Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-08-25
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-Taken From the Lat
est Dispatches.

Inc CELSIUS OlllCS HdS announced Tue pop
ulation of Greater New York Manhattan
and Bronx boroughs) as 2,050,6 600. The
populauon of the borough of Manhattan
is l,S50,0y3, and that OF Bronx 200,507.
General Dewet has crossed the railroad
and is going north in order to join Com
mandant Delarey, who is heading for
Rustenburg. Kitchener and the other
generals are pursuing him and pressing
him hard. His force is reported to be
beyond Ventersdorp.
Twenty of Chicago Chinatown's leading
citizens left for San Francisco, where .hey
will take the first boat to China. The
men are, according to statements made by
some of them, responding to the emperors
call for volunteers from America. Every
member of the party is said to have mill
tary training i'll some capacity.
A cable dispatch was received from Bo-
gotta announcing the resignation OF Presi-
dent Sanctlemette of the republic of Col
ombia. Vice President Maroquin will
serve out the four years of his term. The
change will alter the political system of
Colombia, and may even end the revou-
ton which has been in progress for 10
months
Russia's occupation of New Chwang
without adequate reason has caused the
decision to land troops at Shanghai, in
which Great Britain is supported by Japan.
Germany, apparently, is paying no heed
to Russlas action in the north, but OBJ
jects to the action at Shanghai, and pro-
poses to offset it by stationing a squad
ron there.
A sensation has been caused by the dis
covery that Wharton Barker, middleof-
the-road candidate for president on the
populist ticket is ineligible for the office
to which he aspires. 1t is said that while
experimenting some improvements i'll
Russia some years ago Mr.. Barker was
made lord of st. Wieceslass' by the
ear. Before accepting the title he did
not ask congress to grant him the priyi-
lege, and he is therefore ineligible because
he forfeited his citizenship by accepting
the honor without permission of the united
States.
Such a furious ebullition Of race hatred
as found vent in the rioting that occurred
at New York recently, the outgroWth Of
the murder few days ago of Officer
Thorpe by a negro named Arthur Harris,
has not been equaled in New York in many
years. As a result OF the disturbance,
which ragged from midnight until 3 clock
and burst out in a flame of passion and
violence at intervals until daybreak, there
were about 81 persons injured by pistol
balls, raZors or knives, rocks and clubs.
OF these, one negro, Lloyd Lee, may not
recover and of Policeman Kennedy is also
seriously injured.
A race war is feared in Georgia.
Another big forest fire is raging in
Yellowstone National Park.
Nome sickness is overrated, as only
six smallpox cases have been reported
by Lieut.. Jarvis.
The stereotypers' proposition to with
draw from the I. T. U. was voted down
at the last convention.
Vest makers on the east side to the
number of $500 are on strike. The
strike was a sudden one.
Harry A. Hanbury has been appoint
ed receiver of the Traders Fire Insur-
ance Company of New York.
The comptroller of the currency has
appointed R. D. Garrett temporary re-
ceiver of the Somerset National Bank,
Somerset, KY.
The United States cruiser Baltimore,
with Rear Admiral John c. Watson on
board homeward bound from Manila,
has sailed from Gravesend for Belfast.
An American consular officer has
gone from Lorenzo Marques to Nooitge-
dacht to distribute money to the Brit
ish prisoners there, each of whom re-
ceives "a.
The battle between Fitzsimmons and
Sharkey at Coney Island will be decid-
ed on Saturday night, August 25, in
stead of Friday, August "a, as was
originally intended.
1t is officially announced, according
to the Petit Blue, that the car will
visit Paris, arriving at Cherbourg Sep
temper IA, reaching Paris the next day
and remaining there five or six days.
One man lost his life and three were
injured in fire at Chicago recently,
which destroyed the building at 1880
Des PLANES street. The dead: Edward
Grace, burned while asleep in the build
ing.
Cyrus Field Adams, colored editor,
linguist and orator, and Bishop Ar
mott of Ohio, also colored have been
appointed by Chairman Hanna mem
bers of the advisory committee of the
republican national committee.
The Canadian Pacific has decided to
Vrant cobaduIac IN tho allied mechanics
and boiler makers and recognize them