Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-12
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TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE
n Complete Review of the Events for
the Past Week In This and Foiei On
Lands-summArized FROM the latest
Dispatches.

England on July s to compete with thu
Oxford-Cambridge team have returned
President Mckinley has purchased
the famous Mckinley cottage" at tn,
corner of North Market street anC
Louis avenue.
H. Victor Newcomb, formerly a sue
cessful business man of Louisville, Ky.
was declared insane on the application
of his wife and son.
Dunsmuir Cal, was the scene of 6
double tragedy when Henry Brown, 6
mill sawyer, shot his wife and ther
himself, both expiring Immediately.
A. Sutherland, a merchant, was shot
and killed in Ardmore, /. T., by E. w
Fairman, and A. Underhill, bystand
er, was seriously wounded by stray
bullet.
David Dalton, a well known swim
ming instructor of New York, who has
been stopping at Far Rockaway was
drowned near Hog island near Rocka-
way Sunday.
At East Bernstadt, KY, Clyde
Thompson. aged IS, son of Deputy Unit
ed States Marshal George Thompson,
was shot and fatally injured by young
man named Holt.
A special received from Terrazas,
Chihuahua, Mexico, which is located
near the scene of the Yaqui uprising.
is to the effect that the Indians are ar
ranging for prolonged war.
The compositors and stereotypers Of
the New York Sun, 100 in number, are
on a strike. The press and composing
rooms were in darkness, but the editor
ial rooms presented their usual appear
Sance.
Colonel J. B. Sanborn of the First
regiment of the Illinois National Guard
has invited the Tenth Pennsylvania
regiment on behalf of the Chicago regi-
ment of the Illinois National Guard to
stop in Chicago on August 80.
Fire entailing loss of about $780,
900 was discovered in the works of the
Glens Falls, N. Y, Portland Cement
Company. The buildings, which we're
of wood, burned like finder and in an
hour the entire plant was in ruins.
A horrible murder was committed in
Washington, d. c., Sunday. The MUIR
derer was Benjamin SHELL special ex-
aminer in the pension Office. His vic
tim was Liza Weissenberger, a girl IL
years old, who had been employed in
his household until three months ago.
Garfield, Wash. has suffered the
worst con6agration in its history Sun
day, when six buildings in the center
of the business portion were reduced
TO a pile of debris, together with nearly
all the contents. The loss is 1880,
with but $1,000 insurance on buildings.
Chief Wilkie of the secret service
says that there are great number of
counterfeiters in the Philippine ISL
ands. They are SO numerous and sue
cessful that it will soon be necessary
TO make provision for secret service
agents in the islands.
DR.. Mcintyre of Santa Rosa, Cal,
retired physician, man of middle age,
hanged himself Sunday in barn on
his ranch near Windsor. He was we'll
known throughout the county, was
prosperous and apparently healthy. and
no known cause existed for his rash
act.
The supreme court martial in Madrid
before which Generals Toral and Par
Ella have been on trial charged with sur
rendering Santiago to the American
forces without having exhausted all
means of defense has acquitted both
officers. on the ground that they acted
upon the orders of their superiors and
only surrendered when it was impos-
Sible to do otherwise
During a recent severe thunder
storm in Paris the lightning conductor
on the Eiffel tower was struck 10 times
thunder bolt set fire to the Jeannot
factory the Ceinture railway was flood
ed, many buildings were slightly in.
lured and thousands of fire trees were
DESTROYED. The day had been terribly
not, the temperature registering 104
degrees. Many sunstrokes were report
ed, some of them fatal.
1t is stated that the Kansas corn cror
will be 1858 with prospects for tn,
greatest yield ever known in the his
tory Of the state. The acreage of corr
is S.234,560 and the estimated yielC
per acre Al bushels, which would Civ,
the astonishing total of $4,000 .00u
bushels. or three times the WELD of las
year and almost 100,OOO.O00 create
than the banner year of 1889.
1t is understood that the plan of or
erations for the fall campaign in tn
Philippines contemplates a division @
the islands into several military d,
partments and General Lawton wi
have cnmrnand In whinh Abn nn..o :.