Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-06-16

title Of featherweight champion bv knock
ing out Tommy White, the clever Chicago
man, on Tuesday, at New York.
Mrs j. Henschel, who recently removed
to Great Falls, Mont, from Spokane. acci.
dentally killed her nme-year-old son with
a revolver
August Hirshey, aged p. was drowned
tuesday while bathing in the Boise river
near the Broadway bridge. His body was
recovered.
Laurence Lillis, capitalist well known
Iii California and Montana, where he for
merry resided, died suddenly at the Palace
hotel, san Francisco.
Macarthur reports the capture of Gen
erals Rhizon, near Mexico. and Cavestanv.
at Alcala, both important. the latter beino,
very prominent leader of the guerillls
III Pangaslnnan province, island of LllZon.
Sheriff Suffer of Frankfort. Ky. has
gone to indianapolis with requisition on
Governor Mount from Governor Beckham
ASKING for the eNtradition of w. 5. TayIor
on an indictment charging him with being
an accessory to the murder of William
Goebel
The chancellor of the japanese legation
at Picking Sugi Nama Akira, while pro
ceeding alone and unprotected on official
duty, was brutally murdered by soldiers
OF lung Fuh Slang, the fayorite body
guard CT the empress at Navigate railroad
station recently.
Samuel Martin, French Canadian from
Montreal. Is in the insane ward of the
Vancouver lB. c. prison. pending an in
vestigation of his story that he murdered
a man named Ntzhugh, ON the Victoria
bridge, in Montreal afterward throwing
the body into the river.
General Grant, who led reinforcements,
with artillery, against the insurgents in
the mountains east of Samiguel reports
the capture of the rebel stronghold after
four hours fighting. The rebels were scat
tered and the Americans are pursuing
them. General Grants column had no cas-
ualties
Thomas Lewis of Tucson. Ariz.. a miner.
has been arrested ON a charge of setting
fire to the Cateina forests, where 100000
feet of timber was destroyed. \ miner
who was with Lewis became incensed be-
cause the pine needles hurt his feet and
set fire to them, causing the most disas.
trous forest fire ever known i'll the south
west.
Two Kansas City detectives. Matt Ken
ney and Henry Sparks, undertook to stop
street fight between Il crowd of negro
men and women recently, and as a result
of an exchange of shots Rufus Bennett, a
north end tough, and Ora Chids the lat
ter a woman. were killed, and Chas Jack
! son, proprietor of barber shop, were Sc
riOusly wounded.
Three men were killed. eight so badly
| burned or manned that they are in the
hospital. and three other men are missing
a. the result of a fire in the cooperage
establishment of Paul Weidmdnn, Brook
! lyn. The property loss is variously estl-
mated at from $4,000 to $2J0,00O. The
! dead are: August Benedict aged 50, and
/ John NJ. Lockwood, 66 years old.
The division of customs and insular at
/ fairs announced decrease in the amount
of the imports into the port of Manila dur
| ing the first three months of 1900 as con-.
J pared with the same period of 1899 OF
$787 059 The imports during March. 1900
from England, were S275. SOC; from Hong
Kong, $4l7,422; from Spain. $l22,04S; and
/ from the United States. Sl09,3S6.
The postmaster general has issued an
order amending the previous regulation in
regard to postage rates between the United
States and its island possessions. The or
der says that the island of Puerto Rico and
the territory of Hawaii are included in the
term UNITED States and the island OF
Guam, the philippine archipelago and Tu-
tuila are included in the term island pos
sessions of the United States"