Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-05-26

pass; there the captain said she would
lie for week and then again attempt
the passage Of Bering sea.
From returns already received from
numerous local unions, the Lynch cam
paign committee in Syracuse claims the
election of James M. Lynch of Syracuse
as president of the International Typo
graphical union by plurality of about
$500.
a deal Is pending for the transfer
from the hands of capitalists in Mon
terey of the steel plant there in the
Wellman-Seaver Engineering company
o. Cleveland, Ohio. The authorized
capital for the Monterey company is
$10,O00,000.
Articles Of incorporation of the Nome
Railroad company have been filed in
San Francisco. The company proposes
to have a main line four miles long,
with branch line two and half miles
long. The road will run from Nome
toward April creek in Alaska.
A. G. Bergum, military prisoner at
the Presidio, was shot and instantly
killed while trying to make his escape
with several other prisoners. The dead
man was a private of the Twentieth
U. S. infantry and was serving three
years Sc. tence for sleeping at his post
during service in Manila. The other
prisoners were captured.
Many buildings at Autlan, Mexico,
were recently destroyed by earthquake.
Delegates and others to the Kansas City
s.. 1 I
September 30.
Street car men are plentiful in st.
Louis, as more have focked there than
can find places.
The house leaders have decided to re-
duce the war taxes at the next session
of congress.
A new tobacco combination has been
organized to oppose the American and
Continental Company.
The business portion of Lakeview, Or,
has been destroyed by fire. Lakeview
has population of 700
Justice Gordon is to be the Great North
ern attorney at Spokane His jurisdc-
ton will extend from Spokane to Minot,
South Dakota.
Frankfort, Ky, is now free from sol
diers for the first time since January 80.
The evacuation of the Beckham troops,
the last to leave, occurred this forenoon.
The war department justifes the con-
! struction of Il government road i'll Cuba.
Plauge has been stamped out, and there
are no more cases found in San Fran
| cisco. influential newspapers editorially
! denounce the board of health. \ house
to house canvass is to be made in China
town, but incubation is optional.
The Western Federation of Miners re-
elected the old officers and decided to
keep the headquarters of the organiza-
ton at Butte, Mont.
! Twenty-three miners, IL white and II
negroes lost their lives in the explosion at
Cumnock coal mines, Chatham county, n.
c., Tuesday. The explosion is supposed
to have been caused by broken gauze in
a safety lamp.
Queen Victoria has granted Lord
! Stn thcona and Mount Royal, the Cana
dian high commissioner, patent of his
title to Hon. Mrs. Robert Jared Bliss
Howard, his only child.
The village of Point Claire, Is miles
from Montreal, has been almost entirely
wiped out by fire. Two hundred people
are homeless. No fatalities.
The Western Federation of Miners and
the Western Federation of Labor Unions
have both decided to hold their conven-
tons next year in Denver
\ man has arrived in Seattle who says
he left the steamer Aberdeen en- route to
Cape Nome at Neah bay and returned
home. He says a riot occurred on board.
The officers landed part of the passengers
at Neah bay and tied up. The captain
has sent to Seattle for officers.
An agreement has been reached between
the friends of Senator Clark of Montana
and the senate committee on privileges
and elections to postpone any action upon
the senator's credentials until Wednes-
day, the 30th instant.
After being dragged through the streets
of Pueblo, Colo, at the end OF rope for
2oo yards and after the rope had broken
twice while the struggling and yelling
negro was being pulled up, Calvin KIM
blern, murderer, was lynched.
correspondent of the London Times
says ne mas IL on ullquestlOllaDle author
ity that within the last six weeks Presl-
dent Kruger has transferred the bulk of
his property in the Transyaal to personal
friends in order to avoid its confscation
by Great Britain.
An east-bound freight on the Great
Northern, when about six miles east of
. Leavenworth, struck large rock, turning
the engine over into the Wenatchee river.
Engineer Norks was killed. The fireman