.
Thomas Il. Donaldson, the diver, who
was injured in diving into tank at Mad
ison Square Wednesday, is dead.
Nine. Sehumann Heink, the tamous
contralto singer is critically i'll with cry
sipelas in New York.
Mr.. Kipling is still improving. Una
bic to keep Mr.. Kipling i'll ignorance of
his favoIite daughter Joeephine's death,
the news was broken to him tonight by
DIR. Durham. The blow was heavy
one, but the father bore up bravely.
The Daily Telegraph OF London, ex.
presses its Intense satisfaction ut the un-
wonted scene OF review OF American
troops at La Valetta, island OF Malta,
on Thursday, by Lieutenant General Sir
Francis Grenfell, governor OF Malta
Sherman L. Day a. special master has
sold under foreclosure at auction all the
lands granted the Union Pacific Railroad
Company in Wyoming
General Manager Parker OF the Chica-
GO Rock Island & Pacific railroad, has
announced that the three thousand SEC
ton hands and other employees of the
comPany's roadway i'll his department,
were to be given an immediate advance
OF IRON five to ten per cent in wages.
Lon. Edwards, OF Los Angles, who shot
and killed his mining partner, Charles !.
Evans, at their cabin west of Ashland
last week, will have to answer to a charge
OF murder which has been filed against
him by District Attorney Watson.
The U. S. transport, Conemaugh, has
sailed for Manila with 300 mules.
Detective Steele has arrived with vii
liam 0keefe who over five years ago
shot two men here i'll saloon and after
being arrested, jumped his bond He was
captured in Seattle. Wash,
North of England coal merchants are
alarmed at the steady growth OF the
American coal trade to European ports
that formerly took English coal.
Secretary Long has directed a circular
letter to the commanding officers OF all
navy yards and stations reciting the
passage by Congress OF resolution pro
'iding for the payment of 80 per cent ad.
ditional for all work in those wards and
stations in excess of eight hours per dav
performed by laborers.
In a conflict recently between the Span
ish soldiery and number of mutineous
convicts at Santonia, sixteen miles east
OF Santander, the site OF an important
arsenal, and of several military maya.
zines, one convict was killed and several
wounded
Orders have been received bv CAPTAIN
Robinson, OF the United States Quarter.
masters department, to purchase 1900
tons of hay, oats and bran and 100000
feet of assorted lumber for direct ship
ment to Manila. The supplies will bc
carried on the ship Marion Chilcott, now
at Seattle
DIR. Chas. f. hurry, son of DIR. K. J.
Murry, one OF the best known and high
ly respected residents OF Sewickley, Pa.
shot and instantly killed John Jennings
lcolored), his fathers butt Ell, without
cause.
Captain Thomas w. Shields. a well
known river man and lieutenant under
General Price, in the Confederate army.
is dead
-Four men have been arrested in Chi.
cago charged with demanding $500 black.
mail from Frank II. Cooper OF Siegel,
Cooper & Go,
In a head-on collision between two
freight trains near Bradley's Station, on
the Highland division of the New York,
New Haven & Hartford railroad, Engi-