Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-09-30

ClS WdACOul, promoter OF the wire
less telegraphy, has arrived in New
York.
Abner Mckinley, brother of Presi-
dent Mckinley, has arrived in San
Francisco.
1t is said that an Italian steamship
company will establish line to the
,coas. of Chilli.
Dr. George A. Hendricks. professor
of anatomy of the University of Min
nesota, is dead.
President Mckinley will probably
make a few speeches in Ohio during the
present campaign.
The seventy-first annual meeting of
the Odd Fellows grand sovereign has
adjourned sine die.
The steamer Barbara Boskowitz sank
in the Skeena river carrying down with
her 600 cases of salmon.
The government issued a decree clos
ing Colombian ports to ships having
the bubonic plague on board, arriving
from infected ports
The plant and contents of the Ameri-
can Tin Plate company was almost to-
tally destroyed by fire at Atlanta Ind,
loss $150,0OO
Almost a thousand more miners have
joined the strike in Alabama But two
.collieries in the New river district are
now in operation.
There has been a recrudescence Of
the bubonic plague at Alexandria. Two
cases have been officially reported, one
of which has proved fatal.
The following presidential postmas.
ters have been appointed: Idaho-F. S.
Stevens, Blackfoot. Washington
George w. France, Hoquiam.
Owing to increased use of it in bust
ness money is tighter in New York
and it is said that arrangements are
being made to import gold from Eu-
rope.
Barrett Farnum & Co, of Chicago,
have failed. Notice was posted up on
change requesting that all trades with
this firm be closed The house was
understood to be heavily short on
wheat.
Dances in Algiers the government has
established military patrols, practical.
ly amounting to proclamation of mar.
'tial law.
The Lenox Athletic club of New York
has secured the 25-round bout between
Terry McGovern and George Dixon for
which the club will hang up a purse
of $4,000.
Between 5000 and 1000 marine engi-
neers on the great lakes will probably
go on a strike unless the Lake Car
riers' Association grants a 12Ac ad-
vance in wages.
The entire property of the Northern
Pacific Trading & Packing Company at
klawawack on Prince of Waldo island,
about 125 miles from Wrangel, was de-
stroyed by fire.
Chicago Bohemians are incensed oy-
,er the circulars sent out by the Bohe-
uian Brotherhood of America arralgn-
ing their societies on the charge of en-
scouraging suicide.
The United States transport Valen-
cia, having on board those companies
of the First Montana regimen, U. S. v,
not brought by the Zealandia, have ar
rived in San Francisco.
The workmen of Havana held mass
meeting recently at which about 5000
were present Infiammatory speeches
were made in favor of general strike
to secure an eight-hour day.
The large Dungeness coal mines IN
West Virginia which have been idle
for two years, will resume Immediately.
The general strike in the new river
field has brought this about.
O. D. Steen, travelling salesman for
an Arkansas City, Kan, firm and
Frank E. Coe, representing a Denver
house, were held up" near Clayton, y.
T, by a highwayman and robbed OF
81 300.
The Holland Society, of New York,
at its next meeting, October 10th, VIII
take up the question of the trouble be-
tween Great Britain and the Transyaal
and will adopt resolutions of sympathy
with the Beers.
Hobart, vice president, IS far from
we'll. He may be compelled to retire
from the senate. Suffers from kidney
trouble, not acute, but of a form requlr-
ing absolute rest for long time. he
is now confined to the house.
Almonds are cornered and are being
sold closely in the hands OF the comol-
nation controlling the market The
combination in control Of the market
is said to include two prominent houses
in Chicago and firm in California.
William Bonny, who accompanied
Henry NJ. Stanley, the African explorer,
in 1887, in the expedition for the relief
of Emin Pasha and who subsequently
received the gold medal of the Royal
Geographical Society at the hands or