Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-08-18
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-Tal<en From the Lat
est Dispatches.

been appointed permanent foreign minis
ter.
A cable dispatch received from Blue
fields, Nicaragua, gives details of fire last
night which did $4,000 damage in the
heart of the town.
A Bellefontaine car of the st. Louis |
Transit company was recently blown up
at North St. Louis. 1t is the first case of
daylight dynamiting since the strike oc
Cured.
War office kilograms received from east
ern Siberia show the Chinese have destroy
ed the railroad in several places, inter
rupting the passage of trains. Re-
pairs are proceeding. The Cossacks now
guard 1000 vestas of the frontier railroad.
President Mckinley has appointed Dan
iel A. Tompkins of North Carolina a men,
Der of the industrial commission, to sue
coed Ellison A. Smythe, resigned. Mr.
Tompkins is largely identified with the
cotton interests of the south and is one
of the principal owners OF the Charlotte
Observer.
Veterans of the Philippine war will or
ganize a national society At the reunion
at Denver.
The Indian famine relief fund at New
York has reached the 100000 mark, the
contributions received amounting to $780,
02O.
Secretary Root says tn, latest reports
from General Macarthur show the sick
ness in the Philippines as 8 per cent,
which he considers remarkably good
showing,
The Union Metallic Cartridge company
of Connecticut is working night and day
to fill orders from several governments
| for ammunition.
Eleven person died one day last week
in New York from the excessive heat.
1t is persistently rumTed in Lorenzo
MARQUEE that President Steyn has COM
mitted suicide.
Perry S. Heath, secretary of the re-
publican national committee, says that
TENDER for swing to tie Pacific coast.
The Catholic Journal announces new
massacres and a disaster to the missions
in the enuthnast browne of Chilli. China.
1t says that five priests have been killed.
The wife of DR.. A. 9. Macdonald West
water of Lao Yang, Manchuria, COM
mitted suicide at Anna, in consequence
OF mental depression caused by her eX-
citing experiences at New Chwang just
before her departure rom China.
The grape growers and wine men are
now at war in California. The wine men
have called in their hyers and say that
they will buy no morgrapes as the grow
ers are holding them 90 high. They are
asking $l8 for black rapes and SIS ton
for muscats
The following dispach from Lord Rob
erts has been receive, at the war Office
"As Warren has pacihd the western dis
tricts of Cape Colony,I am allowing him
to return home and am replacing the
whole, of the troops the colony under
Forester Walker"
After d two years fight, in which they
almost circld the gbbe and outwitted
the police il score of European and
American ci;es, Mr. md Mrs. Abraham
Weinberg wre arrested in their apart
ments on Sate street, Chicago They
! are charged i Kansas City with embezzle-
ment.
} Three steanrs from Cape Nome have
arrived in Scale, all bringing gold and
, large number passengers. The Oregon
, brought $500, the largest consign-
z ment of Nomgold since the discovery
Z ~, ~
' brought about $4,000, and the Charles
D. Lane $4,000
Paul Jansen, 10 was arrested at East
Rutherford, Nj, three weeks ago.
| charged with coterfeiting, hanged him
+. self in his cell inc Hudson county Jail. |
New York. He e his coat into strips,
: which he twisted o a rope and fastened
. to the bars of hisll door, Then, tying |
the end about hneck, he threw his
:. weight on the and was slowly |
. strangled to death
The allotment f5,OOO,00O of the
. tlO,OO00OO Eng war loan to the
= United States is lived in the higher
;, financial world as rood thing for Lon
= don in the present ition of the English
q banks. The brokand small investors
q severely, almost panately criticize the
chancellor of the sequer, Sir Michael
hicks Beach, for ptely arranging for
a half of the so-calledolic loan and allow
r ing the investmendum' to go out of
v the country.
= While there has n a noticeable abb
3 sence of earthquake the last fortnight,
\ volcanic eruption taken place near
a where, 10 years agle greater part of
70 Mount Bandaison wurled into the all
a Azuma Yama was scene of an awful