Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-08-26
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
A Complete Review of the Events FOR
the Past Week in This and Foreign
Lands-summarized From the Latest
Dispatches.


Australia has passed bill enfranchis
ing women.
Mrs. Ada Shaver, of Spokane, aget
SO years, threw herself into Hangmal
creek and was drowned.
Major Russell Harrison, inspector
general, is critically i'll with yellow
fever at Santiago de Cuba.
Five lives were lost Sunday by The
capsizing off Pointe Au Barque, Mich,
of the schooner Hunter Savidge.
Paris was the scene of the most ser
ious disturbance Sunday, recalling
some of the aspects of the commune.
The transport Garonne has sailed fol-
Manila from Seattle. She had 40C
horses belonging to the Third cavalry
on board.
Preparations continue actively in the
matter of arranging for the speedy
transportation of the troops to the
Philippines.
Five hundred tons of supplies for
Puerto Rican sufferers were placed on
board the transport Panther at Phila-
delphia last Sunday.
Sir Thomas Lipton's yacht Sham
rock, challenger for Americas cup has
reached New York port, accompanied
by her tender, the steam yacht Erin.
An explosion of oil in the five-story
brick building a. 1929 Dearborn street,
Chicago, gave the fire department the
hardest fight it has had in three
months.
Frank w. Funk, accused of the muir
der of William Brooks at Washington
D. c., was captured at Columbia, Mo-
A strict blockade has been establish
ed in the Rue de Chabron and the au-
thorities have begun a regular siege of
the building in which M. Guerin and
his anti-Semite colleagues have en-
trenched themselves.
General MERCER, who was minister
of war when Captain Dreyfus was con-
demned, and who in the present trial
is the virtual prosecutor, says the cap
tain will be convicted.
A head-on collision between two troll
ley cars occurred on the Norristown,
Chestnut Hill & Rockborough railway
in Plymouth township. Thirty persons
were injured, three fatally.
James P. Young, of Chicago, a pri-
vate in Company D, Third infantry
volunteers, was killed by a freight
train at Evanston while on his way to
Fort Sheridan to report after a days
absence.
Jack Mccormack of Philadelphia
knocked out kid" Mccoy in the first
round at Chicago. The bout was to
have been for six rounds, and it was
generally thought Mccormack stood no
show at all.
An incendiary fire destroyed an en-
tire block in the heart of Sydney, Mo,
inflicting a loss of not less than $40,-
900, with no insurance. 1t was with
great difficulty that the rest of the
town was saved.
Intelligence has been received from
the French Soudan, indicating that
Lieutenant Klopp and Lieutenant
Mounier, who were sent to take COM
mand of column of troops there have
both been assassinated.
Two of the boilers at the Pittsburg
Vitrifed Brick Works at Pittsburg.
Kas., exploded and the engineer, fire
man and yardman were instantly
killed and four other employees were in
jured. The engine and boiler houses
were demolished.
General Merritt says: $50 far as
know there will be no immediate
change in military commanders in The
Philippines. General Otis, whom I re
gard as one of the most capable and eff
cient officers in the service, will con
tinue in charge of the American forces
One of Henry ]. Baumgartner's HON
ing birds of Milwaukee, Wis, won tn
$50 mile race under the auspices o
Milwaukee district, National Fedora
ton of American Homing Pigeon Far
ciers, from Winona, Ill., to that city
The bird not only defeated field o
I'll contestants but broke the Unite
States record for that distance. TIL
winners fight was made at the rate @
1,651.19 yards a minute.
Passengers of the steamer City of TT
peka, which have arrived from Skaf
way, Alaska, bring news of the frs
legal execution in the Klondike.
triple hanging occurred at Dawso
August 4. The parties hanged wer
two Indians, Dawson Nantuck and Jir
Nantuck and one white man. Edwar
Henderson. Henderson was convicte
of numbering his partner named Pete
son.
Admiral Dewey is in excellent healtl
He will stay at Nice for some time.
Martial law has been proclaimed at HI