Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-11-10
ITEMS FROM ALL AROUND.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
4 Complete Review of the EvenNa for
the Past Week In This anS For
etan Lands--SHmmarIned FroEa the
latest Dispatches.

Ex-Mayor Strong of New York is
dead. He was the last executive of
the old city of New York.
At Golden, Col, the Golden paper
mill, owned by r. c. Wells, was des-
troyed by fire. Loss, $4,000; insur-
ed.
Rush Medical college at Chicago is
to have a new $4,000 building, for
which DR.. Nicholas Sem has just CIV
en- $4,000.
The directors of the Southern Pa
cifio have elected Charles NJ. Hays
president of the company. No other
business was transacted.
The Russian government has COM
missioned the Hamburg-American
steamship line to transport troops be-
tween Odessa and the far east.
Ninety Americans who fought with
the Beers in South Africa have arrived
at Trieste and have left for Hamburg,
where they will sail for America.
George Washington Freeman Horner
Green, former negro slave, died in
the almshouse hospital at Hampstead,
L. l., Friday at the reputed age of 1913
years.
Terry McGovern, the featherweight
| champion, defeated Joe Bernstein of
New York in the seventh round before
the Nonpareil Athletic club and 5000
people recently.
The grain exports to November, ac-
cording to the minister of finance M.
De Witte, at ST Petersburg, is estimat-
ed at 271, 100000 pood, as against 217,-
| 100000 for the same period of 1899 and
317,000,000 in 1898
Arthur Harris, the negro who stab
| bed Policeman Robert j. Thorpe to
! death on August u, and who was con-
! victed of murder in the second degree
has been sentenced to life imprison-
j ment. The murder of Thorpe was
the cause of serious race riots in that
| city.
A pitched battle occurred at Wheel
ing, W. Va, between the strikers at
! the Riverside works of the National
Tube Co. and the men who have taken
their places. Shots were exchanged
and missiles thrown. Walter Davis
was probably fatally injured. More
trouble is anticipated.
The grand jury at Patterson, N. j.,
handed down indictments against
Walter c. McAllister. George J. Kerr,
William A. Death and Andrew Camp
bell who are charged with the murder
of Jennie Bosschieter who was drug
ged to death on October IS. There
were two indictments against each OF
the young men, one for murder and
the other for rape, the first, it is said,
also embracing the latter.
With blood streaming from deep
cuts over both eyes and a savage ex-
preston on his countenance, big Fred
Russell, the California heavyweight,
broke from clinch as the gong sound
ed the close of the fourth round of his
fight with the veteran Joe Choynski
before the Colorado Athletic club at
Denver, and, with two terrific punches
to the body, sent him flying through
the ropes and onto the floor of the club
house.
City Magistrate Flammer of New
York discharged Cornelius L. Alvord
the defaUlting note teller of the First
National bank, from custody. The
magistrate said he was satisfied that
he had no jurisdiction in the case.
Alvord was rearrested by a United
States marshal and taken before Unit
ed States Commissioner Shields. The
court commissioner held Alvord in
| $150,000 bail for examination on We'd
nesday next.
The steamship st. Paul has arrived
in Seattle from Nome with 1872 passen-
gers and 100000 in treasure. The
! steamer left Nome on October 20 and
stopped at Unalaska, leaving that port
on the oath On the voyage south con-
! siderable rough weather was encoun-
| tered On October 27 w. Singleton,
an English waiter employed on the
| steamer. died as a result of swallowing
a quantity of carbOlic acid taken in
mistake for whisky.
The South African situation is i'm
proving and Lord Roberts will short
| ly return to England with majority
of his staff. Arrangements are being
made al Cape Town to send the batch
of refugees back to johannesburg, and
accommodation is being provided at
Bloemfontein for garrison of 700.
Nevertheless, the activity of the Beers
continues. On October &c comman-
do of 600 captured a garrison of 300
men at Reddersburg, but afterward re-
| leased them.
j. B. Stewart who arrived in San
Francisco from Dutch Harbor Alaska,
on the whaler Karluk, reports that A.
A. Bashor of Salem, Ore, was drown
ed October from the Seattle schooner
| Rear Stewart and Rashor STARRED