Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-10-13
THE TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events of
the Past Week-In This and For
eign Lands-Tnken From the
Latest Dispatches.

At Skagway J. Soloman of 1888 SUIT
ter street, San Francisco, was acct
dentally burned to death.
Roosevelt has been worked almost
beyond powers of endurance and his
voice is failing him. He may cancel
few dates.
The navy department has detached
the island of Guam from the Asiatic
station, making it an independent ma
val establishment.
Elder Dempster & Co. of London
complain of the lack of shipping ia
cilities at the port of London, owing to
the lack OF docks and the naglect of
dredging.
BY an explosion at the Asbury Pow
der mills at Shamokin Pa, Daniel
Burke and Daniel Helbush received in
pard Deweitt was so badly burned that
he is not expected to recover.
1t is announced that there were no.
900 spectators at the 48 productions Of
the Passion Play" at Oberammergau
The receipts were LOO, 900 marks and
it is estimated that the villagers re-
ceived from visitors about 40 $1,000
marks.
The receipts of Klondike gold at the
San Francisco mint and Seattle assay
Office July to September 80 aggregat-
ed $16,047, 055, and of Cape Nome, 81
81, 801. The total of all deposits at
both offices during the three months
was $33,234,810.
A serious fire has occurred at We'll
beck Abbey, Nottinghamshire the IA
nous seat of the duke of Portland The
Oxford wing was Quilted. The duke
and duchess of Portland are at present
absent from home. The damage was
estimated at 100000.
A man giving the name Of Frank w.
Travers has surrendered to the police
in San Francisco, alleging that he rob-
bed his brother, d. R. Travers, of Al
Park Row, New York, of $1,000 last
July. He says that he stole the money
from the cash drawer after his brother
refused to lend it to him.
Before the largest gallery that ever
witnessed a golf championship in
America, Harry Vardon, former cham
pion of Great Britain, won the NJ S. G.
A. open championship from Great Brit
tain's premier golfer, Taylor, by the
narrow margin of two strokes on the
Chicago golf links at Wheaton recent
ly.
The steiner Centennial has arrived
in Seattle from Nome with large pas
senger list and about 100000 in gold
dust. A hundred miles from Nome
the steamer picked up two men who
had been adrift for eight days in an
open boat without food or drink, hav-
ing been blown to SCI during the great
storm.
The report of the commissioner of
the general land Office, just made pub
lie, shows a large increase in the work
of the Office for the past year, due, the
commissioner says, to the general
stimulus to all industries of the coun-
try for year past. The total land
Office receipts for the year amount to
$4,379,79S, an increase over the pre-
vious year of $1,309,o21, and over the
fiscal year of 1898 of $3,701,3 There
was proportionate increase in the
amount of land disposed of amounting
to over 100000 acres for the year,
being 100000 over the previous year.
The homestead entries for the year ag-
gregated S,358,490 acres, an increase of
2,300,S22 acres over the previous year.
Police believe that William Schneider
the New York embezzler, is hiding in
New York.
The British forces have occupied Smith
field, Rockville, Wepener and Dewetsdorp
Orange River Colony.
Emperor William has conferred high
decorations upon all the leading officials
OF the Paris exposition.
Chauncey Nj. Depew addressed a meet
ing of over a thousand students OF the
University of Chicago recently. His
speech was mostly on political lines.
Major Seldom Noyes Clark, a widely
known newspaper man, who had been
connected with the Washington bureau of
the New York Tribune for y years is
dead
The British war office has issued orders
that the bulk of the militia regiments
called out for service during the south
African war are 10 be disbanded. This
viii affect about 10000 men.
Chief Constructor Hichborn L. $. n,
has been awarded diploma and gold med
al for the Franklin Lie Buoy, Hichborn
turret and models of war vessels exhibited
at the Paris exposition of 1900
The wife OF Rev. Meeder of the Evan
gelist church, near Pennington, Kansas,
jumped into a cistern with her 3-year-oll