Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-10-27
The TELEGRAPH SUMMARY
NEWS OF THE WORLD In BRIEF
A Complete Review of the Events inf
the Past Wee<.-In This and For
eign Lands-Taken From the
Latest Dispatches.

approximately 1880 names on the books.
Ex-Postmaster General William l. vii.
son died suddenly Wednesday at Licking
ton, Va.
Ex-Secretary of State John Sherman.
whose health has not been very good of
late, is quite i'll.
Eight thousand FIVE hundred and one
voters are registered in Tacoma gain of
1929 over two years ago.
Sir Henry Wentworth Dyke Acland
Radcliffe, librarian at Oxford university
since 1851, is dead, aged 50.
The surrender of Tunis Botha, brother
of Commandant General Botha, at Volks-
rust, October 10, is reported.
Joe Pazen, proprietor of the Pazen The
strical exchange in Chicago, was shot in
the abdomen by Zorah Card, an actress.
Kruger has postponed his departure for
Europe until October 20 He will sail ON
the Dutch cruiser Gelderland and land at
Marseilles.
The Colby mine at Bessemer. Mich. has
been shut down and 800 men thrown out
of employment. The Dunn & Tobin mines
near Crystal Falls have also closed.
Lord Salisbury, according to the Daily
Express, has offered the portfolio of war
in the reconstructed cabinet to Lord Bal
four OF Burleigh, secretary for Scotland.
The night shift men of the Rockdale
plant of the American Steel & Wire com
pany at Joliet, H., have been lald off in
definitely. About 400 men are affected.
Among the passengers on the Empress
of Japan, which has arrived in Victoria.
were Baroness Won ketteler, Dr. ". A. p.
Martin and several others who went
through the siege of the legations in Pekin
John Hughes, postmaster at Cambria,
near Wilkesbarre, Pa, shot and killed one
OF two burglars who broke into his office
When Hughes fired they ran. Later one
OF their dead bodies was found by the
roadside. His identity is unknown.
Passengers who arrived from the Orient
on the Empress of Japan say that resi-
dences and stores at 1ientsn and Pekin
were looted by soldiers, correspondents and
missionaries. An immense amount OF sill
yer and valuables were taken.
The westbound fast mail was wrecked
at Topaz, 80 miles from Pocatello. result
ing from rear-end collision with a freight
train occupying the main line. Engineer
Alex Breckman and Fireman Oswald Short
both OF Montpelier, are badly injured. Bert
Emerson, tramp, was killed.
The total number of paid admissions to
the Spokane industrial fair was l00959,
which is grand record for Is days. Dur
ing the same period last year 1913 people
pad to enter the exposition, SO the III
crease this year is 34,77G.
The steamship Humboldt has arrived in
Seattle from Skagway, bringing in klon-
dixie treasure ana 200 passengers, includ-
ing number of prominent mining OPP
orators OF the gold the Canadian Bank
OF Commerce owned a consignment OF
$5O6 292.95, sent to the local assay Office.
j. E. McAlpin is owner of $4,000 and the
remainder is distributed among number
OF the passengers
The population OF Arizona, as officially
announced, is l22 LAP, against 5000 in
1890; an increase of G2,592, or 1919 per
cent
Major Matt r. Peterson, United States
volunteers, died of yellow fever at Las
Animas October Il. Mrs Peterson, his
wife, killed herself an hour later
The isthmian canal commission is at
work on lie rnnnrt INIT II - auidant that
1t will find it impossible to do more than
submit preliminary statement to con
eress when the session begins.
DIR. Alfred c. Girard, the commanding
officer at the Preside general hospital,
has received promotion to the Office Of
deputy surgeon general Of the army, with
the rank of lieutenant colonel.
The steamer Lane brings from Nome
the news that $4,000 in gold dust was
stolen from the Alaska Commercial COM
panys warehouse September IA. 1t was
me entire output of claim No. ! on Anvil
creek, and belonged to DR.. A. \. Kittleson
IL was IN five boxes, weighing l05 pounds,
and only awaited the departure OF some re-
liable boat
Seattle, Oct l8.-The oriental liner En-
press brings advices that the japanese
steamer lse Maru, bound from Yokohama
10 Nagasaki, and the Russian steamer Ca
&nda, bound from Nagasaki to Port Al
bert, collided in mid-ocean October 5. Both
steamers sank. Forty-two Europeans and
large number of orientals persisted. A
ie" survivors reached Japan in small
boats.
When in full running order the
homestead mills of Pennsylvania en-