Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-01-20
DO|NGS THROUGH THE Week
NEWS OF THE WORLD IN BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events Tor
the Past Week I'm This and Foreign
Lands-summarized From the Lat
est Dispatches.

90 not DelleVe ne Will be seated.
House Committee has voted to make
a favorable report on the Nicarauga ca
nal bill.
The United States government is to
build, maintain and operate the great
waterway.
Spotted Tail. the we'll known Sioux
chief, who has been in Paris exhibiting.
is dead, age SO.
A recently organized company will
put into the public service in the streets
of N. Y. this week 200 automobile ON
nibuses. Charge for cabs will be 25c
a mile and rs cents an hour.
Rt- Rev. Joseph Rademaneher, bishop
of the Roman Catholic diocese of Fort
Wayne, is dead.
Gen. Corbin has announced that the
subscriptions to the Lawton fund had
reached the handsome figure of $80,101.
pension of $40 Il month has been
granted by the commissioners of pen
sions to the widow of Gen. Guy V. Hen
ry.
Lieutenant Gilmore, recently of the
Yorktown and for many months pris-
Oner in the hands of the Tagalos, has
been assigned to temporary duty on the
Glacier.
The British steamship, Elm Branch,
is of Cape Flattery with broken pro-
peller, and two tugs went to her assist
ance
w. w. Oglive, the millionaire miller
of Canada, fell dead in the street in
Montreal after attending a meeting of
the directors Of the Bank of Montreal.
Every living person persisted on the
unknown steamer which was mysteri-
ously wrecked in st. Mary's Bay, New
foundland, recently.
II. II. Tamen and Fred Bonfils, pro
prietors of the Denver Post, were shot
in the office of that newspaper by w. w.
Anderson, an attorney. Both are SER
iously wounded.
Mrs. John Corse of Chicago, was seiz-
ed by robbers recently at Chester St,
near North Clark street, thurst into a
cab and afterwards robbed of diamonds
valued at $500.
The will of the late L. J. Lehman,
the originator of the department store
system in this country, has been filed
for probate in Chicago. He left an es-
tate valued at $6,076,000.
The statement of the gross postal
receipts for December, 1899, of the L.
S, as compared with the receipts for
the same month during the preceding
year, show net increase of $199, 1886, or
5 per cent.
The recent New Mexico storm broke
all records, as 1t covered a stretch of
territory so miles in width, with white
Cakes and Nogales for the centre All
the roads and trails we're obliterated
Charles Elwers and Lura Stornberg,
proprietors of the Grand Bazaar,
Brooklyn department store, have gone
into bankruptcy. Liabilities are Civ
en- at $56,962, and the assets SIT ,997
The hospital train ordered by the
Red Cross society and named In honor
OF the Princess Christian has been com
pleted at Birmingham and within a few
days will be on its way to South Africa.
klondyke newspapers received,
chronicle the marriage of Lillian Green,
otherwise Grace Anderson" a Dawson
vaudeville performer, to Jim Hail. one
of the, richest mine owners of FL Dora
do.
Cloud of discomfort in England as
Stunning a threatening aspect Rank
incompetency is charged. Both public
and press are clamoring for a change
The very foundations of the govern
ment are in danger of falling.
Secretary Hay read the reply of the
British government to the representa-
tives regarding the flour seizure in Del
agoa bay at a recent cabinet meeting,
and said the British answer was entire
ly satisfactory TO this government
Renewed buying of silver by the In
dian government, the London Statist
says cannot be much longer delayed in
consequence of rupee coinage require
ments, and this will lead doubtless to a
marked improvement in the price of
silver.
Tommy Atkins and comrades lose
faith in defeated men and demand new
leaders. Clubs in London are filled
with vague rumors that General Buller
has fought a second battle. faded
public at last grows weary of expert
criticisms
Kid" Mccoy got the decision over
Joe Choynsh in a bout which lasted
three rounds in N. Y. Choynsk would
have had the fight in the second round
were it not for an accident as to time
keeping. He had foored the kid"
Tour times, but the time keeper pulled
the bell as Mccoy was counted for the
limit OF 10 seconds, and thus saved the
Kid" from absolute defeat. IA a..