Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-07-08
OO|NGS THROUGH THE WEEK
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
nm Interesting Collection OF Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented I'm a
condensed FOrm-Oulled from the Tel
Eslgraph Reports.

boron, France.
The government deficit for the fiscal
year is $SS,S75,9S9.
The Dominion Day celebration at
Nelson, B. c., was a great success.
The American Edible Nut Company.
to control the peanut trade, is incor.
porated in New Jersey.
General Delaware Kemper. consul to
Annoy, China, under the first Cleveland
administration, is dead.
The Tod Sloan assault case in Lon
don has been finally settled by the pay
-ment of $1,000 to the waiter.
Mysterious Billy" Smith and Chas.
McKeever, of Philadelphia, fought a 20.
round bout to draw last week.
The pope is suffering great prostra-
tion, together with a light attack of
fever, caused by recent exertion.
Robbers entered the home of Col.
R1dpath of Spokane and stole $4,000
in checks and valuables last week.
Charles M. Murphy Of New York
rode mile on a bicycle, paced by 10.
connective, in 81 As seconds recently.
Dominion Day was celebrated on an
unusually elaborate scale by the thous-
,ands of Canadians resident in Chicago.
The United States consul at Salvador
informs the state department that yell
low fever has made it's appearance
there.
Paul Reuther, formerly of San Diego,
Cal, committed suicide in Spokane by
jumping off the Post street bridge into
the river.
A postoffice is established at Moran,
five miles southeast of Spokane, and a
special mail service from that city es-
tablished.
The navy department has awarded
the contract for the Mare Island dry
dock to the Atlantic, Gulf G. Pacific Co.
at $4,000.
The comptroller of the currency has
issued call for the statement of the
condition of national banks at the close
of business, June 30.
The annual mobilization of the
troops of the garrison and the land and
sea attacks on Halifax has commenced.
The city is in state of SIEGE
The large cotton warehouse in Brook
lyn owned by the Bush company is bad
ly damaged by fire. The loss is esti-
mated at a quarter of million.
Mary Ann Ansell of London was
found guilty of numbering her sister,
an inmate of an asylum for the insane,
by sending her poisoned cake by post.
In the chamber of deputies recently,
in Rome, the socialists and extreme
leftists recommended their obstructive
tactics and created an immense uproar.
Union City, ILL.,, named from the fact
that it is occupied by union miners,
was the scene of battle recently about
midnight and as result the town is in
ruins.
The new scale year of the Amalga-
mated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers in Pittsburg, has begun with
better record for the union than has
been made for half dozen years.
A ministerial crisis is reported i'm
minent in Norway owing to a disagree
ment between King Oscar and the cab
met regarding the appointment of
commander in chief.
A train on the Johnson City branch
of the Illinois Central bearing AZ negro
miners from Pana was shot into by a
crowd of miners at Lawder. One negro
woman was killed by bullet through
her heart.
The remarkably heavy rains recently
in Texas have done damage which will
amount to hundreds of thousands of
dollars. Railroad traffic was suspend
ed in south Texas because of the num-
erous washouts.
A reciprocity treaty with Jamaica
has been concluded at the state depart
ment at a conference between Commits
,sioner Kasson in behalf of the United
States and Mr.. Tower. the British
charge d'affaires.
John Moore of Roanoke was shot and
killed and Henry Stewart fatally
wounded during quarrel between ne
gro workmen at the Black Diamond
Steel Works in Pittsburg, Pa. Moore
was an innocent spectator.
George Barrow of Dawson was found
dead in his cabin. His throat was cut
and $4,000 in gold stolen. The miners
organized party to search for the
thief and murderer. They arrested a
German on his way to Nome City. He
confessed the crime. and the miners
hanged him without ceremony.
The Missouri supreme court en- banc
has awarded a writ of custer on infor.
nation of Attorney General Grow
against seventy-three foreign fire insur-
ance companies doing business in st.
Joseph. Mo-, for violation of the state
antitrust act of 1895. Under this de-
cision, the seventy-three companies can
not continue business in the state.