Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1899-11-04
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRE.
Complete Review OF the Events for
the Past Week In This and FOr-
eign Understandable From the
Latest Dispatches.


pleted in Hoquiam this year.
John Goodby, negro, was lynched
at Reagan's mill, about six miles from
Macon, Ga.
A carload of express packages valued
at $4,000 was burned near Holton, ILL.,,
on the Santa Fe road.
game of football has been arranged
between the Universities of California
and Oregon, to be played at Berkeley,
Cal, on November Is.
Rev. G. E. Morrison was hanged at
Vernon, Texas, for wife murder. He
met his death resignedly
Miss Helen Gould has given $4,000 to
the League for Social Service, to be
used in a crusade against Mormonism.
Joe Choynski defeated Steve ODon-
nell in the fifth round of what was to
have been a six-round bout in Chicago.
AS a result of a quarrel with her
lover, William Oliver, Verda Smith of
Spokane lies dying from carbolic acid
poisoning in Rossland, B. G.
Joe Macdonald, provincial land regis
trar committed suicide in Kamloops,
D. Nb NY S1OOIlu6 ulLuSCll III IuS uSdu.
No cause can be assigned for the act.
The United States transport Mis-
souri,, with large quantity of medical
supplies and a number of nurses, has
arrived at Port Said en- route to Man.
liza.
The first bloody fight of the coal min.
ers' strike which was declared seven
weeks ago occurred at Decatur, III. Two
union miners were shot, one probably
fatal.
A giant brass combine is being form
ed which, it is stated, will comprise all
the plants in the Naugatuck valley,
Conn. The main Office will be in New
York.
The Spokane exposition was visited
by $4,000 people. The total receipts
were $31 900, and expenses $4,000, leav-
ing $4,000 to be made up by the guar
antors
Current rumors in Berlin are to the
effect that the nineteen Russian men-of-
war in the Pacific will soon be rein
forced by six ships from the eastern
squadron.
The canal commission in Nicaragua
is actively and successfully engaged in
the Work of Strengthening the proposed
route and otherwise lessening the cost
of constructing the waterways.
Gen. Shafter has provided headquar-
tiers in the army cOmmissary building
at San Francisco for the committee of
the Red Cross society now engaged in
collecting books for a free library to
be established in Manila for the use of
American soldiers.
The story that Mr.. Wildman is to be
removed from the post of United States
consul general at Hong Kong and re-
placed by Edward Bedloe, late consul
at Canton, is emphatically denied at
the state department.
A special to the Post-Dispatch from
Austin, Tex, says: Samuel Watrous,
one of the murderers of G. w. Engberg
and his wife, was hanged in the Jail
yard here today. Watrous said he was
going to heaven. James Davidson, con-
victed of the same crime, will be hang
ed Nov. "a.
A head-end collision of freight trains
occurred on the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road five miles east of Cambridge,
wrecking both engines and IA cars. En-
gineer Carney remained at his post
and was killed. Three tramps, who
were stealing ride, were killed. The
accident was caused by Engineer Car
ney's failure to take siding.
1t is stated that the organization of the
Pacific Coast Biscuit Company is an as
sured fact
Col. Wholley of the First Washington
volunteers has been appointed major in
the Forty-frst reg ment.
Joseph Kane and William Holey were
seriously hurt by the premature explosion
of a blast in the LIE Roi mine at ROssland
on Tuesday.
Gov. Rogers of Washington has an
nounced that the day of the arrival of the
First Washington volunteers in the state
will be declared a legal holiday.
Within the limits of the city of Pendle-
ton, Ore, one man, unaided except by
pistol, held up six persons in bunch,
robbed them, and escaped in the dark
ness.
Fire in the Webster House, small ho-
tel on St. James street, Montreal, caused
the death of three persons, the probably
fatal injury of fourth, while half dozen
others sustained minor injuries.
Gus McArdle, bartender in Berry
James joint in Weir City, Kan, was killed,
and in less than two hours his supposed
murderer, George Wells, a negro miner
from Scammon, was swinging to a tele-
phone pole.
After a cruise in Alaskan waters as far
north as Point Barrow, the United States
revenue cutter bear, Capt. Jarvis, has re-
turned to Seattle. She had sixty-odd sick