Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-04-08

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disturbance.
President Loubet was a spectator at
the Auteuil races at Paris and was
warmly received by the people.
A powder car belonging to Great
Northern freight train blew up at Ev.
erett, Wash, last week, killing one
tramp and wounding two others who
were riding in an adjoining car. In
addition to the powder car two cars
containing mixed freight were burned.
Workmen digging in the ruins of the
Windsor hotel in New York last week
found the bodies of two men nearly in
tact. One was practically identified
as that of Harry w, Loree, a mail
clerk. The identity of the other is I'M
known.
Judge Silas u. Pinney, of Madison,
Wis, is dead He was a member of
the state supreme bench for seven
years.
The steamer Tartar has arrived at
Victoria, b. c., from the Orient after
stormy voyage She brings news of
the massacre of 90 farmers by aborig-
ines at Byorsetsu, Japan. Germany
is said to be concentrating a fleet at
Annoy with the evident intention of
Selling Futsien.
The Chilena bark Eliza, that went
ashore while on her way from Puget
sound to Shanghai with a load of lum-
Der, was to be sold at auction after the
Nippon Maru left Hong Kong.
Grant G. GIllett, the Kansas plunger
who escaped to Mexico after abscond-
ing with "a cattlemen's money, claims
TO have made contract with a Chica-
go stockman named Burke to look af-
ter his cattle interests in Peru. Soon
after his arrival in Mexico, Gillette
purchased hotel at Chihuahua, which
he is said to have just sold at loss.
The pulpit supply committee of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in
New York decided to recommend that
Rev. Alex Connell be called as pastor
of the church to succeed the late Dr.
John Hall
a furious Easter snow storm ragged
in South Dakota all day, about six
inches having fallen.
According to a dispatch from Hong
Kong serious disturbances have re
Gently occurred in the vicinity of Can
ton and a British torpedo boat has
been sent to protect British interests.
The destroyer will soon be followed by
other vessels carrying troops.
A deed transferring the interests of
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company to the Minneapolis st.
Louis company was filed in the office
of the secretary of state last week. The
| amount of the transfer was over ST.
| 100000.
The first shipment of cherries of the
season which has been made was a
box from the ranch of j. II. Ough, go
ing to Chicago. This promises to be a
! record-breaking year for apricots
which, with favorable weather, will be
| in the market by the middle of April
| 1t is announced that Count de Villa
GonzalO, former Spanish ambassador
to Russia, has been appointed Spanish
ambassador to Great Britain.
Contracts have been let for the ship.
ment over the Cheyenne & Northern
| of l 800 cars of southern cattle to the
ranges of northern Wyoming and
southern Montana
Oscar Strauss, United States min.
lister, had an audience with the sultan
last week at Constantinople. The in.
terview, which was protracted, was of
the most cordial character.
Archbishop Tovar, with the bishops
of Ballon, Arequipa, Puirredeon, Puno,
Falconio, Suillinao, Rico and Chacha.
poyas, have left New York to attend
the council at Rome
The London and Southwestern Rail
way company's steamer Southwester,'
which was sent to search for the bodies
of victims of the wrecked steamer
Stella, went ashore last week.
Baroness Hirsch, widow of the late
Baron Hirsch, the Hebrew philan-
thropist, is dead. The baroness leaves
several million pounds sterling, chiefly
bequeathed to charities.
The naval store ship Celtic has
reached Manila.
1t has been decided that Admiral
Howison's flagship Chicago will pro-
coed to the South Atlantic station via
the Mediterranean and Red sea and
thence around Cape of Good Hope,
touching all the principal ports.
Judge William Cowles James. of
Council Bluffs, Ia, is dead, aged 50
years, of heart failure
1t was reiterated by two members of
the cabinet that no consideration will
be paid to any proposition for the Gu
ban army outside the 100000 fund
now awaiting their acceptance,
The schooner Cleaner from Parres-
boro. N. s., for st. John. N. B.. laden