Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-08-25


Japan in this city, said: Il am in
position to state that our government
has no intention at present to float any
loan in connection with the war in
China"
Sir Henry Simpson, veterinary sur.
geon to the queen and former president
OF the Royal College of Veterinary Sur
geons, has been found drowned at
Datchet, Buckinghamshire where he
owned the South Sea estate He was
born in 1912 and was at one time mayor
OF Windsor.
Captain Oberlin M. Carter, serving a
sentence in the federal penitentiary for
defrauding the government on south.
ern contracts, was visited at Leaven-
worth by Dr. Carter of Chicago his
brother, and L. D. Carter of Oakland,
ILL.,, an uncle. After a conference Car
ter's relatives are quoted as saying
they have strong hopes of securing a
pardon for the captain.
The preliminary contests in the ex.
hibition of fire apparatus came off re-
Gently at Cincennes, Paris, some 5000
firemen, representing all the nations,
participating. The American repre-
sentative, Chief Geo. G. Hale of Kansas
City, and the men of the Kansas City
fire brigade caused great wonderment
by their quick Harvesting and running,
together with their method of life-sav-
ing, They received an ovation and by
common consent were assigned the first
place.
Two steamships have arrived from
Nome. The Roanoke with 200 passen.
gers was a treasure ship in every sense
of the word she having en- board So
100000 in gold and a cargo of furs
valued at S1,000,000. The gold was
most all from Dawson, having been
shipped down the Yukon to St. Mich
aels.
One of the largest combinations of
capital ever effected on the Pacific coast
is about to go into operation. All tele-
phone companies in California, Oregon,
Washington, Nevada, Idaho and Ari-
IONA have been consolidated under one
gigantic corporation called the Pacific
States Telephone & Telegraph Com
pany, which has franchise granted in
Oregon and which will have its head
quarters in Portland.
The recent hot wave continues i'll the
eastern and southern states.
Two men went insane at De- Moines re-
Gently on account of the heat
United States Consul Fee at Bombay
reports to the state department that chol-
era is raging there.
In freight train collision at kensico.
y. Y, recently seven persons were killed
and others are missing,
Gus Knab was instantly killed at Taco
ma recently by being hit by an engine on
the Northern Pacific tracks
The population of Philadelphia, ac-
colding to the count just completed, at
the census office, is ,293,691.
The Lokal Anzeiger announces the en-
gagement of Queen Nilhelmina to Prince
Frederick Adolf of Neutrality-suspicious.
elm
Fire in the immense elevator of the
American Cereal company at Akron, o.,
damaged the plant $4,000. a hundred
and fifty thousand bushels of grain were
ruined.
Mrs. A. Swanson, a victim OF the
Fourth of July street car accident at
Tacoma, died from the result OF her IN
ilries. This makes A deaths as the re-
suit of the wreck.
1t is reported Robert Fitzimmons has
been offered 100000 by Il Canadian OF
HIGH standing financially to lose his fight
with Sharkey, and that tltzmmonS
treated the suggestion with contempt.
Secretary Wilson has received ii cable
gram from Professor Dodge. United States
director of agriculture for the Paris expo
sition, announcing the award Of medals
for exhibits of the various branches OF
the agricultural department.
Wheat. United States and Canada, east
az the Rockies increased z,ooIOO0 bush
els: ahost for and in Europe increased
100000 bushels. total supply increased 3
$4,000.
Oats. United States and Canada, east of
the Rockies increased I,3S7 900 bushels.
The combined stock of wheat at Portland,
Oregon. Seattle and Tacoma increased o.
COO bushels last week.
The construction of the isthmian canal
was vigorously denounced recently at Chi
cago at banquet given by the associa-
ton of Merchants and Travellers by j.
c. Stubbs vice president of the Southern
Pacific railroad
II was announced at democratic head
quarters that William }. Bryan would be
in Chicago Labor day after all, and
speak at the picnic to be held in connec-
ton with the Labor day celebration.
wreck at Maxwell, on the Clinch