Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-03-10
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
A Complete Review of the EvepNs for
the Past Week I'm This and For
eIgn Lands--Summarixed FROM the
Latest Dispatches.

pended by snow In the Mississippi valley
Thursday.
Casualties in British army to March
were l2,S43, in the last fortnight 23l9.
Cleveland was visited by the worst
storm of the season Thursday and much
damage was done by sleet.
Insurgents wants assistance and have
appealed to Europe for funds with which
to carry on the instruction.
A French cannon factory, where Boer
guns were manufactured, at LIE Creusot,
France, has been destroyed by fire.
Dispatches from Kiel say that the Ger
man battleship Sachsen was stranded off
Buelk, near the Kiel lighthouse, during
a fog.
Every railroad running into st. Louis
especially from the west suffered as a re-
suit of the heavy fall of snow in the Mis-
sissippi valley during last Thursday.
The Baldwin Locomotive works has re-
ceived an order from the Paris & Orleans
railway of France for 80 l0-wheel passen-
ger engines. This is the first locomotive
contract ever placed by the railway in
America.
A hundred insurgents, seven miles from
San Fernando, La Union, ambushed 10
men of the Third cavalry, who were es-
corting provision train. The Americans
were scattered and while returning to
camp one man was killed. The insur-
gents captured four horses and a quantity
of provisions.
Soldiers in the Philippines find frozen
meats good food.
The revolution in Colombia is growing,
and the rebels are said to be gaining
ground.
Congressman Sydney Epes of Virginia,
who was operated upon for appendicitis,
died at Garfield hospital, Washington.
In the football game between Oxford
and Cambridge the former won by two
goals. Cambridge did not score goal.
There was a moderate attendance.
Ambassador Choate will be instructed to
call the attention of the British foreign
office to the Determinations against Amer
lean dentists in England with a view to
having them removed.
The Montreal express on the Canadian
Pacific jumped the track between Ponty
Pool and Burketon and bounded down a
steep embankment, the coaches topping
over one another as they neared the bot
tom of the incline.
General Joseph Lacret Molet and Felipe
Prise, Cuban leaders, called at the war
department and had an interview with
Acting Secretary Meikeljohn relative to
the appearance in Cuba of Bishop Sbar-
rctti. They objected very strongly to his
presence there.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt has started for
trip to Cuba. Mrs. Roosevelt intends
to make a personal inspection of the
homes, the home life, the opportunities
and conditions of the people and to spend
a month in the prosecution of her studies.
The figures on the product of tobacco
for January show an increase for Cincin-
natl and vicinity over last January. The
increase in the tobacco output, according
to the Western Tobacco Journal for Jan
uary was 6,642,959 pounds, or 81 per cent
over December, 1899, and 2,949,995 pounds,
or IA per cent over January, 1899.
Tube workers get an increase of 10 per
cent at McKeesport, Penn.
Secretary of War Root has arrived and
was warmly welcomed at Havana.
A civil war is threatened as the result
of dethroning the Chinese emperor
The Seattle election resulted in a sweep
ing victory for the republican ticket
A case that looks like the plague has
appeared in San Francisco's Chinatown.
EXPresident Harrison is with the Beers,
as he is said to have no sympathy with
the English.
Carnegie has not yet filed answer to
charges of Prick and the suits may be
compromised.
Omaha went republican in the recent
election. Mayor Moores and a majority
of the council were reelected.
The president has nominated Corporal
f. NJ Polk of Company C, Thirty ninth
infantry, to be second lieutenant United
States volunteers
The rush of subscription orders for the
Sheldon edition of the Topeka Capital has
broken all the records of the Topeka post
office, the number of subscriptions receiv-
ed in two days being upward of 10000.
Acting Secretary Meikeljohn sent to
the house of representatives a statement
of expenditures by the war department
covering the military operations in the
Philippines, including outstanding liabili-
ties from Nav |, 1898 To Nov. !. 1890
The total is given at $4s, 1893 900, the prin-
cipal items Oemg: QuarterInaster de-
partment, $27,7l5,90l, of which $l7,l36,.
S64 is for army transportation; subsist-
ence department, $950,0O0; medical de-